Anticipation

Good afternoon avid readers! I have some exciting news and some things that I need your help with via prayer. The bad news is that when I last wrote I was intending to meet with a couple women to talk about the gospel and CCC (Campus Crusade for Christ), and I didn't get to meet with either of them. Somehow these meeting just aren't working out. I've rescheduled so many now that I don't know what to do and I've rather given up on them for the time being. Truth is that I highly suspect that all the women I was going to meet were already believers anyway, so I'm not really concerned.

So now the bad news is out of the way I can get into the exciting news! I am pleased to inform you that we have seen one student on CSU-P come to Christ!!! YAY GOD!!! I'm very excited about it. One of the girls I am discipling e-mailed me last night to tell me that one of the freshmen girls we've been loving on finally surrendered her life to Christ. That's the best news I've gotten since my return from Serbia! I'm still praying for 49 more to find there way to the arms of our Love by December.

In other news... well I'm just really happy. I have a good feeling about this week, it's going to be stellar and I just feel very expectant to see what God is going to be doing. I don't know if he'll be doing it here or in Serbia. The Stint team in Serbia is handing out Vox magazines to gain contacts and reach out to students on their faculties over the next two weeks. Last year they distributed 1300 magazines and got around 900 contacts from people willing to talk about God. That's amazing! Lets be praying for a rich harvest at our brothers and sisters invest in God's work over the next two weeks! Then again, maybe something incredible will happen this week *shrug* I did ace a test that I didn't study for, that could be a good sign!

Continued other news, I do need your prayer support about a few things. Typically I wouldn't use this to distribute prayer requests, but I really need it. I'm not sure where to start though... hmm... Ok, I'll start with a friend of mine who goes to UNC. I'm a little concerned about him, and I feel like I may need to just go up there and have coffee with him or something. I think he is a believer, but I don't think he has much fellowship with other strong Christians and I think I may need to go up and see him, build him a bit and such. The question is when, so please pray that the Lord would direct me in that and give me wisdom. Next, I think I may start helping out with worship for the potential youth group at my church, or maybe see if I can get a girls Bible study going for the High Schoolers. Time is also the problem there. I would love to be involved with the youth ministry, but with school and CCC I don't know if I'll have time to do that. So pray that the Lord will give me very, very clear direction about that as well because I don't want to get committed to something I can't rationally do.

Then there is my general health. My health gets it's very own paragraph, which is kinda sad. Good grief I'm tired of feeling crummy and generally unable to accomplish anything worth doing. Last time I wrote I had some stomach thing, well that's gone, but now my heart and other organs in the general chest region are all acting up again. I'm having really bad heart flutters and having a really hard time breathing some times. It comes and goes, accompanied often by pain. It gets worse when I sing, which is darned inconvenient considering that I'm majoring in vocal performance. I just can't get the air support I need to hit the notes I have to hit and it aggravates my chest even more. So be praying that I would be relaxed and at peace so that everything would settle down and I would have to deal with this any more. (Praise!) My Mom just got a new job and we'll have insurance fairly soon and when we do I can go to the doctor and find out what exactly is wrong with me, if anything, but I don't think this is normal. Pray that I won't be distracted and therefore stressed out. I do have a distraction to deal with, which I'm not going to elaborate on in such a public fashion.

Anyway, tonight is prayer, which is exciting all by itself! Whoo-hoo for prayer! I am so ready to see the campus changed, and I think Jesus is too, so this gonna be a good week =) Thanks for reading up on life and praying with me about what God is doing here and over in my new favorite place, Serbia!