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  No one prepares you for how fast life can get away from you… I guess truly no one ever could. I have been increasingly more aware of how busy I have been and how fast these last few months have flown by. The last month in particular, October, has just about given me whiplash. If you follow me on social media perhaps you have seen some of my travels, I have been in MD, NH, NM and PA just in the last three weeks and am getting ready to go back to MD for a few days. November does look a little bit more tame for me though. I am in my last conference of this year but have single meetings up until the end of February. God has continued to bless my ministry with prayer partners, financial partners and a full schedule. All three are equally important in this ministry of deputation in which I currently serve and I have been so blessed! As I have been traveling, I am just beginning to learn several things about myself. Things that, if left unchecked, could have detrimental effects on my ...

 Michigan Ohio Pennsylvania Rhode Island  Massachusetts New York Maine Colorado New Hampshire New Jersey Deleware and back to Maryland. Yep, those are the states I have been in since the last time I hopped on here. I have thoroughly enjoyed all my travels and all of the people I have been able to meet! God has been so good these first two months of deputation, and I am so excited to see him continue to work. I just arrived back to my parents house in Maryland and am looking forward to taking a few weeks to just relax a little bit and help them with their missions conference this weekend.  Over the last few weeks I have had the opportunity to be a part of 4 missions conferences, and attend 6 different churches! I have loved getting to meet so many people and make friends all over the country. I am currently at 7% support and am anticipating a little more to come in soon as well. The Lord truly is blessing and I am so excited to be along for this ride.  Thank you all s...

       Hello from ..... somewhere :) I am traveling like crazy this week through the end of Oc... well the end of the year really. God has been so very good to me in scheduling meetings and keeping me busy!       These last two weeks I was able to 'lie low' and hang out with some friends of mine up in Northern Ohio. To say the Lord blessed my visit is the understatement of the year, I do not have the space or time to write out here everything God did for and through me these last two weeks. One of the major (as if I could put a price on Gods blessings), things that God did I would like to share with you this week.     I arrived in Toledo on Monday, Aug. 29 which some of you probably know, is my birthday. The past few years I have gotten in the habit of asking the Lord for something specific from Him for my birthday, something that only He knows or something that only He can provide. I  didn't really hav...

 Well we are late again lol,  I am trying my best I promise!  These last few weeks have had me running busy all over the place. I have a short 10 day break from traveling this week and next before I take off again, and I am enjoying the slower pace.  The story I have been needing to put up here actually happened a week ago. When I got a flat tire. Some parts of it are super dramatic but it does get resolved pretty well, cause God is cool like that.  Last week I was staying with some friends in Indiana. They own a campground so it was a super fun week. I got to help them butcher some chickens, and cut grass and just do a bunch of stuff that I enjoy. Last Tuesday night, I was running out to the store at about 830 pm, when my low tire pressure light went off on my car. I have had a bad sensor so initially I thought nothing of it, other than being irritated since I thought I had fixed the problem already. Anyway, I got where I was going and decided to check all my t...

       The grace of God has always been a somewhat abstract idea to me throughout my life. In high school and even somewhat in college, it was something I heard people talk about but never remember experiencing. It just wasn’t something ever on my radar. I remember in college praying for peace about things, and praying for specific things, but never asking for grace. My prayers have changed.       As we grow, physically, emotionally and spiritually, we need new things. Physically, we outgrow clothes, we come to need different foods, etc (1 Cor. 13:11) ; Emotionally we find we need support, from friends and family; and spiritually,  we grow into new needs as well. And perhaps not so much that the need for them is new, as much as the realization of it. As I grow, and strive to become more like Christ, I am incredibly more aware of my failings and of just how far I am from the mark, I am more and more aware of my need for His mercy, strength and...

     What a crazy whirlwind the last few weeks have been, especially this last week. After I landed in Baltimore last Friday night, I started driving out to Indiana for my first run of meetings. I arrived in town Saturday afternoon after driving through most of the night after pulling over to sleep for a few hours.      To be quite transparent with you, I was pretty nervous for my first conference and official deputation meeting. Even though I know I am prepared, I know the burden the Lord has given me and I know that what I’m doing is right, I still felt somewhat anxious to actually get started. Yet, this conference could not have been more perfect to put my nerves at ease. The Lord used it to concrete even more so in my mind how much He is involved in this journey I have started for His glory. I have two specific examples of things that happened this week that I would like to share. Neither is more important to me than the other, they were both immensely ...

  What an absolutely amazing trip! The people I had the opportunity to meet, the memories we made and the impact that was made… God truly worked through every aspect of this trip. Everyone involved was used in a mighty way. I want to give a short rundown of the trip and what was done:   Monday—— I left MD to meet up with the group in Miami. Most of the group came from the states and that was our main meeting spot. From there the group flew out to Bogota, Colombia, but not without two members nearly missing their flight and literally running through the whole airport to make it! Two in our group did miss their flight and ended up coming later. The rest of us took a short flight to Bogota and then got a hotel for the night.  Tuesday——— The team got up and made it to the airport by around 9am. We had nearly 30 bags to check between all of us, and it took us nearly 3 hours to get them all checked correctly, and even then we had a bag FULL of hand tools that was accidentally...