Late in Comin..

Hi friends! Nope we probably haven’t met yet but if you’re reading this there’s a chance you’ll be on campus which means we might become friends, right?

Please excuse the late start in updating you on my adventures as an old junior… living in… (insert Price is Right announcer voice) The NeeEEEeeEew APARTMENTS!! Yes, they are just as beautiful in real life as the pictures show. But the true virtue of the apartments is their community. We had a worship night a couple weeks ago that ended with prayer… check this out!!

How was your summer?? Isn’t it interesting how different each year of your life can be completely different from the last? My summer this year was not what I expected (yet I expected it to not be what I expected…) and although I can’t say I had any huge page-turning moments, the entire 3 months was a subtle shaping and molding experience that I’m still realizing the purposes for. Funny how God does not waste a single thing in our lives, eh? Each experience, good or bad, will eventually serve a purpose for good. Everything is a preparation. Gosh, what a way to make life exciting. Nothing is for nothing!

I began the summer feeling like God wanted me to be pouring in to a youth group, so one day I told Him my summer was His and if He had a youth group in mind for me, He would have to bring me to it. (I also had a deep-down desire to go to a summer camp again, specifically Hume Lake because I had never been there, but I never mentioned it).

<<<—DISNEYLAND 

One day, in July, I got a call from my church’s previous youth pastor who I’d worked with, who was in the process of becoming the new youth pastor of a church nearby that I’d known of for years. First of all he wanted to know if I’d be interested in joining him again and working with this new youth group, and his second question was an unusual one: their youth group was going to a summer camp, and was in desperate need of a female counselor. Presently they had only one going. Oh, and the camp was Hume Lake. And they were leaving in a couple weeks!

So, doing something completely uncharacteristic of me, (as my mom later pointed out), I went with a group of people I had never met (my youth pastor friend didn’t go) to a place I had never been. But I had that total peace and reassurance that comes from knowing there was no other place I was supposed to be for that week in my life. The trip was awesome and I loved the girls in my cabin- each drastically different from the other, beautiful, open and absolutely hilarious! I returned home feeling I had a new family waiting for me every Sunday.

So something relating to WJU? I am taking less units than last semester, but the funny thing about the music major is it has a way of discovering your new free time and taking advantage of it. Rude! But it’s ok, I’d rather spend an evening at a piano then on a tedious assignment! Our bedrooms in the apartments are bigger, so I have room to have my own piano! IN MY ROOM! It’s a wonderful advantage and makes for a lot of fun evenings with the girls in our apartment. With the student body size blowing up like crazy this semester, I’m surprised to still be seeing new faces on campus! There is a fresh sense of excitement and community, and a very worship-centered attitude among the incoming class!

The girls in my apartment call us The Sisterhood, and each of us are indescribably grateful for the divine way God brought this apartment together. We have been blessed unbelievably not only with the particular girls we got, but the way furnishings came together and the environment holds a definite supernatural peace. Each Tuesday night is “Family Night”, where the “NO BOYS ALLOWED” sign is put out and we rotate the chore list, bring up any issues or questions, and share prayer requests and praises and pray together! Often it centers around homemade desserts of course. Our counter is never lacking in deliciousness. Makes it hard to diet, but it’s a sanctuary of every girly comfort imaginable.

~ Apartment 105 – The Sisterhood ~

(missing Anna & Chelsea)

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