Tomorrow I leave with 3 other students for Princeton University. It is a weekend full of fun, talks and concerts for private school students from Boston to Baltimore. There are over 120 students attending. I myself am giving a special session jointly with my friend Caitlin on the Justice of God. Big topic!! This is in light of our special experiences dealing with poverty and ministry issues in both the States and abroad.
While I am making the mix for our hours long car ride, I reflect on the past few months. In between school meetings and staff meetings - I have helped 2 roommates put an apartment together, hosted a housewarming party, and continued to integrate into our local church in New Haven.
My homegroup from church on Tuesday nights has remained perhaps the biggest blessing of my months here. We meet two houses away in the upstairs apartment of a young couple who lived in Turkey for a few years. Among the 15 or so people in our group is a missionary kid from Hong Kong, a young woman who did campus ministry in Belarus, and couples who have lived abroad in Iran, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, and Bangladesh. We bring our experiences together every tuesday night and lay them together before the Lord, waiting expectantly for healing and receiving assuredly of His comfort and encouragement.
We've adopted a motto as we've searched through these issues: "Things we've done, things done to us, and things that just happened."
More importantly, I believe we have really come to learn more about how the Grace of God operates - how it leads us in the varied situations we've experienced, how it is brought us through these situations, and how this grace continues to teach us lessons and empowers us to live lives that are even more Christ-centered than we imagined.
As I close asking prayers for this weekend, I want to leave you with some stellar shots of the past few months!
As I close asking prayers for this weekend, I want to leave you with some stellar shots of the past few months!
In a field after apple-picking with my staffmates!! Kendra and Liz
I bought a fisheye camera for my birthday. This is one of the photos I took of some girls from Ethel Walker school when we went out to dinner.
A friend I made this summer
Emma Willard's gorgeous campus 
After a bible study with some Emma Willard girls
Hysterically laughing with some "fellows" at our FOCUS fellows retreat
All of the FOCUS staff fellows. For some reason I look really small in this photo..?
1 comment:
haha... u look small! How are u?
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