Highlights of 2007; Objectives of 2008

Some of the highlights of 2007:

• I learned how to study.
• I quit my job at Lowe's, worked at Sears for like 2 1/2 months and the went back to work @ Lowes.
• I have grown Spiritually and my view of the world has grown.
• I flew on an airplane for the very first time, while at the same time went out of the country for the very first time.
• I was blessed to be a part of a team, by God's grace, that lead over 360 people to faith in Christ.
• I have learned much about the current church culture in western society (at least baptists of the south)
• I think I learned how to prepare efficiently for teaching a small group of middle school boys.
• I have learned in some ways to work outside my introversion; however, at a great cost of energy.
• I was able to see two of my students lead children in Maine to faith in Christ.
• I have come to clarity that I don't have to know God's plan exactly. I just have to, in faith, follow and be willing to risk it all for the glory and salvation of Christ.
• I have a deeper appreciation of the magnitude of how sin really is viewed by God... (thanks to Leviticus and personal experience)
• I lead a group of college students to have a small caring ministry at a local nursing home.
• I learned how to pray more and with a greater biblical understanding.
• I have a biblical basis for worship, and soon to be- Disciple making.
• I have had the opportunity to view the struggles of church life in the local context.
• I have lost friends, with sadness, but have gained new ones.

Goals for 2008:

• To continue to pray that God would do utterly disproportionately more to than I could do on my own.
• To become so dependent upon God's word that if it were to falter I would fall flat on my face.
• To pray that God would continue to saturate my heart for the people i would with, go to school with, and the people I serve with that I might have opportunity to share the gospel with the lost and see that the great commission is understood.
• To move from my Kadesh Barnea and risk it all in obedience for the glory and salvation of Christ.
• To make it through school this last semester.
• To make good on my notes.
  
• Reproduce myself in such a way that the ministry that I have begun here will not end when I leave.
• Mentor a few young men.
• Instill, by the grace of God, the immense value and practicality of God's Word into the hearts and minds of my Sunday School.
  
• To work M-Fuge this summer.
• To acquire the nursing job God would appoint me to in the fall.
• To see where God wants me, if He desires, for me to start school in the fall.