These are the 2nd Semester students of IGo 2012

 

Back row: Glendon; Jimmy; Brandon; Andrew; Landon; Brent; Darren; Joe; Tim; Brian; Ivan

Second Row: Me; Yvonne; Sheri; Noel; Bree; Paula; Juanita; KaLynn; Allison; Amber; Hollie

Third Row: Katelyn; Abby; Melanie; Judith; Mel; Jo; Wilma; Kayla; Sarah

Front Row: Matt, holding Noah; Heidi holding Ellen; Leon; Galen; Chad; Joanna; Derrick

 

 

 

These are the people that I will be leaving in 7days

[well, all except Juanita....I get to take her with me! hurray!]

 

Can't wait to come in 3 months and see how God has changed everyone! ;-)



1 year

One year.

365 days.

And I don't know how many minutes

.....it feels like F.O.R.E.V.E.R.!!!

 

Bev, God called you home to Heaven LONG before we were ready to let you go.

Even though our hearts were torn that day,

we know God had a plan.

 

We do not understand.

And we still shed many tears.

But that just makes us cling tighter to God's hand,

the hand that right now you are holding on to.

 

Bev, I treasure each memory of you!

The good, the funny,

and even the ones where I thought you were a bossy older sister!

And especially the ones that only you & I fully understood ;)

I treasure those memories [tho not memories I wished to make!] of my time with you at the hospital.

 

Bev, you taught me sooooo much!

You taught me what it means to love God above all else!

You passed on your love for missions & the work of God around the world.

Your servant heart humbled me on more than one occasion

[often during our days at the hospital I had to stop & ask which of us was serving whom!]

 

Bev, I will be forever grateful that you are my sister!

I love you!

And I miss you!!!

xoxoxo

 

 

 

 

 I am grateful for understanding people!
Today I was able to take a day of solitude to process the things of the past year, instead of sitting in classes. It was exactly what I needed!! I'm so grateful!

I had a wonderful time with just God, my journal, my Bible,
my memories & tears, and my butterflies. Yeah it wasn't an easy day. But I could feel the prayers of my friends. And I must say today was a blessing.

 And some of the biggest blessings are in the photo above! I am blessed to have these lovely ladies as my friends!! I don't know what I would have done without you all! LaRonda, Delight, Katelyn, Mel, Juanita and Yvonne, you all are just amazing!!! Thank you for your prayers, your tears, your hugs, your notes and the flowers....and just for being with me! It meant more than you could imagine!
 I love you all!

When I’m feeling all alone and so far to go
The signs are nowhere on this road guiding me home
When the night is closing in
It’s falling on my skin
Oh God will You come close

Light, light, light up the sky
Light up the sky to show me You are with me
I, I, I can’t deny
Oh I can’t deny that You are right here with me
You’ve opened my eyes so I can see You all around me
Light, light, light up the sky
Light up the sky to show me You are with me

When stars are hiding in the clouds
I don’t feel them shining
When I can’t see beyond my doubt
The silver lining
When I’ve almost reached the end
Like a flood You’re rushing in
Love is rushing in

Light, light, light up the sky
Light up the sky to show me You are with me
I, I, I can’t deny
Oh I can’t deny that You are right here with me
You’ve opened my eyes so I can see You all around me
Light, light, light up the sky
Light up the sky to show me You are with me



So I run straight to Your arms
You’re the bright and morning Sun
To show Your love, there’s nothing You won’t do

Light, light, light up the sky
You light up the sky to show me You are with me
I, I, I can’t deny
Oh I can’t deny that You are right here with me
You’ve opened my eyes so I can see You all around me
Light, light, light up the sky
Light up the sky to show me You are with me

Oh oh oh oh oh oh
You are with me
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
You are with me
Oh oh oh oh oh oh

You are an amazing God!!!

Walk down this street and join me in my life here in Thailand....

This is Thailand! :-) The land of beautiful, hot, muggy days with fairly frequent rain showers. I'm totally enjoying this weather! :-) {I think my body may even be adjusting to it....Saturday I was at an air conditioned coffee shop “doing homework”....*aka. Discussing homework & attempting to get something written down on paper*....drinking a delicious lime frappe, and shivering. ;-) Good times. :-)

*The Hide Away coffee shop

(the 1^st coffee shop I visited upon returning to Thailand. I still haven't got to all my favourite coffee shops yet.....but I still have a few weeks!)

Classes started this week. So my life now consists of: getting up early for class, chapel, homework, another class, another class, a delicious Thai lunch, homework, another class, then 2 hours of homework, another amazing Thai meal, then either a ministry night or recreation night, followed by more homework, and sleeping for a few hours. And of course, whenever there is a spare moment there is usually more homework or Bible memory to work on. :-) I love it!! So glad I am here! :-)

My classes this term are: The Church & Her Foes [it's a great class with some challenging homework assignments], The Gospel of John [an amazing Bible study!], a Missiology class [a class that is totally blowing my mind!! I think every Christian (or at least every Christian pastor!) should have to take this class. The things we discuss are some every key points in the Bible that I have never even heard be taught in church!! Our churches would be so different...], and a Language Accquistion class [it's re-enforcing to me just how important it is to study the Cambodian language!].

I think the thing that impacted me the most this week in classes was the whole thing of using Jesus' ministry as a model for our ministries today. When you really study Jesus' ministry strategies you will be amazed at all you learn! His mission was to reach the WHOLE world. But He did not focus on the multitudes, instead He focused on training the 12 disciples to take His place when He had to leave. That really challenged me! Even though I only have 3 months in Cambodia, I can still make an impact by teaching 1 or 2 people to love the kids like God enables me to love them. So, let me ask you....who are you training???

Saturday night I had the privilege of going to Walking Street. It's when the city closes down some streets and vendors set up their booths to sell their stuff. You can buy anything there. From food to t-shirts to traditional style of clothes to hats to purses to jewelry to EXTRA S.U.P.E.R. AMAZING coffee smoothies!!!

I rode home from Walking Street in a tuk tuk [a motorcyle with a little 'cart/carriage' attached to the back of it]. It was a great cultural experience. :-)