Dancing

I met with Pastor Peter and I have an opportunity to teach a dance class for kids in the month of January while they are on their break. I am very excited and thank God for the answered prayer. I will be teaching them hip-hop and basic dance skills. Pastor Peter wants them to preform one Sunday so I am going to choreograph a dance for them and really excited to have this opportunity. I know that this is an awesome opportunity to share something I love with these kids but also to grow myself in dance. I have never actually taught a dance class all by myself and know that there will be the whole issue of language to try and work out. I am going to have such a great time and am so excited to do this. I think I may even teach some ballet and jazz technique and maybe tap or whatever I can in the time I have. I know that the kids will be in shock when they see what the will be doing because it will be different than anything they have ever seen or done. The dancing here is a lot different then most dancing in America so I think they will have some fun. Anyways I am very excited and can't wait to get started.

Camp!

I just got back from my first of three camps. I had such a blast. The very first day I skipped the game time and did tie-dye with the kids at the worship house where I stay when I am at Bethany. I had to make the dye from chemicals and it was kind of scary but it worked and the shirts turned out awesome. We had a camp fire every night where they would do praise and worship and then someone would talk. I woke up late the second day and missed the devotion which I was kind of bummed about but I still got to be a part of a small group. The theme of the camp was "Serving the Lord" and so Thursday night each of the groups presented a song and skit based on the theme and what they had learned. We talked about everything in the camp. Wednesday night was the deliverance night and Wow! I got to pray for a bunch of kids which was good but then after I was done I looked over to the other side of the place where we were praying and there was a group of people gathered around someone I went to see if everything was ok and had an experience that I really haven't had. There was a girl there who was demon possessed and we prayed for her. If you have ever seen the movie The Ring she moved like the girl in that movie and she started foaming at them mouth, she was screaming, kicking. We prayed and prayed but nothing was changing. One of the leaders there named Sahr, he is one of the Youth Pastors at Ggaba Community Church, said that this would happen to her almost every camp that he thought she would need to go through some sort of week long thing where someone walks her through some things. So I haven't seen someone delivered from a demon... Yet. But I was so ready for this girl to be free. I had been sick that whole week but I totally forgot about my stomach and prayed like I have never prayed before. I truely have never experienced anything like that and it was so challenging. Also I learned a bunch of local dancing which if you know what dirty dancing at clubs in America is like, if you are my mom you call it gyrating, that is basically a lot of what there local dancing is. But there is a couple different types of dance one is called Calypso and it uses a lot of shoulders and arms. On the last night I got to do Hip-Hop for all the kids with another staff named Ronald and one of the kids named Jackson. I had so much fun. Right before we did it I was so nervous but then the music turned on and I just went out there and danced and had so much fun. I may get to start meeting with a dance group while I am in Ggaba that meet at the church on Saturdays. If I do I will be so excited because these kids are so good! In one week I will be headed for Kenya to spend Christmas with the Leisters in either Kisumu or in Eldoret. I am doing great and am having a really good time. This next week I will be at another camp with older kids. I miss and love all of you back home in America.



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ARMS

This is something that I have created for the communication department maybe to use in the future. I am just happy that I can upload images! so yeah.

IT WORKS!

So I have been trying to get to my blog all week long but I couldn't connect to the website for some reason. Anyways, I have been a lot better after Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving was really really hard. I almost was ready to buy a ticket and fly on home. But I made it through it. My suitcase got stolen and all the bedding in Abby's (my host mother) house. Also they stole our dvd player but thank God that no one was home because they would have done more and much worse if any of the girls were there and since I was gone my computer and camera was with me. So I am safe and healthy and praise God for that. I will get to go to Kenya for Christmas and get to spend time with Josh and Rachel, and Horace and Phylis. I am really excited and I feel that the season will be better or easier because I will be with family. I have been working this week at ARMS doing some things in the communication department making brochures and using my pictures and my computer. I will be traveling back to Bethany for two weeks and I will be helping out in Camps. The first camp is for Primary students which can range from the age of 5 to the age of 13. The schooling here is a lot different from schooling back home because kids don't always start when they should and they don't always pass from year to year, which happens at home but not really at this level. So you could be 13 or 14 and still be in sixth grade. All that said I will be helping out with young kids and teenagers for the first camp. The second camp is the secondary camp which is High school. Then I will take a bus to Kenya and will head to "Obama Land" where Josh and Rachel live and will spend some time with them and then may go to Eldoret where Horace and Phylis live and may spend Christmas there and will head home the next day. I will then be back in Bethany for Senior youth camp which is University Students and Young Adults that are single. There I will spend my 19th birthday and New Years. After the new year I will have a short break where I will may get to go bungee jumping which I miss out on the first time. All in all I am having a great time and have been busy in a good way. I love everyone back home and hope to talk to all of you and oh yeah CONGRATS Brittney and Justin!


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Uncle

Uncle Large. That is how I was awaken this morning. Sam one of the little boys that lives in the room I'm staying in woke me as Uncle Large! Life truly is different when poverty has a face. Orphans have names and they know yours. People back home mean more. When I hear my title of uncle come from these orphans lips I think of Jame', Kamiakin, Kyleigh, Caedmon, and Addison. Do I love them enough? Do they know how much I care for them? Because I now see that it isn't just a title it is a calling to love them and live like my Father. Then the love that I pour out to them will draw them closer to a Father and a God who loves them more than I ever could. God I pray that You would protect my nieces and nephews back home. God I thank You that just by a simple action of a child I have learned so much. Just by two words my world has collided with eternity. These cildren are showing me love, I feel more than compelled to show them love back. The love of a father. The love of my FATHER!

About Feeling Rested In Chasing Awesomness!

So this is my first post since I have been in Africa (if you didn't get the title the first letters spell AFRICA). I am sorry that it has taken me so long but the internet is hard to find, and then once you have found it it is terribly slow. Anyways I have been in Africa almost three weeks. I have been in Ggaba for the most part and am living with the school Administrator of Arms named Abby. I went with Abby to a place called Mubende the first week and helped her with different things around the two ARMS schools there. After that I came home and spent two days in Maranartha School here in Ggaba. After the first day of working with the kids a man came up to me and said "Do you know Jenny and Ellen?" Having met so many people I totally didn't get that he meant Jeannine and Ellen ASSAY! So after I figured out who he met I got to go to Pastor Peters house to eat dinner with the girls and their dad. That next week I got to be a part of the prophetic conference that was taking place. I was a part of a prophetic group with the Assay's and a man named Deo who is a pastor here in Kampala and is good friends with Peter and even attended the Leadership conference in Medicine Hat. Anyways that week was amazing. I never have heard the voice of God so clear and have never ever gotten to speak into so many peoples lives. I thank God so much because it was only turly by Him that anything happened that week. Now I am back in Ggaba and am helping Abby out with some photography things that she needs. Then I will be traveling to Bethany Village (where the conference was held) where I will be helping out in the orphanage homes and helping out with a youth camp that is taking place. I want to thank all of you out there that have been praying for me I really have felt the presence of God here and I am at peace which is good because I wasn't sure the first couple of days if I would be. I love all you and miss everyone back in the states.

Travel

I am right now in Heathrow Airport in London. My first flight was Awesome I read all of The Last Lecture and cried a little bit, haha! But anyways I had a blast in Seattle I did so many things that I will remember for a long time. I really was blessed by Joel and Alica they were awesome hosts and really made me fall in love with Seattle. One of the most memoriable things I did was Joel and I went to "Lazer Floyd" which was basically a laser show fit the "The Wall" by Pink Floyd. Although it was late and I was tired I had a great time. Our usher was what you would think a person working at a laser show would look like. He had extremely curly hair that went out in a triangle shape and he had really thick rimmed glasses... Anyways he was basically one of the coolest guys I've ever saw in my life... We celebrated my brothers 29th birthday and went to an awesome reasturant where I had a salmon pasta that was so good. London is probably the most diverse place I've ever been... I have seen people from probably every country known to man and heard nearly all languages on planet earth. I have ran into no trouble in Airports or with Security. Praise God! and hope that ther rest of my trips go as smooth. One thing I will say is thank you to all that are and have been praying for me I really have seen blessing and know that God is answering not only mine but manys prayers... God Bless and again Thank You!


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Yakima

So Yakima has been awesome! I have had a great time with the Carters and their youth group last night was so much fun. I got to speak last night and it was awesome to speak to a group where I only knew a few people and God still moved because He is the same whether it is in Lewiston, Yakima, or Africa God is still God and that is awesome. It is so cool to see God move in Yakima the same way He moves in Lewiston. At Zoe (the Carters youth group) I got to speak prophetically to some kids and pray for others and totally the Holy Spirit was there. I found out that if I ask for Him to show up He will. He truly listens and cares for all His children and that was evident here in Yakima. My nephew Kamiakin had an awesome experience last night. During worship K.J. felt like God was telling him to lift his hands so hid did. And then when he (K.J.) got tired and went to lower his arms he couldn't God kept his raised and he felt like God was filling him. That is so awesome because Kamiakin is only 8 and God still spoke to him clearly even more clearly than I hear him sometimes. Anyways this trip is getting me really excited because I'm already seeing God's greatness and I am not even to my final destination, just my first stop.

Getting Close

I am now less than a month away from leaving for Africa. I will be traveling on Oct. 28th to Uganda to be a part of ARMS where I will be working 

in orphanages and in churches around Uganda. I have received all of my vaccinations and have my visa to live in the country. I am so excited and can't believe it is actually happening. This is a big step and all I can do is trust in God. I will be leaving the LC valley on the 20th to travel to Yakima where I will be preaching at my nieces youth group. After staying in Yakima I will be heading to Seattle where I will be staying with my brother and other family members who live in the area. So I am about 3 weeks away. Please keep me in your prayers.

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College

DANCE

Recently I went to a dance intensive my church provides called "Arise" and a man by the name of Robert Wesner came and taught ballet and modern. He had attended a college called Belhaven University in Jackson, Mississippi. As it turns out they really like him, anyways he gave Jed Maynes and me the dean of the dance schools email address and we both have been emailing her and it looks as if after Africa I may be moving down south to get training in dance. It all has happened so fast and I am so excited and yet nervous for it to unfold. Crazy, Crazy, Crazy things happening!