Mission Work
after i went to honduras, i felt like God was calling me to possibly organize a local mission trip for TRUST, lima community church of the nazarene's college and career group for singles. so i started by going with alisha to an intown mission to paint at a lady in our church's home. it was a lot of fun and i talked to some leaders about possibly doing a separate mission with just the TRUST group. so this is like step #1...
Royal Family Kids Camp
each year i help out with a camp for abused and neglected children of allen county. i do the music and jump around and act crazy and silly. the sunday of camp was also father's day, so we went to a reds baseball game in cinnci before camp. here we are at the game. and i don't have any pictures of camp, sorry. but it was awesome!
General Assembly
linz and i are in gospel choir, and we were invited as a group to sing at general assembly in indianapolis the friday after/of RFKC. so as soon as the closing ceremony was over, linz and i took off and we brought tara and alisha with us. it was great fun, although we were all exhausted and moody. but that's ok. gospel choir was so much fun!
tara braided my hair in the car! dangerous, aye?
linz and i... and the gospel choir...
i got to see alli, one of my two new roommates at olivet! look... it's 2:00!
this guy, josh i think, was hilarious! we sang in a huge choir and i brought jonathan and tara and alisha with me and we sat by mid america... this kid was hilarious! he cracked me up soo bad!
Leading Worship
jonathan and i got to go to mark and holly's church and lead worship one sunday. it was a lot of fun, and oh, so good to see mark and holly again! this is their new complete family... mark, Holly, ella grace and ayden wesley. he's adorable!
Fireworks!
for the fourth, sandie and i went and met tara, alisha, brian, nathan, tytus and bekah and watched the fireworks together. it was awesome. oh, and we ate popcorn that was delicious!!
Great Grandpa Burkey
grandpa died in july, and we went as a family to the funeral. this is many of my immediate burkey family at the funeral. grandpa lived to be 96 and went water skiing for the last time at the age of 92, i think those numbers are right. he was such an awesome man! he sure left our family a legacy. he loved Jesus with all of his heart and his greatest desire was that his whole family would come to know Jesus.
Candace and Brandon
my cousin candace got married, i think July 15th. it was so beautiful! candace is gorgeous and brandon is just awesome! i'm so excited for them! i got to be a greeter, and it was amazing. i just love my cousins!
Vacation Bible School
VBS week kristi ball came to visit me for a week. it was great fun. she went to VBS with me each night, i helped lead kids worship and dressed up as if i was from the 5os. i also told the story a few nights because dad was sick after getting back from a mission trip to new york city with the youth group and jonathan. VBS was awesome... and then the boys won, so michael remole, our children's pastor intern for the summer, got to slime miss sheri! talk about totally rock out! miss sheri had never lost!! :)
Doug and Katie
doug and katie got married and we all went to the wedding. it seems so unreal. no more katie windau... now it's mrs. katie shannon! how weird! my friends are getting married!! aahh!! dancing at the wedding was awesome! well, kinda... i had dropped a huge can of lentil beans on my foot earlier that day at lazeza's, so i hurt but i danced for kristi's sake. and it rocked!!! i love my friends! if only i could dance like a fried... lol! :)
here all of us are... heidi, brian, megan, jordan, jenny, me, tara and kristi. we danced the night away!
TRUST
these are some of my trust friends. we love to go to arby's after tuesday night trust, and kristi got to meet my friends. this is brian and nate and caleb and kristi.
Grandma's House!
we took kristi with us one day and went and visited grandma. this is emily foxworthy. her grandma and mine were like best friends growing up, so we had like a 2-family reunion. emily goes to olivet too, so that was really kewl. i had to leave early to go to work, so that's why i have my lazeza shirt on. i'm not really that big of a dork!
Roadtrip to Marysville!
well, it was really to dublin... jonathan and i decided out of the blue one saturday to go and visit chris and amy just because we could... and then it was even awesomer because jimmy was there too! it was a blast. we hung out and talked, went and got pizza, then the boys got icecream and we got coffee, and we talked more and went back to amy's house and took some pics. i just love chris and amy and jimmy!!! i miss them when i'm not at olivet!
Mission Work
so this summer, i kinda piddled around and didn't put a trip together until the end of the summer... i don't really know why, i think i was just afraid and i totally shouldn't have been! look at this group! there were around 20 college kids that came out and helped me... we went to this community center and helped clean up in and around it. we painted and cleared the sidewalk and helped the staff out. they're short staffed at the moment as many of the staff are struggling with health issues, so it was just really kewl to go and be the hands and feet of Jesus for a few short hours. lima is our mission field. i'm excited at the possiblity of missions in TRUST's future.
Royal Family Kids Camp
Fireworks!
Candace and Brandon
Vacation Bible School
Doug and Katie
Grandma's House!
Roadtrip to Marysville!
Mission Work
