Sweet Sugar Land

So... I have not been the best blogger. whoops :)

Just to catch you up, I am now living and working in Sugar Land, TX. I am one of the resident youth interns at First Colony Church of Christ along with a great friend... Travis. We were hired to work here together with an specific purpose in mind. Travis and I have a desire to write curriculum for this generation, to speak to them and challenge them in a new way. We want them to see why they NEED Jesus, and then help cultivate a passion in them to begin spreading that fire. We've been working here now for over 3 months and we've already had some amazing twists and turns. I can barely believe we've been here for that long already.

When we first moved here, we kinda jumped head first into ministry. We planned and ran the FCYG (First Colony Youth Group) Fall Retreat, which was truly an answer to many prayers. The retreat was so awesome, and all the glory is the Lord's. He used our talents and words to speak to the teens and their parents in a really beautiful way. I wish you could have been there. I've never been so proud to be a part of anything as I was that weekend.

Since the retreat, I've been working on a new curriculum for girls only. GRG (Girl's Reflecting Glory) is a girls conference that was started her at First Colony about 5 or 6 years ago. The conference is usually in Nov. but we had to move it this year due to construction on our building. I have been writing a curriculum for a retreat that will be put online so that churches in the Houston area can take it and use it for their own personal girls retreat for this year. The big conference isn't until NOV. 2009, so we've got a lot of work to do for that. I've really, really excited about it.

On a more personal side, since I've moved to Houston, It's been a struggle finding friendship. Of course, leaving Harding was a big transition, and I know it takes time to make new friends... I guess I didn't realize how there would be such a smaller pool of people to choose from. I HAVE found some really great friends here though. Katie :) is my dearest friend here in Htown. I adore her joy for life, and would hang out with her 24/7 if she'd let me. Then there's Jamie. Jamie is also a very dear friend, whom I love to spend time with. He is a comfort to me. Jamie and Katie have been my sanity most days. I thank the LORD for them.

I'm looking forward to Christmas break because I will get to see all my BEST FRIENDS (minus Marissa who I miss terribly and is in Rwanda) when I go to Charleston for CELESTE'S WEDDING!!! Yes!! Also, I'll get to go home to TN and see the fam... and my puppy! :) Then I will be going to YIA (a youth rally that I grew up going to) with my former church in Memphis where I will be teaching a class!! So exciting!!

This post will have to serve as my catch-up post. Hopefully from now on I can write about more specific, light hearted things as well.

20 days until Christmas :)
16 days until Celeste's wedding!!

Love.