One week!

We had a $5 Prom last week. We all went to the local thrift stores (my favorite places) and found our outfits and danced the night away in them. It may have been one of my favorite nights. So much fun.


The family night last week (or a couple weeks ago) went really well! Not as many internationals came as planned but God was so evidently in the room. My friend Vlad came to family night. He is from Ukraine and I work with him. At the beginning of the summer I shared the gospel with him but he saw God as a very sinister being who is really far away.  I talked to him after the family night and asked him if his thoughts about Christianity have changed over the summer at all. He said he felt like he was on a path and that although he still doesn't believe in God he is really happy when he is hanging with the people on my project. He comes every morning at 8am and eats yogurt on our porch before work. Love how God is softening his heart.

Family Night Tomorrow!

International family night is tomorrow! Every Wednesday night we have a weekly meeting with a speaker and worship, etc. This Wednesday the international team was placed in charge of planing the meeting. So, we got a pastor from a local church to speak, Jing Jing (a Chinese immigrant here on project with me) to give her testimony, and my friend Andrei (from Romania with the international summer project) to give his testimony. After we are having ice cream and hanging out with them! I would love prayer for this and that a lot of hearts would be changed by the testimonies shared, and the pastor. Thanks!

This is really fun.

We play this game where you rub someone's cheek in a circle and say, "this is really fun" over and over and try not to laugh. It's really dumb. I don't even know what to say in this blog anymore. God is constantly moving it's hard to try to write it all. Maybe one day I will video blog, but probably not.

International team is going great! Watched the fireworks on the 4th with a bunch of international students. Here are my girls. I love them to death:

Left to right- Jazira, Assem, my friend Rachel from project, and Aigerim

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 We also had a volleyball outreach. It turned out that like 10 kids from my work came! So awesome. After three kids came over. Two were American boys. One of the boys asked a lot of questions about God. He is so close to accepting Christ. The other two are very open and we have been able to share the gospel with all of them!

Another awesome answer to prayer: Aigerim (far right in the picture) and I had a long conversation about Jesus and Christianity and the Muslim faith. The day before I prayed that God would allow me to clearly explain the gospel to these Muslim girls because thus far everytime I had they always answered, "yeah, thats what I believe too." But I knew that they didn't believe what I did. So, the NEXT NIGHT we were at the international coffee house and we got into a great conversation about how Jesus bridges the gap between us and God, something she, as a Muslim, does not believe. God allowed me to clearly explain to her how we are so distant from God and we need Jesus to connect us to Him. Jesus was more then a prophet. SUCH AN ANSWER TO PRAYER. So legit.

Prayer Requests: 

• For the Kazahkstan girls that I would be able to spend more time with them and be intentional about sharing the gospel, and that their hearts would soften.
• We are doing a Volleyball outreach Friday night and trying to invite a bunch of international students. Last week one girl came to know Christ (while watching us play a girl from project was able to share the gospel. God is so cool.) So that this week would be just as effective and a bunch of students would come out!

"I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile." Romans 1:16

More fun pics:

We use this tool called a Soularium. My favorite thing to use where students pick pictures that go along with the question. Like, pick three pictures that describe your life right now, or, pick a picture that describes your spiritual journey.

My sisters and the Mcnamara girls came to visit! And a random dude (welcome to ocean city).

I am so bad at blogging...

Wow so much has happened since my last post so I am about to summarize the last two or so weeks... 
1. One of the cool things that we have been doing is outreaches every Saturday. Last Saturday we did something called cardboard testimonies. On one side of the cardboard testimony we wrote what we were before Christ then on the other side we wrote how we are now. I think pictures will help....

This is Rachel. She is legit.

This outreach was really cool. We really didn't get to talk to that many people but I am praying it really affected people. One guy went up to my friend Mike to talk to him and later accepted Christ!

2. Woman's day!

We had a day where all the ladies of project hung out. This may have been one of the coolest days yet. After scrapbooking and hanging out these ladies at a nearby church wanted to make us all dinner. It was so good. There were homemade crab-cakes, sweet potato muffins, and basically everything good. After dinner we had communuinion and the we had one lady, a leader of the project, and our bible study leader pray for us and wash our feet. It was so moving and humbling. 

3.  All the staff left us and we are now leading ourself! Brittany and Jason are leading us as overall directors. Then there are six sub-leaders for the different ministries: outreach, prayer, community group, family group, operations, and they asked me to lead the international team. I would love prayer for this. God has been teaching me to rely on Him for strength. I have never seen myself as a leader but always seem to be placed in leadership positions but I've been realizing that I am really prideful in thinking God can't work through me.

This is my bible study! Diana (on the left) was our leader. Since she left Valerie(on the right) will be leading.

4. I gave my testimony at church the other day! Here it is if you are looking for a good read: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1li6BAyZJc3lBzyaH-oh5EG2e9YDphSS9syZ6oxU19WE/edit?hl=en_US

5. Here are some random pictures for your enjoyment:

These cool cats we are who I go to church with. Love em.

Although we rarely get to go to the beach we make most of the time we have, which means inner tubes, blow up boats, and lots of boogie boarding. I am becoming a pro.