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Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Sweet new D-Group...

(Left to right: Bailey, Farrann, Mary & Amalie)

Last semester I had started praying though if the Lord wanted me to enter into a discipleship relationship with any of the women here at ASU. Of course I play a big part in a girl coming to know the Lord I would naturally move into a discipler relationship with her. Seeing as there were no girls here that that really described I had not been leading anyone. However, after prayer and getting to know the women in the ministry who were needing some leadership these four women below were the ones that the Lord led me to! 



Last night after D-group just being silly!

A serious one :)

And this is our "Greeting's" pose...I am working on memorizing a part of James and that is the hand gesture I always use when reciting James 1:1 " To the twelve tribes in the dispersion: Greetings"


If you are not familiar with discipleship below are two quotes that I feel sum it up well:

Disciple - One who embraces or assists in the teachings of another.
Discipler: “Discipling others is the process by which a Christian with a life worth emulating commits himself for an extended period of time to a few individuals who have been won to Christ, the purpose being to aid and guide their growth to maturity and equip them to reproduce themselves in a third spiritual generation.” ---Allen Hadidian

“It takes time to make disciples. It takes individual, personal attention. It takes hours of prayer for them. It takes patience and understanding to teach them how to get into the Word of God for themselves, how to feed and nourish their souls, and by the power of the Holy Spirit how to apply the word to their lives. And it takes being and example to them of all of the above.” - LeRoy Eims

We Believer that God's plan is to multiply our lives through making disciples of all the nations...and we are starting at ASU. 

Please join me in prayer for:
1. Each one of these girls (Mary, Bailey, Farrann & Amalie) I will periodically be putting up some of their prayer requests throughout the rest of the semester. Please be in prayer for Bailey and Farrann who will coming to Orlando this summer with CO to be disciple leaders. They will be leading a room of three to four girls all summer. Please pray for their development over the summer and for the girls who will be put in their room to be teachable and hungry women for the Lord. 
2. Pray that I would be a woman of the word. Pray that I would have a life worth emulating, and that I would bathe these women's lives in prayer, love, and encouragement. 
3. Please pray the same for Brett. He has a new D-group this semester as well. I will have pictures of them up next week!
4. Please continue to pray for my healing (and my families as well, my dad- Carlos, & brothers- Nick and Justin) as I am still grieving the loss of my precious mother. 

Babies are in the air...or in the tummies

HELLO all! So it is shaping up to be a busy baby year in a lot of my friends lives! I have 7 girlfriends who are pregnant right now! SO i'm venturing out into the baby world of crochet. As you know I started crocheting about 3 months ago with the intentions of it being for my friends and their baby showers. So the first of the bunch for me is in two weekends! So i had to try out my first baby beanie. I think it's super cute and pleased!! I am going to start selling these on my etsy page if any of you are interested!!


This is my first finished product!

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Larry Crabb


My day today has been spent mainly reading Finding God by Larry Crabb. If any of you have ever experienced a significant trial in your life I believe that it will minister to you the way that it is me right now. Dr. Crabb is saying so many things that I am completely relating with right now. He is some how taking what I am feeling and expressing it in words that I have not been able to. And he is saying things to me that probably nobody could right now, but reading them has been incredibly helpful. 

"Modern thinking encourages us to find ourselves, to heal our shame, and to pursue self-fulfillment. And as a consequence, we value healing for our pain more than pardon for our sins; we view Gods kindness as more appropriate than surprising, more immediately helpful than deeply humbling. (pg59, Finding God)"

"We need to see ourselves as more sinful than wounded. We need to face the ugly, self-centered energy present in all our conversations. (pg 59, Finding God)"

"The elimination of struggle and the ability to love someone else perfectly describe our lives in heaven, not maturity on this earth. No matter how well I come to know the Lord, until I actually see him, my life will still be a mess- and so will yours. Finding God in this life does not mean building a house in a land of no storms; rather it means building a house that no storm can destroy. Am I building that house? Are you? Are we moving through our problems toward finding God? Do we know what it means to dig deeply enough to discover something other than more problems- to discover Someone beyond ourselves? Have we hit rock?...But the more I wrestle with life as it really is, the more I am aware that loving a spiritually disciplined life develops at best only a nodding acquaintance with God. ... My countless hours counseling providing therapy for hundreds of people suggests that a focus in increased knowledge of self rarely leads to richer knowledge of God. Getting better acquainted with ourselves in order to find God-and do nothing more- is like endlessly studying an X-ray of spot riddled lungs without ever submitting to surgery. pg 72, Finding God" 

Man that's good for me...

good day...

My latest scarves! Yours Truly







Saturday, February 4, 2012

A crocheting accomplishment....

My first ever blanket!!! I am so proud of this!! I wasn't planning on seeing my brother for Christmas so I was just planning on mailing him a gift after (having no clue what I was going to get him). But when I found out that he was wanting an Auburn blanket that was something I could do and it would be my first blanket. A month after Christmas I finally finished, popped that into the mail and it got to him a few days ago!

The pictures of the finished product are below...