New Direction??

Okay so Lately God has been changing everything, I've been learning a lot! I've had my heart set on going to New York to work with the Arabic speaking refugee children there for like 2 months, but over the last couple of days I've been not quite as jazzed about it, and having just moved, I realized I don't do well in an environment where I have no human interaction when I come home from work. I very much thrive on fellowship and relationships and I don't know if I can handle leaving everyone I know and care about for long periods of time. I think I might get homesick and therefore miserable quite quickly. I finally sat down and asked God today if I was going to end up in New York, and immediately I knew that it wasn't going to happen! and now God has opened a bunch of new doors, I just have to push through the feeling of being stuck, and figure out what the heck I'm gonna do with myself. Me not leaving of course now means that I still want to get rid of all my debt this summer, and I need an apartment and roommates starting August 1st. plus now, I'm super stoked to go to Palm Springs on a business conference! Tonight has been a roller coaster of emotions, I've gone from being heart-broken to being stoked. I just need to put all of my trust in God and know that everything will be alright!

Ali

ps. please keep my sister in your prayers next Tuesday she is having surgery on her shoulder they have to re-attach the ligament to her bone!

Telephone interview

So today I had a telephone interview with a really really nice gal who works at Pioneers, which is that missions organization I'm leaning most towards. We were chatting and she asked how my family felt about me going overseas, and I mentioned that eventually I feel called to go to Morocco, she stopped me and asked if I speak Arabic and my obvious answer was no. Then she suggested I go to a place where there are muslim families that speak Arabic and get involved there. She looked online and found one place in New York City and one in Northern England. I would be able to work with children in both places as well as learn Arabic. Right now, the plan is to be in prayer about where God wants me to go. I felt for a while like it was Bolivia and that option is still on the table, but I'm thinking maybe these might be smarter options. The other thing I found out during our phone call today was about Pioneers orientation. Its 6 days long and in Orlando, so the plan is to go to the August orientation, Aug.1st-6th, so that I can have my financial situation a little more under control. Before I can begin to work with pioneers, I have to have all of my personal debt paid off, plus orientation costs 625 dollars, not including my flights to and from. So my goal for the summer is to get myself all taken care of.

In Christ,

Ali

ps. I'm so ridiculously excited! :)

New Road

Hey,

So this is just a quick update, I just wanted to let yall know that today I got in contact with my "missions coach" from rightnow.org and the site is all about connecting people who want to go with organizations that need people. She suggested I look into a couple of different organizations, but that she would give them my contact info. So when I checked my e-mail tonight, I had two e-mails from organizations. CAM international is an organization that works in a lot of Spanish speaking countries, so naturally they sent me an e-mail! :) and the other organization is called international teams and they send people to both Latin America as well as the middle east. I filled out mini questionnaires/profiles on both of their sites after checking them our you know making sure doctrine stuff matches etc.! I just thought I'd let everybody know cuz I'm super stoked, I feel like I'm finally getting the ball rolling! I'm still in prayer about timing and money issues, but I know the Lord will work it out however he deems necessary! Hope you have a wonderful day!

For His Glory,

Ali

We minus Me

Hey all,

So I know that I got a back a few weeks ago, But I'm finally getting around to posting about it! I'll try to keep up more in the future! So We Minus Me Spring Break Trip 2010 was Amazing! God was definitely in Panama City Beach, Florida! So for kind of a synopsis of what we did while we were down there, we gave out free We minus me sunglasses, and just talked to people trying to take conversations to a deeper level. We also gave out free Chick Fil-a on our first day, when we collected their information so we could send them care packages. Our second day we had shovels so we could dig a "sandcuzzi" which is a hole in the sand that you can hang in, we ended up pairing with this group of people from Tennessee and dug this huge hole we ended up hanging out with them for two day in it and got to have super rad conversations with them. Those relationships were also backed up when they called us later and said they had gotten kicked out of their hotel, and we showed up and tried to help them. Our team was awesome, the night we all finally got together in the beach house, I felt so comfortable with them, way more comfortable than I've ever even felt in the company of my sorority sisters. I think I may have scared some of them at first just because of how crazy I can get, but by the end of the week, it was hard to go home. On the beach we also did a lot of interviews for the website, we would videotape them and start out by asking questions about spring break and slowly ease our way to the deeper questions. We also prayed with people on the beach, a lot of people down there came on break to get away from stuff at home so it was cool to see them kind of open up and share with us something they were going through at home. I even got the chance to pray for this girl who had sprained her ankle and she said that she was just so surprised at how nice that was! God also did a lot in terms of personal growth for me. We were encouraged to pray and share our testimonies with people, and I also learned more about listening to God. I had never really had an experience with listening. While listening I found out that God has other plans for me than what I had originally been aiming for. I was planning on attending evangelism school in the fall, but He has now put it on my heart that I'm going to be doing mission work in the fall. Now that is exciting and scary for me at the same time. I'm still not sure exactly where he wants me, but I just know that I need to be open to all possibilities. Well thats all for now!

For God's Glory,

Ali

Reasons for a Blog

Hey All-

I hope you are finding yourselves having a wonderful day! So the reason I decided to get a Blog is that I want to be a missionary, out in the middle of the Battlefield, wherever God leads me. But that of course means that I will probably be far away from friends and family for long-ish periods of time, and I thought, what better way to tell all of you what God is up to where I end up than a Blog. I thought the title, The Road to Missions, was appropriate because no matter how old I get, or what happens I know that I will still be able to tell people about my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ! Now I'll end in a prayer, Father God, I pray that you would bless those who are reading this, I pray that they would see how you have blessed them and that you would give them strength and boldness so that they may glorify you with their whole lives. Amen.

For His Glory,

Ali

Matthew 28:16-20