Just a little update

Hello all :)

I'm going to be leaving for the mission trip tomorrow around 3PM and will be internet-incommunicado until Friday night. So here's a little update on what's going on. :)

As I said above, the mission trip begins tomorrow! I'm super excited for my third mission trip with the awesome student choir but I'm also sad that this is my last year. I'm sure I've said this before, but we'll be traveling all over Texas to do ministry in juvenile detention centers, pregnancy resource centers, warehouses, and an orphanage. I think that this is one of the most practical ways to live out the Gospel in our world. (James 1:27) People are sick, needy, and dying, not only for physical needs but also for spiritual needs. Jesus Christ took care of people's physical needs by healing them and providing for them before/as he told them the Good News. Helping and serving others is something I believe all Christians are called to do, in some way, shape, or form. I'm so very excited to see what all is going to happen this week and I know God will be in the middle of our group. We've been praying for this trip since September (ish) and I am confident that God has already prepped the hearts of the people we will be serving. Please pray for us. 

In a few hours I have my first job interview. I'm really excited but also incredibly nervous. I've been looking for a job all summer and this is the first real bite I've gotten. I'm not going to assume anything about whether or not I'll get the job, I'm just going to go in there with confidence and do my best. I'm probably reading into this whole thing more than I should anyhow. :) Please pray for me. 

On a slightly less important note, I've made some decent headway in the writing agenda this week. I finished chapter 8 of the main project I've been working on and I also wrote a song! It's my first song and I'm still not happy enough with it to post it, but hey. Progress is progress right? The rhyming scheme is shaky in some places and nonexistent in others but I'm happy I wrote it. I probably wouldn't have started it without the encouragement of a friend, so thanks friend. :) 

This mission trip is the last high-school thing I have left before I am completely submerged into 'college life.' I know I've been in college for a whole year but choir has sort of been that one high school thing I chose to keep. Boy, am I glad I did. So the end is bittersweet but I'm excited to fully move on. I have my class schedule all figured out and just found out that I'm stil classified as a Freshman because of my hours. :P It bugged me, but it's whatever. :) Once I get back from the trip, I will officially have nothing else planned for summer. Hopefully, I'll start work if I get a job and if I don't, I have my heart set on doing VBS/praise camp at my church. I just love those kids. 

Which brings me to another subject.

I'm considering a major change.

Surprise surprise!

I haven't made any solid plans or anything but I've been thinking a lot lately about switching to something like counseling or family studies. See, I love kids and working with them. I'm also good at it. So maybe I'll switch to counseling/family studies and do a minor in English. As I said, nothing has been made official. I'm still praying about it. A lot of people have told me that a degree in those fields would ultimately make me unhappy because I won't be able to minister to kids in a secular environment in the way that I would want to. I know there is some truth to that, but I also believe that my God is bigger than 'the system.' If He wants me to minister to kids with my career, I will do it. I don't profess to know exactly what my path is right now because I don't. But I do know that I have a passion for writing as well as a passion for children and as long as I am willing, God will equip me with what I need to do His will. I'm going to spend the coming Fall semester looking into the different options I have and praying that God would give me clarity and peace about what I'm supposed to do. 

It's all I can do. 

Catch you later,

M


UPDATED AT 3:15PM


Interview went really well! The manager was really nice and thankfully none of the questions were too hard. :) I'm going to eat some lunch and then head off to choir.