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Hey Everyone!

Just wanted to update you on what was going on in my world. I know its been quite some time. I am doing well and the  Lord is certainly growing me and keeping me on my toes. Just when I think I am right where He wants me, He up and changes the exact direction I am heading. I have had some great God time lately and He has been taking time not only to grow and challenge me but also to have others take time to pour into me and also heal my heart. Which has been needed. I was offered a job as the full time minister of children at my church that  I am at last night. I have been trying to do  two full time jobs at once and it has honestly been quite ineffective and difficult. The Lord has taught me to rely on him and to allow him to lead my every step! He has allowed me to refocus and seek His face constantly. I am also learning that storms will come and go in life and God just chooses to reveal Himself to us through the storm as we continually rely on Him. Praise the Lord!  That the storms will stop eventually! So I ask that you pray for me as I begin a new adventure as full time children's minister on July 1st at Beck's Baptist. That the Lord will guide my every step and show me just where He wants this ministry to go. That I will also listen and obey as what he wants me to do. Also, a side note, Andy is coming home from Iraq, for two weeks in eleven days and I am way excited to be able to just spend time with the family. I do ask you to pray as my dad may be there too. I haven't seen him since Jan. and don't know how things will go but I do know that I need family time. SO, I pray that the Lord will allow us to have a great time and enjoy being together as a family! I pray that you are abundantly blessed as well this week and that the Lord will speak to you just as you are following Him with each step you take! 

Finding Joy in the Lord!!!

Hello everyone!

I have to tell you I have had a great week this week. I haven't had anything spectacular happen. In fact it's been a pretty routine week for me as far as schedule and work goes. But, I have signed up for a few things that I am really excited about that have kicked off in the last couple of weeks and I feel the Lord growing and stretching me daily. We started a new spiritual journey at church called Pursuing Vital Ministries and began with prayer triplets two weeks ago. Mine has met once but I have been abundantly blessed this week by the many people who have come up to me and shared with me that they are praying for me! What a blessing because I certainly NEED it and want it too! Prayer is always a good thing. I also joined a community bible study about two weeks ago as well with women from all over the area and can I just tell ya, it is stretching me and allowing me to delve deep into God's word and see what He needs to say to me! PRAISE THE LORD! Just the challenge I have been looking for! I also began this week doing a bible study with other women at church that will last six weeks. IT's about the PSalms and the Asenscion of the Psalms so I am really excited about that. I took a moment this week to realize that I may be in a little over my head but then I thought. Bring it on! I can only be abundantly blessed by digging deep into God's word and challenging myself with other women of faith as well. So I pray that as you are going about your New Year that you are being abundantly blessed and challenged all at the same time.

I must tell you as well, I am looking forward to this weekend! i am going to play paintball and I am pretty excited about it! Yes, I know I sound like one of the boys but oh well! So goes my life some days! Bring on the paintball! :) Hope you are all abundantly blessed today and will find your Joy in the Lord. For that is where Our strength comes from too!

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So I have to tell you that we may be getting snow tomorrow. Fun times. Makes me excited to know that the Lord is capable of blessing us with such beautiful precipitation. I have to tell you that we began a spiritual journey  as a church on Sat. Called Pursuing Vita Ministries! We have been signed up and placed into prayer triplets. I am very excited about all that Lord has to teach me through this 100 days of praying together and seeking the will of God. I pray that the Lord will open my eyes to his dreams and visions for our church and not allow me to get in the way with small dreams and hopes.

 I also pray that the Lord will grant me patience. You see, I have felt the need to pray for my future spouse a lot and I mean ALOT in the last couple of months even with all the crap going on in my life.  So I am feeling the need to pray for patience at this point. And also that I don't get in the way of all the Lord has in store. My humanness and impatience certainly gets in the way of all the blessings sometimes. I pray that who ever the Lord sees fit for me to end up with that He will also be patient with me.

I pray also that the Lord is blessing you abundantly. I need to get ready for church this evening so I will write more later.... I have more to add but Church calls.

I pray that I will wait on the strength of the Lord and that He will grant me strength and that I won't grow weary. I mean look how many other peeps he has used and asked to wait! Why should I not be willing.?!

Happy New Year! 2008!

 I know, Try not to pass out! I have been terrible about keeping up with this whole blog thing especially since arriving in North Carolina! My Bad! I Hope that all of you out there in blog world have enjoyed the beginning of your new year.

 I am so excited that the Lord has brought me through a full year of many lessons and blessings even when I don't understand it all. I pray that 2008 will be a great year of excitement and abundant blessings! I have definitely had a roller coaster year last year!

 I began the year by dating a great guy who I thought the Lord had placed in my life permanently. Evidently not so much, seeing as we only made it to Nov. and then he said he needed to find himself. So Thank you Lord, for the opportunity of growth and time to invest in a relationship. I also had a whirlwind of a summer with many emotions and trips to go on. You see, in ministry, children kick into action during the SUmmer what fun that can be! We went to children's camp last summer for the first time and boy it was really fun. I also sent one of my brothers off to Iraq for fifteen months in July and pray diligently for him daily. He sees much of the fighting seeing as he is a crew chief on a medivac helicopter. So please continue to pray for him. I also got ready for VBS and had a great time being able to put it altogether for the first time ever with some divinely appointed Help!! It was definitely a joy and exciting time of growth on my part.

And then by the end of August, I took ten days off and headed out West with my best friend and her family before she entered the real world of working. We made many memories and laughed a whole bunch which was definitely needed on my part. Seeing as ministry can be very stressful at times thankfully the Lord brings us through all of it in His timing.

I arrived home only to have my very foundation of family structure to begin crumbling right beneath me in the midst of me literally arriving home from vacation. I found out my Dad had been cheating on my Mom again and didnt understand why! You see, as a female, the Lord places our father's in our lives to allow us to have a Human being portray what a strong Father can be and to show us our Heavenly Father's Love. Evidently though, mine, well, he has definitely fallen into the world of sin in which we live in. So, I continue to pray for healing and restoration within our family because honestly, it has been rough on all of us. And he definitley can't see past himself right now either. And along with all of that and the crap that goes on with families falling apart, my boyfriend and I broke up. SO you know, I have been a great ball of fun to be around lately.

I must say though, Christmas was very much a healing time for me because I was able to be around family I havent seen in almost a year and I just needed peeps to love on me. So they did! And also I felt very good about the services that were done at Church throughout the Christmas season. In fact really since Sept. I have heard the Lord speaking to me more audibly than ever before but it also may be because I have been attentive and been listening with all that I am. You see, I am realizing, that sometimes the Lord has to strip us down to the very core for us to really focus on Him in all things and all areas of our life. So that is simply what I have done! I  am listening and allowing Him to mold me daily. No matter how hard I try to fight it or how much it may hurt.  Shape and Mold on Lord. So I may be who you want me to be! Not who I want to be!

So in this new year I am certainly ready for the Lord to bless my socks off! I know with a new year, comes new hopes and dreams and blessing in even the small things. So  I am ready to serve the Lord and be stretched by him even out of my comfort zone into where He wants to use me. So I pray that you will continue to pray for my family and the mess that we are in the midst of  but also more importantly that we will give the Lord all the Glory He deserves in all things. Have a Happy New Year and know that I am praying for you too!

Needed Rest and family time!

So I am now back in the swing of things after taking   a few days off to meet my family for some much needed vacation time. We spent a week in Saluda, NC in the mountains in the middle of nowhere but it was great to be around my family. The reason we all got together was because one of my brothers, Andy, is getting ready to leave for Iraq on July 9th for fifteen months. It will be his second tour over there and there are a lot more questions I have this time rather than last time. So please keep him and our family in your prayers. I will not be able to see him off because I have to be at church on Sunday the 8th which is family day and I am leaving with our children's ministry on the 9th to go to camp for a week in Va. So My first week I will be busy but still praying very diligently for him and the Unit he will be with. So thank you Lord for the families you provide us with and time to spend together. I pray each of you are just as blessed as I am with family. Have a great day and I must get back to the daily grind of things. :)

IN His Grace,

Kendra