What a Week!!! Part I

Givin' In... (Sunday)
so i finally did it. i gave in to this blogging business...tsk, tsk (shaking head)...yes, all props givin' to young Ruth a.k.a myspace addict. No, no...not our dear mrs. david lowe, ruth from the Church On The Way...yea, you know...the one you haven't met yet? that's the one. Every Sunday morning and Wednesday night she greets me with a big hoop and holler "hey myspace girl!". well, i haven't post anything on myspace yet though and i don't think i will do it soon either. For now, i'll keep to this one.
Today, i felt the peace of the Lord upon me so mightily. I truly believed i experienced one of those "resting in the shadow of his wings" moment again. My paintings were no where close to completion, I haven't started on my reading project, nor have i studied for my history midterm. I haven't figured out how to be at three different places at one time yet tomorrow (never triple your agenda folks) and i just found out that one of my girl is considering moving out of the state to run away from her problems. And yet, it was alright...no stress. It's like being in the eye of the storm, everything in me was calm though everything around me are raging fiercely. It's like when Peter was walking on water and his eyes are on Jesus. He didn't sink or was moved by the waves when he kept his eyes on Him. I know that God is blessing me with rest for now because after i have been replenished, there will be more battles to fight for His Kingdom. Thank you for the peace that surpasses all understanding my Lord! Oh! And a wonderful surprise for me today! I've been missing this person because i haven't seen him for awhile and then he shows up and gives me a big hug. Isn't God Good?? (and all of God's people say...He is good...All the time!) oh yeah!

What, Watts...? (Saturday)
God is so awesome and boy, was He at work yesterday! We had our 2nd annual Watts Outreach and let me tell you, it was off da hook yo! Yes, you read correctly...off da hook!
So after having three hours of sleep, my sister and i woke up an hour late so we couldn't help load up the truck with all the goodies. We arrived at church at 8am on the dot. That's a miracle in itslef, i tell ya. Then, my first problem of the day showed its face. how in the world are we going to transport 20 teenagers and 13 adults to Watts when one of the driver couldn't show up. did i tell you that this driver was suppose to drive the church's excursion; which seats 8 people including the driver? yea...so we have 7 bodies that we couldn't leave behind but no car to take them either. We couldn't just let anyone drive either, they have to be on the church's insurance. All praise and honor to our Lord because one of the parent came along and offer to drive her car. And it was all settled (snaps finger) just like that. It took one hour of trying to find a way and within a matter of utterance in three seconds, it was solved. Hallelujah!
There were many more problems that happened throughout the day, like me losing my cd's, banners not wanting to stay where they are put, melting chocolate bars and cakes because the refridgerator was not delivered yet, the generator didn't want to start so we didn't have the sound system going for a moment, no ribbons to tie to our helium blown balloons, shortage of plates and hot dog buns...should i go on? But i did tell you that God is awesome and He was at work right? well, for every problem we encounter, He gave us a solution. i found my cds and everything else came into place. the stomp team was magnifying the name of the Lord and the drama team enlighten his Words. The highlight of the day was when the people who came to the Lord during the outreach. I was able to share the gospel with many people and three of them i will never forget. One of them i gave my bible to. Yea, my most favorite bible is now going to be someone else's favorite bible. Praise the Lord.
God is wonderful and to think that most people gripe and groan just at the thought of serving the Lord. Some even turn down the offer of ministering to people. I left that outreach so blessed! Have you ever seen a child's eyes light up and their countenance change from misery to great joy and hope because she just found out that there is a God, who created this complex universe, and He loves her and created her with a purpose, then you know what i mean. her name is Brenda and she accepted the Lord into her heart yesterday. God, there is no one else quite like you and I thank you for loving your people.

Amazing...(Friday)
Friday morning, i was up at 630am in order to pick the uhual rental by 7am. Yes!! I drove a uhual cargo van...yea baby! That's another thing to cross off my "things i want to do before i turn 25" list. Then off i go to pick up Tom from the church. We had to go to Bell to pick up some things from one of our vendors for the outreach the next day. When we were on the 101 freeway, Tom had a brief seizure...yea a SEIZURE...i didn't recognize it at first so i extended my hand to him and bu'st out prayin' in tongues 'cause i didn't know what or how to begin praying. Scary moment, i tell ya. Immediately he stopped and was back to normal.
Okay, so after that ordeal we had another one. When we got to the warehouse, people already took all the good things and we were left with only the sucky things. After filling out the forms and everything, the supervisor came out to tell us that he couldn't allow us to take anything because The Church On The Way usually get their donations from the Children's Hunger Fund and it would be a conflict of interest if he authorized it. Therefore, he needed a pastor to come down and sign the papers. What??! We had two hours left until they close, the goods were rapidly disappearing and the outreach is tomorrow morning. Talk about check mate, we had no more moves left. But PRAISE the lord for being in control. Tom remembered Pastor Clarence's phone number and we were able to reach him. That's a miracle 'cause Pastor Clarence is extremely hard to reach. He spoke with the supervisor over the phone and the guy allowed us to take the things if Pastor Clarence agreed to come down to sign the papers on Monday. Hallelujah!! When i first saw what was left over, i was discourage because there was practically nothing left. After seeing that our we only had a few boxes loaded, he asked if that was all we were taking. I explained to him that there wasn't anything left and there were limits on the quantity we were allowed to take from each category. So guess what?? He gave us a list of things that they were donating that day and told us if there were anything on the list that was not available for us, tell him and he will get it for us.We left there with tons of food, cosmetic and hygiene products ! Jesus you are our very present help in time of need!