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Name: Rebecca
Birthday: 4/25/1979
Gender: Female
Interests: I love music, laughing, the Detroit Red Wings, dancing, playing guitar, whales, camp, movies, mountains, candles, travel, hanging out with youth, and sharing my faith with others!
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AIM:  Dorsal91
Member Since:
10/26/2004
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| Whew, it's been a while! Things are still moving along. Volleyball has started up again and softball too, however I haven't been able to make it to a game due to other commitments at church. Quite excited about my sister-in-laws baby shower next weekend! It's getting so close and I can't wait for that little one to arrive. Yeah!  Things are actually slowing down a bit right now before summer stuff begins. Its nice and I plan on taking extra time outside the office to work on planning and visioning for next year. This is much needed. Last week was interesting...had a wonderful birthday, but I also had a week filled with frustrating parents at church and greatly missing friends who are far away. But they all sent birthday wishes and phone calls and messages galore! I just really wish it wasn't so long inbetween seeing each other. On the bright side, I have been hanging out with another new friend from church which is nice! I'm ready for camp this summer and all the other activities. I need to start getting back into doing a regular PTWG. I can sense that I'm not making this a priority, and areas in my life are reflecting it. | | |
| I had the opportunity to take a good friend to her first concert EVER!!! I cannot believe she hadn't been to one before!!! How crazy is that!!?? We went to the TobyMac Portable sounds tour at the big mega-church nearby. The concert was AMAZING! Building 429...Family Force 5...Thousand Foot Krutch. And Toby and his gang were fantastic. What a great show to attend, so fun and lots going on. Loved it! Also hosted a fun jewelry party over the weekend. I had a friend from Ohio come up as well as my mom and some ladies from church. I love trying on jewelry! ha ha Now I just have to decide what I'd like to get! Sunday was a super busy day of church stuff. Everything went well. Lately I feel like we have too much going on around here. And I just wonder if it is starting to effect families...like they may be feeling overwhelmed with all the activities and events going on. I also feel like its probably taking a toll on the youth programs as well. I know the spring tends to slow down because its a busy time for families, so I usually don't plan as much. So perhaps that will help ease the pace. I just don't want to burn our families out and then have a really big problem of them not showing up at all. But I really feel like God has been putting this on my heart lately, and I'm not quite sure how to go about changing it or helping it move to a different stage of ministry. God has been opening and closing some doors in my life with relationships too. I'm keeping an open mind about it all, and sometimes its hard. But I know he's got my back! At least its somewhat entertaining for the moment. Love'n the beautiful weather that has been showing up lately......I'm ready for spring! | | |
| Florida was fantastic! I loved having friends from out west, seminary days, and Michigan folk around to hang out with for the entire long weekend! I forgot what it was like to laugh so hard with Ali about the most random things. I forgot how much Lutherans like to drink and how much I hate tequilla! What a great time. I got to go to the Tamp aquarium which was pretty cool...although I was hoping to see a manitee. Oh yeah, I did get a lot of great information and hear some fun speakers and a great gospel group. Plus I realize how even though the Michigan synod doesn't have things quite as together networking wise and stuff as Minnesota does...we are in a great forward motion to get there. Talking with so many others from different regions, Michigan is very lucky to have synod staff people that take this stuff seriously. I think one of the things God is really putting on my heart lately is to revamp our confirmation stuff. It just needs work. So that should be a fun thing to begin this spring. I'm also excited to do another prayer room to be offered during lent at church. I still can't get my ipod to work. Grrrrr! Yeah for sunny cold days! | | |
| I'm going to the Extravaganza!!!!! Sunny, warm Florida here I come!!!! Super excited!! Although it will be tons of fun and I know lots of fun people who are also going...I will be missing having my pals Kirstin and Amanda there. This weekend I've got a lock-in. Should be fun since there are about 10 other churches attending. I saw DreamGirls over the weekend....wow what a powerful movie. There were about 4 times when I just wanted to start clapping and cheering for the characters in the movie. They all did a fantastic job...especially Jennifer Hudson. American Idol has started, so I'm happy again! I'm sorta sick of all the media comments about the judges being mean or whatever. Obviously the people that try out know that they may be faced with being rejected and/or laughed at. Thats entertainment I guess. Volleyball has started up again too...we won our matches last week!!! There are a lot tougher teams this session, which is good. Its fun to play hard and to struggle at getting the W. I love playing though...even if it requires some bruises! | | |
| The Youth Quake was awesome! I was so impressed with some of the older youth that went as peer ministers with our group. God has really been working in them the past year and its so neat to see how much they have grown in their faith journey. It brings a smile to my face !  Winter has finally arrived with the beautiful snow flurries!!! A bit of a shock to be out in the cold and actually have to warm up the car...but its nice! Plus the sun has been so bright- it makes me think of MN. Oh how I miss it. Lately I've been trying really hard to surrender something in my life to God. But I just feel like God is saying....ummm don't quite give up on this yet. It's not like I'm trying to shut the door on this, I'm just wanting to only leave it cracked. But I feel like every time I start to close the door and its just at that point when light is still getting through a little bit...God goes and flings it open again. So is God really saying that I shouldn't totally close the door? I'm so confused. And also tired of the same feelings and analyzing it after that door gets popped open. Maybe I just need to look at it in a different way. Hmmmmm  | | |
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