My Big Transition

Ok so the last month of my life has had more transitions than I ever want to experience in one month ever again, ha. Thats not a bad thing either, it was a very good transition.

So backing up....I have spent the last 4 years of my life in Masters Commission at Harvest Time in Fort Smith. I spent my first 3 years as a student and about the next year and half as staff. I was fully involved in Harvest Time as well as the 24-7 craziness of MCRemix. I have never learned and grew so much in my life as I did in those years. I had only been saved for a year when I stepped into MCRemix. I had planned on only doing one year of MC but did I know that God has other plans in store for me. :) Nope, but He did. Anyways, about a month ago I had a stirring up in my heart stronger than ever that it was time for me to move on. I'd had this feeling off and on for about a year but assumed it was just my own flesh wanting to be independent. I say that because I was extremely blessed being in MC. All of my housing and food was provided, so for most that is something to be totally pumped about, but for me....it almost drove me crazy! ha-ha it sounds so weird I know, but I am a VERY VERY independent person. I get a weird thrill and sense of security out of being able to provide for myself in every aspect of my life. Maybe it was because I got everything handed to me growing up and I realized as i got older that i took it for granted and so now I just prefer to do everything on my own. I really don't know? ha. So anyways I got the strong sense of feeling stronger than ever that I was ready to move on. I juggled the thoughts around in my head for about a week, then one Friday morning I just broke and decided today was the day I was moving on. Made a few phone calls and spent the morning talking things over with my parents. By 2pm that day I was stepping out of my role at MCRemix as well as my positions in leadership through 180Remix. I was terrified at first, thinking I was making a rational decision and would wake up the next morning thinking "What have I done?". But by 6pm that evening I was moved completely out of my apartment and crashing at my parents house till I figured out what to do next.

I spent the weekend still trying to sort my thoughts and honestly stressing myself to death because financially I had NOT prepared at all to move back out on my own. I lived on my own before MCRemix and at 25 you just don't move back in with your parents and due to my independent nature I wasn't about to do that or try and find someone to crash with for awhile. I was determined to get my own place first thing Monday morning. And that is exactly what I did. :) Monday rolled around and I called around and found a 1 bedroom apartment open for immediate move-in in Van Buren, which was like 1.5 minutes from my work so I went and checked it out hoping it would all work out. Sure enough it did and by 5PM that day I had spent over $700 in like a 2 hour span!!! Ha-ha I almost forgot how much it cost to move out and pay deposits on everything!!!!! But Gods favor was definitely upon me. I spent the next 2 weeks working my tail off and trying to get settled in what I know call "HOME". :)

Needless to say my fear of making a mistake didn't last long. I have never felt so at peace with such a big decision in my life. I am very, very happy and God has blessed me beyond believe in what little time I have stepped out and followed what truly turned out to be His will for my life.

I recently found a church in Alma (Southside Baptist) that from the moment I walked in the door felt like a place I could call home. It is a small growing church in a area that has such a need for God. I attended their College Age Sunday school class which is taught by the Alma Football coach. His wife and himself  were one of the biggest reasons this church made me feel so welcomed and ready to jump on board with this ministry. The worship was AMAZING and the Holy Spirit was so strong I seriously wanted to just go crazy happy!!!! :) Ha but being my first time there, I didn't! The message was awesome and the overall experience was something I just wanted to get my hands in. I never thought i'd be one to really like smaller churchs but I LOVE LOVE LOVE it!!! I am a people person and relationships are the beat of my heart and im so excited to see what kind of relationships and impact through God I will be able to make in yet another ministry in this area.

All this to say God is a God of trust. When I had fear of letting go of the Ministry I was so involved in and really the only ministry I have ever known, to follow something God put in my heart and had no idea where it would lead to. He led me to a place that I never thought i'd go, and I love it. May this be somewhat of an encouragement to you when you to will be moved from one ministry to another. God did SO much in me and taught me more than I thought i'd ever know or understand during my 6 years at MCRemix/Harvest Time and now I am being able to take all I learned and give it in another ministry in need. That is our whole purpose as Christians, is to build us up and send us out. I was sent out and it is the best decision i've ever made!


Mark 16:15
And then he told them, "Go into all the world and preach the Good News to everyone."(......all the world OR all of Arkansas. :)

Isaiah 6:1-8 (New International Version)- Isaiah's Commission

 ¹ In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted, and the train of his robe filled the temple.² Above him were seraphs, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. ³ And they were calling to one another: 

       "Holy, holy, holy is the LORD Almighty;
       the whole earth is full of his glory." ⁴ At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke.
 ⁵ "Woe to me!" I cried. "I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the LORD Almighty."
 ⁶ Then one of the seraphs flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. ⁷ With it he touched my mouth and said, "See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for."
 ⁸ Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?"
      And I said, "Here am I. Send me!"