Dear Friends,
This post is going be short because I have about a million hours of homework to fit into the next 19 hours, but I just wanted to drop in and say hi! Thanks so much for bearing with me this semester as posting has been so all over and infrequent. I promise I've got a couple of good blogs in the making, and once I get through finals hopefully I'll be able to stimulate some deep thought :)
Today though, I would like to take a second and simply ask that you would uphold our Athletes in Action Leadership team in prayer this weekend. AIA has been going really well this semester and I feel like God has been moving inside of our athletic department. This Sunday we have our final Leadership meeting to really review the year and cast a vision for next year. I'm so excited to see where God is taking our ministry and I would like to ask you to lift up the hearts of our leadership team over the next couple days. That God would prepare our hearts to look to the future and see what He has for us and that we would all be able to continue to come together to lead His movement on campus.
Thanks so much for your prayerful support,
Randi
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Saturday, April 10, 2010
The End of Big Break
So the last time we chatted it was Wednesday morning at Big Break, so much has happened since then so here's a list!
1) Thursday morning: I spent some time with Jesus on the beach. I took a break from my time in Judges to hear from Christ in John 21. All week one thing that had been on my heart was Jesus call to "tend His sheep," so I decided to go through John 21 where Jesus give this command to Peter. The chapter start with Peter and some other disciples fishing, they don't catch anything all night and then they see "someone" on the beach who tells them to throw their nets over the right side of the boat. We all know how the story ends, the disciples pull in nets full of fish and then Peter and John realize that someone is Jesus and Peter jumps into the water and swims to the beach because he is so overwhelmed and excited to see Jesus, that is a passion I desire! Then when Peter makes it to the beach and has breakfast with Jesus, Jesus asks Peter if he loves. It takes Peter answering that question three times before Jesus moves on from His questioning and every time Peter tells Jesus the he does love Him, Jesus tells him to feed and tend His lambs and sheep.
I couldn't help but feel like Him was asking me the same thing sitting there on the beach.
2) Thursday later morning: Since Thursday was our last day of ministry and Friday was a free day, at Thursday morning's talk Ben and Shelby challenged everyone to consider going on a summer project. I have been praying since I got home from Colorado that God would reveal what He had for me this summer. I really thought that was going to be an internship with EMi, then I didn't land that job for this summer so I though maybe God was calling me to stay in Madison for the summer with a local internship, all semester I have been filling out applications and sending emails to potential employers and nothing has panned out.
So when Shelby stated panning through project options that were still open for the summer, I was thinking a little bit about where God might be reserving my time. Then Shelby started talking about a brand new project for this summer, a project working relief in an internally displaced people's community in Haiti. Of all the projects he had introduced, obviously this one caught my attention over the others. They had mentioned this project briefly earlier in the week, but didn't really say what it was. Shelby went on to explain that GAIN, Campus Crusade's relief branch, would be running 3-3 week summer projects where students would work with people in and around Internally Displaced People's communities. Right away I knew this was an option for this summer that I had to consider, but I didn't want to jump into any decisions either. As I sat and thought about, talked the option over with God, the thing that kept coming back to my mind was the Lord's call earlier that morning, Randi, do you love? Then feed my sheep.
So I haven't heard back on my application yet, but I feel like God is calling me to spend 3 weeks at in July in Haiti! I'll let you know when it's official, but I really don't see Him closing this door. I would love it if you all would start praying that the Lord would begin preparing my heart for the experience He has for me. I know it's going to be unlike anything I've ever done, and honestly I'm a little nervous, but more than anything I can't wait to serve Him and see what He has for me!
Now we're not done yet....
3) Thursday Afternoon: That afternoon when we went out sharing, I was sharing with a girl, Shaina, from Cornell. Cornell has only had CRU on their campus for a semester, so there were only 5 people from their campus on Big Break and all week they had been sharing with us. As Shaina and I started the day I could tell she was still a little unsure of sharing her faith and still struggled a little bit with the KGP. I had her lead me through it and the plan was for her to watch me share it with a group and then have her do it on her own. Afte we shared with a group of girls from Edgewood, which went really well :), Shaina said that she was glad that the girls had asked so many questions because she had asked a lot of the same questions too. After she said that I just really felt like there was still some stuff she was struggling with so I asked her is she wanted to just sit down and talk about some of those questions with me. We slowly began to work our way through the KGP addressing any questions or hesitations she had as we got to them and 2 and a half hours she made the decision to give her life to Christ!!!
It's an understatement to say I was completely stoked! I've never seen God use me in that way in anyone's life and to really see the change in Shaina when she was able to overcomes Satan's lies in her life and truly accept the promise of John 1:12 was truly awesome. I abuse that word a lot I think, I use it too much, but this seriously was awesome.
So yeah, Big Break in a nutshell! Lot's of good stories and God moments.
1) Thursday morning: I spent some time with Jesus on the beach. I took a break from my time in Judges to hear from Christ in John 21. All week one thing that had been on my heart was Jesus call to "tend His sheep," so I decided to go through John 21 where Jesus give this command to Peter. The chapter start with Peter and some other disciples fishing, they don't catch anything all night and then they see "someone" on the beach who tells them to throw their nets over the right side of the boat. We all know how the story ends, the disciples pull in nets full of fish and then Peter and John realize that someone is Jesus and Peter jumps into the water and swims to the beach because he is so overwhelmed and excited to see Jesus, that is a passion I desire! Then when Peter makes it to the beach and has breakfast with Jesus, Jesus asks Peter if he loves. It takes Peter answering that question three times before Jesus moves on from His questioning and every time Peter tells Jesus the he does love Him, Jesus tells him to feed and tend His lambs and sheep.
I couldn't help but feel like Him was asking me the same thing sitting there on the beach.
Randi, do you love Me?I sat on the beach for a little while just spending a few more moments with Jesus and I left ready to follow Him, ready to feed His sheep.
Yes Lord of course I love You.
Randi, do you love Me?
Come on Man, of course I love you, I'm at Big Break, I'm giving you this week.
Randi, do you love me?
Yes Lord, I love you with everything, everything I am, everything I have, I love you.
Randi, feed My sheep.
2) Thursday later morning: Since Thursday was our last day of ministry and Friday was a free day, at Thursday morning's talk Ben and Shelby challenged everyone to consider going on a summer project. I have been praying since I got home from Colorado that God would reveal what He had for me this summer. I really thought that was going to be an internship with EMi, then I didn't land that job for this summer so I though maybe God was calling me to stay in Madison for the summer with a local internship, all semester I have been filling out applications and sending emails to potential employers and nothing has panned out.
So when Shelby stated panning through project options that were still open for the summer, I was thinking a little bit about where God might be reserving my time. Then Shelby started talking about a brand new project for this summer, a project working relief in an internally displaced people's community in Haiti. Of all the projects he had introduced, obviously this one caught my attention over the others. They had mentioned this project briefly earlier in the week, but didn't really say what it was. Shelby went on to explain that GAIN, Campus Crusade's relief branch, would be running 3-3 week summer projects where students would work with people in and around Internally Displaced People's communities. Right away I knew this was an option for this summer that I had to consider, but I didn't want to jump into any decisions either. As I sat and thought about, talked the option over with God, the thing that kept coming back to my mind was the Lord's call earlier that morning, Randi, do you love? Then feed my sheep.
So I haven't heard back on my application yet, but I feel like God is calling me to spend 3 weeks at in July in Haiti! I'll let you know when it's official, but I really don't see Him closing this door. I would love it if you all would start praying that the Lord would begin preparing my heart for the experience He has for me. I know it's going to be unlike anything I've ever done, and honestly I'm a little nervous, but more than anything I can't wait to serve Him and see what He has for me!
Now we're not done yet....
3) Thursday Afternoon: That afternoon when we went out sharing, I was sharing with a girl, Shaina, from Cornell. Cornell has only had CRU on their campus for a semester, so there were only 5 people from their campus on Big Break and all week they had been sharing with us. As Shaina and I started the day I could tell she was still a little unsure of sharing her faith and still struggled a little bit with the KGP. I had her lead me through it and the plan was for her to watch me share it with a group and then have her do it on her own. Afte we shared with a group of girls from Edgewood, which went really well :), Shaina said that she was glad that the girls had asked so many questions because she had asked a lot of the same questions too. After she said that I just really felt like there was still some stuff she was struggling with so I asked her is she wanted to just sit down and talk about some of those questions with me. We slowly began to work our way through the KGP addressing any questions or hesitations she had as we got to them and 2 and a half hours she made the decision to give her life to Christ!!!
It's an understatement to say I was completely stoked! I've never seen God use me in that way in anyone's life and to really see the change in Shaina when she was able to overcomes Satan's lies in her life and truly accept the promise of John 1:12 was truly awesome. I abuse that word a lot I think, I use it too much, but this seriously was awesome.
So yeah, Big Break in a nutshell! Lot's of good stories and God moments.
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