i am a few days into thanksgiving break.
i have expired tags on my car (oops) so i can’t drive and the house to myself so i figure i have time to write up a nice update about my life.

the semester is finally progressing better. there was a good chunk of time where i was completley depressed. i wasn’t doing well in my classes. i was certain i was going to fail and be forced to remain at johnson a little bit longer. i didn’t feel i was making friends outside of my roomate. and since i had a taste of the “real world” i started missing it and that freedom.

thankfully things are smoothing out.

i do have some crazy news. i am 98% sure i am moving to Charlotte after i graduate to work with lifepointe christian church. why am i not 100%? i’m going to visit after Christmas break to make sure that’s where i’m supposed to be.

thinking back on how i got to this point gives me major goosebumps. check out my “fork in the road” post to see a glimpse of God’s preparation. i’ll return to this in a moment.

near the end of labor day weekend i was down in jbc’s coffee kiosk working. standing nearby was nathan mcconnagghay (nathan graduated from jbc a couple of years ago). we ended up talking about life and he told me a lot about his ministry at lifepointe church. there he leads worship and is the creative arts director. the more he explained about his ministry (the team he wants to put together, the projects he wants to do, etc) the more i wanted to come out there and join in this work. but i didn’t want to ask because i wasn’t sure if that’s what God wanted for me at all. i didn’t want to ask because i was slightly envious. (little did i know nathan was wanting to ask me to come out but he, too, wasn’t sure)

as the semester progressed i did research to see what kind of creative art ministry jobs there are. but my research didn’t prove very fruitful. there was about a week where things looked promising. i was talking with a guy who runs an artist inititative in paris and i was also talking with two churches in seattle who were enthusiastic. i was going to walk through these doors as long as one stayed open. they all shut rather quickly as the leadership stopped responding.

since labor day weekend i have talked with nathan a lot about his ministry. one night, about two weeks ago, while talking with him i was doing some research. in a moment of disappointment i said to him, “don’t be surprised if someday down the road i say, ‘nathan can i be your intern?’” to which he responded, “you should! that’d be awesome!… let me talk to blake (his partner in crime in the ministry)” the next morning i got an email from blake the rocked my world.

he said that if i come out for a year to get experience i could be incharge of their art team and i could also teach art classes at an art academy he’s starting. he also threw out a hypathetical: after the year’s internship i could help open and run a non-profit coffee shop/art gallery in their community center. this is where the “fork in the road” gives me goosebumps.

right then i wanted to say I’M GAME! but i wanted to make sure it was what God wanted. so as i said before, i’m waiting till i visit after Christmas break to be 100%.

i will have to fundraise but i’m excited about that part and to see God move in huge ways in His provision.

well that’s where i will leave off. :]