Changes!

I haven’t updated since February. Wow, things have changed. If you had asked me then what my plans were for the next year, I would have told you very confidently, “I will be joining full time staff with Student Venture after I graduate college in May 2012.”

This summer the Lord has rocked my world.

My plans to join staff with SV after college are gone, and I have (after about a year of fighting with God) finally submitted to the will of the Lord. I changed my plans to attend Campus Crusade’s Staff Conference to instead take General Chemistry II at UTC and have spent some time job shadowing doctors. After a lot of prayer and consideration, the Lord has definitely shown me His will is for me to pursue the pre-med route. This at first was a really, really scary and burdening thought because, well honestly, my personal desire has never been to become a doctor. Also, I’m gonna have to be honest in saying that I’m a math girl, but never have had a love for science (and pre-med classes are mostly science!). I asked the Lord to put a desire in my heart to learn sciences if that’s what His desire is for me, and I know this is going to make me sound like a huge geek, but I am honestly excited every day about going to Chemistry class and get really giddy when I’m about to do lab experiments. Praise the Lord for His faithfulness!

This fall, instead of taking my senior math classes, I will be taking Physics, Organic Chemistry, Biology, (all 3 with labs) and Numerical Analysis. Please, please, please pray for me as I prepare myself emotionally and spiritually to take on such a heavy school load this next semester. I am clinging to the verse, “So do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”(Matt 6:34) The Lord has been challenging me lately to live life day by day rather than looking ahead into the great unknown. I must hold onto this truth as I go into the next semester because if I don’t, I will end up VERY overwhelmed!

Also, please be praying for me as I take on 15 hours a week working with Student Venture on Brainerd High School’s campus this fall. I am so excited to be spending my free time loving on the girls at Brainerd and showing them the truth of who God is!

I am currently trudging through the book of Job, and am going to leave you with this verse of encouragement:

“As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last He will take His stand on the earth. Even after my skin is destroyed, yet from my flesh I shall see God; whom I myself shall behold, and whom my eyes will see and not another. My heart faints within me! –Job 19:25-27




celebrating my 21st birthday with my american friends, this was the first birthday celebrated in the states in 3 years!

my 19th birthday with my african papa. i miss him so much