A Sovereign God...

Reminder of the week? God is sovereign. sovereign over all the details, over the things that seem to just "come up", sovereign over all of the uncertainty...He's bigger than all of it. such an amazing thing to be reminded of.
this week in the worshiping artist, the author talked about attributes of God. About how we see different aspects of God in everything that happens. and what i figured out this week is that i see God as faithful

and holy and sovereign...but what i dont realize is that at the same time i experience God as comforting and personal and peace giving. and i MISS that...just so focused on the big things, on the end results that i miss how beautiful it is to have God just next to me saying - "i know you're scared, but know that i am here and i love you." He doesnt have

to do that...but He does, because its just another aspect of His perfect character.

What attributes of God stand out to you? What attributes are you

experiencing right now in

your life?

Last night...last night we had a meeting with the parents of the students going on the trip.

concerns have been raised about the safety of the place were going to and so we met to talk it out, see where ppl were.

This has been a crazy process of a trip, God has been so so so in charge of every detail and its been amazing. and whatever happens, i have learned and grown SO much in the last 4 months, its crazy and i am so grateful and so although things are unsure at the moment and we're kind of in a short waiting period...i am strangely at peace with it all. knowing with everything in me that He will do what He wants...no matter what that is. so keep us in your prayers and decisions are made today...

we started our normal team meeting after the parent meeting and Emmanuil set up a video camera and stuff and interviewed some members of the team in one room for his documentary of the process, while we took some time to start life stories with the team.

we had a REALLY great time of sharing stories - we got through 4 stories...(we put a time limit on it, and then didnt really enforce it...:/) but it was amazing. The kids on this team have such great hearts and they are just so open and willing to learn, willing to see what God has. We heard from Ashley and Austin and Courtney and Jordan C. and then after each story we took time to affirm them. i also love this...just encouraging each other in what God is doing in the body...its not always easy to see it in ourselves, but we definitely see it in each other - so it is such a blessing to encourage each other.

i just want to thank those four - i was so blessed by your stories. and i am so encouraged to know that God works in amazing ways, He heals...its amazing.

and we still have like 16 to get through! haha...oh geez. we might have to enforce a time limit.

:)

and then we had our small group time and that was just really good too. i love hearing how God is working in this team. i am just feeling SO blessed to be able to be a part of this.

and i know that God has a plan for it all...i am really curious to see what it is!!! (and hopefully soon??? :) )

again - keep us in your prayers! decisions are being made and we should know a lot more by tomorrow.