Author: Adventures

Joyous beginnings

This week has blown my mind already and we’re still in America! The night before I left for this insane adventure I spent time with close friends/mentors and family and as we were praying, my worship pastor felt God was leading Him to ask what my name means, it means brave. He told me that He felt that there was more to that and to be sensitive to that.  As I sat in my seat on the airplane Friday morning a movie preview came on and surely enough it was about a girl and the title was “brave”. All I could do was to simply smile and recognize that God is trying to show me...

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Ants, worship, and freedom

Things I’ve learned from training camp 1. Freedom to worship however you like. You don’t have to sit at your seat. You don’t have to keep singing. Worship is worship, and as long as you are praising the Lord with your heart it doesn’t really matter what you are doing. It’s a simple idea… But I finally get it now. And I have fallen straight up love with worshipping. 2. No judgement. This family dynamic we have with our team will not work if we judge each other. We all were really blessed and this team is awesome. 3. How to be flexible. Yeah. We don’t...

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Lessons Learned in Training Camp

Training camp was a huge learning experience for me. I did not expect to grow and be touched in the way that I was. I have learned what a team is. Our team has already grown so close and accepted each other, and it has only been a few days. I have been so inspired with the honesty and openness in our group chats. I see so much potential in our team and the relationships that are beginning to build. I have learned what it really means to worship. It is supposed to be intimate and thoughtful praise for God. I have never praised the Lord so personally and with so much intimacy before. It was...

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Hey I just met you, and this is crazy…

These past few days have been nothing short of a whirlwind.  Leading up to this weekend I have been so afraid of what this journeys holds, but after this weekend and encountering God I have never been so excited for my future. I have just met these 14 people and already I feel so close and can't wait to build this family relationship. So here are a few things I wish I knew before training camp: 1.  Everyone is scared- it's been so refreshing and reassuring to know that other people are feeling some of the same emotions and having the same fears as me. 2. I am more than...

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Broken Chains

There is power in the name of Jesus….to break every chain.                                                                   ….to break every chain.                                                                   ….to break every chain. Regret. Fear. Comfort. Inadequacy. Failure. These are all words that the enemy tries to use to hold power over us. They bind, suffocate, and choke the person inside of us that God created us to be and leaves us with feelings of hopelessness and entrapment. These are all...

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I am NOT just a really friendly traveler!

Do we [Christians] look any different than those who do nice things? If there is a difference, what is it? Niceness is not our calling as Christians. Romans 1:16, " For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek." This message is the difference. We are NOT humanitarians because we have the gospel of Jesus Christ. I am not just a really friendly traveler. We bring a message. We bring the voice of God and His name that is above every name. When we say we are Christians, I proclaim...

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