Not even sure anyone reads this

I have no idea if anyone even reads this, but this is BLOG monday!

-I didn't want to go to class this morning at 8am....but I did (the life of a college student)

-I finished my introduction video for Ocean City

-I was asked to play flute for CRU next week(we'll see if I even remember how)

-Went out sharing with my a girl in my discipleship group

-Giggled (this is a part of my everyday and fits well with my favorite quote "A giggle a day, keeps the glums away!)

-Got like 10 phone calls (I normally get like one and so uh that was bizarre and they all came at the same time)

-Sang in German Class.....

That is a day in the life of a college student!

The following video is the proof that my friends think I am old, I don't know what they would say I wear that is "old lady like" but apparently i'm like 80 so, whatever. I think ever 80 year old should go back to college....

Balloons!

Nothing says "Happy Birthday" like a floor full of balloons!

I really like this picture.

In light of a birthday picture(not mine, but a friends), I thought I would share with you the reasons that I am like an old lady. My friends constantly reiterate this fact to me, so I thought that I would let you in on the reasons why I am an old lady:

1) I drink and LOVE cranberry juice

(I don't think this is old lady like but apparently 20 year olds are not supposed to drink cranberry juice, whatever, i like it!)

2) My Wii fitness age is 79

(admittedly old lady!)

3) I tell grandma jokes

(I do, and I think they're funny and non-offensive, seriously, everyone laughs when their grandma tells a joke!)

I know that there is a fourth reason, but I can't remember it, must be my old ladyness coming out. Other reasons that I'm thinking of that I could be old, I like tea and I like to knit and now that I think about it that was the fourth reason

4) I can and do and like to knit

Spring +Winter=Spinter?

So, I forgot that I lived in MN when I wrote the last BLOG, it actually has become winterish again, and I haven't ventured out in capris and a only a track jacket since that day. I realized also that this isn't a Monday! I had a freak out/busy Monday! I attended a women's retreat last weekend and while it was so needed and just amazing the see the Lord at work, reality hit me kind of hard when I came back, oh the reality of homework! My homework can't always be rushed, and sometimes I pretend like it can, and I can skim German, but I really can't. It still takes me a lot of concentration to read in a foreign language.

So, time to update you all on the summer project :)

Praises: the support that has overwhelmed me. Thanks to all who have given! You don't know how much the Lord has used you as a blessing in my life!

Requests:

The Lord would my heart's purest and deepest desire.

He would prepare me for the mission that I am going to have in Ocean City!

A job for when I get there!

Finish well in Mankato (only 20 some days of school left, but it's so important that I finish well with my Bible Study women as well as in my schoolwork, I'm not in NJ yet!)

The Lord would continue to guide and lead me as I make decisions for my future!

Thanks everyone! :)

Kimberly

Good news! I believe God has finally released the grip of winter on this Minnesota landscape. That means spring! Today it rained! I really love a good rainstorm, unfortunately this one was a little cold.

But spring does mean things like going to the park and going on walks with friends! No more parkas!

I have purchased my plane ticket for this summer. AHHH!!! It seems to get more and more real to me everyday that I am actually going to this place called Ocean City New Jersey!

I am continually blown away with the LORD's provision and how he provides for His people. I had a fabulous weekend! I went with my friend Roxanne to the cities to see our friend Zack play in the club 3 degrees battle of the bands. Then we went out to supper with our friends Paul and Ben. I'm so thankful for friendship and friends who love Jesus! Then, we had a romp on an amazing playground! :)...I'm still I little kid, trapped in a 20 year olds body!

Then, I went home. It was really fun to bring Roxanne to my house and introduce her to my family. I spoke in church on Sunday morning, then I showed Roxanne the sight that should definitely be highlighted in "1000 Places to see before you Die", the biggest ball of twine made by one man!!! (YES I KNOW!) A delicious home-cooked meal was also par for the course...yummmm! It was a great weekend to revel in who Jesus is and to see Him in friendship, family, and in pure joy!

Last night we had a CRU leadership meeting and it was great to be reminded to finish well. My frustrations with the semester following spring break were large last week, and so reading 2 Timothy 3:14-4:8 was a good reminder to continue to share the gospel in and out of season and continue to reproof, rebuke, and exhort.

Who am I?

Well,

my spring break is now over. Back to school, eight weeks of school bliss remain.

A week ago I sent out a plethora of support letters, and I have been continuously overwhelmed with the response I received. 

In 1 Chronicles 1:29:14 it says, "But who am I, and who are my people, that we should be able to give as generously as this? Everything comes from you, and we have given you only what comes from your hand."

It is so good to keep on having the Lord reaffirm me in this trip. I'm trusting Him that it will be life-changing and have a deep effect on not only me, but also countless other lives.

So, the awesomeness is that I get to spend time with my friends this week. I got to greet them all and welcome back to MN, it's in the 60's today! WHOA! I don't need a jacket? The weather needs to visit a doctor for it's bipolarness.

Spring Break

It seems as though, I've already fell behind in blogging' but I felt that there wasn't too much traffic coming here. Yet, I feel tis time for yet another jaunt on blog lane. *said with a British accent it can sound quite cool*

So, the good news is that I have finally stopped this insaneness of not being able to sleep because of my excitement over the thought of Ocean City. It was hard for me to continue on like that with school and everything. I have also made it through the nastiest mid-terms week that I have yet to see. So, I sit in my parent's basement on spring break, while my friends are in Florida!
That's a shout out to them, no jealousy!

So, as I realized that my prayers for Ocean City were answered, I quickly slipped once again into complacency until I was lying unasleep on one of those nights and realized that I had even MORE that I needed to be asking the Lord for. I thought I might share my short list with you.
In fact, I sort of summed them up even for myself.

1) Spiritual Preparedness-
That my heart and the hearts of students joining me on project will be right before the LORD and open to what he will want to do to us through this project. Also that God would through His Spirit begin to prepare the hearts of the people we will be sharing the gospel with.
2) Support
This week I am sending out letters asking people to partner with me, a big step of faith! That people would see this as an opportunity to partner with me in the gospel, and would give. Not because I'm worthy, but because my King is!
3) Job
That I would find a job upon arrival in Ocean City.

These are all things that are testing my faith, as I continually choose to not worry about them, but to place them in the hands of the one who truly is capable to meet all these need, more than abundantly!

I have been continuing in my Beth Moore study and I think what has impacted me the most in the past week, is reading about Joseph. He believed the promise that God gave to Abraham of the promise land. The promise took place 400 years after it was given to them. Joseph could easily have believed that God had forgotten, but he chose to continue on in faith, believing that God is faithful!

how my adventure began

You are invited to be a part of the Ocean City Project 2009...

Those words were long awaited! Seriously, when I finished my application to project in December, over two months ago, I guess I never really had an inkling of what the Lord would have for me as I waited on him in faith. 

Why project? Why Ocean City? Very difficult questions and ones that I don't necessarily have a solid answer for. I have had the opportunity to see my friends come back from project last summer. What I got to see is what a summer did to them, a summer in the community of believers and one of trusting. What I observed in all was this growth. They knew Jesus more after they had returned. I wanted that then, and I continued to want it and as I asked the Lord if project was for me, I felt at peace to go ahead and fill out an application.

Ocean City. My original leaning was actually towards San Diego. Yes, sun, sand, and the whole manifest destiny thing. As I prayed and asked the Lord and did some seeking of wise counsel and people who knew me and dared to ask them, "Where should I go?" As I asked this question, I saw my heart towards San Diego start to change and go in the direction of Ocean City.

This was all before I even submitted my application.

Then, I finally submitted my application. That was quite an experience in itself. I remember feeling like screaming and throwing up and there were butterflies all around in my stomach. I was no longer in control. I was really going to have to trust God in this one. My prayer for project was "Lord, if you want me to go on summer project, allow me to be accepted, if you don't then I won't be accepted."

I will now fast forward a month to January. The first round of people were hearing back from their project directors and a record number of people from our region had applied, so the projects were all flooded with applications. A girl who had applied to OC as well, heard back that she was on the waiting list.

When I heard that news, I pretty much thought my hopes were over and really was ready wave my white flag and accept that I was going to be on project. Yet, I couldn't. The women in my discipleship group continued to encourage me to continue seeking the Lord until I heard for sure. During this time, our leadership Bible study had started Beth Moore's "Believing God" study. During the homework in my time of in-betweenness and foundering, we were asked to read Romans 4. 

This was no accident, what I found in there were two verses that I clung to and believe that the Lord gave me to grow my faith and trust in Him as I waited for Him to answer my prayers.

"No distrust made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God, fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised." (Romans 4:20-21)

Then this week dawned, the week that I had called "The Week of Reckoning". Not only was I waiting to hear back, but so were a handful of my friends. I got a call from one of my friends that he had been accepted to project. Then, when I got home after a night of German conversation, I decided to check my e-mail, I mean what did I have to lose?

And there it was, my answer. As you can imagine, I was ecstatic, I immediately called my mom, but I was unable to have an intelligent conversation, thinking about all that it meant! I pretty much spent the next 2 hours on the phone rejoicing with all the people who had been praying for me and the ones I had talked to.

Praise the Lord that he answers prayers!