Orientation and beyond

Well orientation has come and gone...I watched the van drive away as I waved. It has been really wonderful getting to know people and hopefully keeping in touch with them as our years progress and our projects start to take off. I am so excited to see where God is taking each and every person on this journey of BVS. I am headed to Prattsville, NY to work with Brethren Disaster Ministries for the next 3 weeks to help out there where they need me. I am excited to have something to fill my time before I head off to South Sudan. It is an exciting adventure before an even larger, longer adventure in a strange land. I will be headed off to South Sudan October 29th and arrive on the 30th. I am excited that I should hopefully be arriving before November 1st and be able to spend my 30th Birthday in Africa. I will be staying with a couple working with African Inland Missions for the first month and after that is yet to be all organized. I will be working at an African Inland Church School and hopefully starting some sort of HIV and AIDS education in the community. I am so excited to be able to serve God where I really feel called at this point in my life. He is really blessing me in so many different ways. From some pretty amazing other BVS unit 299 people who truly have the passions and desires to serve and be used, to being able to truly be used by God in the things I do and say. I pray that God will truly use me in ways I can not yet imagine. I know I will look back and rememebr the amazing Germans I have met and laughed with, the others from America who feel a calling to serve. I am truly blessed by all these people in so many different ways to the laughter, dancing, faith journeys, spending a weekend in a room, cooking with, staying up late unable to sleep because the stories never stop or music and videos are like ear worms in the ear, to the spiritual, emotional and intelectual conversations. Thank you God for truly an amazing group of peopel I now call friends.

OK lets see where to start...My life has been pretty amazing so far with so many adventures and amazing experiences. TO the USA to Zambia to where? well it was home for a while to pay off some student loans and now the excitment of the next journey that God is taking me on is coming fast. Ill be going to BVS the volunteer program with the Church of the Brethren and hopefully headed to South Sudan. Its exciting. Its stressful. Its scary. Its a new page in the book of life. I am getting ready to leave home in September for a 2 year journey to see where God is leading me. I pray that the orphanage and the plans that are currently made follow through, because it sounds like one of the jobs that i will love, that i will enjoy, that i will be stretched, and that i will grow. God is in control and thats what i am focusing on for these next weeks...his perfect timing and his plans for my life. Its always a blessing to see where he is taking and leading me to be able to see Him glorified but to also Glorify Him in the things that I will do and say.

But God demonstrates His own love for us in this, while we were still sinners Christ died for us.

Romans 5:8