And so it begins...Week one!

Week one at YWAM Charlotte has been such an adventure! I love each and every person here! Everyone is so unique and the house is always full of singing, guitar, laughter, games, and talking. The front porch is full of people sitting on the swing, talking and laughing. The house itself is amazing, it's huge and historic. It is full of places to it and talk with God, talk with a friend, talk with a loved one back home. I am so happy to be here getting to know everyone better, and more importantly getting to know my beautiful savior even better.

A typical day for me is busy and full of laughter and learning. 7 am starts the day with breakfast, where I greet Emily with a happy "Guten Morgen!!" Next we walk down the block to a local church where we spend an hour of quiet time with the Lord, then, we all file into the classroom for a few hours of lecture. Each week we have a speaker who comes in teaching us on a certain topic. This week we had Dave Beuhring. He was phenomenal, I'll post some of my notes later on. Around 11am we have a break to stretch and eat a snack, then another hour of lecture. After we're done with classroom time for the day we walk back to the house for some lunch prepared by the beautiful Katie Roeger. After lunch we all have assigned "Productive Creativity" which means we fellowship with each other while doing chores. It took some getting used to, but thus far I enjoy that. Then at 5:30 we have dinner. After dinner depending on the night we either have free time, academic/homework time, on Wednesday nights we either have our children's ministry called Front Porch, or local evangelism, on Thursday nights we have a worship service at a local church called "Reset". And then lights out is at 10:00pm! And by that time, I am SO ready to climb into middle bunk, turn on my fan, and go to sleep :)

Life here is so fun. I love it. God is moving in huge ways, and I am so excited to continue to keep you all updated.

I love you all!!

God is Love,
Jessi

Sing to the Lord

Found in Your hands, fullness of joy
Every fear suddenly wiped away here in Your presence

All of my gains now fade away

Every crown no longer on display, here in Your presence

Heaven in trembling in awe of Your wonders
the kings and their kingdom are standing amazed

Here in Your presence, we are undone
Here in Your presence, Heaven and Earth become one
Here in Your presence, all things are new
Here in Your presence, everything bows before You

Wonderful, beautiful, glorious, matchless in every way
Wonderful, beautiful, glorious, matchless in every way

Here in Your presence, we are undone
Here in Your presence, Heaven and Earth become one
Here in Your presence, all things are new
Here in Your presence, everything bows before You

I can tell that we are gonna be friends....

God is awesome.
I am always in awe of the way he works things out.

Time out: I am also in awe of His grace. I could never do something that would make Him not love me...I am a wretched, unworthy sinner...and He still forgives and offers love and grace...beautiful.

Back to my original thought.... :)

I love how God provides and works things out! I have been LOVING getting to know my friends in Monroe. We are SO much alike. God brought us all together to be amazing friends...that will soon turn into family.

SO excited. SO ready to be there!

On another side(ish) note, thank you to everyone who has donated financially to me. God will bless your offerings :)

I have 25 days until I leave.
I love you all.

God is love,
Jessi

Give me faith to be strong, Father I am so weak...

All too often I make an attempt to steal control away from God.

I think I am able to handle this world on my own.

I am so thankful for my forgiving and gracious Father. He holds me close when I collapse from lack of strength and tells me He loves me more than anything in the world. He offers me more grace than I deserve.

He picks me up, brushes the dirt off, and takes me back. He always takes me back, He always loves.

Thank you.

I leave in 44 days. Each day that passes the excitement inside me grows more and more. I am so ready to see God move in huge ways. I am so excited to meet my class, the people I will spend six months with.

God is amazing. I could never live without Him. I cannot imagine life without Him.

I am so grateful.

God is love,

Jessi

2 months!

I have two months to the day I leave.

I ask for continued prayers.
You all mean SO much to me :)

God is love,
Jessi

Oh, how time flies.

June has come and gone and I havent written about much of anything since I got accepted to YWAM Charlotte.

For the past 3 weeks I've been working at North Shore doing camps mon-thursday.
God has blessed me so much with this opportunity. The kids keep me smiling, laughing, and always learning (and they help me develop my patience haha)

God will never cease to amaze me with his goodness, grace, and blessings. He is so good to me.

I leave for North Carolina in just about 2 months.
I am nervous.
I am SO excited.
I am ready.

God is Love,
Jessi

Jehovah Jireh

God never ceases to amaze me with his blessings!!!

I have been accepted to YWAM Charlotte! I am so excited to start my life long journey of serving God. It is insane how everything worked out perfectly. My only concern was how I was going to pay for it...God provided it. amazing.

I had been stressing out a little bit with what I was going to do with my summer. I wanted to serve God and be kept busy. I prayed about it.

God provided me with a job working at a local ministry here for the whole summer with my youth leader and a friend.
I am so in awe with how God worked everything out perfectly.

Jehovah Jireh.
"Our God Provides"

God is Love,
Jessi