No emotions can express
Ok so this is what went down in Charlotte
We got there... had some speakers and seminars... Brenda Matthews (awesomeness) told us to get up off our butts and start taking some risks. She was one of the speakers. I went up to her and talked to her for a while.
Thursday comes along
We go to the first worship and I kind of have this... odd... feeling all day. Like... something I can't explain. Then we have our "small group" time
We ended it with prayer (I closed... took longer than I meant to)
Michael asked me to go to a Seminar with him called "Could God be Calling you to Ministry?"
I was like well shoot...
Went to the seminar
Speaker lady was ok
Then we broke off into groups
This lady came over with Michael and I and sat down with us and another woman
I told them that my plan was to become a doctor. Then I had also thought about the possibility of working with a youth group
Lady doesnt even know me
She was basically insisting that I become a youth minister
Everytime I would say anything contrary... she would come back and tell me what I good job I'd do
I told her that the two occupations were kind of contradicting and she informed me that God would work it out and that I could be both or just a youth minister
I was like... man this lady just keeps going
So we left after it was done
The rest of the day I felt a nudge
A nudge... more like (in the words of Kim) a sledge hammer to the face
I am going to be a Youth Minister
The rest of the day I heard about many different countries... Zaire, Canada Ethiopia, China... and a bunch others
(I have to stop and quote some one that got up and said something during that seminar "Holy Crap God is freaking awesome")
So any way where was I? OH right... so everytime anything was said about Canada... My heart would like skip a beat and then start like... beating so hard i thought that I was goind to puke!!!
So I knew then that I was going to be a Youth Minister in Canada... I dont know which Province... Quebec, B.C., Alberta, Ontario (actually for some reason Ontario keeps sticking out, but I dont know).
What city? Toronto, Winnipeg, Vancouver...
Will I come back with an accent... I hope so
So I thought all this could just be me
So I called my mom
She didnt respond the way I thought she would
I was expecting "Canada? Why Canada" (which was kind of my g-mas response to an extent)
But no... "yeah... I saw that coming" WHAT THE HECK!!!
She said that shes know forever that I was going to do God's work (which... can I just say, I guess that everyone except me has known that... My mom, Kim, Melissa, Joni Michael, Karen, Michelle White from work, who isnt even a christian told me today she knew that I was going to be a minister of some sort)
My first thought was kind of "This comepletely goes against everything I had planned for my life"
But I have faith
I am a risk taker
Please Pray for me that God will show me where he wants me to go
Some other stuff that I can't say has also helped to confirm that this really was from God
So much awesome stuff is going on in our youth group
I love Kim and all the other sponsers
I... am so fortunate
I am going to call Kurt (the pastor in Hopedale) tomorrow and talk to him about it and see if he can get me any information
I want to help out at a Mennonite Camp in Canada next summer
I want to start being worship leader more often and maybe even give a sermon sometime
I feel as though god is calling me back to the Mennonite Church
This has gotten long... sorry
We got there... had some speakers and seminars... Brenda Matthews (awesomeness) told us to get up off our butts and start taking some risks. She was one of the speakers. I went up to her and talked to her for a while.
Thursday comes along
We go to the first worship and I kind of have this... odd... feeling all day. Like... something I can't explain. Then we have our "small group" time
We ended it with prayer (I closed... took longer than I meant to)
Michael asked me to go to a Seminar with him called "Could God be Calling you to Ministry?"
I was like well shoot...
Went to the seminar
Speaker lady was ok
Then we broke off into groups
This lady came over with Michael and I and sat down with us and another woman
I told them that my plan was to become a doctor. Then I had also thought about the possibility of working with a youth group
Lady doesnt even know me
She was basically insisting that I become a youth minister
Everytime I would say anything contrary... she would come back and tell me what I good job I'd do
I told her that the two occupations were kind of contradicting and she informed me that God would work it out and that I could be both or just a youth minister
I was like... man this lady just keeps going
So we left after it was done
The rest of the day I felt a nudge
A nudge... more like (in the words of Kim) a sledge hammer to the face
I am going to be a Youth Minister
The rest of the day I heard about many different countries... Zaire, Canada Ethiopia, China... and a bunch others
(I have to stop and quote some one that got up and said something during that seminar "Holy Crap God is freaking awesome")
So any way where was I? OH right... so everytime anything was said about Canada... My heart would like skip a beat and then start like... beating so hard i thought that I was goind to puke!!!
So I knew then that I was going to be a Youth Minister in Canada... I dont know which Province... Quebec, B.C., Alberta, Ontario (actually for some reason Ontario keeps sticking out, but I dont know).
What city? Toronto, Winnipeg, Vancouver...
Will I come back with an accent... I hope so
So I thought all this could just be me
So I called my mom
She didnt respond the way I thought she would
I was expecting "Canada? Why Canada" (which was kind of my g-mas response to an extent)
But no... "yeah... I saw that coming" WHAT THE HECK!!!
She said that shes know forever that I was going to do God's work (which... can I just say, I guess that everyone except me has known that... My mom, Kim, Melissa, Joni Michael, Karen, Michelle White from work, who isnt even a christian told me today she knew that I was going to be a minister of some sort)
My first thought was kind of "This comepletely goes against everything I had planned for my life"
But I have faith
I am a risk taker
Please Pray for me that God will show me where he wants me to go
Some other stuff that I can't say has also helped to confirm that this really was from God
So much awesome stuff is going on in our youth group
I love Kim and all the other sponsers
I... am so fortunate
I am going to call Kurt (the pastor in Hopedale) tomorrow and talk to him about it and see if he can get me any information
I want to help out at a Mennonite Camp in Canada next summer
I want to start being worship leader more often and maybe even give a sermon sometime
I feel as though god is calling me back to the Mennonite Church
This has gotten long... sorry