PRIDE

Two weeks ago, I flew out of Denver International Airport and 15 hours later, I was singing with the kids that I met this last summer in Bratislava, Slovakia. I want to start off just by thanking everyone who has helped me to get here financially and through prayer. I am so grateful for this opportunity and the experiences that will come from it. I can already tell that God is using this time to mold my heart, to teach me and bend me. I have learned and will learn so much. Two weeks ago, I got to experience Fusion! Over the summer our Fort Collins team got to be a part of a Fusion camp but we had little to no idea of what Fusion looked like throughout the year. So it was cool to experience the weekly gathering that they have. We started with a game and group mixer, then we began vocal warm ups! From warms ups we went into choir rehearsal and then usually we would have done a short devotional,but it just so happened that the Olympic Slovak vs. Czech hockey game was that night… (Hockey ...

P is for Perfect. R is for Replay. I is for Insecure Identity. D is for Defenses. Hello again, my friends. It really has been such a long time... and SO much has happened! Last post, was almost five months ago. I was in school, working, in a relationship, living in Colorado... Now I'm teaching teens how to play music, single, not in school and living with a dear family in Slovakia. Yup. As in the other side of the world, Slovakia. What?? To briefly fill you in, I had gone on a short term mission trip to Slovakia last summer and I loved the program that used music to teach teens about God and the Gospel. So I applied to be an intern through an organization called Josiah Venture for this spring semester, spent months working too many hours of overtime, recording music to sell for support, and boom. It all happened so fast, but here I am! Sitting in a different country, praying that God will use me in any way He wants, and missing Starbucks. (OK, so that last one may not be as ...