A Life Changing Adventure

Today, one of my bestest friends and roommate, left for Alaska. She is going to be gone for 9 days to a state that is not in the continental U.S. She is going over Spring Break. The time that college students usually take to go to the beach or Mexico and do who knows what. Instead, my roommate is using her Spring Break to go and minister to people in -7 degree weather! She's going to the extreme opposite of the beach, getting on planes (and she doesn't really like to fly), putting on layers upon layers of clothes, riding snowmobiles, ministering at a battered woman's shelter, helping Iditarod racers and ministering to them, giving out hot chocolate, and eating reindeer hot-dogs! Most importantly, she is ministering to people who need God. She is showing them His love and letting them know the grace that only He gives. She is obeying our God, who wants her to be there. She is furthering His kingdom. She is being a servant of Christ. 

I am so excited beyond so many points that she gets to go do this. Serving God on the mission field is one of the best things you can do! It opens your eyes to so much more and makes you aware of what is around you every day. It allows us to be obedient to what Christ has called us to do. It takes us out of our comfort zones and puts us in places we need to be, in places where God can teach us and mold us to be more like Him. To share. To teach. To love.

But don't forget that you don't have to go to Alaska to be used by God. You don't have to get out of the states if you don't want to or the country. But you just need to look at those around you and start loving them. The rest will fall into place. Listen to God when He speaks and obey when He tells you something, obey right then! Don't wait for a "better" time, because that time may never come. God's timing is the best for everyone, even when we may not think that. 

Please be praying for the Team that is going to Alaska that includes my roommate. Two of my other good friends are also going. These girls are the greatest and just love people. I thank God for them and them wanting to use their Spring Break to minister to people that live over 2,000 miles away from them. Pray for safe travels for the team as they depart from Birmingham, Alabama to Dallas, Texas. From there they go to Seattle, Washington and then Anchorage, Alaska. They will arrive there late tonight, then tomorrow board their last plane to Nome, Alaska where they will be for a week. They are set to return on the 19th.

Please pray for the health and wellness of the team. That they will be healthy and alert on the way and when they get there. Pray that they will adjust well to the environment that is much different from that here in Alabama. 

Please pray for the people that they will be ministering to. The locals on the Reservation and the people who are there for the Iditarod. Pray that they will have open hearts and spirits and become friends with the team. Pray that God will start to soften their hearts for what He wants them to know. Pray that they will see the Light that is Christ and forever be changed. 


If you think of it, please pass this major prayer request on to anyone you talk to. All the prayers will be much appreciated from me and especially from the team. 


Thank you!! 
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"Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, 'Whom shall I send? And who will go for Us?' And I said, 'Here am I. Send me!'"

-- Isaiah 6:8

"Serve wholeheartedly, as if you were serving the Lord, not men...Finally, be strong in the Lord and in His mighty power." 

-- Ephesians 6:7,10

"Each one should use whatever gift he has received to serve others, faithfully administering God's grace in it's various forms. If anyone speaks, he should do it as one speaking the very words of God. If anyone serves, he should do it with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To Him be the Glory and the Power for ever and ever. Amen."

-- 1 Peter 4:10-11