today has been awesome. i went to prayer this morning and then i went to equip. t.o. spoke on being a "people person". very interesting concepts that i never really think about- like how our nonverbal communication says more about us than we think- our appearance, our facial expressions, our clothes, etc.
and our verbal communication is really crucial, too.
i'm really learning a lot from this class. it's really awesome. oh, and we got a book by andy stanley for our class. cool!
so now i'm at home with lizzy!! she's back from wyoming!!! i'm soooo happy.
and in a few minutes i'm going to eat with my grandparents and parents and brothers at mr. gatti's. (the last supper!-before camp! lol.)
and then i'm coming back home to pack for CAMP!!!!!!
florida bound!!!!!! i can't wait!!!!!! only like sixteen hours to go!!!!!!!
so yeah, i'm looking forward to seeing what God's got planned for us at camp. i'm expecting the best! soooooooooooooooo excited!!!
ok, i'm about to leave. i'm tired, but i'm hyper all at the same time. :-D
hopefully i'll see a lot of you tomorrow. keep us in your prayers. (if you aren't going- and even if you are. pray for our protection and for God's Spirit to fall on us. thank you!)
*vicTORIa*
Tuesday, June 27
Saturday, June 24
finally
so like, sorry it's been so long since i've posted. my week has been amazing and fun and crazy and stressful and exhausting and boring and exciting. so if i give you all of the details then you'll fall asleep, but i will tell you a little of what i've been doing.
equip started tuesday. awesome class. i actually switched to the minisrty stream instead of worship because i feel like that's probably more where my heart is. and so this class is about leadership. and everone who is taking it should be gearing up to start their own life group or to team up with someone else in the class to lead one. wow! that's big.
and also i've gone to morning prayer all week. and we (jordan, jordan, jd, laiken, emily, whitney, and the other two kids whose names i can't think of or spell) helped roll tee shirts for camp and put them in bags with a wrist band and a magazine and a button.
then i went on an outreach on wednesday with jp, rachel, jordan, and again two people whose names i don't know. and we handed out gum downtown. which was sooo much fun. one man called us back after we had given him gum and were walking away. he asked us to pray for him because he is going through some hard times in his life right now. that was so amazing! right there in the middle of the sidewalk with people walking all around us- laying hands on this man! reaching the world by serving one. how cool is God!!
then i went to guitar lessons after the outreach. and then i went home to get ready for church. then i went back to church and helped brittany cut flyers and stuff. then i went to refuge and had an awesome time. God's presence was really strong. and i felt like i was more focused on Him than on myself because i had spent this week serving instead of sitting at home wondering what to wear the next day.
thursday i went to prayer and then baby-sat for the rest of the morning. then i went to the annex for the afternoon and went to life group that night.
friday was tee shirt day! and equip! we did shirts all morning and finished them right after lunch. then we had class at 2:30 and then heather, phill, jerusha, charis, stephanie, jordan, jd, and i folded a bunch of camp flyers and ate pizza.
today, i slept until 10:30, went to target, and went to the peru fundraiser at church. (blake, laiken, leah, brooke, brooke's mom, jared, miss amy, miss kim, harmony, lacy, and i- and another guy named tori!)
tomorrow, my little bro laeaves for pathfinders camp and i'm prolly going to the fundraiser again. and LIZZY gets home from wyoming tomorrow!!!!!!! i haven't seen her all summer! i miss ya, friend!
then monday is probably shopping for camp-swim suit, etc.
tuesday is morning prayer and equip class.
WEDNESDAY IS CAMP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
literally camp is almost equal to if not better than christmas for me!
(it costs just about as much. lol. but it's so worth it!)
so i know i said that i wasn't going to bore you with datails and stuff, but i did. so if you read all of it then you must've been really bored. and if you skimmed through it then you may have missed an important piece of information that will change your life. jk. :-)
so i'm really tired, but i've loved every minute of this week. God has been teaching me a lot about servanthood (through the equip class and through just being at the annex volunteering or going to outreaches and fundraisers) i've also gotten to hang out with my friends all week! that's a big plus for me.
i want God to be able to use me as His vessel. i want to allow myself to fade out of the picture because i am so focused on my Father. i want to forget about myself and think only about God and i want to lead others to Him.
so i promise i'm done with this post and you can stop reading now. lol.
*vicTORIa*
equip started tuesday. awesome class. i actually switched to the minisrty stream instead of worship because i feel like that's probably more where my heart is. and so this class is about leadership. and everone who is taking it should be gearing up to start their own life group or to team up with someone else in the class to lead one. wow! that's big.
and also i've gone to morning prayer all week. and we (jordan, jordan, jd, laiken, emily, whitney, and the other two kids whose names i can't think of or spell) helped roll tee shirts for camp and put them in bags with a wrist band and a magazine and a button.
then i went on an outreach on wednesday with jp, rachel, jordan, and again two people whose names i don't know. and we handed out gum downtown. which was sooo much fun. one man called us back after we had given him gum and were walking away. he asked us to pray for him because he is going through some hard times in his life right now. that was so amazing! right there in the middle of the sidewalk with people walking all around us- laying hands on this man! reaching the world by serving one. how cool is God!!
then i went to guitar lessons after the outreach. and then i went home to get ready for church. then i went back to church and helped brittany cut flyers and stuff. then i went to refuge and had an awesome time. God's presence was really strong. and i felt like i was more focused on Him than on myself because i had spent this week serving instead of sitting at home wondering what to wear the next day.
thursday i went to prayer and then baby-sat for the rest of the morning. then i went to the annex for the afternoon and went to life group that night.
friday was tee shirt day! and equip! we did shirts all morning and finished them right after lunch. then we had class at 2:30 and then heather, phill, jerusha, charis, stephanie, jordan, jd, and i folded a bunch of camp flyers and ate pizza.
today, i slept until 10:30, went to target, and went to the peru fundraiser at church. (blake, laiken, leah, brooke, brooke's mom, jared, miss amy, miss kim, harmony, lacy, and i- and another guy named tori!)
tomorrow, my little bro laeaves for pathfinders camp and i'm prolly going to the fundraiser again. and LIZZY gets home from wyoming tomorrow!!!!!!! i haven't seen her all summer! i miss ya, friend!
then monday is probably shopping for camp-swim suit, etc.
tuesday is morning prayer and equip class.
WEDNESDAY IS CAMP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
literally camp is almost equal to if not better than christmas for me!
(it costs just about as much. lol. but it's so worth it!)
so i know i said that i wasn't going to bore you with datails and stuff, but i did. so if you read all of it then you must've been really bored. and if you skimmed through it then you may have missed an important piece of information that will change your life. jk. :-)
so i'm really tired, but i've loved every minute of this week. God has been teaching me a lot about servanthood (through the equip class and through just being at the annex volunteering or going to outreaches and fundraisers) i've also gotten to hang out with my friends all week! that's a big plus for me.
i want God to be able to use me as His vessel. i want to allow myself to fade out of the picture because i am so focused on my Father. i want to forget about myself and think only about God and i want to lead others to Him.
so i promise i'm done with this post and you can stop reading now. lol.
*vicTORIa*
Friday, June 16
Equip
refuge's summer internship starts tuesday!!! i'm so excited.
we get to choose between three "streams". media, worship, or ministry. although this is going to be a very tough decision, i think i'm probably going to do the worship stream.
i'm not really that great on either violin or guitar and i guess i'm okay at singing, but i really want to learn more about music and worshipping God. the point of this thing is to learn, right?
so yeah, i'm gonna pray about it and make sure that that's what God wants me to do.
if you've taken the roots class and want to be in on this, sign up- 'cause it starts this tuesday at 8:30 sharp!
here's the info:
EQUIP Leadership Training
Description: EQUIP is a six-week internship and leadership program for high school students. It is designed to help students grow in their gifts and to learn how to leverage their influence for the Kingdom of God. Classes will be held twice a week on Tuesdays at 8:30 am and Fridays at 2:30 pm. throughout the six weeks, on some Friday afternoons the students will participate in outreaches directly following the class.
Cost: $25 for books and supplies.
Grading Scale:
Attendance – 50%
Stream Line – 30%
Portfolio – 10%
Scripture Memory – 10%
Note: There is no letter grades assigned. A student must have an 85% final grade to pass the course.
Attendance – Every student starts the class with 50 points for attendance. Each student is allowed to miss one class without being deducted any points, with a phone call to the director before the class (Points will be deducted if the student fails to call the instructor). There are 10 class periods total. After the free miss, the first miss will cause a 5 point deduction. Every further miss will be a 10 point deduction. Points are deducted for tardiness. Note: if a student has to miss for a church related event such as a mission trip, the student will not be deducted for the miss nor will it burn up their free miss. However, the student must get prior approval.
Stream Line – Each student must choose from one of the stream lines provided at HPC (see below). Over the six-week period each student will be required to spend 18 hours in the stream line they choose. They must schedule the hours they plan to work no later than the Tuesday of the week before. At the end of the class, the student will turn in a portfolio pertaining to their ministry stream. Details about the portfolio will be discussed in class. The student will be required to read a book (cost included) that pertains to their area of ministry.
• Ministry Stream – This stream is designed for students who feel called to serve as a Pastor, administrator, teacher, leader or missionary through the local church.
• Worship Stream – This stream is designed for students who feel called to lead worship and/or serve on a worship team, oversee a tech team, or engineer a recording studio through the local church.
• Media Stream – This stream is designed for students who feel called to any of the following areas: video editing, scripting, animation, television, production, marketing, graphic or web design through the local church.
Scripture Memory – each week the students will be tested on a scripture that pertains to the prior lesson. There will be 10 total scriptures to memorize. The scriptures must be memorized in one of the following translations: NIV, NLT, NASB, or NKJV.
Bonus – The student may earn bonus points for attending Morning Prayer at the annex. Morning Prayer is held on Tuesdays – Fridays from 6:00am to 7:00am. For each prayer attended the student will earn 1 bonus point.
Schedule
June 20 – Classes begin at 8:30 sharp
June 23 – Class 2
June 27 – Class 3
June 29 – No class due to summer camp
July 4 – No class due to holiday
July 7 – Class 4
July 11 – Class 5
July 14 – Class 6
July 18 – Class 7
July 21 – Class 8
July 25 – Class 9
July 28 – Last class
August 2 – Graduation at Refuge
and that's about it.
:-)
*vicTORIa*
we get to choose between three "streams". media, worship, or ministry. although this is going to be a very tough decision, i think i'm probably going to do the worship stream.
i'm not really that great on either violin or guitar and i guess i'm okay at singing, but i really want to learn more about music and worshipping God. the point of this thing is to learn, right?
so yeah, i'm gonna pray about it and make sure that that's what God wants me to do.
if you've taken the roots class and want to be in on this, sign up- 'cause it starts this tuesday at 8:30 sharp!
here's the info:
EQUIP Leadership Training
Description: EQUIP is a six-week internship and leadership program for high school students. It is designed to help students grow in their gifts and to learn how to leverage their influence for the Kingdom of God. Classes will be held twice a week on Tuesdays at 8:30 am and Fridays at 2:30 pm. throughout the six weeks, on some Friday afternoons the students will participate in outreaches directly following the class.
Cost: $25 for books and supplies.
Grading Scale:
Attendance – 50%
Stream Line – 30%
Portfolio – 10%
Scripture Memory – 10%
Note: There is no letter grades assigned. A student must have an 85% final grade to pass the course.
Attendance – Every student starts the class with 50 points for attendance. Each student is allowed to miss one class without being deducted any points, with a phone call to the director before the class (Points will be deducted if the student fails to call the instructor). There are 10 class periods total. After the free miss, the first miss will cause a 5 point deduction. Every further miss will be a 10 point deduction. Points are deducted for tardiness. Note: if a student has to miss for a church related event such as a mission trip, the student will not be deducted for the miss nor will it burn up their free miss. However, the student must get prior approval.
Stream Line – Each student must choose from one of the stream lines provided at HPC (see below). Over the six-week period each student will be required to spend 18 hours in the stream line they choose. They must schedule the hours they plan to work no later than the Tuesday of the week before. At the end of the class, the student will turn in a portfolio pertaining to their ministry stream. Details about the portfolio will be discussed in class. The student will be required to read a book (cost included) that pertains to their area of ministry.
• Ministry Stream – This stream is designed for students who feel called to serve as a Pastor, administrator, teacher, leader or missionary through the local church.
• Worship Stream – This stream is designed for students who feel called to lead worship and/or serve on a worship team, oversee a tech team, or engineer a recording studio through the local church.
• Media Stream – This stream is designed for students who feel called to any of the following areas: video editing, scripting, animation, television, production, marketing, graphic or web design through the local church.
Scripture Memory – each week the students will be tested on a scripture that pertains to the prior lesson. There will be 10 total scriptures to memorize. The scriptures must be memorized in one of the following translations: NIV, NLT, NASB, or NKJV.
Bonus – The student may earn bonus points for attending Morning Prayer at the annex. Morning Prayer is held on Tuesdays – Fridays from 6:00am to 7:00am. For each prayer attended the student will earn 1 bonus point.
Schedule
June 20 – Classes begin at 8:30 sharp
June 23 – Class 2
June 27 – Class 3
June 29 – No class due to summer camp
July 4 – No class due to holiday
July 7 – Class 4
July 11 – Class 5
July 14 – Class 6
July 18 – Class 7
July 21 – Class 8
July 25 – Class 9
July 28 – Last class
August 2 – Graduation at Refuge
and that's about it.
:-)
*vicTORIa*
Tuesday, June 13
i made a deal with jordan gautreau that if he got a blog then i would put him on my top eight on myspace. and he did...
http://jesuscsaves.blogspot.com/
i'm happy.
http://jesuscsaves.blogspot.com/
i'm happy.
Wednesday, June 7
Time
this is something i wrote a couple of days ago. thought i'd share it. :-) ...
As a Christian, the time that I spend on this earth is not my own. I have dedicated my life to my Father. I want to change the people around me because I live according my Father's business, not the world's.
So why do I waste my life sitting on the couch, watching tv, and obsessing over my image and reputation? Why can't I get off of my butt and do something to make a difference in people's lives? God doesn't want me to spend my life being a lazy grouch.
He wants me to be joyful, patient, and kind. He wants me to love others as I love myself. Stop worrying about my own hollow desires and start focusing on His desires.
Trust me, I've done this before- worrying more about God's desires than my own- and it works. Not only do I make my Father's face smile, but my life begins to be fulfilled and I start to enjoy life. I'm satisfied and happy rather than being empty.
So, tomorrow is a new day. Time is not my own. I don't own my life- He does. I gave it to Him and I'm better for it. He will never leave me or forsake me, so this time I'm not gonna leave Him and forsake Him. Life is too short to waiste on the temporary cravings of the human soul. I'm going to start spending my time on the infinite fulfillments of the everlasting, uncondtional love of the Father.
I dare you to do the same...
*vicTORIa*
As a Christian, the time that I spend on this earth is not my own. I have dedicated my life to my Father. I want to change the people around me because I live according my Father's business, not the world's.
So why do I waste my life sitting on the couch, watching tv, and obsessing over my image and reputation? Why can't I get off of my butt and do something to make a difference in people's lives? God doesn't want me to spend my life being a lazy grouch.
He wants me to be joyful, patient, and kind. He wants me to love others as I love myself. Stop worrying about my own hollow desires and start focusing on His desires.
Trust me, I've done this before- worrying more about God's desires than my own- and it works. Not only do I make my Father's face smile, but my life begins to be fulfilled and I start to enjoy life. I'm satisfied and happy rather than being empty.
So, tomorrow is a new day. Time is not my own. I don't own my life- He does. I gave it to Him and I'm better for it. He will never leave me or forsake me, so this time I'm not gonna leave Him and forsake Him. Life is too short to waiste on the temporary cravings of the human soul. I'm going to start spending my time on the infinite fulfillments of the everlasting, uncondtional love of the Father.
I dare you to do the same...
*vicTORIa*
Monday, June 5
short post
how is everyone's summer going? i'm counting down the days until camp and i'm getting ready to go to mexico after that. can't wait!
ok, this has been a really short post, but they can't all be long. that would be dull and boring. i'm going to stop before i ramble so much that this post ends up becoming long anyway.
lol.
*vicTORIa*
ok, this has been a really short post, but they can't all be long. that would be dull and boring. i'm going to stop before i ramble so much that this post ends up becoming long anyway.
lol.
*vicTORIa*
Friday, June 2
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