Well last week we did Springhills VBS. It was fun! I had about 12 or 13 5th and 6th grade girls. They learned a lot, kept me busy, and we had fun.
There has been some team issues that have bothered me like crazy this summer. But i have to remember all I can do is live for God and follow Him.
I have grown SO MUCH closer to my Lord and Savior this summer.
I finished reading the gospels and now I am reading in Act about Peter, Paul, and many other great people. Just seeing the persecution they faced because they were Christians really opened my eyes to the fact that the world will hate us because we are nto like them, but we still have to share and be an example.
God has also began to show me more of where He wants me to serve next summer. I began thinking about working centrikid again becuase I feel as though I have had a less than fabulous summer due to team issues. And I thought about Centrikid becuase I knew how camp worked and I knew I would be comfortable in that setting. But I realized that missions isnt about being COMFORTABLE...MISSIONS IS ABOUT BEING UNCOMFORTABLE! And I began to pray fo God to show me where He wanted me to serve. I ran across some scripture on a friends facebook page and God really began to speak to me. One of the verses I found was
Hebrews 6:10
God is not unjust; he will not forget your work and the love you have shown him as you have helped his people and continue to help them.
[I love this because it sums up my whole summer completely. And I def needed to hear that what I did this summer wasnt useless and that I did touch peoples lives and planted a lot of seeds.]
THEN I FOUND THESE:
Psalm 143:8
Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love,
for I have put my trust in you.
Show me the way I should go,
for to you I lift up my soul.
AND
Isaiah 6:8
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!"
[After I read that I just told God to send me where He wants me and I think that He is telling me to go with Light Messengers to Maine. They run a day camp there for children, I do believe. :)]
Well i have to wrap this up quick off to VBS night 3 at Enon. Thank you for your continuous prayers. Love yall!
-Kacey
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Cave City
We got back yesterday from Cave City. It was so much fun. I loved it. We worked with Cave City Baptist Church.
On Tuesday we got there, got settled, and started working. We started cleaning out closets and doing computer work. We only worked about 2 hours. The next day we worked for 8 hours cleaning out closets and on computer stuff. We cleaned out and organized about 8 closets. Big closets with big messes!
Then on Thursday, Kaitlyn and I painted a Sunday School room all day long, and cleaned out another 2 closets. Others did computer work. After work we went exploring in Mammoth Cave National Park. It was really neat.
On Friday we finished cleaning and a few other things. Then we all got ready and went to Mamoth Cave. We went on a 2 hour Historical tour. It was really neat I loved it.
On Saturday we folded bulletins for church and headed back to Dyersburg.
This morning Ashley and I went to First Baptist Dyersburg for church. I love going there. Its the closest thing I can get to Hilldale :)
I miss my church family.
Everything is going well...I can't believe summer is almost over.
God has shown me so much and has done some amazing things. My relationship with Christ has grown so much and I am so in love with my Savior and Lord just for who He is.
That is what my quiet time was about this morning. It talked about how we as a church and as individuals should love God for who He is NOT what He can do for us. And it talked about full surrender. Often this is who we are and who I was and who I don't want to be anymore. "I come to acknowledge and understand that I have not really been concerned about realizing Jesus Christ HIimself, but only concerned with knowing what He has done for me." Now this is my goal and what I'm living for: "My goal is God HImself, not joy nor peace, Nor even blessing, but Himself, my God." All I want to do is continuously fall in love with my Savior and serve Him.
God has moved so much in me this summer.
This week we have VBS at Spinghill Baptist Church. I can't wait to see what God has planned. We also have a youth group from New Orleans staying at the B, so that will be fun.
I'm also a little sad this week because this is the first time in 6 years that I will not be at church camp...specifically Mission Fuge. I have went to Mission Fuge the past 4 years and God showed me so much. I love the camp atmosphere and everything. I wish I could have went again, but I knew God placed me in summer missions and in Dyersburg for such a time as this.
I will keep you updated. :)
Thank you for your prayers. They mean a lot.
<3 Kacey.
On Tuesday we got there, got settled, and started working. We started cleaning out closets and doing computer work. We only worked about 2 hours. The next day we worked for 8 hours cleaning out closets and on computer stuff. We cleaned out and organized about 8 closets. Big closets with big messes!
Then on Thursday, Kaitlyn and I painted a Sunday School room all day long, and cleaned out another 2 closets. Others did computer work. After work we went exploring in Mammoth Cave National Park. It was really neat.
On Friday we finished cleaning and a few other things. Then we all got ready and went to Mamoth Cave. We went on a 2 hour Historical tour. It was really neat I loved it.
On Saturday we folded bulletins for church and headed back to Dyersburg.
This morning Ashley and I went to First Baptist Dyersburg for church. I love going there. Its the closest thing I can get to Hilldale :)
I miss my church family.
Everything is going well...I can't believe summer is almost over.
God has shown me so much and has done some amazing things. My relationship with Christ has grown so much and I am so in love with my Savior and Lord just for who He is.
That is what my quiet time was about this morning. It talked about how we as a church and as individuals should love God for who He is NOT what He can do for us. And it talked about full surrender. Often this is who we are and who I was and who I don't want to be anymore. "I come to acknowledge and understand that I have not really been concerned about realizing Jesus Christ HIimself, but only concerned with knowing what He has done for me." Now this is my goal and what I'm living for: "My goal is God HImself, not joy nor peace, Nor even blessing, but Himself, my God." All I want to do is continuously fall in love with my Savior and serve Him.
God has moved so much in me this summer.
This week we have VBS at Spinghill Baptist Church. I can't wait to see what God has planned. We also have a youth group from New Orleans staying at the B, so that will be fun.
I'm also a little sad this week because this is the first time in 6 years that I will not be at church camp...specifically Mission Fuge. I have went to Mission Fuge the past 4 years and God showed me so much. I love the camp atmosphere and everything. I wish I could have went again, but I knew God placed me in summer missions and in Dyersburg for such a time as this.
I will keep you updated. :)
Thank you for your prayers. They mean a lot.
<3 Kacey.
Monday, July 6, 2009
Ripley Backyard Bible Club, Fowlkes VBS, 4th of July Weekend, FInley Day Camp, and Cave City
Whew! Its been super busy the past week or so.
Last week (June 28 through July 2) we had VBS at Fowlkes Baptist Church. I have 5 5th and 6th graders at the beginning of the week then 8 by the end of the week. We got to VBS about 5 or 530 everyday. It started at 6 and went til 830 then we left about 845. The kids were great. They learned a lot, seeds were planted, some accepted Christ, but more importantly we loved on the kids and just had fun.
Also that week (June 29 through July 2) we had a Backyard Bible Club that morning from 10 to 12. VBS in 2 hours. We got there about 945 and left about 1 each day. Most of these kids had never gone to church some didnt even know who Jesus was. So it was great to plant seeds and see these kids really grasp and understand. I had 20 or 21 5th and 6th graders. Overall there were 75 kids there. We had fun with the kids and seriously loved on them. You could tell some of them just needed a hug and a smile. The last day (July 2) we had a swim party at the park we were at. The kids had so much fun. I taught a few of them how to swim, saved one from drowning, and went down the slide way to many times.
It was busy, crazy and we were tired by the end of the week, but I loved every minute of it.
I went home Thursday night after family night. 1st time traveling on my own in the dark. The on Friday I went to my stepdads family reunion at the Ocoee River and Lake with my parents. It was fun. We went tubing at the lake and floating down the river a lot. Good food and fun family times.
Today (July 6) we went to Finley Baptist Church and held a VBS day camp form 9AM to 630PM! We taught 3 Bible studies, taught music, missions, crafts, had a swim party, watched a movie, and had a small version of family night. It was crazy and tiring but fun. I had 12 5th and 6th graders and all but 2 or 3 learned their memory verse in one day before we went swimming :) I was so proud of them.
Many seeds have been planted this summer and I can't wait to see what God is going to do next. Continue to pray for these kids that the seed that have been planted won't just stay planted but that in the future they will grow. Even if I am not around to see the result, at least I did what God called me to do...plant seeds and be a messenger.
Tomorrow morning we are headed to cave city to do a mission trip. We will be transferring records from paper to computer and anything else the church we will be working with needs done.
Well I'm not sure if I will have internet or not...so I wil update when I can.
Thank you for your continuous prayers. They mean a lot. :)
♥ Kacey.
Last week (June 28 through July 2) we had VBS at Fowlkes Baptist Church. I have 5 5th and 6th graders at the beginning of the week then 8 by the end of the week. We got to VBS about 5 or 530 everyday. It started at 6 and went til 830 then we left about 845. The kids were great. They learned a lot, seeds were planted, some accepted Christ, but more importantly we loved on the kids and just had fun.
Also that week (June 29 through July 2) we had a Backyard Bible Club that morning from 10 to 12. VBS in 2 hours. We got there about 945 and left about 1 each day. Most of these kids had never gone to church some didnt even know who Jesus was. So it was great to plant seeds and see these kids really grasp and understand. I had 20 or 21 5th and 6th graders. Overall there were 75 kids there. We had fun with the kids and seriously loved on them. You could tell some of them just needed a hug and a smile. The last day (July 2) we had a swim party at the park we were at. The kids had so much fun. I taught a few of them how to swim, saved one from drowning, and went down the slide way to many times.
It was busy, crazy and we were tired by the end of the week, but I loved every minute of it.
I went home Thursday night after family night. 1st time traveling on my own in the dark. The on Friday I went to my stepdads family reunion at the Ocoee River and Lake with my parents. It was fun. We went tubing at the lake and floating down the river a lot. Good food and fun family times.
Today (July 6) we went to Finley Baptist Church and held a VBS day camp form 9AM to 630PM! We taught 3 Bible studies, taught music, missions, crafts, had a swim party, watched a movie, and had a small version of family night. It was crazy and tiring but fun. I had 12 5th and 6th graders and all but 2 or 3 learned their memory verse in one day before we went swimming :) I was so proud of them.
Many seeds have been planted this summer and I can't wait to see what God is going to do next. Continue to pray for these kids that the seed that have been planted won't just stay planted but that in the future they will grow. Even if I am not around to see the result, at least I did what God called me to do...plant seeds and be a messenger.
Tomorrow morning we are headed to cave city to do a mission trip. We will be transferring records from paper to computer and anything else the church we will be working with needs done.
Well I'm not sure if I will have internet or not...so I wil update when I can.
Thank you for your continuous prayers. They mean a lot. :)
♥ Kacey.
Monday, June 29, 2009
SBC and more VBS
Southern Baptist Convention Team minus Micha.
Southside Baptist Church 5th and 6th Grade.
Well I loved the Southern Baptist Convention. Everything was great. I loved registering all the messengers. I even got to sit in on the convention. It was neat to see the process of how everything worked. I loved it. We all had so much fun together as a team too. I got to see Josh's family - Stephen and Natoisha as well as Mr. Paul and Mrs. Carolyn. It was great.
Then....on our way back..i got to leave from Brentwood with my stepdad (he works there) and enjoy a weekend in CLARKSVILLE! I surprised my mom by showing up. It was great. I got to see all of my family and swim. So when we swapped buses i just didnt go to dyersburg. Then my parents brought me back on Sunday.
This week we are leading a VBS Backyard Bible Club for Macedonia Baptist Church in Ripley in the morning. And at night we are leading a VBS at Fowlkes Baptist Church.
We have 75 kids at the BYBC and 40 to 50 and Fowlkes. I love all of it...especially just loving on the kids.
I am going home for the 4th of july too and then off ot Cleveland, TN for my stepdads family reunion. It should be fun though.
Well thank you for your prayers and contiue to pray for the kids and our team. Pray also that I would have the opportunity to lead a child to Christ.
I will update soon.
:) Kacey.
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Well VBS at Southside ended tonight! I loved it and I'm going to miss my group of amazing kids (pictures soon). I almost cried when I left.
Tomorrow we are headed to the Southern Baptist Convention to work the registration desk! I'm SO excited to get out of the small town of Dyersburg for awhile! haha!
Here is what we will be doing while we are there. Where ever it says Tennessee Team that is when we work :) and we do crossover and training too!
Tomorrow we are headed to the Southern Baptist Convention to work the registration desk! I'm SO excited to get out of the small town of Dyersburg for awhile! haha!
Here is what we will be doing while we are there. Where ever it says Tennessee Team that is when we work :) and we do crossover and training too!
Saturday:
CrossOver Assignments -- Friday night there will be a most important CrossOver Orientation Meeting.
Bill Noe, Campus Minister at University of Louisville, will be meeting with all our groups at 7 PM on Friday night,
at Heeren Hall, in the music building behind the Chapel on the Southern Seminary campus. Each student is
encouraged to bring a backpack for CrossOver on Saturday; the backpack is primarily for holding water that the
students will be handing out as part of your CrossOver assignment. Dress for Saturday CrossOver is very casual.
Shorts, tennis shoes, T-Shirts are best. Warning about flip-flops….lot of walking this day! Lunch
On CrossOver Saturday will be provided…..Pizza and drinks will be brought to your site.
BCM Team Training for Registration Saturday at 4:00 PM Convention Center
In the Registration area for the convention. Brief training session everyone will learn how to work the
computers and do the Registrations. All our students and Leaders will make their Official Name Tags on
Saturday afternoon. This Training is MOST Important!
The
Registration Team members.
Sunday:
We would prefer to have all our BCM Registration Teams…dressed in the official BCM Polo Shirts and khaki pants…on Sunday
morning. It makes a large impact! We will worship together at
This is a new Southern
together at this site. Please join us!
Sunday: SBC Registration Duties Begin!!!
Tennessee, Indiana & South Carolina Teams report in at 3:00 PM 6:30 PM to work
Registration Desk
Kentucky Team will report in at 6 PM to work Registration Desk until closing at 9:30 PM.
Monday:
Tennessee Team report in at 7:30 AM to work Registration Desk until 11:30 AM…lunch break will begin for
Indiana & South Carolina Team report in at 9 AM to work Registration Desk
until 1 PM…Lunch break will begin for Indiana & South
Kentucky Team will report in at 11 AM to work Registration Desk and needs to eat
Lunch prior to arrival…..
Tennessee Team will come back in at 2 PM and work until 6 PM.
Indiana & South Carolina Team will come back in at 3 PM and work until 7 PM.
Kentucky Team will come back in at 6 PM and work until closing at 9:15 PM.
Tuesday:
This is the busy day!!!
Tennessee Team, Indiana and South Carolina Teams report in at 7 AM.
Kentucky Team reports in at 8:30 AM…TN, IN & SC can begin taking short breaks.
South Carolina lunch break: 11 AM 12 Noon
Kentucky: take a long break as soon as South Carolina & Indiana return from lunch (around 12 Noon to 12:30 PM)…..Kentucky
returns from long break at 5:30 PM
South Carolina, Indiana and Tennessee should be allowed to leave for the day at 6:45PM and
Wednesday:
Tennessee, Indiana & South Carolina report in at 7:30 AM and work
until 11:00 AM.
Kentucky Team reports in at 10:30 AM and works until closing at 1 PM 1:30 PM.
So thats my week next week and I get to see the Bungers ( Mr. Paul, Mrs. Carolyn, Stephen, and Natoisha,) while I am there!
Thank you for your continued prayers! :)
Well I will update soon.
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
The Past Few Days...God has moved...in me!
Wow! God has definitely moved.
This week we have been doing VBS at Southside Baptist Church. These kids are so precious!. Everyday is so much fun with them. They are so eager to learn about God. They are definitely hungry and thirsty. I know of one that is saved and I think two more might be. Two of my kids have been asking questions so God is definitely working in them. I am continuing to pray that God will work even more in them. I know soon that they will accept Him as their Lord and Savior. I may not be there to see it, but they definitely are going to go back to that church. The adult that is helping me is one of there favorite parts of the whole day, and he loves being with the kids and he teached RA's at the church. Although God isnt moving how I expected He is definitely moving and thats all that matters. God doesn't answer to me and move how I want Him too because He is God and I am not. I cannot tell Him what to do. He tells me what to do and I obey. He has called me to share the gospel. I have done that and the rest is for God to do in His time.
God has really taught me a lot in the past few days through my quiet time also. Last Friday the topic in My Utmost for His Highest was: Where our self-interest sleeps and the real interest is awakened. It talked about dying to yourself and your desires and choosing God's. And thats definitely happened a lot in my life lately. He is molding me and shaping me into His image. His desires for my life are also becoming my desires for my life. Missions is going to be such a large part of my life. I still don't know the details, but I do know I am suppose to go. One quote I loved out of this devotion was: "A true disciple is one who has his new name written all over him - self-interest, pride, and self sufficiency have completely been erased." That is what I am striving to be : a true disciple of Christ. The next day went along with this. The topic was Where our individual desire dies and sanctified surrender lives. Here is a quote from that day: " A saint realizes that it is God who engineers his circumstances; consequently there are no complaints, only unrestrained surrender to Jesus." Thats another thing I am chasing after is for me to fully surrender to God's will with no complaints. The next day talked about abiding in God. It talked about how Jesus never chose His circumstances, but He always submitted to His Father's plans and directions for Him. I am suppose to do the same exact thing. It amazes me the intimacy that Jesus and God shared with each other. And to think that we can have that same intimacy with our Heavenly Father is mind boggling and so amazing. The next day was about adding to your faith in the matter of drudgery. It talked about forming godly habits in our daily lives. This is probably my favorite quote out of the whole book: "We are not meant to be seen as God's perfect, bright-shining examples, but to be seen as the everyday essence of ordinary life exhibiting the miracle of His grace." I also learned that one of the greatest hindrances in our spiritual life is that we look only for the big things to do. Which is what I had been doing all summer til God got a hold of me and said I called you as my messenger....share the Gospel and let me do the rest. "I must realize that my obedience even in the smallest detail of life has all of the omnipotent power of the grace of God behind it. If I will do my duty, not for duty's sake but because I believe God is engineering my circumstances, then at that point of my obedience all of the magnificent grace of God is mine through the glorious atonement by the Cross of Christ."
God really spoke LOUDLY to me yesterday about my future and His will for my life. The title was "Will You Lay Down Your Life?" The verses that were in it were John 15:13 Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. And in John 15:15 it talks about how He has called us friends. In my Utmost for His Highest, Oswald Chambers says "Jesus does not ask me to die for Him, but to lay down my life for Him." This means God wants all of me everything. Not just part of me. So I layed down my life for Him and gave myself to Him for Him to use me for His kingdom! "It is much easier to die than to lay down your life day in and day out with the sense of the high calling of God. We are not made for the bright-shinig moments of life, but we have to walke in the light of them in our everyday ways." God calls me to live for Him even in the dull non-bright-shining moments of everyday life. So all if this has brought me to the point of following God's plan for my life and reminding me that I am the messenger and my job is to tell, it is God's job to create the change and save people for He is God.
Regardless of results...God has definitely changed me this summer, and I know He has more great plans in store. And I can't wait to see what else God is going to do.
Thank you for all of your prayers continue to pray.
In Christ, Kacey.
This week we have been doing VBS at Southside Baptist Church. These kids are so precious!. Everyday is so much fun with them. They are so eager to learn about God. They are definitely hungry and thirsty. I know of one that is saved and I think two more might be. Two of my kids have been asking questions so God is definitely working in them. I am continuing to pray that God will work even more in them. I know soon that they will accept Him as their Lord and Savior. I may not be there to see it, but they definitely are going to go back to that church. The adult that is helping me is one of there favorite parts of the whole day, and he loves being with the kids and he teached RA's at the church. Although God isnt moving how I expected He is definitely moving and thats all that matters. God doesn't answer to me and move how I want Him too because He is God and I am not. I cannot tell Him what to do. He tells me what to do and I obey. He has called me to share the gospel. I have done that and the rest is for God to do in His time.
God has really taught me a lot in the past few days through my quiet time also. Last Friday the topic in My Utmost for His Highest was: Where our self-interest sleeps and the real interest is awakened. It talked about dying to yourself and your desires and choosing God's. And thats definitely happened a lot in my life lately. He is molding me and shaping me into His image. His desires for my life are also becoming my desires for my life. Missions is going to be such a large part of my life. I still don't know the details, but I do know I am suppose to go. One quote I loved out of this devotion was: "A true disciple is one who has his new name written all over him - self-interest, pride, and self sufficiency have completely been erased." That is what I am striving to be : a true disciple of Christ. The next day went along with this. The topic was Where our individual desire dies and sanctified surrender lives. Here is a quote from that day: " A saint realizes that it is God who engineers his circumstances; consequently there are no complaints, only unrestrained surrender to Jesus." Thats another thing I am chasing after is for me to fully surrender to God's will with no complaints. The next day talked about abiding in God. It talked about how Jesus never chose His circumstances, but He always submitted to His Father's plans and directions for Him. I am suppose to do the same exact thing. It amazes me the intimacy that Jesus and God shared with each other. And to think that we can have that same intimacy with our Heavenly Father is mind boggling and so amazing. The next day was about adding to your faith in the matter of drudgery. It talked about forming godly habits in our daily lives. This is probably my favorite quote out of the whole book: "We are not meant to be seen as God's perfect, bright-shining examples, but to be seen as the everyday essence of ordinary life exhibiting the miracle of His grace." I also learned that one of the greatest hindrances in our spiritual life is that we look only for the big things to do. Which is what I had been doing all summer til God got a hold of me and said I called you as my messenger....share the Gospel and let me do the rest. "I must realize that my obedience even in the smallest detail of life has all of the omnipotent power of the grace of God behind it. If I will do my duty, not for duty's sake but because I believe God is engineering my circumstances, then at that point of my obedience all of the magnificent grace of God is mine through the glorious atonement by the Cross of Christ."
God really spoke LOUDLY to me yesterday about my future and His will for my life. The title was "Will You Lay Down Your Life?" The verses that were in it were John 15:13 Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. And in John 15:15 it talks about how He has called us friends. In my Utmost for His Highest, Oswald Chambers says "Jesus does not ask me to die for Him, but to lay down my life for Him." This means God wants all of me everything. Not just part of me. So I layed down my life for Him and gave myself to Him for Him to use me for His kingdom! "It is much easier to die than to lay down your life day in and day out with the sense of the high calling of God. We are not made for the bright-shinig moments of life, but we have to walke in the light of them in our everyday ways." God calls me to live for Him even in the dull non-bright-shining moments of everyday life. So all if this has brought me to the point of following God's plan for my life and reminding me that I am the messenger and my job is to tell, it is God's job to create the change and save people for He is God.
Regardless of results...God has definitely changed me this summer, and I know He has more great plans in store. And I can't wait to see what else God is going to do.
Thank you for all of your prayers continue to pray.
In Christ, Kacey.
Saturday, June 13, 2009
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