One long year of planning and anticipating is nearly over! I leave Lacombe Thursday morning at 8:00 AM for Africa!!!

Please pray. It seems like when you're on a mission trip, your eyes are more opened to see God at work. I simply want to receive all that he has to show and teach me, and to give all that he wants to use me in. I am sooo excited. ( Read more... )

Read The Shack.

Period.


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I saw Hotel Rwanda (about the genocide ending in 1994) for the first time last night. Wow...it breaks my heart. Especially because my dad was just in the Sudan for the month of April, and one of the towns he visited -- Agok, I believe -- is facing violence and the people have fled. But this is the thing: they made a statement in the movie that the ( Read more... )

Check it out (you have to wait until the pictures at the end -- the best part).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_e4zgJXPpI4

Someone mentioned the other day that it is frustrating that this generation seems afraid of commitment. I agree ( Read more... )

I got home from Prairie 9 days ago and was in need of a job for two months, before my mission trip to Kenya. God is good and provided me with a job at Patio Gardens Greenhouse. I began today, and it went well! I transplanted flowers all day. No wonder Jesus spoke in parables. I can picture him walking throughout cities with his disciples, telling ( Read more... )

God has been reminding me over and over that his kingdom is about repentance. We cannot understand or fully appreciate the grace of God until we are well aware of our own sin and inadequacies. I am so thankful that he is a loving Father that accepts me when I say sorry and promises to hold me and help me return to him when I've messed up. It is not ( Read more... )

Prepare to be challenged ( Read more... )

"We Serve the Best Pizza in Town!" claims a restaurant along the main road. Knowing Three Hills, that place probably serves the only pizza in town!

"The Best" has many different meanings.

Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable His ways! Who has known the mind of the ( Read more... )

I've never really celebrated Lent before, but decided to this year. A lot of people at college were giving things up for the 40 days, and I figured that it was a safe environment to do so as well and to have people hold me accountable. So I prayed about what to give up, and God made it painfully clear...TEA. Now I enjoy tea a lot, but wasn't ( Read more... )