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PROJECT FLASHBACKS // Towards the end of the summer we had a 24 hour fast, prayer, and sharing outreach. Which means we all signed up for an hour during the 24 hours to either go into the prayer room and pray, or go out on the boardwalk and share our faith. Yes that meant going out at 2 am and trying to find people to talk with. To start of the fast/outreach we had a worship night after our Thursday weekly meeting. Well what was a prayer and worship night turned into a mock persecution night. We had the leadership and prayer and vision guys barge in while we were singing yelling at us to all sit down. For 20 minutes they yelled at us saying how what we believe isn’t real and if we move or make a sound they would “kill” us. After about 20 minutes we got split up into groups and they led us downstairs into different rooms. There different people walked in and shared with us stories. The first story was of the very first Christian martyr. Then the stories became more and more recent. Ending with a story from about 5 years ago. During the moments when no one was telling us a story our “captor” was still yelling. And in retaliation we sang “How He Loves”, which was the song we were singing when the persecution started happening. This night made me realize how throughout the world there are people that aren’t safe due to what they believe.

Fast forward to last night. We had a women’s event at my house and we started the night off with some worship. One of the songs was How He Loves. Now whenever I hear this song I think of that night and the people around the world that don’t have the safety to openly worship in their homes. We are so privileged to be able to have Bible studies and worship nights in our home. That night taught me so much. It taught me to always be praying for countries around the world where being a Christian is illegal. It’s something that we don’t always think or talk about, but it should be. We should always be praying for our brothers and sisters in those countries. That they have courage and heart. To not give up. Please pray with me for them.

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Here are a few more pictures of my time in Ocean City, NJ. Such a fun time learning, and growing from others and God!

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I love the community here so much. I honestly don't know what I'm going to do when I have to leave these amazing people in 3 1/2 weeks. the things that I have learned from them have been far greater then what I have learned in private school. they truly know what it is like to love Christ and to love like him.

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OCEAN CITY SUMMER MISSION

Here are a few pics of what my current life looks like via OC, NJ. It has been such a blast living and working here. Yes, the humidity is not fun and people are a little different than folks from the Bay Area.. but it has been so refreshing and life giving. Myself and about 40 other Staff from all over the US are here for 7 weeks, working alongside about 105 students. We have two weeks left, which seems a bit crazy! Definitely have come to love late night trips to WaWa, hearing stories of changed lives on the boardwalk, traveling across states in less than an hour (what!) and waking up, knowing I am exactly where I am suppose to be. Looking forward to these last couple of crazy weeks! -K

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Killing the Giants Week

Well the week everyone who has ever gone on project has talked about. It is finally Killing the Giants week, which is a week specifically aimed at evangelism on the boardwalk. This week started on Saturday where we got in our impact groups and did a scavenger hunt and went sharing on the boardwalk for an hour and a half. When we got back to the church we were told to write down a goal that we had for ourselves of how many spiritual conversations with people. As a group we collectively said we wanted to have 4,092 conversations in just a week! And in just two days we have already had 1,200, which is amazing because it has been storming a lot this week. I just pray that we continue to strive for our goal of 4,000+ conversations and see so many more people come to Christ.

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casually stalking my discipler on Facebook cuz now I know who she is and I CANT WAIT TO FREAKING MEET HER IN 2 DAYS😱

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Bearly a Month Away

Let me start off by saying that the Gregorian calendar annoys me. Christmas and New Year’s roll around, and the days are cold and slow, which in turn makes the weeks and months cold and slow. I keep on writing 2014 instead of 2015 because Mr. Gregory chose to stick the start of the new year partway through winter, and BOOM; it’s now May and you’re left beary worried that you just hibernated through all of January, February, March, and April because all you remember was curling up under your blanket in your den to keep from going outside.

That brings me to my freshman year. It’s now May, I leave for Ocean City in less than a month, and the pace at which this year has flew by has been both frightening and exciting. On one hand it’s scary thinking that I’m basically a quarter of the way through college with the real world is looming, but on the other hand I’ve been so blessed to have had such a great freshman year and these next three years are going to be some of the best of my life because they’re going to build on the experiences of this year.

Freshman year passing by so quickly has really turned my focus to the future; specifically to Ocean City and sophomore year. I know two things will be true about OC: 1) The two months I spend in OC will be the quickest two months of my life and 2) I know I’m already going to miss the people I meet there and after leaving OC life without my new friends will seem impawsible. Accepting these two facts has given me an urgency to make the most of my time there. I know I won’t be maximizing the full potential of going to OC if all I do is focus on relationships and my own spiritual growth. While those are both very important, these two months are a unique opportunity to learn. I’ll learn how others share the gospel, what other Cru movements do differently that I can bring back to Arizona, and what a community on fire for the Lord looks like. Answers to questions like these will be just as solid evidence that I went to OC on par with the relationships, the crazy Facebook photos, and the marked increase in my spikeball skills.

I already know that Ocean City is going to be great. Sharing on the boardwalk, immersing myself in such a God-centered community, and growing exponentially in my walk with the Lord will all be experiences that I’ll keep for the rest of my life. But the reality of the situation is that the two months that I spend there are going to go by in the blink of an eye. Soon I’ll be gearing up for my sophomore, junior, and senior years. And what will be far more important than the pounds I gained from eating so many dollar slice pizzas will be what I learned in OC. I’m not going to Ocean City to stay there, I’m going there to come back.