MFUGER

At the end of July I went with my youth group to the most amazing summer church camp ever invented. MFUGE. At this camp, you do all of the stuff you would normally do at a regular church camp (worship, weird activities, amazing speaker) but you also go into the most poverty stricken parts of the city you are in and do missions work. This year we went to Charleston and it was the most fantastic year I have had yet and we have gone for the past three years. We arrived in Charleston Monday afternoon and got to our dorms (we stayed at Charleston Southern) and then went to find out what track group we were in. Tracks are the group you are in to go to your ministry site. There are 5 tracks: Childrens, Games and Rec, Creative, Social, and PCY (painting, construction, and yard work). I was in the games and rec track. I will divide this blog into two sections. Track Site and My Own Life.

TRACK SITE

For my track site we went to an apartment complex and played with a bunch of little and older kids all day. It was amazing. We played basketball, hoola-hooped, and told a bible story. On Thursday God really put it on my heart to witness to one of the boys there. So, I approached him on friday and started talking with him about church and stuff like that and when I began takling about religion, he lost interest and kind of maneuvered away from me. So I was kind of upset about not being able to share Christ with him but before we left that day, the Holy Spirit comforted me and told me that I had planted a seed and what I did was all God wanted me to do for that boy so...I am at peace about that now but man am I on fire to share Jesus with others now!!!!!!!!! I will talk about this more in my next section...

MY OWN LIFE

This past schoolyear I have been struggling with alot of different things: listening to bad music, watching bad tv, not using appropriate language, and all of these things just started to get worse over time. So I was kind of looking to M-Fuge as a crutch to get back on my feet and get right with God. It worked. At M-Fuge, we had an amazing speaker and he gave amazing messages. I cried almost every night that we were there. God did so much repair in my life I did not really know how to handle it. But now I do. After we left camp within a period of three days, Satan had already tempted me three times and tried to get me to lose what I got at camp. i resisted the temptations but I got nervous. Nervous for what was to come this schoolyear. Nervous that I would fall again. But I spoke the Sunday after we got back about not letting Satan take our wings away (Isaiah 40:31) and God really showed me that I do not need to be scared. I need to rejoice in the fact that Satan is so consumed with getting me to fail that he has already tempted me alot since we have been back. But I have realized, he is doing that because he knows that God has something good planned for my llife this year and I am not going to miss it. I now see these temptations as my oppurtunities to shove Satan's life project back into his face. I now say to him,"Bring it on you ugly buttfaced liar!!! For Jesus Christ is on my side and I can do ALL things through HIM and you will not touch me with your puny temptations!!!!!!!" Can I get an AMEN??? ROFL. But seriously, camp showed me sooo much about where God wants me to go and I do not want to miss it so anytime you get the chance and anytime you think about me I beg of you that you would pray for me. Because even though I have my mind set on not sinning, it is still goin to be hard. And I also ask that you pray for Audrey too because she goes to a public school and she made the same committments I did for the most part and she is goin to have it even harder at her school. So I will have her post on this too. But be praying for both of us this upcoming year. We are eachother's accountability partners but we still need others praying for us soo... But yea my camp experience was amazing and I cannot wait to see what God has in store for my life. I love you all!!!!!!!