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Q: How has God been preparing you to do work for Him?

A: I think one way that God has been preparing me to do work for Him is by surrounding me with a loving christian community of friends and family. I think that through growing up in a christian family and in a christian school I can learn more about God every day. Although in a way it is a disadvantage to not be able to experience other religions and other people that aren’t the same as us in everyday life, I think that I still have opportunities to experience those things in different ways such as mission trips and other connections with my school and church. A lot of times I take the many blessings for granted. But other times when I realize how much I am blessed it makes me think about how much I could impact the life of someone else by sharing something that I already receive in abundance every day. It makes me think about how crazy it is how much I value earthly things because, even though I already have much more than necessary, I still complain about little things and want more. This makes me exited yet heart broken a the same time. I think that by blessing me with so much God is showing me how earthly things will never be able to fill you, like things that are not earthly like Gods love and the promise of salvation. I think in this way he is preparing me to be able to bless others not only with earthly necessities like food water and a home, but He is preparing me to share His love and the amazing fact that His grace covers all of our sins and the comforting promise of salvation.

Uzbekistan Keynote:
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While working on our PBL I have learned about how much we have. Here in the United States we have religious freedom, that some times we take for granted, but in places like Uzbekistan they don’t. People all around the world are being persecuted for their faith but there are ways that we can help.

This week in bible we have been learning about the difference between the early church and ideal churches now. Some examples we decided on for an ideal church were things like comfy chairs, good food, and interesting pastors. Some of the things we learned about the early church is that the were very unified, they gave if they had more and if you had less you would receive, they were all equal and they meet every day. Some reflections on this is that our suggestions for an ideal church is more self centered. It was about making the church better for us by using material items and in the end it was no longer much of a church. When the church first started they were very willing to give. If anyone had extra they didn’t keep it for themselves, they used only what they needed so that everyone would have enough. They were also willing to do whatever God wanted for them. They were filled with the Holy Spirit and their decisions were centered around Gods will and the Holy Spirit.

I think that the seven last phrases that Jesus said can teach us a lot. The two posters I choose to focus on were practice obedience and trust in God. I think that these two phrases go together because to be able to be obedient to God you have to trust that He has the best plan and obeying Him is the right thing to do. Another one of the last phrases that I learned about Jesus threw was desire that forgiveness is given. I think this would have been really hard to desire forgiveness for the people because they were killing her.

This weekend in church we continued learning about the Lords prayer and about prayer. We focused on the section of “give us this day our daily bread” My pastor talked about that if you think about all the things that actually need to happen to make bread and get it to the store and to our house that is like a metaphor for what we are asking for, everything we need in that day, other people need to do things for us to get what we need and we are asking God for all of that.