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I'm a teenage girl who LUVS music (and I cant spel, aparentlee). I especially luv Christian music, I just think it's great that God gave us the gift of music to use to praise His name! I also luv to read, luv my family, luv other people, and especially LUV my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!

Apr. 11, 2009 - Back From Orofino! - Posted in Life

Wow…I feel so loved…0 comments. Oh well, I guess I brought it on myself…I don’t post as often as I should. For anyone who might be reading this, I’m sorry! I’m trying to do better! It’s just that I’m in college now and I have a lot of stuff that needs to get done. And then on my breaks between quarters I think “Wow, I have time to do things now!” and so I do everything I can think of, except for posting…Again, I’m sorry, and I’ll try to do better in the future.

Well, for anyone who might still read this blog, here’s the run-down of the Orofino Missions Trip!

After a nine hour bus ride, we arrived at 7pm on Saturday the 28^th. After unloading everything and being assigned home-stays (the girls all went to the homes of people from the Orofino church, while the guys all stayed at the church). The next day we were in charge of the whole church service! We and our team members from the Orofino Youth Group all donned our cool orange team shirts and went to the front of the church to welcome the congregation as they filed in. At first, our team stood in the main hall, shaking hands and saying “hi!” to everybody. But it felt like we were a little overwhelming (we had about sixty people on our team (including the Orofino Youth Group) and their church has about the same number of people, so we doubled their attendance that day), like we were making them “run the gauntlet”. So a bunch of us left that room and went into the sanctuary. We sat next to people and talked with them until our worship team went up and led us in praising God. Then Rob (our youth leader) gave us all a sermon on Faith and Deeds, focusing on James 2. After the church service, we held a pizza potluck for the church and we all got to know each other a bit more through talking and games.

The next four days were our main work days. In the mornings we did service projects; we painted the inside of the church, cleaned elderly people’s yards, washed windows, cleaned up at a horse ranch, and even got the opportunity to write five Bible studies for teens in a Romanian orphanage. After all this was done we had lunch and headed into our Quiet Time and Bible Study, which focused on the book of James. After that we got a bit of free-time, during which we went up to the teen center and could check our e-mail, play video games (my favorite was Guitar Hero!), or just hang out. Also, we held sports tournaments on each of these days, two for soccer, one for basketball, and one for volleyball. I played in the volleyball tournament along with four friends. We didn’t win any of our games, but we had a lot of fun and got steadily better from game to game! Then at about 5:30 teens started showing up and we served them a free dinner and did a lot of fun activities.

I won’t describe all of the nights, but here’s what my team’s night looked like: First we all walked over to the High School (which is right next to the teen center) and played dodge ball in the gym. I actually didn’t get to play, because I was setting up another activity, but I heard it was quite fun! Then everyone broke up into small groups and played “I’ve Never” as a Get-To-Know-You game. Then they all came back to the teen center (where a friend and I had been setting up) and we held a taste-testing contest (or, as we called it, “Fantastic Food Fun”!). Basically our team had gotten different flavors of jellybeans, Capri-Suns, Jello, etc. and we had people from each small group come up and taste something while blindfolded. Then they wrote down the flavor they thought the item was and if they got it right their team got a point. After that game our team did a mini-drama about peer-pressure and our small groups had conversations on that subject, which we did our best to steer toward spiritual discussion.

Friday was our rest day. We all hung out at the church and the teen center for most of the day and ended with a bonfire party that night. Saturday we got back into a bit of a work mode as we cleaned the church and prepared for our going-away party with not only our team, but also people from the Orofino church and people we had helped throughout the week. The party was amazing! We saw all of the pictures from the week, heard stories from each other, heard a couple of messages from people we’d served, worshiped, and said goodbye. The next morning we all left for Washington, sad to leave, but glad to be going back home at the same time.

I was so glad to go back to Orofino again and see everybody there again, as well as meet a lot of new people. God really worked through us and in us that week!

Well, congratulations if you read through all of that. If you just skipped to the last paragraph, well, at least you read some! ;-D

~SeaChel

• What Do You Think?

Apr. 13, 2009 - Untitled Comment

Posted by ChristineDaae

My brother Andew is seven, and Caspian (which is his blogger name ;-) is ten.

By the way, thanks for giving me my 500th comment!

In Christ,
Christine

Apr. 13, 2009 - Untitled Comment

Posted by ChristineDaae

It sounds like your missions trip was a great success and a lot of fun! I'd love to do a missions trip sometime, but we attend a military chapel because my Dad is in the Navy, and it doesn't have a youth group or anything like that to go on missions trips:-(
We move pretty often though, so maybe at our next church I'll be able to...

In Christ,
Christine

Apr. 14, 2009 - Untitled Comment

Posted by Narniagirl

LOL... yeah, I'm hoping spring is here *for real*, but the forecast is NOT encouraging. :(

Well, I'm sorry to say I didn't read the whole thing... but I'm sure you had a fabulous time, like you always do!

I just realized that we've known each other quite a while. I wonder how long?

~Kylie

Apr. 19, 2009 - hey!

Posted by TNT

Hey! Wow, sounds like fun! Thursday-Saturday we were in Kentucky checking out a Bible college 4 my sister! (She is going to go to college this august)

Thanks for posting! I know! So far, I love Ted Dekker, though these are the first books of his I have read, my sister is going to fix that soon. She has almost all of his books. Did you hear that Green is coming out this fall? I am gonna try and finish red and white b4 then =) Well, TTYL

-TNT

Apr. 19, 2009 - Ummm.........

Posted by Created4CHRIST

It went OK, other than the fact that I didn't get a lot done. :-/ Thank you though! :-D

Apr. 20, 2009 - Untitled Comment

Posted by 01charger

Ha~
Sorry, I guess I missed your last post- or I would've commented on it! LOL
Anyway....yeah, my room has been done for a while- I guess I didn't post any pictures of the finished project, because they're on my mom's blog. Here's the link~ and it'll probably be under the catagory 'all about ashley':
http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Reviewsbyheidi

Thanks for the comment~
Ashley

Apr. 23, 2009 - Untitled Comment

Posted by TNT

LoL! Yeah! I just finished red not to long ago, only on page 30 something in White i think LoL!
So how are you?

Apr. 25, 2009 - turkey

Posted by MrsDrPepper23

thanks! I'm so glad that I got it! :D
~Samantha

Apr. 30, 2009 - Untitled Comment

Posted by Narniagirl

Wow! Two and a half years is a long time... I've enjoyed every minute of it. You've been a great friend (and, you still are. :P)!

May. 1, 2009 - Whot ho!

Posted by Pip

Goodness, I must come here more often...*is guilty*
You're in college? That's neato! Oi didna know thet! What are your majoring in?
Thanks so much for your helpful feedback at Inkstains; I'm about to post the third section in "Authoress".
God bless,
~PIP~

May. 5, 2009 - Untitled Comment

Posted by Anonymous

Yeah, the surprise party was great. Thanks for your comment!

In Christ,
Christine

May. 10, 2009 - Untitled Comment

Posted by Starlight

Thanks for the comment!

~*Starlight*~

May. 14, 2009 - Hi!

Posted by willfung

Thanks for the comment, i dont comment much because most of my friends on home school blogger are never on! it kinda sucks, plus ive not been on lately, but thanks for the comment.

Willfung (Peace)

May. 25, 2009 - Untitled Comment

Posted by SimplyMe

hey! thanks, good to be back, lolz!

sounds like an awesome trip!

May. 30, 2009 - Heya!

Posted by gemstone

It was good to hear from you:). Yeah, I was in a kind of thoughtful mood as well. It wasn't my best post but I'm still trying to work myself up to my "former glory" lol.
I love Mission Trips! This one sounds like it was a whole bunch of fun. We need to keep in touch more often. I should FB you or something:).
Hope you're having a good time at college! (College, that's so crazy, isn't it?) Are you out for the summer yet? Thank goodness I'm out.. I love school but I love my summers more!
And yeah... it's good to know we have a God who holds all of that in his hand:).

Love ya~

~Lyssa~

Jun. 6, 2009 - Untitled Comment

Posted by shootingstar

Hey! I'm sooo sorry it took so long to reply to you!!!! I haven't been on here in forever. How have you been? And yes, I'm really enjoying piano. And no I dont play anything else. Well, TTYL <3

~*Smiley*~

Jun. 6, 2009 - Untitled Comment

Posted by LariaChronicles

Wow!You're in college?Dang!

Sarah

Jun. 15, 2009 - Hey!

Posted by GirlsRule

...I kinda just skipped to the last paragraph. lol
But from what I read it sounded awesome!

So hey! How have you been?
God Bless,
GodlyGirls

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