A Month in the Life

Well, today is the day that my twin sister Emily is moving to Mississippi. Although I realize that this is a good thing, taking that her husband is currently living there, it does not help in easing the depression. I am pretty sure that my sadness is enhanced by the fact that she is my twin. If you're not a twin then I don't think you can really know what it is like to be with an individual from before day one (we were wombmates). We were extremely close growing up, we shared friends, classes, money, cell phones, clothes, and the list goes on and on. In fact until we were 18, when she went off to college, we had only spent 5 consecutive days apart (I know that's kind of pathetic). Needless to say her being a thousand miles from me is going to be an adjustment.... Anyways I know I will miss her very much, and I am sure that I have many trips down south a head of me!

Here is me (right) and Emily (left)... no we are not throwing up our gang sign, we are showing our love for our junior high class "The WOK"



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This weekend we have been on baby shower overload! My sister Emily is expecting in August and Saturday we threw her a baby shower. The event was bitter-sweet due to the fact that Emily will be moving to Mississippi on Thursday... but enough of the sad talk, here are some pictures from the day...


Her cake looked and tasted amazing!


These are not even half of her clothes... she will have to change her 5 times a day to wear everything she got...


Here is the pregnant lady herself...



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Kindergarten Graduation
So this weekend will be pretty busy around here. My sister Emily is the kindergarten teacher of our school and tonight she has her kindergarten graduation. It is hard to know whether it is a bigger deal for the graduates or the parents, there will be more camera flashes tonight then the Oscars!

Gas Card Giveaway
Also this week end if you find yourself around the Auburn Hills area our youth group is continuing our revival with Student Pastor Corey Trimble. Anyone 16-25 that comes to service Saturday night at 7:00 will receive a $5.00 gas card! I know that it will probably only pay for one gallon of gas, but it is something! Oh yea, the Holy Ghost will probably be there too!



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Yesterday the students of Auburn Hills Christian School had a great opportunity to participate in the McCain rally at Oakland University. We took our school choir, a trio, and percussion praise, it was definitely great exposure for our school and some free advertisement. Although we hope that the students took this as a learning experience and learned more about the political system outside of the classroom, I am sure the part that they enjoyed the most was being on TV! Here are some pics from the rally...

Percussion Praise getting ready to play... they liked them so much they asked for an encore:


Part of the choir getting ready to sing... they were awesome
Our awesome choir singing "God Bless America"

Here's John McCain....


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OK so in case you were wondering about the rebate checks, here is the schedule to send out the checks. The checks will be sent out according to the last two digits of your Social Security number the schedule looks like this...

By Direct Deposit:
00-20: May 2
21-75: May 9
76-99: May 16

By Mail:
00-09: May 16
10-18: May 23
19-25: May 30
26-38: June 6
39-51: June 13
52-63: June 20
64-75: June 27
76-87: July 4
88-99: July 11

If you want to check to see the statues of your check go to the IRS Where's My Stimulus Payment site.

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I returned home from church, which was amazing, and I am really excited about some great new things God is doing in my life. So I decided to share it with you all. Lately, I have really been wanting to step up my "witnessing game" and this weekend has inspired me even more. The thing is though, I feel like the people I invite never come to church. Sometimes I think I am doing a disservice to those I invite. I feel like I have some kind of virus that even if they wanted to go to church, by me inviting them I have infected with some disease which repels them from the idea of it. OK I realize that is probably an exaggeration, but I am sure that I am not the only one that feels this way. It gets so hard sometimes that I just want to give up, why invite people if they're never going to come.

Well, I really feel like God has spoken to me and has given me a new kind of confidence. He said Allison, I spoke to multitudes, I healed tons of people, at one time I fed 5,000 men, that doesn't even include all of the women and children who were there, yet when I left and told those to stay in Jerusalem for my spirit to come there were only 120 in the room. Out of the thousands of the people who followed me, only 120 came to my first Holy Ghost revival.

I began to think about that and realized that God knew how many people would be in the upper room, he knew how many people would rebuke him at Calvary, yet it didn't prevent him going out and sharing His Word. You know God gave humans an incredible gift, the gift of free will, the gift to make a choice. All we can do is invite them, give them the chance, God's job is to change them, but they have to make the choice to come and that is one thing we can't control. God has given us one job, to share the gospel in any way we can. If God is not discouraged when not everyone He invited comes to Him, why should I be? So tomorrow starts a new day, with my new life, and I can't wait to see what is going to happen!

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I have so much to say, I am sure it will take me a couple of days to recap all that has gone on this weekend. This weekend has been a busy couple of days, to say the least. Last night and tonight we had our annual spring youth revival called All In. This year we asked the question "Are you green?" We were challenged to become organic in our walk with God. This simply means developing a relationship with God in its purest form, not having to be pumped up by a loud guitar, or a driving drum beat, or a screaming preacher. A relationship that is purely you and God.

The green theme was completely throughout this weekend. We had everything from all green lights in the chapel, to green t-shirts which asked "Are you green?" We brought in carpet which looked like grass, we hung leaves from the ceiling, we even went as far as to paint neon green strips in our youth chapel. I have been so inspired by this weekend and my new "green" life that I even decided to make this post green :)

The services included a video of Kermit the frog singing "It's not easy being green" and a brand new video from Pastor Robby challenging us to become green. We enjoyed awesome music by Theo, Page 5, and Flashpoint (youth bands from our church) and Student Pastor Cory Trimble from Murfreesburo, TN spoke and was unbelievable! Both nights he spoke about going out in our community and sharing the gospel with the outcasts and the "weirdos" that we run into on a day to day basis. He reminded everyone there that God did not only die for us, but homosexuals and goths and emos and the people we meet at Starbucks and individuals at the mall. He challenged us to get a burden for the lost, and to pray that God would brake our heart every time we encounter someone that does not know Christ. Pastor Cory made such an "impact" on our group that Pastor Robby has asked him to come back next Saturday to continue the revival he has started in us!

These two days have been a life changing experience for Impact Student Ministries and for me personally. My hope that when I blog this month it will reflect that change which has been made.
I have so much more to say about this weekend, as well as pictures to post, but it is about 1:30am and I have to get up early for church tomorrow, so I will continue this another day...
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