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Friday, September 29, 2006

And Don't forget to sign the Gulu Petition
You can read and learn all about it at the site.
Don't forget to pray for George Clooney and his dad.

PLEASE HELP
Let's say that I am confortable in my sin and that I don't really consider it a sin, but that God would want me to be happy and doing it makes me happy. What would you say to me?

I'm dying here people. You can see it on my face, but I will continue to tell you that I am happy. Please Help.

Would you question my Christianity, I mean if I am really a Christian. Can I be a Christian and just disregaurd the law (the Commandments)?

How do I get out of this? Will someone pull me out or will I have to get out on my own? Can someone help, or must I do it myself? And How would someone help me? What if I don't want your help, but secretly I do?

Please HELP

Sunday, September 24, 2006

Rural Minnesota~ Who doesn't love it? ok everything but the bugs. Why are there so many more bugs over there? Things seem so much more simple, not that they are, but they seem that way. I went to church today in an Evangelical Church. They had people who went on mission trip with the church speak the entire service. Three of the six were teens. The summer was life changing for them. They had 187 people who went on Church sponsored missions. To Detroit, New Orleans, Poland and Panama. Not only weere the lives of these people changed but many many lives were impacted by these people. Be Jesus to someone today. You could be the only "Jesus" that they ever meet.

*"Jesus" = Christ
Christian = Little Christ.

I needa nap.

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

I have a few other world changer on my mind.... they are doing it one at a time. Amanda and Kelsey are loving people where they are at and through that they are bring people together and bringing teens to the Lord. Keep it up girls. Not that either of you read this but, hey.


This is Holli, oh she is another one of those World changers I was talking about. This girl has a passion and love for a people that most of us do not even take a moment to think about.
Pray for her, she is in Africa leading lots of teens on missions trips, and washing the feet of children and giving them shoes. So pray and send money if you want. :) Pray for safety and for energy and everything else.

Hey pray for Uganda today.
Pray for George Clooney and his dad.
Pray for : Holli, Wendy, Phil, Julie, the missionaries, and people of Africa.
They need extra Angels these days.
Sign the petition for GULU, well read about it first and see if you agree then sign and get your friends to sign.

Friday, September 15, 2006

Here are a few places that you can help if you need some ideas. These are all working with what we as Americans call Crisis Teens . If you don't have time or energy just pray for the organizations listed and for the Crisis Teens in your town, neighborhood, church, or home.

Can you feel that?
It's the world changing, over in Africa, one person at a time.
I wish I could put a picture of all of you here on this blog entry. We can all be world changers in our own neighborhoods, in our own cities, in our country. Let's each do something today that impacts the life of another. *Moms and dads you do this everyday, so take one more step out.* If you have not yet seen the movie the Invisable Children, you should.

this link is to a blog about the children.

After you see the movie maybe you will want to join me in finding the next 007 to solve the problem. I can expand on that more later.

Wednesday, September 13, 2006



Have you ever met a world changer?


Oh I have, Here she is, her name is Wendy and she needs your prayers. God is using her to change this world, but that can be an aghousting undertaking. Lives are not only being impacted but changed... she may not be able to see that right now and that is why we need to support her in prayer. Not seeing results can get to be frustating. So here we are let us do our part in helping Wendy change the world.

Monday, September 11, 2006

I was wondering if anyone knows why we as a society fall into this thing called DATING. It seems like a tragedy waiting to happen, and people just keep doing it. Why don't we pull away from it? Dating...it seems so shallow and uncomfortalbe. I don't look forward to doing it, I think that I will avoid it at all cost.
It's inevitable that you will end up breaking up or getting married, and I really don't want to do either at this moment. So I guess the best option is to stay out of the scene. Why don't we put more importance on developing relationships. Maybe that would spare many of us from ultimate divorce. Anyway here I am again talking about things I really don't know much about. So Peace Out!
Where were you on this date 5 years ago?
I was in AZ. Leaving my apartment for school when my neighbor came out and told Marishah and I what had happened. We did not believe him so he brought us into his apartment and we stood there and watched the second building get hit. (We did not have TV in our Apartment) We went to our first class, we were called out halfway through which was a good thing because nobody could concentrate anyway. We met in the gym and prayed, the entire school (all 250 of us).

Saturday, September 09, 2006

Well this morning again I was faced with a "Way of the Master" thing. I wonder if I could talk face to face with Todd, what might come of that. I am not significant person in the world, but he on the other hand is leading people. Leading them..... I'm unsure where. Pause. It seems to have become entertainment. I've encountered many, many people this last month that look up to Todd and the "Way of the Master" and everytime I hear it I just about cringe. I don't think that I should feel that about a brother. Why do I have this terrible feeling that he is not doing God's will. One lady walked up to me and said that Todd is the "Anti-Christ" I hadn't taken that into account, and was a bit thrown back by that comment. You all know where I work and working there I have encountered many types of people. I would say thought that 85-90% of the people who stopped by had something to say about Todd. Most of them asked if he would be comming out to the State Fair to do some street witnessing, they would go on to say how "neat" that was to watch. I would respond that he would not be at the Fair in any official way, but that they could stand infront of our booth and witness if they wanted too. *One night a teenaged guy came over to the booth and asked if he could stand on our stage and read the Bible to the passing croud. I told him that everyone one else was using the stage so he might as well too.*
Back to Todd. Is he purely entertainment? I wonder how many of those people even spoke to one person about the "GOOD NEWS" while they were at the fair.... or did they leave it up to Todd? I had the chance to speak with many people. A gay guy refered to a Bible verse that states the Golden Rule. How did that apply to me? He told me that it applies becuase he wants to be treated the way that he treats others. I agreed with that. Then he went on to say that means that he wants to be able to marry his boyfriend, just like I could marry my boyfriend. I then asked him, by definition doesn't marriage mean one man and one woman. He agreed with that. I asked why does there have to be marrage between same sex. He said so society will view and respect them as much as they do a marrage between heterosexuals. Then I chuckled just a bit, trying to hold it back. I said Marrage is a joke in our society, the "ball and chain," marrage is not respected. He stopped for a moment, then said your right. This man claimed to be a Christian. As such I knew I was to love him and to talk with him in love. Him leaving with things to think about and only engaging in gentle conversation with a sister in the lord may have blessed his heart. I was just asking question to things I did not understand, I was not hoping to get him thinking. The girl I was working with began a debate with him (a heated debate) about Homosexuality being a sin. I excused myself and told the man to have a great day. I don't know why I am writing about this.
So another man came to my booth and was irate. He said to me and the other kid working. "You don't have to be a republican to be a Christian." we agreed and then he went on to say, "you don't have to be conservative either" we again agreed. I asked him, if he prayed before he voted, he said "yes, of course." Then I asked him some thing like this: if he thought that God knew and had control over who would be put in such a position, and did he trust God. He got much more upset and told me all the things that Bush is doing wrong and that my generation will not have any social security because of Bush.
That's enought of reminising about those experiences.
I need prayer for the school year, it is already super hard.

Sunday, September 03, 2006

I have taken the time to look more into what I called the "New Kick" and I still think that it is a "New Kick," But I think that those that have brought it to the public had good intentions that others have taken a little too far and out of intended context. I will write more about it later when I am not so tired