STN Happenings....

I know I've been super slow at making any progress on this blog, but who would have thought -- I'm crazy busy! So far we have barely scratched the surface with "busyness" and I'm swamped. So let me do a quick catch up on my time here, my job here and my future here.

So I got here and it was time to say goodbye before I could even manage a hello. I flew back a few days early to be bale to catch some quality time with Tiffany and send her off to Sri Lanka. Hard? Beyond! Once Tiff left it was time to take a moment and realize what has happened in my life for the last four months. The three month internship was crazy, the one month in the Middle East was life changing and now I'm back here for at least a year commitment. So with the few days I had before the SLS (Surfer's Leadership School) started up. God had me and had me tight and I just sat and listened, it was good for me - tough but good!

After a few days of process/silent/solo/thinking it was time to embrace that STN was now filling with new faces and more people to meet. We have so many new interns and they are all ready to see what STN is all about. Be praying for them for sure, pray that they are sponges and are ready to seek our Father. SLS is epic and I am going to be stretched in so many directions. We are going through two books, multiple packets, loads of teachings, seminars, and outreaches. We will do teachings ourselves to the interns, plan days within our SLS group and have a two week adventure trip. So without rambling too much about that SLS will be amazing and hard.. amazingly hard!

Once I started to get settled in it was New Years! New Years was epic. We headed over to the Diamond Head area and went to the salt water pools after a little dinner adventure. This was the first New Years in a long time that I wasn't home for the swim and I was not super happy about it but this trumps it all by far! It was so much fun. A few of us just clustered together and traveled to these salt water pools. They were epic, it was dark, big surf, scary wall walking and swimming! Good times watching the fire works and stars and realizing the blessings I am poured over with.

Okay so now that you get that SLS is going to rock my socks and that this year is going to be fully committed to see God's guidance. Let me tell you a little about my job here. So I am working in the media department. Within the media department it is my job to .. guess what... launch our blog! Could you think of a better job? Ha! I think not. So keep your eyes out for our new blog. I'll for sure be sending a link on this to make sure you guys get to follow our STN happening as well. I will also be doing a newsletter that is more directed to needs, prayers and what not soon. The newsletter will be more straight forward and less wordy with what I am up to and more of what I am "doing". So I'm stoked again for that. For the followers that want more of a direct message.

And here is a little story to end the post with.

 

So I'm not even sure how to begin explaining how I have a car, other than my best friend of all times (Tiff + family) blessed me with a car. Straight up.. Merry Christmas blessed me. I honestly can't see it as my car yet so until I do ... it won't sink all the way in. But anyways that's not the point. The point is this (in short story terms). We were in the car. The car got a flat. We were at the airport. We were in the median, trying not to get squished. 

 

( this was our view for two hours....)

Renee ran her friend to the gate. We were stuck. We didn't have a spare. We called the tow truck. We waited. For two hours. The wrong truck came. We waited for the next one. We got picked up. He was Egyptian. We spoke Arabic. We haggled. We got it cheaper. The next morning we got a new tire. It was cheap. We asked for a spare. They gave it to us for free. Our car has new shoes now and we are all happy. 

So with the shortest way of telling you all of the crazy story that happened the other night. God is so good, we were blessed over and over again that night. If the tire would have blown anywhere else it would have been bad news. The guy totally hooked us up with the fee and Renee and I had a blast doing it all.

I feel as if there is way more to tell since well I haven't been up to date on this at all but non of it really matters as long as you understand this.

Being here is amazing, it's impossible, it's wonderful, it's challenging and it's most of all a blessing. I know that God has me here for a reason and I am committed and excited to search that reason out. I am enjoying being in community because it stretches me in ways that I never imagines, I love working with people and serving our community and I am beyond overwhelmed with the job of going international with part of my year here. So join me in prayer that God will continue to rock my world and show me things according to his path.

Jeremiah 33:3 "Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know."

This is my verse for the year.