Adventures....

Uhhh...well my friend Dominique, Rob, and I went on an adventure last night...it was very random and very spur of the moment...but it was fun and had meaning :D

So here are some pictures of what we did....

This is something that I have been thinking about for a while...I wanted to get something that showed how much I have grown this year just in coming to school...finishing school...moving down here on my own and doing what God is calling me to do...I got it on my foot because HE is my hands and feet...HE is carrying me wherever I go and I want to remind myself of that! So whenever I look down I'll remember how much I grew in 2007 - 2008 and that HE is always my hands and feet!!! (Sorry mom and dad if this makes you upset that I got another tattoo with out talking to you about it...but hopefully the explanation of it explains why I got it)

Rob got his ear gaged up one more size to a 6 gage! 

Dom got her nose pierced and her ear pierced but I didn't send the ear one to my email...so you just get the nose piercing one!!!

Email....

I received this email a couple days ago.... 

Doug,

My name is Steven Schultheis, I work for Youth for Christ Ministries of Sacramento.  While at Youth Specialties' National Youth Worker's Convention in Sacramento, I passed by y'all's booth in the exhibit hall and was given the Contrary Motion CD.

Let me sidestep that storyline and introduce another.  My role with Youth for Christ involves media (video, web and print design).  A couple days before the Convention, one of our staff approached me to create a video project for his fundraiser dinner.  By choice, we almost exclusively use stock music (such as Music Bakery or Digital Juice or Quicktracks) as background music.  It's a lot cleaner than having to find out copyright owner and ask permission.  It's also often easier to find music that fits the length I need, with enough space to put interviews without the interviews and song lyrics stepping on each other.

Long story shorter, the song 'Identity' sung by Drew Eales and Kym France grabbed my attention.  As I listen to the lyrics, I hear that it's talking about ultimately finding our identity, our belonging, our purpose, in God.  As I listen to the rest of the song, I start seeing the video project in my head.  There are places for teen interviews and places for shots of what happens around the teen center.  The song itself is 'mild' enough for the donor base who will be at the dinner yet 'hard and fast' enough that it also represents the teens in it.

And so I ask for y'all's permission to use the song in our video project.  The video will be one part of a fundraiser dinner for Youth for Christ, a non-profit organization, to help raise awareness of and money for one of our community Teen Centers.  It will not be sold or distributed.  I will key the song title, artists and CD name in the corner of the screen during the middle of the video.

Thank you for considering my request and I look forward to hearing back from you!

Steven Schultheis

Needless to say Drew and I both agreed...I emailed Steven and thanked him first of all secondly I asked him to send us copies of the finished project!!! I will try to put it on my computer and post it up! We (Drew and I) are beyond blessed by this and are truly blown away that they chose our song to use...We give all glory and honor to God...this song would not exist with out Him putting the words and idea's in our hearts, mouths, and hands! 

mmmm...food...

So my friend Alli and I went to Publix which is the food stored down here....I needed to get some groceries and so did she so we were walking by the meet section cuz I need beef and chicken...I saw lamb chops and got really excited....So I bought them....I cooked us an amazing dinner...I took pictures for all of you to see and be jealous HAHAHA :D

 

BEAUTY IN A PAN

Lamb Chops, green beans, and mashed potatoes MMMMMM

"HELLO MY NAME IS ALLI"

Me and Alli before we enjoyed our dinner!

Alli couldn't decided which one she wanted...haha

And here is what we got to enjoy :D 

"The Foyer"

This are some pictures from the concert that I played for! I opened up for my good friend Josh Bramos' Band! 

(All pictures by one of our friends Amy Horn)

Crazy life this is...

To be honest its been a little crazy these past few weeks.

I miss home like crazy, family, friends....I love all of you!

I have been driving to Plantation FL pretty much everyday this week. BLAH but its good!

I'm singing on the worship team at Victory Life in Plantation we have practice on Wednesday, plus we play volleyball on Tuesday nights, plus I have to drive out there twice on Sunday...once for Sunday morning service which I only sing at...then the second time for college group that night where I play guitar and sing...CRAZY

I've been leading Woman's Bible study on Thursday nights at Calvary Chapel Fort Lauderdale for about 200 woman! It's incredible the way they worship and love Jesus...truly a blessing for me to be able to share that time with them!

I've had a lot of opportunities with music lately....

1. Saturday I sang the National Anthem at a volleyball tournament called DigNPig there were probably 500-700 people there :) they recorded it and I'm supposed to be getting a copy of it...hopefully I'll be able to post it up here... :D

2. Woman's Bible study...plus this girl Dana called me and she is supposed to do a song at the end of October at Woman's Bible study so I'm helping her with that...just playing guitar and doing some background vocal stuff!

3. Victory Life...I'm singing a lot there...I'm just glad to be plugged in somewhere serving! 

4. I'm opening up for my friend Josh Bramos' Band tonight at Victory Life we are doing this thing called "The Foyer" its like a coffee house type atmosphere...So I have that tonight....

God is just so good...its been a rough past week with just wanting to come home and see my family, my friends, my niece who I haven't met yet, I guess I was just a little home sick this week!

It's getting better!

The sun keeps rising and bringing beautiful sunrise's in my life....each new day is a new sunrise :D

LOVE YOU ALL!

I'll be posting some more pictures of stuff that has gone on in the past couple weeks I just dont have time right now!