Great Day!

My day started off by getting up at 5:00am, leaving campus at 6:15am, then leaving SWBC at 7:15am for Derby, Kansas to help a Pastor and his church (I forget his name, no shocker there :D) canvas and door-knock their area. It was hard to think that I was only 3hrs away from home!....sniff sniff. Several people expressed interest in the North Woodlawn Baptist Church and said that they might visit while others were not interested. MANY people were not home so we left the tracks on the doors. Please pray for the city of Derby that God would get a hold of their hearts and that many would come to know Christ as their Savior. 

I also just got finished with Missions Prayer Band about 10 minutes ago and boy was it good! The theme this year is the Unreached People Groups of the World. This evenings section of the world was Sri Lanka where 5 people groups are 100% unreached with the Gospel! However, I am happy to announce that I know of three missionaries supported by SWBC who are currently serving in that region. 

It really  is amazing to know that even though I am not on the mission field, I am having a part by just praying for them. I really love Missions Prayer band because it's a time of great encouragement and it reminds me of why I am here at HBBC: to train for whatever mission field God wants me to go to.  

The group I went with had prayer letters from Africa that we all read and shared prayer requests and praises for. It was great to hear about the progress several missionaries, who have been sent out by SWBC, had made. 

Please pray for me that I would stay focused on the committments I've made to God, that I would fall back in love with Him, and have a desire to delve deep into my devotions and prayer life. I miss you all SO very much and look forward to Christmas time!!!!!!!!

Love, Amber

Updates Updates Updates!

First of all I want to appologize that I have not updated this blog in like, forever! You wouldn't believe how busy I've been. Even now I feel guilty taking time to update this thing seeing as I have a boat load of homework, but I know it's wrong to keep ya'll waiting.

 

 School started with a trip to the Red Hawks baseball game and Frontier City. I'm sorry, but baseball has got to be the most boring sport EVER!!! However, I had more fun this year than last year. Baseball players ran into eachother, a few of the HBBC guys played some of side games they have to keep people entertained :D, and just fellowshipping with the other girls helped the time to go by a tad faster.

Frontier City is a whole other story! My friends found out that I hadn't been on a rollercoaster since I was five, which was a tramautic experience on my fragile emotions I might add, and dragged me onto one of the of the rollercoasters called the Diamond Back. It takes off from a dead stop and shoots down towards the ground, does a loopdy-loop, then shoots back up and levels out where it comes to a stop. I have never been so scared in my entire life! Just when I think it's over, it goes backwards: I started screaming again before it even took off the second time :D. It probably only lasted a total of 1-2 minutes counting the rest at the beginning and ending but I really thought I was going to fall out. My legs were shaking SO bad and I was trying hard to contol my bawling. It took me a whole half-n-hour to recover from the rollercoaster, which was enough time to go on another one :D which lasted longer and was definitely worse than the first one. I screamed so hard that I my chest hurt. I screamed or yelled on EVERY ride but one including the tilt-o-whirl, both water rides, and even the sidewinder (which goes around in circles and gets faster the longer it goes.) I has SO much fun, even riding the rollercoasters :D.

The last monday of every month Southwest Baptist Church has a laides meeting where they have snacks, sing awesome songs, and have a little devotional. I was having a bad day yesterday and even contemplated not going, but I knew that it would be good for me to go. I am SO glad that I did because it was exactly what I needed. The theme last semester was "Singing I Go" and this semester the theme is "He Keeps Me Singing"; how creative is that? Since there are four words in "He Keeps Me Singing" and four months in a semester, each devotional is on one of the words. Anyway, the meeting went really well.

The preaching at Southwest and chapel services here at HBBC have been awesome! Bro. Williams (a professor from HBBC) preached a message last wednseday night called "Come Hungry, Leave Happy." He asked about our appetites; do we have an appetite for God or the world? Do we come to church hungry to hear about God or are we already full from whatever we've done that day or week? We should be so full with God that we aren't even hungry for worldly things. Example: Have you ever been SO full from supper that you couldn't eat your favorite dessert, no matter how tempting? Have you ever been so full from God that you weren't hungry for anything else, not matter how tempting? Oh man was that message convicting!!!

The classes I am taking this semseter are:

·                   Cultures or Customs

·                   Cults

·                   Methods of Teaching

·                   Bible Doctrines

·                   Research and Style

·                   Baptist History

·                   Fundamentals of Speech

·                   Yearbook

I am really excited for Methods of Teaching because they actually teach you how to prepare and teach a lesson to any age group. We give a series of lessons on a theme we choose starting with an object lesson, then a life situation, then give a Bible lesson that backs up our theme, lastly choose a memory verse and song that matches the theme then produce it in a visual that children can read from. I will be giving an object lesson on Monday using a puzzel to demostrate how we try to make our plans (puzzel pieces) fit in with God's plan (the complete puzzle missing a puzzel piece.) It's still in the toddler stages, but slowly developing into an awesome lesson.

Not only am I taking pics for the yearbook this year, but I am also creating two of the pages! I am really excited to get working on those and see how they turn out.

Right now God wants me to continue working at Shoe Carnival, so that's where I'll be staying until He indicates otherwise. I am so thankful for the shuttle that the college provides. I am able to get a ride to and from work for only $50 a month.

Well, I've gotta go. I am praying for you all and I would appreciate if ya'll be praying for me.  I am going to be a WHOLE LOT busier this semester with work, assistant RA stuff, and school, and trying to have a social life in the midst of it all. I'm looking forward to seeing ya'll around Christmas time!

Love, Amber