south dallas numero uno

ok the first South Dallas Experience was awesome! We took 24 junior high (6-8 grade) students to South Dallas to do Bible Club in the mornings and hard-core service projects in the afternoon. Our kids were amazing, brave, incredible and I am so stinkin proud of them! Here are some pics from the week

passing out flyers in the neighborhood



Bible Club in the park!

fake chaco tan (yes, that is dirt from the service project)

last day on the way home... these ladies are the bomb

My next adventure is to Estes Park, CO with Fellowship Student Ministries for our Ravencrest Trip! I leave tomorrow (Saturday AM) on a plane to Arkansas, then we leave bright & early Sunday morning at 6:30 am to drive to Colorado! Cannot even wait for mountains, sunshine, hiking, and being in God's beautiful creation for a week!



trips & checklists

update on moving:

move out of backhouse
find apartment in Arkansas
move to Bentonville, Arkansas

.... well ok, there are quite a few other things that have to be done before I can move to my new home BUT progress is being made!! Huge answer to prayer that I found an apartment this week! God is so good... why do I ever doubt that?!

Also, there's this little thing called South Dallas Experience coming up this week...

we have 24 junior high (that's 6th-8th grade) students living in South Dallas this next week, loving on kids, serving people in the community, and learning what it is to be the hands and feet of Jesus. So excited for the growth, bonding, and fun that will happen this week! GET PUMPED!!!

weekend fun

So this weekend was full of re-energizing...

It started with my all time fav chicken salad

Friday night there was a really fun event at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas.

There was a concert (People on Vacation),

and movie (500 Days of Summer) on the lawn

Saturday was full of Third Monday Trade Days in McKinney, where I got a knockyoursocksoff door and window frame



I see sanding/painting in my future!!

The fam go the BEST Father's Day present ever in the form of a phone call from my brother who is interning in Haiti with Mission of Hope this summer! Blessedmyheart!!

All in all, it was the prefect weekend, and I feel so energized for this next week... bring it on!!

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trusting

so as of right now I am finishing my second to last week (in the office) at Watermark Community Church. I've been interning with them this past year, and I am so grateful for all the things I've learned here! It has been an amazing year of making mistakes, learning the ministry world, getting to know myself, trusting the Lord, and adventures :) I'm about to head into an insane busy season with Watermark's junior high (wake) south dallas trips. We get to do Bible camp with some of the neighborhood kids in south dallas and then in the afternoon help demo/renovate apartments there! I also get to spend the first week in July with my new team (FSM) and some crazy kids in Colorado!!

SO right after all of this stuff I move back to the great state of Arkansas to start a new chapter... with Fellowship Student Ministries! I'm excited PUMPED for this new chapter and all that it brings! to the challenges of living in a new city (B-ville), working with a new team, making friends (check yes or no), and learning the ropes of a new job I say... BRING IT ON!