Denver Christmas Conference 2007

Happy New Year to all! I hope that the new year has brought you all much joy and many blessings. I wanted to tell you about the DCC (Denver Christmas Conference) experience, but it would take me weeks to tell you all the wonderful things that God did there. So I'll just skim the surface, if you want more you'll just have to ask me.

I've spent the past week in Denver celebrating the new year with my boyfriend and his family, and then the following five days were spent with a large group of my friends from Campus Crusade at the Adam's Mark hotel down town. We were there with some 2,000 other students from several different states to meet with God and get some inspiration for the coming semester. I think it was very successful in that point. We had some awesome speakers, two in particular, Bryan Loritts, and Jaeson Ma were really incredible. I was surprised that the intense honesty that both portrayed about their past and present experiences and temptations. I can't say that I learned much that new, however, I think it was a great success in teaching me things that I already knew, in a new way which allowed me to understand them more deeply. It was just great! My boyfriend, Danny, and I had a lot of time together to talk about the things that we are struggling with as a couple and God really opened up some opportunities for us to be ministered to, and to minister to each other. I saw amazing changes in our relationship, and in him this past week. It was a joy to be there.

After this week I feel more connected to the Lord than I have for the past few months and I feel like I have some tools to keep the spiritual high as well. I am really, REALLY looking foreward to this next semester. I may have the opportunity to lead a prayer walk around campus like we did last semester, and maybe we'll be able to get out into the city as well. We'll just have to see where God takes us, but no matter what happens I know that it's just going to be incredible. I would like to ask you to pray for me and Danny as we try to make a decision about whether or not to go to Serbia this summer. We will be filling out the application to go at the very least. But please just be praying that the Lord would lead us and that his will would be done concerning us and Serbia. We really want to go =) We're even really excited about it, which for both of us is a big deal since we've never had any inclination to go on missions trips. And this is all I'm going to get into about DCC. It was awesome and I think that we'll see some big things happen on campus this semester.

I would also like you to be praying for the business my family runs. We are failing, and it's getting more and more difficult. Just pray for the Lord's will to be done in the business for life in my family. I may start selling candles to help generate some income. We are trying to come up with a plan on how that might work. I think that it will be fun if nothing else. So if you need candles you might just talk to me because I'll probably be selling them within the next month or so.

So, dear friends, be blessed richly and stay safe in the winter weather. I love you and miss you all!