Campus/international ministry is AMAZING!

It has been an amazing privilege to get to know this family from Taiwan this summer. Jennifer and Ben (the kids) spent a week with me in at TNC doing a missions trip and are going to Emmanuel for 2 weeks before they go back home! They are getting exposed to Jesus in a HUGE way :-)
The mom, Jean, is an visiting scholar at UT and we were connected through English corner. We laugh a lot together and can relate to each other about being moms of teenagers! that is universal!

Another dear young lady that I met while leading English Corner is asking a lot of questions and

is reading the gospel of John in her native language. I am able to share Jesus with her at UT when we both could be killed for doing that in her country! God is SOOOO good! 

8 girls came to my first Bible Study!

We had a wonderful time getting to know each other and I'm really looking forward to learning and Growing together this semester. One amazing fact is that I have known 5 of the 8 some other way throughout the years but most did not know who I was! I have prayed for the last 6 months that God would lead me to who HE wanted in this study and he has led a girl that I taught Sunday school when she was 8, A girl that I took to volleyball when she was 12, two Emmanuel Alumni and a girl from Westgate! I did not seek these girls out! or would I have even known how to find them! God is amazing!

This last week has been full of prayer walks around campus, 2 English Corners, womens Bible study, freshmen picnic, activities fair, bonfire night on campus, taking a student without a car to UT, taking Ben and Jennifer home every afternoon, helping out at Emmanuel in the morning, getting ready for Lily's 13th birthday and tonight is Ellie's first Volleyball game.

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HE DELIGHTS IN ME

Psalm 18 has this little vs. stuck in the middle of it that just jumped right out of the page at me! It it the truth that saved my life when I was depressed as a high schooler and encourages me to smile and have great confidence in HIS love for me now. Even when Im not all that lovable!

HE RESCUED ME BECAUSE HE DELIGHTS IN ME....I HAVE NOT DONE EVIL BY TURNING FROM MY GOD.

WOW does this encourage me! I have not done evil.....BY TURNING FROM HIM....so when I am sinking and feel like a total failure the only real thing I can do to make HIM disappointed in me is to TURN AWAY FROM HIM. Because HE delights in me  HE longs for me to delight in HIM, to BE with HIM to WORSHIP HIM to TRUST IN HIM. I don't have to be perfect, i don't have to always have it right, i don't have to have all the right answers...I just need to REST in the fact that HE DELIGHTS in me. 

I need to Laugh more....worry less

Not just the me that adopted 2 special needs children or the me that is a campus minister or the me that teaches Sunday school or the me who helps with my daughters Volleyball team....BUT the me who checks facebook before i pick up my Bible, the me that can't seem to love the way I WANT to  love my family, the me that did not cook dinner last night and the me that watched netflix all day because I was just to tired to do anything else.....

some days you just need to crash!

HE DELIGHTS IN ME.....and for this busy, crazy day....that is enough :-)

Rion Paige - Judges are "Blown Away" - THE X FACTOR USA 2013

When God is THAT big....#godisbig #olderadoption #adoptionrocks #AMCrocks #blownaway #hawkinghills #mamaprayers #beautiful

You Only live once...so you might as well pray big.

It all started about a year ago when Lily saw this little girl on X-factor...you see this little girl has a HUGE personality and her arms....ARE JUST LIKE LILY'S! 

Rion can Sing! but more than that...she LOVES JESUS! I knew her mom loved Jesus the second I saw her back stage....no fear....just faith.

Lily watched this video over 100 times. At the end Simon tells Rion that 'she is beautiful in every way' and after the 79th time....Lily started to believe that she to could be beautiful in every way,

SOOO you can understand the prayer of a mama that would ask God to let Lily meet Rion some day, a crazy big prayer, the kind that you pray but you don't really expect to be answered......

fast forward 10 months.....I get a FB message that Rions grandmother wants to give Lily a ticked to Rions concert, WHAT!!!...so I email my address not expecting much and a week later I get a package in the mail that not only has a ticket to the concert but a CD of Rions music and a note saying "happy gotcha day" because...and your not going to believe this...the concert "just happened" to be on Lily's 4th gotcha day!!!!! WHAT!

BUT WAIT.... IT GETS BETTER

When we get there, after a huge hug by Krista, Rions Grandma, we are all treated like royalty and ushered to the FRONT ROW....you can't make this stuff up!

Then we are told that there will be a private reception afterward for all the AMC kids where we would....MEET RION AND HER MOM!!!!

 BUT that is not the whole story....you see this night really should never have happened. a week before, Rion was asked to sing with her favorite singer ON THIS SAME NIGHT but she had made a promise....soooo instead of singing for 40,000 people with her very favorite singer (can you say dream come true) she came to Logan OH. and sang for 400.....answering a little mama prayer whispered months before.

PS....Lily was on Rions instagram and I am becoming fast friends with her Grandma...

and as a bonus we had a wonderful time in the Hawking Hills area the next day, here is some of our silliness

I have NO idea why this prayer was answered and So many others that are way more important seem to go unanswered, Not even a clue! ALL I KNOW is that a very loving God chose to show a 13 year old girl that He sees her, HE loves her and SHE IS HIS PRINCESS.