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God is Good!!Hello again everyone! I also want to share that I have been blessed this past week with a part-time job that I'm super excited about! The job is with the same Christian camp that I work at as a counselor in the summer -- but now I will be year-round staff, working in the office, helping with retreats, promotion, etc. Since I have a passion for camp ministry and want to work in it long-term, this is a great start and will give me some great experience!! I'm very excited and thankful for the opportunity. I hope God blesses you all with a wonderful week. Remember to look for His love and goodness in the big AND little things! I've seen dreams that move the mountains Kenya Mission ReportWow, I haven't blogged in over 2 months. Of course, I was in Kenya one of those months, so I do have an excuse! ..sort of... To put it simply, the 4 weeks I spent in Kenya were, overall, amazing!! I was challenged and blessed, and I learned so much. Definitely left a chunk of my heart over there. :-) Here are the high school kids from the orphanage doing their song/dance. Being put in the position of leading the camp was a big, challenging experience for me. It definitely worked on my boldness and leadership skills! In reality, I met so many wonderful people in Kenya. Just the people in the village we worked in were great people, especially the kids! I'll get to that in a minute. But in addition to them... We met a beautiful, sweet lady who had been suffering with cancer for 3 months -- she has since passed away, but it was an honor to have the opportunity to meet her and pray with her before she died. We also met the members of a new Kenyan Christian band called "Broken Acoustic." They are a brother-sister team. We got to meet their family, as well, and let me tell you, they all are some of the sweetest people I've met, and love the Lord like crazy! :-) Check out Broken Acoustic here. I have to say probably one of the best parts of the trip, for me -- although it was all GREAT -- was hanging out with the kids in the orphanage, especially the girls. What a great group of kids! Like I said, they range from 3 to 22 years old. We (the other girl on the trip and myself) spent quite a bit of time just hanging out with them at their dorm, talking, playing games, having Bible study, taking pictures (they loved to use our cameras), and letting them fix our hair. They just need some attention and love... and they were very curious about our lives in America. :-) I was very blessed and changed by the time I spent with the girls. I really fell in love with one particular little one -- the youngest in the orphanage at 3 years old. Wish I could bring her home with me! :-) We got to go on a 3-day safari while we were in Kenya. We went to Ol Pejeta Conservancy -- what an experience!! We saw too many animals to list, including all of the "Big Five" except the lion. It was so neat to be out in the midst of God's creation in wild Africa, seeing all the animals in their natural habitat. God is good -- He really took care of us throughout our trip. There were times we were in dangerous or potentially-dangerous situations, but He kept us safe. I didn't even get sick the whole time, even after coming home, which is a big deal for me, because I always get sick coming home from international trips. Jet lag wasn't even too bad. God gave me an amazing opportunity, and I'm SO thankful for it. Here's a slideshow of just a few of the MANY pictures from the trip. Enjoy! Thanks for reading! Please leave a comment if you visit my blog and read this, so I'll know if anyone is still reading. :-) "There are no strangers, Going to Kenya!Well, the time has come - tomorrow is the big day! Our team flies out tomorrow, and will arrive in Kenya on Thursday after noon (eastern time). That's a lot of flying and layover-ing!! THANK YOU for your prayers! "Faith steps onto seeming void, and finds the rock beneath." Camp 2009!I got back from camp yesterday afternoon. It was a great week!! I'm really tired today -- I think as long as I'm there and HAVE to keep going and walking up all those hills, I can make it, but as soon as I get home and all the activity ends, I crash. Anyway, it was a great week of camp. I was the counselor of cabin #16 out of 18, and I had five middle-school-age girls in my group. At first I thought it was going to be a really long week, because my girls came in two "sets" of best friends and didn't mix very well to begin with. But by halfway through the week, they were starting to talk with each other more and to "unite" as a cabin group. It was great to see that happening. I laughed as I listened to them talking on Thursday afternoon: On Wednesday night, I got the opportunity to talk and pray with one of my girls who decided to recommit her life to God. She had been convicted of putting other things before God and wanted to change that. She and I prayed together. It's always such a blessing to get to be a part of God's working in these young lives!!! The elective classes I got to teach this week were crafts and interpretive movement. Those were fun. I had never taught the crafts class before -- it got a little crazy/stressful, trying to help 10 little girls with craft projects! haha. But I enjoyed it. One day in crafts, the girls painted ceramics, and when they finished, they painted the paper on the tables: Hanging out with the other counselors was great, too. There were four of us counselors (with our girls) staying in the lodge, and all four of us had the same off-hours, which was pretty neat. During our morning off-hour, we all took our showers, had our own devotions, etc., and then during our afternoon off-hour, we had a short devotion and prayer time together. Here are the four of us: One last picture, taken at sunset the first night at camp, after it had been raining: God bless, And I'm on my knees, crying, Going to CampHello Blog Friends! I am writing to let you know that I'm leaving for camp soon, and to ask you to pray for me! Of course I am really excited -- I love camp and love being a camp counselor. Like I wrote in my last post, this may be my last week working there, at least for a year or two or three -- I don't know yet what God has in store for the next few summers -- and I'm hoping and praying that it will be an amazing week and that God will help me to be the best counselor I can be! Other prayer requests for camp... if you are compelled to pray for any one or more of these: Thank you in advance for your prayers! Be looking for a post about camp in about a week or so! I hope you're all having a good 4th of July and have a great week! My grace is sufficient for you, Ready for Summer!!I can finally see the light at the end of the U.S. History tunnel.... two or three more days and I'll be FREE!!! Yes, I know it's summer already, and I've been enjoying the warm weather, sunshine, etc. But when this class is over I'll feel like summer has REALLY started. :-) Next week is camp, and a couple weeks after that is the Kenya trip. I'm totally excited about both, although Kenya still seems kind of surreal. I still have a LOT to do before the Kenya trip, and a few things left to do before camp, too, like finishing up planning devotions, packing, stuff like that. I don't know if this may be my last summer working at camp - at least for a while - so I am really excited, hoping and praying that this will be just an amazing camp week. I want to be the best counselor I have ever been, for God and for the girls. :-) Prayer request : Will you all please pray for my really good friend's mom? The mom's name is Ruth and she was recently diagnosed with breast cancer. They are supposed to be doing surgery ASAP, followed by radiation, but hopefully will not have to do chemo. The tumor is still small right now. Please pray for God to heal her, to provide the money they need, and to strengthen this family as they've had a lot of health issues lately. Thank you!! I hope you're all enjoying summer.. have a great day!! Are You not the closest when it's hardest to stand? Photo-Filled Post!Well, it's time for another over-due post, and this one's going to be filled with photos -- photos of my summer so far!!
The day after VBS was over, my family headed over to my grandparents' house to spend a week with my sister Briana. My mom and I went to see the closing night show of Shenandoah, the musical Briana has been in at the theater there. Shenandoah was her first big musical at a professional theater, and she had a blast doing it. It was a great show too! A couple of pictures of Briana in the musical (taken back at dress rehearsal a couple months ago!)--
And... Briana with the "special someone" that Shenandoah introduced her to :-)
And, spent a lot of time playing Wii - haha - and just hanging out by the lake that my grandparents live on. Sitting out on the dock by the lake is so relaxing! :-) Now, I'm slowly tackling my mile-long list of things I need to do before camp in a couple of weeks and the Kenya trip after that. It's a lot of stuff... plus finishing up my summer US History class. I could be really stressed, but I'm trying not to be. The Scripture verse I'm holding onto right now is Isaiah 26:3, "The steadfast of mind You will keep in perfect peace, because he trusts in You." God bless! Summer plans...Sorry it has been so long since I've written anything.... again! I really should be studying right now. But I'm not. haha. I'm taking a summer college class - US History - and it requires a LOT of reading! This class will be over the first week of July, just in time for all my exciting summer activities to start. First, working at camp, and then, a mission trip to Kenya!! :-) I'm really excited about both!! This will be my 5th summer as a camp counselor, but my first time going to Africa. AND the first time flying/going out of the country without any members of my family with me. So.. it'll be interesting. I'm a little nervous, but excited. I have been wanting to go to Kenya since about 4th grade. Now, I'm getting to go, AND I get to teach praise dance to some of the young people there! What a blessing - I'm so thankful for this opportunity! Yesterday, a friend sent me a Facebook comment that said, "I hope God is blessing you, even in the small ways." That was really sweet, and you know what, it was really a good reminder for me to open my eyes and look for those small blessings. They're all around us every day, but most of the time we don't pay attention. Little things that make us smile, answered prayers... they're all little reminders of how much God loves us. He is crazy about us. So that in itself was a blessing to me yesterday, to open "the eyes of my heart" to see God's little everyday gifts. Talk to you later! Goodbye to a Special ManCamp - my summer employer - has lost a special man who can never be replaced. Camp certainly will not be the same without Lloyd. He was so funny, respected and loved by everyone at camp (kids and staff), and a great encourager. I can't tell you how many times during my weeks at camp that he has just given me a hug and asked how I was doing... and once when I was having a really tough week and ready to just give up and go home, he and I sat in his golf cart while I cried and he gave me some encouragement and advice. Please pray for Lloyd's family -- his sweet wife Patsy and their children and grandchildren. And if you would, please also lift up all of us "camp people" and the assistant director, who I'm guessing will be taking over as director this summer. It will be an adjustment for all. But especially lift up the family.
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