Breakthrough, Internship, Oral Report

hey guys! sorry for the really really long delay. Things have been
really hectic around here!!

First of all Breakthrough was last week. The area by the green picnic
table was tranformed into a Valentine's Day paradise, formally known as
Lover's Lane. Me, Belinda, and Kirsty all dressed up as fairies and
that's how was ran our station for the night. Ya i"m sure you can all
imagine me prancing around in a fairy outfit....believe me, i did my fair
share of prancing!!! As for the theme of the evening, it was CLUE. The
CLUE characters were (yes, i know for most of you this will mean
nothing, but for those of you that know these people, you'll laugh):
Ray-Prof. Plum
Vanessa-Ms. Scarlett
Cat-Mrs.Peacock
Laura-Mrs.White
Cullen-Col.Mustard
Tim-Mr.Green
In the script that Vicki wrote, Vanessa had to flirt with Ray. That was
entertiaing! I'm sure all you people from last semester are killing
yourselves laughing at that!! And I got it all on video!! Tehehehe! So ya
there was about 120 kids that came that night and Vicki gave a really
good message about how we can get distracted by little things in life
and we loose focus on what really matters....CHRIST!!! Hmmm, that kinda
sounds familiar, trust me, I've had my fair share of distractions (just
ask Stacey, Ruthie and Nikki!!)

My next concern after Breakthrough was looking into a possible
internship @ my church here in New Zealand. A few of you know about this
already, and I'm sorry that i didn't post this sooner, but i didn't want
people thinking "oh Earlene's leaving us for good!! She'll never come back
to Canada!!" Well that's not up to me to decide, that's God's business
and whatever He says goes. But ya I've been thinking about what I'd do
after Capers and I realized that I"m not in Uni, i don't have a solid
job that I can just jump right back into when i go home, plus my church
back home (Spalding Gospel Chapel...i mean Crossroads Bible Church)
just got a new youth pastor and i wouldn't want to "invade" their ministry
there, so what's there for me to do back home? I'm sure some of you are
already thinking "you can come see me! don't you love me anymore?" Well
of course i do! I'm a compulsive Feeler! of course I love you! It's
just that I thought i'd look into maybe staying here and seeing if there's
any chance for ministry work here. And so in the search for that i came
across an opportunity to be a youth intern @ Bridges (my church down
here). I've had a few meetings with Pastor Murray and this week he'll be
talking about me in his meeting with the church elders. So far things
are looking good. Now before all of you think I've left you for good, i
want you to know that if God does want me to stay here for another
year, (that's how long the internship would be) I want you to know that a
year goes by fast. I mean I've alreay been here 8 months already! 8
months! See, the time goes by fast! Plus if everything works out i want to
go home for Christmas for a few weeks. oh and if you want to get me a
Christmas present I think a good idea would be to just give my dad money
and then once everything is added up, hopefully it'll be enough for a
laptop!! ok, i'm kidding, but it was worth a shot right?! :)

Well ok the rest of my time has been spent working on my Oral report on
"God's Will". I thought it seemed like a fitting subject because i
really don't know what God wants me to do. But I just have trust in Him and
everything else will just come together. "Seek first the kingdom of God
and His righteousness and all these things will be given to you" Thanks
Ate Happy for reminding me of that fact :) That really helped and
encouraged me :)

Other than those 3 things, I've been just hanging out, getting a tan,
playing soccer and just having a good time learning about God. Oh and
there's a big soccer tournament on Saturday...it's an all day thing. I'M
GOING TO DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so if you don't hear from me again, I died
playing soccer.