t-shirts

Hey there! so I am going to be selling T-shirts as a fundraiser for my upcoming trip to Romania!!! I am very excited about these. They are Kelly Green and they say "look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world"

they are $17 so if you would like one please let me know.
if you live at Grace or go to Grace then I can just give it to you by hand.
if not, and you would like one, please give me your address.

these shirts are PRE-ORDER/PRE-PAY shirts.
if you are going to write a check, please make it out to me because once i have collected all the money, i will be writing one check to the shirt people.

thank you so much for support.

i am also hoping to get my letters sent out this week!!

have a great day!!

amanda

stoked!

I get to go back.

Back in April I sent Heart to Heart a message asking about an internship for next summer. I got a reply with some questions I needed to answer before I could move on with the process. Well, I got my answers finished in the middle of the summer (I had to really think about my answers). Last week I got the reply from Heart to Heart saying that they have accepted me as a summer intern for Summer 2010. =] I am so very excited about this opportunity. I am excited to see where God takes me through this year and I am even more excited to see how God will provide for this ministry. God has amazing ways of providing funds and knowledge and love and I know that I am not going to be disappointed as long as I keep Him at the very center of it all!! My tenative dates for my trip are May 24- Aug 24 of next summer (2010). They are supposed to be sending me out a packet of information explaining things like cost and stuff sometime very soon. I am very excited and as soon as I get this information I am looking forward to sharing it all with you. I might need some help on some fundraisers... so if you are interested in helping let me know.

Talk to you soon my friends. I just wanted you to be able to share in my joy.

Amanda

Rough Stuff

So as much as I want to go back to Romania this summer, I am not going to be able to. I just do not have the resources to raise the money to go back. My heart aches and longs to go back and do ministry there. Not a day goes by that I do not think of my beautiful girls of Alexandria. We had our missions conference at school recently and I thought maybe God might show me a way that I could go this summer. I did not find that answer, but I did find many others. As I was searching and praying for the missionaries and the countries in the prayer room, I found that Romania was heavy on my heart. Shocker there, right. But my girls in Alexandria were all I could think of. Even as I passed through all of the other countries, I could think of nothing more than going back to my beloved Romanians. Through that week, God also showed me how much of a relational ministry person I am. I am not all about going and getting up in people's faces to share Jesus with them. I am about forming the relationships and letting Jesus shine through my relationships. Because I realized this, I know why God doesn't want me to go back to Romania this summer. I have so many things going on in my life that are hindering my from God right now. So many things are getting in my way, but I am done. I don't want it to be that way. I am sick of doing things for me. As selfish as I am in wanting to go back to Romania this summer, I know that I can't because in order for me to be able to go back with a servants heart I need to stop making this about me. It has never been about me. It never will be about me. So as I close out, I have not only continued to be encouraged by the verse that led me to Romania (Isaiah 1:17 - Learn to do good. Seek justice. Help the oppressed. Defend the cause of orphans. Fight for the rights of widows. ) I have also been encouraged by this verse as well (James 1:27- Religion that God our father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.) I need to get my relationship with God straightened out before I can go back. But I will go back. I am so determined. 

Have a great night.

Amanda