The glasses are 3D movie glasses, with the lenses popped out ;)
Have a wonderful day!
Love in Christ,
Karlee Kay
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Wordless Wednesday-I'm a dork ;)
The glasses are 3D movie glasses, with the lenses popped out ;)
Have a wonderful day!
Love in Christ,
Karlee Kay
Sunday, September 5, 2010
In 2 weeks...
....I will be 13! Wow, that doesn't even seem possible! My 12th year was the best year of my life I think. Other than when I was 9(and got saved...), it was definitely the best.
Why?......because, I moved just a half hour away from my house to this gorgeous country place, to this place I had never been before, didn't know anyone, but I thank the Lord for the reason why. What is that reason you ask? My church! Somewhere around late October/early November my dad came to be the pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Church in our city. I was a bit scared at first, honestly. I was also excited, my dad was gonna be a pastor again! But, I didn't know anybody. Well one Wednesday night I went to youth group at my(at the time) future church and met a girl, just one girl, but she was so nice to me we became fast friends(and to this day still are). She was kinda the only one I hung out with for a little while, then I met another girl and we kinda hung out a little bit too(this girl is now my best friend). There were a few other people I knew but never really connected with them as much...until this summer.
*fast forward until....June*
June, 2010.
Our youth group was kinda struggling, there was really only one girl that was doing great. 3(me and 2 others) girls went on a youth retreat in the middle of June, and that was really cool. We're still kinda having problems in the youth group until....
*fast forward until July*
The first 2 weeks of July nothing much is really happening....
The 3rd week of July I am sick, Wednesday night I don't go to church, and I hear that it was soooo amazing and that some people were really changed, particularly this one guy I had been praying for for so long. It was really amazing to see the change in him and we became good friends, but wait I skipped the whole week. Saturday(the same week) we had a youth group from Jacksonville, Florida come in and do a mission trip at our church, at first we didn't really get to know anybody, but while working together with them we became really close fast. It was such an amazing week of fun, serving the Lord, and fellowship. Monday thru Thursday we had a day camp for kids 3 yrs old to 6th grade, we all helped with that and it was so much fun, and we saw 11 kids get saved, and 2 youth, one from their group and one from ours. It was awesome. Friday night we had a youth rally. We had invited several youth groups from churches in our association but guess how many came? You got it...none. Everybody was pretty bummed, I(am known to try to look on the bright side) was trying to cheer everyone up by saying it's not about numbers anyway, It's about what God wants to do in our hearts, which is totally true. But can I tell you a secret? I was bummed too. I never told anyone that, I was just trying to cheer everyone else up. We started singing, guess what? Instant bum relief, for most of us, if not all of us. Definitely instant bum relief for me. It was an AMAZING worship service. Followed by an amazing message about Job and what he went through, but he still kept looking to God. Followed by an amazing invitation in which the person from their church got saved. Followed by an amazing testimonial time, in which, your's truly actually spoke in public, I was sitting in my seat, but still, I was speaking in front of at least 50 people, probably many more, which is something I do not do. Nevertheless I did, I talked about how the guy who made changes really surprised me and made me proud and gave me hope. I really don't remember most of what I said, I know it must have been totally jumbled up and not make much sense, because I was very nervous, I don't talk in front of anyone! But I did, and it was great. I could go on and on about the great testimonies, the great tears of joy flowing from probably everyone in the room's eyes, but I won't. I'll just tell you about how that was followed by my youth leader getting up and saying "I want everyone to get everything out of their pockets, leave it in your seats, your purses, cell phones, anything and follow me, come outside." We took everything out, got up and left, and he said "Did anybody hold out on me? About anything?" He was referring to leaving your cell phone, etc. in your pocket, but one girl from my youth group raised her hand, and said, "I need to be saved" and he hugged her, and talked to her after this, he said this was an illustration of how sometimes we just want to hold on to all our sin, and not just leave it at the cross. We prayed in the middle of the parking lot, and suddenly, after "amen" was said, something was flying at us. Water balloons. Come to find out the whole illustration was a trick to get our cell phone's out of pockets so they wouldn't get wet when we got attacked with water balloons. God had a bigger plan, for that one girl in my youth group to get saved that night, and she did. Is that not awesome? It was a GREAT night. But, it was also a night we had to say goodbye to all the friends we met, it was sad, but we're talking about taking a mission trip down there next summer! I'm confident we will see them again someday. That week was awesome, and totally impacting and reviving in our youth group. We are forever changed, and we will never go back! The next week was VBS, we were told we were gonna have a youth class this year. How lame does that sound? Totally lame. But, we did our own thing, and had SO much fun it was unbelievable, and 5 of our youth got saved! It was another awesome week. Summer 2010 totally rocked. It's over now, but I will never forget it.
*fast forward to NOW*
Everyone, BUT me is back in school, doing great. We're a changed bunch of kids now and forever. I love my youth group and have so many great, irreplaceable friends.
Sounds like my year was pretty awesome huh? I thought so. (:
I hope and pray that my 13th year will be even better.
Hope you guys enjoyed my re-cap of summer, I promise I thought I had written this all down before, but I guess not.
I'll be back soon!
Love in Christ,
-Karlee Kay
Why?......because, I moved just a half hour away from my house to this gorgeous country place, to this place I had never been before, didn't know anyone, but I thank the Lord for the reason why. What is that reason you ask? My church! Somewhere around late October/early November my dad came to be the pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Church in our city. I was a bit scared at first, honestly. I was also excited, my dad was gonna be a pastor again! But, I didn't know anybody. Well one Wednesday night I went to youth group at my(at the time) future church and met a girl, just one girl, but she was so nice to me we became fast friends(and to this day still are). She was kinda the only one I hung out with for a little while, then I met another girl and we kinda hung out a little bit too(this girl is now my best friend). There were a few other people I knew but never really connected with them as much...until this summer.
*fast forward until....June*
June, 2010.
Our youth group was kinda struggling, there was really only one girl that was doing great. 3(me and 2 others) girls went on a youth retreat in the middle of June, and that was really cool. We're still kinda having problems in the youth group until....
*fast forward until July*
The first 2 weeks of July nothing much is really happening....
The 3rd week of July I am sick, Wednesday night I don't go to church, and I hear that it was soooo amazing and that some people were really changed, particularly this one guy I had been praying for for so long. It was really amazing to see the change in him and we became good friends, but wait I skipped the whole week. Saturday(the same week) we had a youth group from Jacksonville, Florida come in and do a mission trip at our church, at first we didn't really get to know anybody, but while working together with them we became really close fast. It was such an amazing week of fun, serving the Lord, and fellowship. Monday thru Thursday we had a day camp for kids 3 yrs old to 6th grade, we all helped with that and it was so much fun, and we saw 11 kids get saved, and 2 youth, one from their group and one from ours. It was awesome. Friday night we had a youth rally. We had invited several youth groups from churches in our association but guess how many came? You got it...none. Everybody was pretty bummed, I(am known to try to look on the bright side) was trying to cheer everyone up by saying it's not about numbers anyway, It's about what God wants to do in our hearts, which is totally true. But can I tell you a secret? I was bummed too. I never told anyone that, I was just trying to cheer everyone else up. We started singing, guess what? Instant bum relief, for most of us, if not all of us. Definitely instant bum relief for me. It was an AMAZING worship service. Followed by an amazing message about Job and what he went through, but he still kept looking to God. Followed by an amazing invitation in which the person from their church got saved. Followed by an amazing testimonial time, in which, your's truly actually spoke in public, I was sitting in my seat, but still, I was speaking in front of at least 50 people, probably many more, which is something I do not do. Nevertheless I did, I talked about how the guy who made changes really surprised me and made me proud and gave me hope. I really don't remember most of what I said, I know it must have been totally jumbled up and not make much sense, because I was very nervous, I don't talk in front of anyone! But I did, and it was great. I could go on and on about the great testimonies, the great tears of joy flowing from probably everyone in the room's eyes, but I won't. I'll just tell you about how that was followed by my youth leader getting up and saying "I want everyone to get everything out of their pockets, leave it in your seats, your purses, cell phones, anything and follow me, come outside." We took everything out, got up and left, and he said "Did anybody hold out on me? About anything?" He was referring to leaving your cell phone, etc. in your pocket, but one girl from my youth group raised her hand, and said, "I need to be saved" and he hugged her, and talked to her after this, he said this was an illustration of how sometimes we just want to hold on to all our sin, and not just leave it at the cross. We prayed in the middle of the parking lot, and suddenly, after "amen" was said, something was flying at us. Water balloons. Come to find out the whole illustration was a trick to get our cell phone's out of pockets so they wouldn't get wet when we got attacked with water balloons. God had a bigger plan, for that one girl in my youth group to get saved that night, and she did. Is that not awesome? It was a GREAT night. But, it was also a night we had to say goodbye to all the friends we met, it was sad, but we're talking about taking a mission trip down there next summer! I'm confident we will see them again someday. That week was awesome, and totally impacting and reviving in our youth group. We are forever changed, and we will never go back! The next week was VBS, we were told we were gonna have a youth class this year. How lame does that sound? Totally lame. But, we did our own thing, and had SO much fun it was unbelievable, and 5 of our youth got saved! It was another awesome week. Summer 2010 totally rocked. It's over now, but I will never forget it.
*fast forward to NOW*
Everyone, BUT me is back in school, doing great. We're a changed bunch of kids now and forever. I love my youth group and have so many great, irreplaceable friends.
Sounds like my year was pretty awesome huh? I thought so. (:
I hope and pray that my 13th year will be even better.
Hope you guys enjoyed my re-cap of summer, I promise I thought I had written this all down before, but I guess not.
I'll be back soon!
Love in Christ,
-Karlee Kay
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