Howdy there everybody!
How's it going in the world? Well if you read the header you would have found out that Persist ended. And minus one point on my reliability score, it ended at least two weeks ago, and I am just now getting around to telling you. But add a point because I already sent out my thank you letters to all my supporters! I was on top of that.
Persist was awesome, Immerse was cool too. I totally recommend doing Persist to all the youth that even stumble onto this page. I know if you start looking into it you are going to see these figures that look crazy, but let me tell you, my family didn't have to pay a penny-out-of-pocket for Persist. Don't be afraid to ask for support, God will meet you where you are, but you have to do it in faith. Nothing will happen without faith, and our faith was said to be "able to move mountains". Trust in God. But I don't recommend it if you are not commited to prayer and seeking God. It calls for true desire and hunger for the Lord and just to let you know that desire and hunger will only grow stronger, they aren't trying to cure you of it.
It was the best summer for me by far!
Thanks all of you for reading my blog. Yall rock!
I love you all!
Callie
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Day 2 of Kansas City Trip
Good Morning everyone,
How's life?? It's tough trying to catch up on lots of days you missed. But I will catch up eventually.
So yeah its the second day of our trip and we all headed out early to the prayer room again. It was the same thing as the day before, but different band members and possibly more people. We stayed in there that same amount of time.
And spent rest of our day at home play games together like Cranium and me and Bethany went against the three 'M's. Me and Bethany were way ahead and then got stuck on the data heads!!! And then all those 'M' names caught up to us and won!!!!! Crummer!
That night we went back to the awakening service and stayed again until 10. It was good to just sit and soak in the spirit among everyone else doing the same thing. Time really flew, it didn't feel like 3 hours at all before we left.
That night we all slept well and got ready for our trip back home. Another 12 hours awaited us and we were mentally prepared. Bethany had a book in her bag called 'To Save a Life' based on the movie that was made this past year. I read all 314 pages in six hours.lol I was really bored. I drew Bethany and she drew me and we swapped pictures I took a picture of mine and it's the screen saver on my phone.
We didn't stop to eat dinner so we could get home sooner. It was a great trip! And I am thankful to God for helping me conquer my fears.
From all my observations of IHOP I learned that they love to say three things: joy, fire, and more Lord.
Thanks for listening about my trip! Yall rock!
How's life?? It's tough trying to catch up on lots of days you missed. But I will catch up eventually.
So yeah its the second day of our trip and we all headed out early to the prayer room again. It was the same thing as the day before, but different band members and possibly more people. We stayed in there that same amount of time.
And spent rest of our day at home play games together like Cranium and me and Bethany went against the three 'M's. Me and Bethany were way ahead and then got stuck on the data heads!!! And then all those 'M' names caught up to us and won!!!!! Crummer!
That night we went back to the awakening service and stayed again until 10. It was good to just sit and soak in the spirit among everyone else doing the same thing. Time really flew, it didn't feel like 3 hours at all before we left.
That night we all slept well and got ready for our trip back home. Another 12 hours awaited us and we were mentally prepared. Bethany had a book in her bag called 'To Save a Life' based on the movie that was made this past year. I read all 314 pages in six hours.lol I was really bored. I drew Bethany and she drew me and we swapped pictures I took a picture of mine and it's the screen saver on my phone.
We didn't stop to eat dinner so we could get home sooner. It was a great trip! And I am thankful to God for helping me conquer my fears.
From all my observations of IHOP I learned that they love to say three things: joy, fire, and more Lord.
Thanks for listening about my trip! Yall rock!
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Trip to Kansas City
Dear reader's of the world,
Sorry I haven't posted much lately. I was on my trip to Kansas City! To International House of Prayer!! It was my first trip away from my family and I was very nervous leading up to the trip and it took a lot of humility to ask for prayer about my anxiety, but when I did I was really happy I had. My team was so sweet to me and were empathetic to my fears. You rock Persisters!!
We road tripped in and it was a 12 hour drive there and back. We took a whole day to drive there and by the time we got to the 7th or 8th hour we were all getting a little tired of the road. But we listened to music and play bible related car games and it was good bonding time. We got there and stayed in a cute little house that some of Matt and Moriah's friends found for them. It was a great house, only one problem, six people:one bathroom.
Me and Bethany shared a room and a tiny bed. We had to sleep horizontally, and I almost got pushed off the bed twice! I'm not bitter. We slept long and well and woke up early the next morning to get ready to go to IHOP.
We arrived and went into the prayer room right away to my surprise IHOP was huge! The amount of people in the prayer room was astounding! At least a hundred and fifty and it was 9am in the morning on a Thursday! They had a band on stage singing songs and then just jamming out on the guitar and piano. We sat down near the front and pulled out our bibles and started to sing with the this went on for about an hour and then the band switched with another, careful to always have some form of live music playing. The second band started playing softly and a man walked up to the podium and started to pray for Israel and everyone joined in and chanted a small prayer for Israel for awhile.
We stayed in the prayer room for another hour or two and headed back to the house for lunch. And I nap before we headed back for a teaching on Evangelism by a woman that had a vision of hell. I didn't quite agree with her teaching. I think that it is completely wrong to be scared into religion, God wants us to show his love when we evangelize, not threaten the lost with an eternity of agony. But that is just my opinion on the subject.
That night we ate dinner and got ready to go to the IHOP Awakening Service. I don't know if I've ever seen so many well dressed people! Anyways, there had to be at least five hundred people there! And half of them were all crowded up in a mob in the front by the stage where Misty Edwards was playing Soul Cry. It was really cool to see so many people rocking out and then there were other people wandering through the crowd laying hands on people and people were shaking and falling and laughing and crying and it was so cool! Me and Bethany walked up and joined the mob and started laying hands on anyone and everyone! It was so freeing to be in a place where a bunch of young people were all gathered together in God's name and having a great time and operating in the gifts God gave them!
Well anyways that completes the first night of our trip!We went home at about 10 o'clock that night me and Bethany watched Jurassic Park for the first time once we got home. I thought the people made the funniest faces when they were being eaten.
Thanks for reading!
Sunday, July 4, 2010
Day 8
Happy Fourth of July everyone!
Wednesday...what happened on Wednesday? OH YEAH!!!!
Well I got there early and hung out with Bethany and Micah for a little while and then we had a little time of study, but Bethany left her binder at a house down the street so we walked over there to get for her which pretty much took up our time of study, but whatever that's okay!
We went into the prayer room and prayed for an hour and a half(I did a lot of study on Galatians and that was super fun) and then sat in on Midday prayer. I have sat in on so many of those that I actually have all the regular prayers memorized!
We then went and grabbed some Nachos and headed into an office to have our lesson about the bible and the different ways bible characters functioned and ministered. We studied the Old Testament and the only way not listed was charismatic because that involves the Holy Spirit dwelling in you and that didn't occur until Acts 2 in the New Testament.
Then we went back into the prayer room for staff prayer and that was awesome! We spent a lot of time thanking Jesus for the cross and then praying for Israel and then we put two people into the center of our circle(Bill and Jake) and everyone was praying for Bill when Matt said "I think our interns have something for you, go interns, Bill's nice!" So we all prayed for Bill and that was really fun because we all did better than we thought we would and then we were the first to pray for Jake and that was cool too.
Then we had an hour of fun and Bethany had to leave early so me and Micah went over to the Cogdell's and played Twister with Noah and Kara and that was cool. Noah and was really competitive so it was really hard to beat him. But I was happy and sore after I won the last round!
That's the end of Day 8! Thanks for keeping up with all my fun happenings!!!!
Love yall!
Wednesday...what happened on Wednesday? OH YEAH!!!!
Well I got there early and hung out with Bethany and Micah for a little while and then we had a little time of study, but Bethany left her binder at a house down the street so we walked over there to get for her which pretty much took up our time of study, but whatever that's okay!
We went into the prayer room and prayed for an hour and a half(I did a lot of study on Galatians and that was super fun) and then sat in on Midday prayer. I have sat in on so many of those that I actually have all the regular prayers memorized!
We then went and grabbed some Nachos and headed into an office to have our lesson about the bible and the different ways bible characters functioned and ministered. We studied the Old Testament and the only way not listed was charismatic because that involves the Holy Spirit dwelling in you and that didn't occur until Acts 2 in the New Testament.
Then we went back into the prayer room for staff prayer and that was awesome! We spent a lot of time thanking Jesus for the cross and then praying for Israel and then we put two people into the center of our circle(Bill and Jake) and everyone was praying for Bill when Matt said "I think our interns have something for you, go interns, Bill's nice!" So we all prayed for Bill and that was really fun because we all did better than we thought we would and then we were the first to pray for Jake and that was cool too.
Then we had an hour of fun and Bethany had to leave early so me and Micah went over to the Cogdell's and played Twister with Noah and Kara and that was cool. Noah and was really competitive so it was really hard to beat him. But I was happy and sore after I won the last round!
That's the end of Day 8! Thanks for keeping up with all my fun happenings!!!!
Love yall!
Update!!!!
Dear Readers!
I am so very sorry for the delay in my posts. I hope that you haven't all left me! The internet was down where I usually type up my posts and I have been unable to type until this very moment!
PLEASE FORGIVE ME!!!!
Callie
I am so very sorry for the delay in my posts. I hope that you haven't all left me! The internet was down where I usually type up my posts and I have been unable to type until this very moment!
PLEASE FORGIVE ME!!!!
Callie
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Day 7
Hey there everybody!!!!
How's God blessing you today???? He's blessing me with tasty bacon for breakfast!(sorry to any vegetarians or vegans reading this blog) Anyway's lets talk about what I'm doing at Persist because that is what I'm here for! Lets get started before I get super off topic!
Well I got to AHOP really early yesterday and I wrote my blog then we all met up and went to Bennu and Micah got this drink that smelled like jello and we had this really long talk about how he shouldn't drink that because it might have jellotine in it and that has cow in it and Micah and Bethany are vegetarians, and I feel super creepy eating my bacon right here as they're reading over my shoulder!!!! ANYWAYS we went to Bennu to have our group mentoring time and talked about our studies and questions we had.
Then we went back and prayed for two hours and we did this cool thing where we went through the alphabet and said things like "God you are Awesome, Amazing, All powerful, Able...etc" and we got all the way to 'I' and had to stop.
We ate lunch with the rest of the staff and then played four square on a court we built in the front parking lot which I think is still there though its been run over several times. We then went into class and had another lesson about hearing from God. This hearing thing gets so much easier with practice!
We went into the prayer room after class to pray over what we just learned and that was fun and helped make things a little clearer.
Well I think that about wraps up Day 7!
We went into the prayer room after class to pray over what we just learned and that was fun and helped make things a little clearer.
Well I think that about wraps up Day 7!
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Day 6
Good Morning!
I feel like I start blogging earlier and earlier, when in reality I log on at about the same time every morning! Wait...I am actually starting earlier today!!!
Anyways, I hoped you all liked my Treasure Hunting Adventures! Sorry it took so long to post them, but I had so many stories I had to put them in a separate entry than Day 5.
But this post is about Day 6 so let's talk about yesterday! I got to AHOP at the usual time and entered my post and at 9am we all met together to do some volunteer work for Cielo, a water company that also share's the building with AHOP and Imagine Art. They brought out several trash bags full of water bottles and two tubs of water and told us to make an assembly line and clean the water bottles, all who had for some reason fallen on the floor and needed to be cleaned with bleach water and then clean water and sorted. So we spent an hour doing that.
Then we went into the prayer room and prayed for 2 hours. And then went out with the rest of the staff to eat sandwiches and over lunch we had a very interesting conversation with Philipe and Will about marriage and what you're looking for in your spouse and what makes a good marriage, and it was kinda fun to see everyone's view's about it and what they looked for in a mate.
Then we walked down the street to a neighborhood trampoline and we jumped for awhile and walked back. It was really hot outside! I shouldn't have worn jeans!!!
We then went back into an office and had our lesson on hearing from God and how he speaks to each of us differently. And that was cool because I didn't know that God could speak through things so clearly like music, or books, or even the time on the clock!
Then we went back into the prayer room for another two hours of prayer and we had a fun time listening to God and hearing what he had to say. At the end we met up to say what we heard and Matt said God told him "Brusselsprouts=trash"!!!hahaha!
Anyway that was the end of day 6 of Persist!
And we're........................................................................................................................................DONE!
I feel like I start blogging earlier and earlier, when in reality I log on at about the same time every morning! Wait...I am actually starting earlier today!!!
Anyways, I hoped you all liked my Treasure Hunting Adventures! Sorry it took so long to post them, but I had so many stories I had to put them in a separate entry than Day 5.
But this post is about Day 6 so let's talk about yesterday! I got to AHOP at the usual time and entered my post and at 9am we all met together to do some volunteer work for Cielo, a water company that also share's the building with AHOP and Imagine Art. They brought out several trash bags full of water bottles and two tubs of water and told us to make an assembly line and clean the water bottles, all who had for some reason fallen on the floor and needed to be cleaned with bleach water and then clean water and sorted. So we spent an hour doing that.
Then we went into the prayer room and prayed for 2 hours. And then went out with the rest of the staff to eat sandwiches and over lunch we had a very interesting conversation with Philipe and Will about marriage and what you're looking for in your spouse and what makes a good marriage, and it was kinda fun to see everyone's view's about it and what they looked for in a mate.
Then we walked down the street to a neighborhood trampoline and we jumped for awhile and walked back. It was really hot outside! I shouldn't have worn jeans!!!
We then went back into an office and had our lesson on hearing from God and how he speaks to each of us differently. And that was cool because I didn't know that God could speak through things so clearly like music, or books, or even the time on the clock!
Then we went back into the prayer room for another two hours of prayer and we had a fun time listening to God and hearing what he had to say. At the end we met up to say what we heard and Matt said God told him "Brusselsprouts=trash"!!!hahaha!
Anyway that was the end of day 6 of Persist!
And we're........................................................................................................................................DONE!
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