This is the Stuff.

Hello all!

Hoping ya'll are having a wonderful Wednesday afternoon!  I realized today that I haven't updated my blog for about a week and a half, but a lot has happened since the last update!

Our theme last week was Sucks to Suck.  The vision behind that was what to do when evangelism doesn't go well, and no relying on our own strengths to determine whether or not we were successful during our outreach efforts.  The only part we can do is plant the seed and hope that the person receives what we have said and accept it into their life.  During last week many of us came down with colds, mono...the list goes on forever.  With that being said, I can speak for myself and many others who experienced a lot of troubles last week with evangelism.  This week though, it is progressively getting better and our health is coming back!

This week the theme is Talk to Me relating to prayer.  Prayer is intentionally conveying a message to God.  Through petition, praise, thanks, confession, and desperation we can connect with him anywhere and anytime.  After our speaker spoke about prayer, our landlord from project, Muriel, spoke to all of us students.  This lady is so great! She has a sense of humor and a loving and kind heart for others.  It just so happens that this lady is very adventerous and is an incredible leader as she was previously involved with education.  She wrote a book by the title of, "Footprints on the Heart."  In this book she mentions a little bit about her background and how to leave a legacy and to not get caught up in the many titles that each of us are given in our lives.

Outreach these past few weeks have been challenging but still successful.  Students have ventured to Cherry Grove Beach, Broadway at the Beach (tourist/mall area in Myrtle Beach), Myrtle Beach, Barefoot Landing (mall area), and several other areas.  Tourist season is still booming here and our work is surely NOT done.  There are consistently always people to talk to, even at 9 in the morning as my friend and I experienced today.

As these last couple of weeks have come and gone much too quickly, project ends next Saturday.  During my day off on Monday a few friends and I ventured to Charleston, SC for some sight seeing in the beautiful city!  I never could've imagined a beach town to look the way Charleston did, it almost felt like I was in Europe!  Today my friends and I got up during the wee hours of the morning at 5:30 to go to an inlet about 15 minutes away to watch the sunrise!  Breathtaking.  That's how I would describe it.

It's hard not to think about next Saturday when all of us will be leaving NMB.  But as it's said, all good things must come to an end.  Each of us will go back to our campuses with a totally new and refreshed view on outreach and just leading campus in general, not just in CRU but in our classes.  I am excited to be an Ambassador to the College of Business this coming year and understanding how to lead and build friendships.  The community here in NMB has been incredible, and each of us can take that back to our campuses in hopes of building up the community there as well!  There is so much potential for each of the students on this project to make a difference in the lives of many people.

Thank you to everyone who continues to support and pray for all of us down here!  I plan on writing at least one more blog before I leave here after this one.  Our last day of work is next Wednesday.  After that we will begin cleaning and have our end of summer meetings and banquet to wrap things up.  Please pray for safe travels for everyone as we head home beginning next Saturday!

Shalom,

Jenna

Charleston, SC

 

Battery Park

 

Angel Oak- Biggest Tree East of the Mississippi River!

 

Angel Oak!

 

Sunrise over the Inlet

 

Nice ladies at the sunrise!

 

 

Going Hard in the Paint.

Happy Saturday!

Here's another update for everyone to read! As of today, there are only three weeks left of project.  Time has gone by so fast, but the memories and experiences here have been so incredible!

This week our theme is Going Hard in the Paint! This is a basketball term for going hard inside the lines during a game.  Our outreach goal was nearing our initial goal of 2,500 gospel conversations so the outreach team raised our new goal to 3,000 by the end of project!  This week is similar to the Killing the Giants week that we had previously while staff was still here!

Outreach this week for a group including myself happened at Barefoot Landing, an outdoor mall about 15 minutes from where we live!  We had the opportunity to share with 3 girls, one of them who was in college and the other two were still in high school.  They all had solid faith foundations as well as the rest of their family- such an encouragement!

Today during my day off my friend Jaci and I took an adventure to Myrtle Beach to visit the site of the TLC show Welcome to Myrtle Manor.  While we were there, we saw a few celebrities from the show and took pictures with them!  I'll attach a few just for fun!

Other than that, I would say it has been a quieter week here in NMB!  It has been rainy here the past couple of days, so please pray for sunshine as tomorrow (Sunday) we have outreach in the afternoon!

Ta ta for now!

Love,

Jenna

Praise Like Fireworks.

Good afternoon from North Myrtle Beach!

I am currently writing this blog post to you from Starbucks! I cannot wait to write to you all about what has happened since my last blog post last week Friday.

Last weekend on Saturday the staff team officially left project, and project has now been student lead since then! It has been incredible to experience students leading and relying on God to lead the project as well.

This week the theme is, "It's Not About Me." During the weekly meeting on Sunday our speaker talked about how Christ doesn't want to be #1 in our lives, but he wants to be the center of our lives. Soemtime in each of our lives we have the possibility of loving things (idols) more than God.  But we need to learn how to make sacrifices, how to keep our eyes focused on heavenly treasures. It's all about God.  We shouldn't go through our daily lives thinking to ourselves, "What can I do to keep myself comfortable today?" Instead we should think about parts of our lives that we can risk to live life to the fullest, to live on the edge.  We have to die to self in order to do this and to not try to fulfull our own plans that we have made for our lives.  As a student on this project I have found that very motivating as I continue to go to work every day but also as I go out and share on the beach with other students.

This week has come and gone, and thankfully so have the rain showers.  It rained from about last Thursday until Tuesday evening.  Although that made it hard for us to go out sharing on the beach, we were creative and spent time doing outreach via social media and other technological ways!  Due to the rain we also had the opportunity to come together as a project and relax last Friday night by watching "Wreck it Ralph."  If any of you haven't seen that movie, I would definitely recommend that you watch it!  I continue to be shown hwo truly blessed I am to be here on project with the 85 other students!

As yesterday was the 4th of July, I thought it would be appropriate to title this blog post Praise Like Fireworks!  Hope you all had a wonderful day! I worked and it was busy, which made the day go by super fast! After work we had roommate dinner, so my roommates and I went to Moe's Southwest Grill. Pretty delicious. After that we went to our location for the weekly Thursday night meeting where we can invite people that we outreach to or co-workers.  Quite a few people had invited people to come and they were able to attend!  After the weekly meeting, we all skedaddled to the beach where we saw multiple firework shows. Can I just tell you- that was SO cool! After all of the rain in the past week the sky looked even more beautiful and the stars were even brighter than any other night I've seen them since we've been here!

(For all of you music fans- check out this song! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94lVjO4YYaI)

Other than that, today is my day off so I spent some time with my discipler this morning and now spending the afternoon with friends!  This evening one of the men Bible study groups is taking out my Bible study for a surprise evening adventure. I'll have to write about it the next time I blog! Stay tuned for that!

Love,

Jenna

 

Fourth of July in NMB