My Father's the coolest ever!
God is so wonderful and amazing. He truly is. It's amazing to see all that he can do. I feel so blessed.
I worked in our church nursery Wednesday night. Despite the fact that the kids had way too much energy, it made me realize how alive our church really is. There used to be a time when I knew who ever child was and who they belonged to. Now, I have no clue. There's just so many kids, so many newcomers, and so many babies being born or adopted. Which explains the reason why I was at church Wednesday night anyway. We built our new church about 4 years ago. About a year after we moved in, we'd out grown it already, so plans to add on were started. This past Wednesday we had a worship service in what will be the new chapel. (No more multi-purpose room!!!) I have to say that I am a little disappointed that I wasn't able to go, but I went to look at it afterward. It's going to be so cool! I can't wait for everything to be done! Our senior pastor, Brian, took a couple of us around and gave us the grand tour. The new youth room is huge. And there will be a room specifically set up for AWANA ministries. Man, I wish we had that when I was in AWANA. As cool as this new addition will be, the cooler part is that we'll probably outgrow the new part pretty quickly too. God has definitely blessed our church.
So yesterday I picked up my.....(drum roll please).....brand new keyboard!!!! And I love it!!! I can't wait to sit down and get some time to play around with it. My mom said that she hopes God uses it to bless many people, and I totally pray the same prayer. I pray that God will use this keyboard to bless peoples' marriages, the students at cru, and especially the girls that will be living on my floor next year.
I leave for camp tomorrow. Bright and early. I'm really excited, but nervous at the same time, since I don't know what the week will hold. Please be praying for each of my girls. I don't know their names yet, who they are or where they come from, but I know that they're all hurting and searching in someway. Pray for me too, that God grants me the strength to make it through the week and the wisdom and compassion to know what to say to these girls. I love them already!
Well, it's time for me to go. I'm the designated driver this morning. Well, the DD to drive Jamie to the dentist to get his wisdom teeth taken out. Please be praying for him too. I won't be here, and his mom and sister are out of town visiting relatives, so it's just Jamie and his dad. So there's no one to really take care of Jamie during the day when his dad works, so pray that he'll have a quick recovery.
I love you all!