Paramedic

Hi All,

I want to thank you for your prayers! We have prayed for this for a long time and here I am! The Lord has brought me this far - I am amazed. So if I could ask you to continue to pray because I start paramedic TOMORROW! I'm so nervous and so excited. I need God's grace, wisdom and understanding. There is so so so much already and I need help, God's help to make it. Prayers would be great.

If you could also pray for physical strength. I started Emergency Rescue. AND there are labs which are we actually practice the rescues. Including extrication, confined spaces rescue(which I really really don't want to do), rope rescue and a full on rescue simulation out on a local mountain. Needless to say this body is not what it used to be during Search and Rescue and Fire Explorers. So if you could pray for strength, agility and endurance; I would very much appreciated!

Thank you so much for your prayers and support. I love you and miss you all so much!

Blessings!

-In Him

Hi Y'all

Hi all!

I just wanted put out a quick post to you all. Thank you so much for your prayers for these camps they were amazing and God did a work. We had about 140 some odd kids for Jr. High camp and we had a limit of 160 kids for high school but I think we went over about 6 kids and God did a great work in ALL of them. Thank you again for your prayers.

Summer school is almost done - Thursday, I CAN NOT WAIT to be DONE!!! And I will start my Paramedic classes, thank the Lord in the end of September. The paramedic course itself is a year long; fall through spring with summer for the internship. Prayers for that would be great.

But also Em and I are going to come for a little bit I believe next week sometime so hopefully I'll get to see you all. Thank you again for all your prayers. When I was working at the camp and I needed wisdom and strength I really felt confident because I knew you all were praying. May the Lord bless you!

I miss y'all!

- In Him

A Guest Blogger

I have my daughter's permission to be a guest blogger today!
Hmmmmm....what to say?! So many thoughts come to mind. ;~)

Just kidding...She is off to Junior High Camp as medic. (She survived High School Camp, thanks to the Lord, your prayers, and with a little help from coffee and energy drinks! She learned, and gleaned, and grew!)

Now she is off for another week but this time just as the medic. She covets your prayers for wisdom and discernment. This camp brings some campers (kids) with some serious pre-existing conditions. Also, she has to drive back from the coast to attend classes on Tuesday, so prayers for safety on her drive back and forth, would be appreciated too. Em is going with her as a counselor.

So, Father, I pray, in Jesus name, for these two that Your power and anointing would be upon them. I pray that they would be sensitive to Your Holy Spirit and His leading. Please give them wisdom beyond their years of experience. Remind them of Your faithfulness to equip them with everything that they would have need of during this camp. Please give them insight, discernment and word-of-knowledge understanding. May they lead all whom they come in contact with a little closer to the One and Only, Jesus - who brings life and life abundantly. May their words and hands be seasoned with Life and grace and healing.

Father, I pray that You would bind the strongman, that his plans and devices against this camp would come to no avail and totally be null and void. May Your name be glorified in all that is done and said. May You guide and direct the leadership and may they be willing to change directions and to follow Your leading immediately and without hesitation. Please give wisdom in abundance to the counselors and medic. May You be Lord of this camp and the games and the conversations. May the rules be followed and campers realize that all Your percepts and 'rules' are for their protection and for their good. May they come to know You deeper and this camp give them solid footing to grow on. For those that don't know you yet as the Lord and Savior - may each one be wooed by the Holy Spirit and may they yield to Your love and give their life to You. Bring word-of-knowledge preaching and teaching and may the prophetic gift be in abundance. Have Your way in this camp. May they know Your Power and Might and Holiness and great great Love for each one of them! In Jesus name, AMEN!

Thanks for letting me pray and give an update. I can't guarantee an update after they get back because school and 12 hour shifts in the ER will be waiting. (so any prayers for understanding -especially in ALGEBRA - would be so appreciated!)

Love to you all!

Pray for High School Camp

Hi Guys,

Hope your summer is going great! It is amazing down here and 100 degrees and I'm loving IT! So tomorrow I am off to counsel high school camp with the church - I'm really excited for a week of Jesus, crazy fun and no sleep!

'Tis will be fun and I am asking for your prayers for myself and for the rest of the counselors; that the Lord would grant us wisdom and discernment and energy to keep up with these young wipper-snappers! ;) But also for the kids, we have some returning kids who were once on fire and in love with their Lord Jesus but now are suicidal. Pray that this camp will be a lasting impression and the the love of Jesus would show and be shown to these kids. And that I would have patience, and understanding. That the counselors would have understanding with each other and that we would meld together and be labors in His name.

Amazing things do happen at camp, always God is good. But the enemy will surely be out to discourage that...Lord I just bind the enemy's works in Jesus name and that You would be glorified. Not just at camp, but in the lives of the kids two months after camp, a year after camp, two years and 10 years down the road their lives would truly just show You Jesus! I pray for us, Lord the counselors - this next week we will be demanded of to a new extent that can not be fulfilled humanly. Jesus I ask for a supernatural power - fill us; with strength, patience, discernment, wisdom and love, and You are love. Fill us overflowing with You.

Please keep us all safe on the trip up, may we have some crazy fun, but protect us and keep us safe - as we enjoy fellowship, the worship, the food, the Word and YOU! I thank you that You are a good God and Father and You want what is best for us; be Jesus of this trip and be the Lord over my mouth!

I praise You and I love you Jesus. Thank you for my brothers and sister that pray with me and support me - two or three are gathered in Your name, You are here with us! Thank you Jesus. We love You and praise You, In Jesus name. Amen!

Praise, Praise, Praise!

Praise Jesus!  I just got a call from the head instructor of the Paramedic Program and I made it in!!!   Thank you sooo much for your prayers! I'm sure I'll ask you for many more to make it through.  But for now praise the LORD!  I start in the Fall.  I'll keep y'all updated!  

Love you all! 

- In Him 

Co-Labors

Hi there All!

So I finished my first year at school down here - can you believe it I've been gone almost a year now. And I made it with good grades, thanks to help, study partners, hard work, prayer, prayer, prayer and more prayer! ;D Thank you so much for praying. But once again, and probably not for the last time I'm going to ask for more prayers. Monday I have my interview for the Paramedic Program. Part of it is an oral interview and the other part is patient assessment. They give you a scenario and you have to display your BLS (Basic Life Support) skills. And I have to say this is truly one place I fall very short on: is patient assessment. I really, really have a hard time with it while I was in EMT school - my instructors even worked with me because I struggled so much with it.

So please I ask for your prayers for this interview and that God's will would be done.

And if I get in that the glory would go to Him, and if I fail and don't get that He would prepare my heart for that devastation.

But also, that He would continue to prepare a way for me to go to Africa. That I would find a group or people to go with and stay with and that doors would begin to open up again.

Thank you soooo much for your prayers, love and support. I don't know how I would have made it this far with out you all! Paul said that you are co-labors with me. My hands may touch those in Africa but it will have been your bended knees that got me there, and by that you reward is that of a co-laborer. I love you and miss you all so much! I'll be back up after the interview hopefully I'll get to see you all again. I'm hoping to stop by Rod's class and see who is there.

Well, good night and thank you again. May the Lord richly bless you!

- In Him

Pray like crazy...

Hi There! 

Life has been sooo busy and crazy.  I am almost done with my first year of college down here in Oregon.  I am terrified and relieved.  Three more weeks.  Four more weeks and I'll be home for a bit, for that I am super stoked but before I get to go home, I have to do finals.  What is with that? ;) The Lord has given me so much and brought me this far with some amazing stories: 

The very fact that I've moved here of all places the Lord had to have ordained that.  

All the doors that have been open along the way, countless really. 

I had to take a class that required one of the books out of a six set required for the Paramedic program itself, so instead of buying the same book twice, in hopes that I would eventually be in the program I bought the set, as suggested by my advisor (who also teaches the paramedic classes)   Well, recently my advisor said that they were thinking about buying a new set.  I was like "what?!" But he said that either I would be able to exchange my old set for the new one, the company would but back the old set, or the provider of the books would give me the new set for FREE!  Is God good?! 

And God even provided a scholarship! Tomorrow night Emily and I are going to the award ceremony.  God gave me a scholarship for next year that will pay a good chunk of expenses. Praise Him and thank you to the Coeta and Donald Baker Endowed Scholarship Foundation! 

However, there are some major things that I need prayer for:

I still need to get into the Paramedic program!!!!  Here is the issue with that:  you can only have a maximum of 5 classes to complete, including your paramedic at the time you apply.   (Which I will be applying very shortly, the deadline is June 15) Right now I have 6.  Here are a couple things to pray about; I either have to....

Test out of Computer Science 120, which I hear is not too hard, the test is $50 every try.  and/or

Ask the math teacher if he will take me into math 65 so pray for favor. (skip math 60)

and/or

See if I can take math 60 and 65 over the summer, but this will still put me at 6 classes to complete unless I can test out of CS120.  

But...I just re-tested with my last chance on Thursday with a fever and the flu, and today I just found out that they changed the cut-off-scores Friday, which may have been why I couldn't register this weekend, because I am no longer eligible for Math 60, which would drop me to Math 20, which would disqualify me from the Paramedic program, which would also make me ineligible for the scholarship as well.  *sigh* I'm a little nervous....I really don't know how this is going to work, how the Lord will make this fly, but...I am really at a loss - I need you guys to pray, pray like crazy.  Thank you for your love, and support....I don't know where I would be without you all! 

Dear Lord, I come before you now in Jesus name.  I want to lift up my brothers and my sisters that have warred on my behalf.  I thank you for them, the gift, the enjoyment and the treasure I have in them.  Lord, I don't know where I would be with out my family.  Thank you Jesus, thank you for my family, I pray that you would bless them today, sing over them with Your joy, be their rock, and may they feel Your presence there, with them so strongly.   Thank you Jesus, I praise You for You are good.  In Jesus name, Amen! 

Love you all!