What a wonderful weekend we had with our students this past weekend! We got to take them to a Dare 2 Share conference here in St. Louis. This conference is so much more then a pep rally, it really challenges and teaches the students how to witness to their friends step by step! They got out of their box and really experienced change! We are so blessed to have the coolest job in the world! I mean that! We get to hang out with students that we can be absolute dorks around...go to camps, retreats, activities, and McDonalds like all the time! God has blessed us with so much and the place that we are in at our lives right now is absolutly amazing! Last night was teen service at church and Brandon got to really share his heart with the church family about reaching out to the students and becoming mentors to them. It was a great and emotional message! Instead of ending it with a typical invitation and alter call he encouraged the church family to come down and take a student by the hand and take them to the alter and pray with them specificly about their week. We ran out of teens fast and there were more adults willing to pray but no more teeens. One of the boys was bragging b/c the pastor picked him to pray with...he was glowing with pride that he got picked! It was so neat to see the church family connect in a great way to the students.
I am 15 weeks!! I can't believe that next Sunday I'll get to say I'm 4 months pregnant! That blows my mind! I had a regular check up on Thursday and everything sounded great. The heartbeat was 158 beats a minute. I have an ultrasound scheduled for April 24th to see if we have a boy or a girl! Very excited to find out! We put up a big marker bored in the teen room and half says boy and the other half says girl and we're letting the students put their name on the side they think we are having. So far there are double the names on the boy side...we'll see whose right!
Faith and Fitness
8 years ago
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Youth nights are my fav. We started this thing like 2 months ago where on Sunday morning the teens fill out a card with their info on it. They fill out 3 each. During "big church" they give it out to adults. Then in the evening service whoever got a card from a student comes down with them and we all pray for them. If you got a card you call,e-mail, facebook, myspace, ect that student for a month. It has really helped the adults connect with the youth and the youth with the adults.
Yay! I'm so excited for you that you get to find out the sex soon! We find out on next monday so we are super excited! I'm going to guess a girl for you!:)
wish i could've been there!!! : ) i cant wait till you find out what you are having!! your pregnancy has seemed to go by pretty fast!! maybe not to you ha ha
sooooo good to see you....but did not get to see enough of you! :( Your house was lovely...just as I knew it would be! can't wait to find out the sex of the baby! love you so much!
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