a.window.into.my.world://

The Pics!!!

2008-04-06T17:01:00.000-07:00

Republica Dominicana!!!

2008-04-06T15:57:00.000-07:00

Hola. Dios te bendiga.
So I just got back from The Dominican!!1 It was like the most awesome mission trip I ever did go on!!! The thing that I think that I loved most about it was that I was ministering to people in another country, but still could understand the language! I have a new found love and understanding for the Spanish language! I loved speaking and listening to Spanish it's such a beautiful language and I'm going to be fluent one day!!! We ministered in a boys and a girls orphanage. In the boys we painted and cleaned and cleaned and painted and all sorts of stuff for about the first 4 days. Then we went to the girls and painted and painted at the school the girls went to. And we bought food for the girls. The girls orphanage was a lot nicer than the boys but they didn't have much food and they didn't have enough money to pay rent. Then we went 3 hours up into the mountians by Hati and worked in villages. They were soo poor and it was so sad to see them all half dressed and dirty. There one team went door to door and prayed for the familys while our team(the Master's) went and set up to do a childrens show. we did puppets, a drama called No tocar (sin chair), a worship song called Mi rey Jesus, and an alter drama called Cambio (or in return). We prayed for the kids and handed out candy it was an awesome time!!! One of our busses broke down when we were out there, but they sent us a new one. I got to see Sammy who is from New Life, but has been in the DR sence January for CMQ. Which is Masters Commission there in the Dominican! I have like 300 pictures that I could put here but I'm only gonna pick a few. :) I hope that the Hati mission trip went well!!!
Oh and we had a container sent full of our supplys and food and clothes to hand out, but it isn't going to arive untill later this week and Sammy, Heidi(our missions director), and the rest of the CMQ team are going to hand out the stuff! To God be the Glory!!!

Wow!!

2008-02-21T06:54:00.000-08:00

Hey guys sorry it's been a hot min.sense I last blogged for real....
There have just been a lot of things going on! We went to New Orleans for Mardi Gras! That is one crazzy outreach trip!!! Wow. We went to the streets at night and street witnessed. It was so sad seeing all the people there drinking and all the other stuff they do there...
This past Sunday we got back from a 36 hour drive to Phoenix for Masters Conference! It was awesome!! Besides the face that IK got to ride in a nice red mustang with two of my buddies. MCUSA has so much vision and experiance it's amazing! They have so much anounting! We also got to visit with 2 young adults that are from Chicago but are in there first year at MCUSA. Another awesome thing... Pastor David and Mari (my Directors) Were accepted on the MCIN board! Many of you may be wondering what I'm going to do next year. I am wondering the same thing as well. But as soon as the Lord leads me to something I wil let you all know!!!
Love!

My buddies!!!

Phoenix First from the top of prayer mountian.

Me on prayer mountian.

Julio

The group.

The new board members.

PS......

2008-02-19T16:32:00.000-08:00

New blog coming soon!!!!
Sorry it's been so long we've been on the road a lot!
I'm doing good!
Love you all!

Hey Yea!!

2008-01-06T21:10:00.000-08:00

Hey I know it's been a while, sorry about that one. :-/ Well now I'm back and doing good. Still missing my Hommies :-((. The next time I'll be home is after graduation. Yay for me. Well everyone here is doing great! We all came back for the 2nd half but unfortunately 2 people aren't going to be able to finish the year with us. :-(( I'm going to miss the soo much but it's what happens. I have no idea what we are going to be doing anytime soon. A lot of work and cloth sorting I'm guessing! We refinished the floor for the 678 Sanctuary today. Yeah that was fun! Then I'm at the shelter right now! Yay. We are fasting this whole month! The first week was no meat, The mondays are Ester fasts (fruit and water) The next week is no media whoo! That means I can eat meat again! Yay. Well I'll try get back to you soon But for sure not till the 14th. :-) Love you all and be blessed!

Hey I'm still alive!!! :-)

2007-11-19T13:23:00.000-08:00

Wow sorry it's taken me so long to write, but I've been busy over here in Chi! This morning I just got back from New Jersey and Pennsilvania where we ministered at 3 different churches! It was really awesome! Accept the part where I got sick. :-( I have a sinus infection. Not so fun but I'm making it. I only get two days off for Thanksgiving so I'm staying here. But my parents and Shealee are coming on the 25th and 26th to visit me. I don't have a whole lot of time I was just writing to let you know I'm still alive now I'm off to do my crazy amounts of laundry. How I miss my washer and dryer!!!
Love you all!!!

Hola!!!!

2007-10-25T11:51:00.000-07:00

Hola! How is everyone??? I'm doing well and making it through the hectic schedule, lack of sleep, and multiple personalities to get along with! :D Last week was very busy! We did a march with a church in the south side on Tuesday. Then the whole week we practiced dramas for the big sleep over at Humbolt Park. We also had a march on Friday night to Humbolt. Then we had worship and dramas! It was great. Oh and all this was for the Ex. 20:13 campaign, Which is the though shalt not kill. It has to do with gun violence and violence among the youth! It was awesome! We didn't spend the night at the park but we stayed there until 3 am and then we got to go back to the dorm for a nap and had to be ready by 6:45 to go back to the park and do some more stuff. Yay!! I was so tired but we got it all done. So yea we have one more week of Oct. Dramas. For all of you who would like to know I get two days off for Thanks so I'm not coming home!:-{{ The next time I'll be home the
Dec 23. :-}}}

DRAMA!!!

2007-10-18T14:42:00.000-07:00

Me amd Pastor David!

href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ZnXeTssw3SE/RxfVP7TB9QI/AAAAAAAAAGM/4Iz7-k6N7DY/s1600-h/IMG_1695.JPG">

Pics of the dorm finally!

2007-10-12T12:43:00.001-07:00

The bed! :-) my love!

The Washroom!

The Kitchen!

Front Room!

The front room.

Our Fireplace!!!

The front Room!

The new...

2007-10-05T21:09:00.000-07:00

So things are going good! We are learning about 100 dramas and human videos! Today we went United Center for a conference about Jesus... lol no it was abotu school voilence and we are going to be sleeping in the park for a "visual" or something like that. I just liked seeing were the Bulls play. Here I have some random pics and other things!!! You guys feel free to ask me any questions other than how are you doing cuz i already anwsered that. :-) lol love you all and miss the heck outa you!

Brandon on the floor. IDK. lol.

So we tied him up for fun! lol

And put gummy bears on his face.

They have a friendship like Me and She!!! Dang I miss that chica.

Brandon in his best.

The awesoem MJ!!!

The Bulls Floor! What??!!

And the jersy.

And the place!

Wow What's Going On!!!

2007-09-17T19:08:00.000-07:00

God has been stretching me a lot this past week. Just exposing me to new people, new work, new place to live, new church, new ministry, and a new lifestyle. It's been amazing and has had it's hard times, but all in all it's been a great experience! :-) I love the people here and everything has been amazing really. I've had a few bad days where I wished I just had one person that completely understood me, and then I remember, does anyone COMPLETELY understand me? I don't think so, but they just accept the fact that they never will. And Lucky you guys I have pictures!!! And about the week of brokenness, that consisted of, eating, a scavenger hunt, little sleep, prayer, workout, food,activities, drama, prayer, less,prayer,and devotions. Better than last year I heard.right and about those pics... here they are. I didn't get a pic with everyone but I tried and I will!

Me and Dianna!

Me and Julio!

Me and Angela!

Karina!

Me and Reyna!

Me and Doris!

Me and Evalise!

\
Me and JeN!

My team within CMC!

Me and Nick!

Me and Jonathan!

Me and the Sears tower!

Me and the beautiful water tower!

Me and Nick!

I love Chicago!!!

2007-09-09T19:01:00.000-07:00

Hello my friends!!! Just came to let you know that I'm doing amazing here in Chi! I love everyone here they are all amazing! There are 21 people in our masters this year. That is the most that they've ever had. Exciting!!! Starting tomorrow we are going on a brokenness retreat. :-] Yea lots of fun!!! Pray that I don't die. Just kidding...it's just going to be a really physical and braking down and team building week!!! Well I don't have much time and I do have pics of our apartment but they are on their way! Love you all! Thanks for your prayers!!!!
More is coming!

Hmmm...

2007-08-28T15:18:00.000-07:00

Well this past week I've been slowly packing away all the things that I'm going to take with me to Chicago. It's been a long slow process but I'm getting there, trying to pack all the things that I know I'll need there but don't need right now. It's hard. Last night was my last night at Everfree as a "student" and it was (the awesome) Pastor Tom's first night to preach. He spoke about how we need to expect things from God, we won't grow and get closer to God if we don't expect things from Him. Because the Lord can do immeasurably more than what we ask of imagine. It spoke to me because I expect God to do a lot in my life in Chicago, and I expect God to use me to touch other people infact I know he will. I am sad to leave I will miss everyone while I'm away but I know that there is where I'm suposed to be at least for this year. When I went to visit it was incredable their church is so different from ours and at first I felt out of place. Not because they didn't accept me or anything like that but because I was not used to the way they worship, the way they preach, or even the way that they talk. But I let all that go and started to worship the Lord and I felt right at home. I love everyone that I meet there so dearly and I can't wait to spend more time with them. I love you all too and Don't miss me too much!!!
<3

:// Passion Conference!!!

2007-08-22T20:22:00.000-07:00

I'm going to be in Chi when this is going on!!! I really want to go! Hopefully I can talk to Pastor David and see what he says about it! It's stinking $79 though! Louie Giglio and John Piper will be speaking AND... big and needed... Chris Tomlin and Matt Redmand will be there!!! Ahhh I want to go! How Could I not???

...and so

2007-08-17T22:26:00.000-07:00

And so sense I'm going to Chi-town I thought that I'd keep you guys posted on what's happening. I'm sure it's going to be an exciting one! Although I'm not there yet I will be soon! I leave the 7th of Sept! Yay! God bless!