The little bus that could...

Have you ever seen that kids book "The little train that could"? It's a cute book about a little train that would always say "I think I can, I think I can, I think I can" and in the end the little train made it to wherever it was going, hence the name of the book. If you've never read this book, i just sound crazy right now...
But anyway, this was totally the story with the bus we drove to North Carolina. It's a really old school bus... It broke down on the way there but we were able to get it "fixed". Then it broke down in north Carolina and we couldn't use it all week, we managed to get it running on the way home but it was burning through oil like nothing else. We had to stop 4 or 5 times on the way home to put more oil in, it was really the longest bus ride of my life - 13 hours!

The conference itself was pretty good. The conference was intended for the DTS students but we went along with them because the speaker, Danny Lehmann, was speaking mainly on evangelism. Some of it was review but it was all good to hear. He talked about spiritual disciplines as well which i enjoyed. It really challenged me to spend more time studying my bible. My school requires that I read the entire Old Testament before I graduate but it's hard to read and really study it in this amount of time we're given. I'm really going to start putting more effort into finding time to study as well though. Right before i came here I got a new study bible. It's really sweet and has a lot of notes and maps in it, I love picking my bible apart and looking things up, it's something i thoroughly enjoy i just need to make time for more of it. You can pray for me in this area!


On Tuesday afternoon the 12 of us in my school spent the afternoon at a bus station praying for and chatting with people. It was a really good afternoon! My friend Stacie and I got the chance to talk to about 20 people. We just asked people if we could pray for them and i was shocked how many people were so willing to let us pray for them and were fairly open. It was definitely a good conversation starter as well. Things like this always motivate me to really know my bible better because people always have so many questions!

This next week is going to be crazy. I have three days of classes before thanksgiving break. On Thursday we're all having thanksgiving dinner at the church. That'll be wonderful. hear it's more food than anyone knows what to do with. Then there's a huge football game during which we hope we won't have to make any hospital runs...
The day after thanksgiving there's a Christmas party at the base directors house. How crazy is that?? Thanksgiving and Christmas parties all in one weekend! The day after Thanksgiving is also "Black Friday" - the biggest shopping day of the year. People start shopping in the middle of the night to catch the crazy sales!

I shall update y'all after thanksgiving!

Greetings

Wow i feel like the past two weeks have flown by, i don't even know where all my time went! I was sick most of last week, so i suppose i slept one of those weeks away. Thank the Lord I am almost back to normal, I was starting to feel a little stir-crazy.

We had some intense craziness for a little while last week what with the election and all. That was definitely quite the experience.

Our past week of teaching was really good, i really enjoyed it. Our teacher this week was Jeremy Harke, he talked on a range of things like post modernism and where does culture fit into the church. It was really interesting.
He made a point of stating that he believes that culture, community and the gospel should work together in the church and taking any one of those things out causes a great imbalance. I never really thought about that before but I feel like often the culture aspect is taken out, or culture in the church is viewed as bad, but Jeremy was really showing us the importance of having a healthy balance of all three.
Pretty cool.

On Sunday we are heading off to North Carolina for a week long conference. I'm pretty excited about that. It'll be a long drive but I'm sure it will be entertaining. We are taking a school bus and a couple of 15 passenger vans, there are 65 people going. It should be fun!

Pray for safe travel as it is a ten hour drive with a lot of people, and for health to be restored!

Peace

Happy November!

I cannot believe it is November, I think this is going to be a busy month. In about two weeks we're going to North Carolina for a week for a conference, I'm pretty excited about that. American Thanksgiving is this month as well. I hear it's a pretty big deal around here. That should be a fun experience.

I'm officially half done my lecture phase! wow.

It has really hit me over this past week how blessed I ma right now. God is providing me with everything i need, both financially and otherwise. I am surrounded by amazing people that love and support me and what I'm passionate about.

I'm really excited about this next week. Our teacher is Al McBryan, For those of you that know him you understand. He is a brilliant man, who knows the bible better than almost anyone I know. It'll be a good week.

I do have one prayer request.
- For health - a lot of us have been sick over the past couple weeks and it would be wonderful if everyone could be healthy again.

I appreciate your prayers so much!

Peace,