My last few weeks! :)

So last week I kind of hit a low in my time here. I just felt like I didn't really have passion for what I was doing and felt just emotionally and even a little spiritually drained. One of my friends sent me this song below and it definitely kind of sums up what I was feeling in a sense. 

But yeah, I was coming up to a semester break and I think I just needed time off campus to just rejuvenate and re energize. :) So last Thursday the 21st of April was our last day on campus and have had a break this week and it has been so refreshing! :) Here is what we did...

Thursday Night/Friday Morning: I had the most amazing skype/prayer session ever!!!! The Eastern Washington University morning prayer had me skype in and they all prayed for me for an hour. It was so amazing seeing familiar faces and made me realize how much I miss Cheney/Spokane!!! I love you guys and this was such an encouragement to me!!!! :) Thank you!!!!

Friday 22nd of April: Jess and I had a "homeless Easter" dinner. We cooked all day and invited over friends who didn't have families to go to for Easter dinner. We made a huge meal and just hung out with everyone that night.

Saturday 23rd of April: Jess and I flew to Brisbane and surprised our friend Steph for a 4 day holiday! Steph's boyfriend Ezra had worked with us to surprise her and it turned out great!

Ezra, Steph, Jess, and I during our time in Brisbane

Sunday 24th of April: EASTER! We went to an awesome church service and then went and walked around the river and had coffee and chatted. It was very relaxing and a great Easter.

Us walking around the city on Easter!

Monday 25th of April: Anzac Day....this is a day when all the cities in Australia shut down and all the people who have served or are serving in the navy, air force, army, march and we celebrate them. It is actually really awesome. Ezra, Steph, Jess and I drove to the Gold Coast and watched a march there and then spent the day on the beach. We stayed the night at some friends house, who were just amazing! 

Anzac Day March

Anzac Day March

Tuesday 26th of April: We drove up to Mount Tamborine and spent the morning at this coffee place overlooking an amazing view. We were able to feed birds and just spent the morning relaxing. We then drove back to Brisbane had a great prayer time together, played some volleyball and then Jess and I flew back to Sydney.

Steph and me at Mount Tamborine: At our table looking out! :) AMAZING

At our table at Mount Tamborine: Feeding the birds!

At our table at Mount Tamborine: Feeding the birds!

Wednesday 27th of April: Jess left early for a training she has with work in New Zealand for a week and Ricardo left on the Navy ship for a couple weeks....I started back into work feeling amazingly refreshed and ready to go! :)

Friday 29 of April: We had a national wide prayer day with Campus Crusade in Australia. It was so encouraging to spend the day praying for each other and the nations. Definitely a great day! :)

Now it is the weekend and on Monday I start back up on campus. I am feeling so refreshed and ready to go, so that is awesome! Here are just some prayer requests to keep in mind the next couple weeks:

-I would continue to stay refreshed and passionate about going on and sharing Jesus
- University of Notre Dame: More leaders to step up
-I am currently looking into options for next year and need to decide in a couple months...that i would know where God is calling me.

So yeah I think those are the main things. Sorry I haven't been keeping up to date on this blog. I will try to be better! :)

Go pray video!

Ok, so this is just a fun little video me and my two roommates made in our house! This is the downstairs of the church that we live in and is used for storage, bbq's, and whatever! :) We actually have a skate ramp in the back of this room as well. But this was a video for prayer hours at the connexions camp...so i thought i would share it with you! :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra0C_8_OIp8

It is pretty random and funny, but I thought you would like it! :)

WHITE HOT FAITH! :)

So this last weekend we had our connexions conference, which is a kind of fall retreat for the Australia students of New South Wales. It was such an amazing conference and definitely challenged me in my faith.

The speakers talked about having a white hot faith and what that looks like in our daily lives. We were told not to be ashamed of the Gospel, but to stand up for it each day. We should be boldly living our lives for Christ each day. We also had a talk on not compromising, which is something we can constantly fall into. The saying that was repeated in this talk was we only have one life to live what are we going to do with it and that there is no room for compromise when we are following Jesus. It just made me think about making each day count and really think about what I want my life to reflect. The last talk was about surrender and how that is the only way to not compromise. We must surrender our lives to the Lord. He has the perfect path for us and He is watching out for us, we need to completely surrender and just trust God and walk each day with Him.

So that is what we talked about, having a white hot faith in Jesus! It was awesome and the students loved it! I was able to lead a training session, which was a really good experience for me. Thanks so much for your prayers this weekend, I think it will really get our students excited and pumped up for the rest of semester here! :) 

Some of our Sydney Metro students making their way to Connexions! :)

Time in Perth! :)

Hey everyone!

I just wanted to give you an update on my trip to Perth! :) First, I want to say thank you so much for your prayers and support while I was over there. I definitely could not have gotten through the trip without all of you behind me!

It was definitely a trip where I got to see a lot of amazing things that the Lord was and is doing. The Student Life movement began in Perth just one semester ago and currently there are 5 student leaders on 3 campuses over there. These five student leaders are so passionate and have dreams to see not only their campuses changed by Christ, but also their city and their entire state! It is awesome to see these students dreams and just be able to partner along side of them and help them with their questions.

God is definitely beginning to move in Perth and it is definitely exciting to watch. The students we went out and surveyed there were extremely interested in talking about Jesus and just had so many questions. It was exciting to be able to get into multiple spiritual conversations and just be able to answer questions that people had about Jesus! :)

So let me introduce you to the 5 amazing student leaders....In the picture below we have Caitlin to the far left who was the first leader at Curtin University. In the middle are Steven and Jaenette who are married and are leaders at University of Western Australia. Nathaniel is on the far right and he is a leader with Caitlin at Curtin University.

 

Then below, is a video of the last student leader. Her name is Louise and she is actually leading a movement at Mount Lawley Campus as well as Edith Cowan University. I probably got to know her the best because I was staying at her house while I was there, but she is an amazing leader as well and we got to chat and go over some planning for her year and what her movement could look like or directions it could take. She just wanted to shoot a video to all my supporters and so here is her message to all of you! :) 

So yeah, the trip was really good to see new movements taking place. It is exciting and the Perth team could definitely use your prayers. Pray the five leaders would feel encouraged and strengthened by the Lord each day. What they are taking on is not easy, but it is having an eternal impact which is awesome. Pray that the campuses would grow and that more students would come to know the Lord so that hey can start Bible Studies or different outreaches on their campuses.

Most of my time there was spent with the students, but I did get a chance to check out the beaches and city a little bit while I was there. The city of Perth is absolutely gorgeous just driving around. I also got to swim in the Indian Ocean which was awesome! Here are just a few more pictures of my time in Perth.

Louise and I at Hillarys Harbour after Breakfast

University of Western Australia

Curtin University

Me playing in the Indian Ocean!

So again, as Louise said in her video thank you so much to all my supporters because without you I would not be able to be here! :) Please continue to pray for the Perth campuses and for this next weekend as I am heading to another weekend camp to help train our students from Sydney and all of New South Wales. This will be a great time for the students to make friends and just fellowship together with students from other campuses in their state...so pray that the weekend would be fun and growing for the students! : )