Here at training we heard a talk about surrender and I have just been thinking about how the concept of surrender relates to our lives as believers. The Christian life isn’t about giving God just enough of us to appease Him. God doesn’t need anything we could ever give Him – He’s GOD. However, He wants us – not just pieces of us, all of us. He doesn’t just want our morality or for us to simply follow the rules – He wants our hearts. When we give Him our hearts, we want nothing else, we live for nothing else, we search for nothing else but for Him...

So first of all to my mama, I am alive! I am flying out at seven in the morning 🙂 A blog will b put up to let yu kow that we got there safely, and later I can send you an e-mail…  Now that that is stated. I want to let you guys know what the Lord has been doing in my life in my time so far at AIM. So when we got here (ATL) the rain is magnetically attracted to my luggage?? it seems every time I get my luggage under the sky it rains… But I aint going to talk about rain. I am going to talk about an opportunity I had to talk with a homeless man named Otee, or overtime, or O...

Relationships are funny. Some you work so hard at for years to try and make work, some you know won’t work out at all, and some come so easily you think you’ve know the person for ever. But really it’s only been about three days and three hours.  We all got out of the plane to meet the people we’ve been Facebook friends with for months, wondering how they were going to be in real life. Let me tell you, it was better than I imagined. I was greeted with hugs from complete strangers and within minutes people were laughing, telling groups, and making plans. It...

I came into this trip expecting it to be a little like my last one. A safe trip to Gainsville, dinner, a worship session but boy was I wrong. When we all arrived our team split into two smaller groups and each group was given an envelope with a map and some money and we were told to reach a certain destination. Right after we get off the Marta (a train kinda thing) it starts pouring and we have to lug our luggage through down town Atlanta in this to reach the Safe House. I didn’t know what to think at first until our very first worship session. I don’t remember who said this but...

Food. Oh how I’m realizing how much I idolize food and let it be a distraction in my life. While spending the last few days in Atlanta and Gainsville, we haven’t been spoiled with a ton to eat. Our portions are limited and consist of food from around the world. This is a good thing since we will be eating like this for the next 2 months, but it has been a challenge to make the adjustment. Because of this, God has really been opening my eyes and showing me how I put that before most things, specifically him. Usually at home, I’m constantly thinking about what I’m...

First night of training we were sent into the streets of downtown Atlanta with nothing but $1 and instructed to evangelize to the homeless. This was an incredibly humbling experience for me. Other than the one dollar, I had nothing to offer the homeless except my words and love, which turned out to be a powerful gift. I talked with and prayed over three different homeless men. It amazed me how THEY were quoting Scripture to ME! I was also amazed how they just want someone to talk to them, listen to them, and just treat them like human beings. I walked away from that experience with...