Hello everyone!
I hope you all are having a great summer so far, I know I am. It's funny because in March I had a totally different plan for my summer. I was dead set on going to Nashville for an internship. It was for an awesome ministry called Mission 615. They started a worship ministry internship with all these opportunities to serve in that field. As soon as I heard about it, I assumed it must be God telling me to go since it was such an incredible opportunity. I never took a step back and actually asked Him, which was a big mistake. Always go to God for every decision, always. As the deadline for the first payment neared, my friend and I talked about it. We both didn't really feel a peace about it. There were so many opportunities we would miss serving here at home if we went. From VBS to our devotion/worship nights with our friends to just leading worship at church. Plus money was an issue and we didn't have too much time to actually fundraise. Soon afterwards my friend, who had been looking for a job for a while, got a job. It just fell into her lap after she stepped back and asked God what He wanted for her.
So after I turned down that option, I heard about church camp. So I asked my youth pastor about it and he said they were needing someone to record and make a video at the end of each of the weeks, there was 4 camp sessions. So since my brother and I made some videos for some talent competitions with the IPHC, they knew we could handle it. Well my brother was actually known to be the video guy and I was the musical one. I accepted the offer, but unfortunately my brother could not come so I was on my own. I only had limited experience in this field, like I edited part of one video before. But here I am, at camp the last day waiting on the videos to finish importing. I honestly don't know how I ended up here. It's like He just guided me and gave me peace about the whole thing. If you know me personally, you'd know that this whole thing was totally out of comfort zone. Being where I don't really know anyone and working on something that i've never really done before is definitely not my favorite thing to do but yet here I am loving and enjoying every minute of it.
Not only have I been making videos but I've been attending amazing services and making great friendships with the people here. I have been so blessed to be apart of this. In one of the services the pastor said something that stuck. He mentioned the lady with the alabaster box, which was her dowry to get married one day and poured it out on the feet of Jesus. She took all her hopes and dreams and gave it Jesus. I went to the altar that night pouring all my hopes and dreams onto Jesus. I've held back that way too long. Like I said I would go where He wanted me to but I always had sort of my own plan. Anyways the next week, I was asked to be on a social media team for a big event for the IPHC called Accelerant. You should come by the way ;) Never in a million years would I have ever imagined being on that team. It is truly a God thing. I wondered why out of all the loud, outgoing people, they chose shy, quiet me. All I can say that when you truly lay down your plans for your life to God, then He does open up doors and great opportunities open up. He can use you greatly in ways you could never imagine or ever see yourself doing. I would have never though in a million years I'd be making videos or be on that social media team. I can't help but think what if I didn't come here, where would I be? But I am so excited to continue on this journey God is taking me on.
