ashleigh and erika

lovely ladies!

amy and shekinah

leading worship at church

the romania girls

(back row) jenni, erika, ashleigh, karen alyssa
(front row) jessica, stacy, vania

our team (led by stacy and vania) heads to romania september 30 and will be in the city of cluj-napoca for five weeks. your prayers would be much appreciated by all of us as we prepare to go. we'll be ministering in a variety of ways ... homeless and well to do, children and elderly, village dwellers and urbanites ... and flexibility will be critical. pray for perseverance, compassion, spiritual sensitivity, creativity, strength, physical protection, good health and that we'll represent Christ accurately, modeling His love and compassion as He did. pray for finances to come through for each of us and that the details and logistics of our trip will come together in a timely manner. thanks for your prayers!

melting

so our air is out. the wing of our dorm where my bedroom happens to be lost a/c a couple of days ago. the temp in my bedroom reads 93.

the lobby area (where the air still blessedly works) for the last couple of nights has played host to one, giant, slumber party of girls.

they promise us they'll have it fixed today. my fingers are crossed.

dorm clean-up

one saturday a month the base has a clean-up day. the three of us had garbage can duty. what fun. rewarding, if nothing else. helps keep the possums away!

ashleigh and erika

hanging out at the park!

destination unknown

so finally, after weeks of waiting, our ywam soe (school of evangelism) class now knows our teams/destinations for outreach. it has been an exercise of patience, being held in suspense this long. normally we find out by the third week of class. we are now in our sixth. arggg. but the agony is over.

the options of romania, india and washington dc were presented in class this morning and we were given 10 minutes to pray about it and see what God said. God spoke and the teams were finalized. i am on the romania team, which happens to be an all girls team of seven, including our leader. nice. very nice. two of my three current roomies are also on my team, which will be mucho grando fun.

our whole class leaves september 14 for a week in washington dc where we'll be doing lots of intercession at the capitol and supreme court steps and prayer walking around the city. then we head to chicago for a week of classes in mapping out spiritual strongholds of a city. we'll visit various places of worship throughout the city (mosques, temples, churches, etc) and learn what the prominent spiritual influences of the area are. should be challenging and fun, learning to be more sensitive to the spiritual realm and praying for the light of truth to enter these dark places.

then we head to our various outreach destinations (me, to romania :) for five weeks of ministry. the romania team will be based out of the city of cluj-napoca, which is in the northwestern part of the country. we'll be helping with building renovations at the ywam base there, hanging out at dumps to minister to the homeless kids there, helping out at Living Alternatives (a home for unwed mothers), prayer walking and working their ywam staff conference, among many other things.

now our teams will be able to meet together to pray and focus in on what it is that God has in store for us while we're on outreach. it's all so exciting!! i love this stuff. good times.

snow cone tongues!

fourth of july celebration with ywam girls. nothing like a cool tasty beverage on a hot summer night.