3rd post in 24hrs

So I guess I am trying to make up for only posting like once a month and now here goes...my third post in the past 24 hrs. But after I updated you all on our new home now I wanted to update you on our new friends and the campus ministry.

Below is Russ and Elizabeth Porter. Russ is the campus director here at ASU and his wonderful wife Elizabeth and I have become fast friends! We so enjoy the both of them and good thing because we spend a lot of time with them!!

Next we have Brian Evan and Mary Finley. These are two of the older students here at ASU. They have both caught the vision to multiply their lives into students while here at ASU and for the rest of their life wherever the Lord takes them. They have both caught individual men and women for the Gospel of Jesus and are both leading these students in discipleship groups now.
Below is two best friends, Shelby Qualls and Chelsea Domino. These two girls are Sophomores at ASU and are just coming off of our summer project down in Tampa. They both accepted Christ into their life last year and have been seeing radical changes for Christ. They are going to be heading up a Flag football team in hopes to share the gospel with their teammates and represent Christ to them.
Again underneath is Shelby and the girl on the left is Stevie Overby. She too is just coming off of her first project and fired up make God's name known on this campus. She is making a big decision to go through sorority recruitment with the plans to share Christ with her sorority sisters through life on life relationships with them.
So the Lord is already doing so much on campus and we are so excited to jump right in and be a part of it. Brett is going to be co-chaplain of the football team, and he cant even say how excited he is to get to know so many of the guys and start a bible study in there. He is also gong to be spending a lot of time with the PIKE fraternity, as well as with some independent guys who live in one of the biggest dorms here on campus.

Thank you all so much for your prayers! We are abundantly thankful for you all and have been praying for you as well. Just to end with a few specific prayer requests:

1) I am going to be leading the whole women's ministry in a Beth Moore bible study. We are really excited about joining all the women together for a semester to grow and learn similar things and have an opportunity for weekly fellowship with the whole female body of Christ.

2) There will also be smaller care groups before the Beth Moore time where there will be a little more intimacy and the girls will be learning in small groups from an older woman many topics on biblical womanhood.

3) Please be in prayer for Brett to be able to impact the Football, PIKE, and Arkansas Hall men. Please pray that he will have favor in those areas and that we will see 5 guys commit their life to Christ this semester through his ministry in those areas.

4) Please pray for me as I will be leading a volleyball bible study and spending time with the Chi Omega sorority. I am excited to get to know the girls in these two areas and excited to see what God will do in these areas!

Post Paint...

So for some reason my computer wont let me add the other video I made so I just had to post the after's with pictures.

Above is the guest bedroom/my craft supplies room. I am going to paint it grey and go with a grey and yellow theme that is o so popular right now!
Above is Brett's office. This was his birthday surpirse. From the before that you can you see in the previous post to the after! I was so proud of my self and he was beyond thrilled!
So we got the kitchen painted which was one of the biggest spots I wanted painted. I am really happy with paint color in there!
And now for the living room. Sorry for the lighting I should have turned on more lights. But the original color I wanted to go with in here with a darker yellow called Naples Yellow but the worker talked me into this color thinking it would go better with the furniture. Brett loves it but its not my favorite. Hoping it continues to grow on me.

And then finally we have our bedroom. I was really wanting something light and airy in here. I think we achieved that with the green. We are going to be getting a new duvet cover soon that will really go well in here I think and hopefully tame down the green a little.

We are completely blessed and spoiled by our parents who have pretty much furnished our whole home for us. Realistically 85% of our furniture in our home was from either Brett's or my parents and we can't even say how much of a blessing that truly is to us. So as most new wives when we moved from STL to Jonesboro and were actually moving into a home together I had big aspirations. I became obsessed with HGTV and having the "perfect home". What a facade I was chasing after. We have been in our home about a month and half now and it didn't take me too long to realize there is no such thing. I really had to evaluate my motives as to why I felt the need for it to be exactly right. One of God's big truth's that I had forgotten amidst the excitement was that this is not my home nor will ever be. I was falling prey to the lie that I can make this perfect and I will be satisfied when this gets painted or when we can afford to buy this or that, the list went on and on. It wasn't until I was spending time with one the women whom I really look up to in my life that she reminded me, "Kat, this is not your home, this is merely where you are passing through and laying your head at night." I needed to hear that and re-focus my eyes on Christ. " But our citizenship is in heaven. and we eagerly await a Saviour from there, the Lord Jesus Christ." Philippians 3:20 See this earth is not our home, if we are in Christ then our home is with him in heaven and we are simply eagerly awaiting him. Please do not misunderstand me. I do not think it is a bad thing to have a nice home and for it to be furnished and decorated well. However, I do think the problem lies with the motives of having it furnished/decorated well. In my case I wanted to receive the glory for my decorating skills or craftiness instead of giving them to the Lord on High who deserves them all. I am thankful that I was remind of truth and that I can not find satisfaction in a nice home just like I can not find true satisfaction in anything beside the Lord whom I serve.

Pre Paint....

This is a video I made for Brett's mom to show her our new home and kinda what we were doing with the furniture and everything...

HI ALL!

Here we are writing to you for the first time from Jonesboro, AR! We are so excited to be here and to be able to finally settle down a bit! We have been here for a month now and and three of the four weeks we were doing some significant travel. Once to Murray for a wedding, once to memphis for 4 days for seminary class, and once for almost a week and half to Tampa, FL for CO return training for our students on summer project. So we are finally getting settled.

Brett's birthday is next week and I had a big surprise for him a few days ago! Brett's office had been totally neglected since we have been here. He was using an end table for his desk and had no real organization of furniture mainly because he was missing the key element to an office. SO I had been looking on cragistlist for a few weeks for a great desk at a great price. And the Lord provided! While Brett was out of town for a day I painted his office, got his desk and furniture all moved into the office and hung his map, cork board, and guitar on the wall! When he got home and saw his birthday surprise he was beyond thrilled and couldn't believe his eyes!! I was so excited that he loved it!!!

So now we are just trying to get the small updates to our home taken care of before school starts! So we painted our living room yesterday and finally got everything for the walls hung up, and tomorrow we are starting our bedroom and hallway! I'll be back with pictures soon!