Shrove Tuesday w/ My Peeps

Every Tuesday I meet with my community which is PROBABLY the best community in the world - just throwing that out there. This past Tuesday was Shrove Tuesday, the day before Lent where you are suppose to eat pancakes or crepes as Americans would call them.

Here we are - life is good when you eat pancakes!

The Gang - Jon, Helen, & Ally (minus Anna, who was missed of course)

Just a bunch of silly goof balls we are! :)

Ally was so kind to bring some American pancake batter as well - she's always making me feel at home here!

Here I am practicing the pancake flip - let's just say it took a few tries! AND not quite sure why my hoodie zipper lights up for the camera!?!

I happened to be flipping through Jon & Helen's calendar and noticed my birthday was ALREADY on their calendar. DUDE, I have only been going to their community for 3 weeks. I am impressive.

PROBABLY the best community in the world....I think YES! :)

Raising up Mary's...

About a week ago I felt the Lord say that my focus needs to be on raising up a generation of Mary's. So for the past week I have been diving into the verses on Mary and Martha.

You know the story - Martha was a busy bee serving the Lord, questioning Jesus why her sister Mary wasn't helping her, only to have Jesus rebuke her saying that Mary has chosen what is better.

As I have been thinking about raising up women who are like Mary, I realized I first must be a Mary. I can't lead someone into something I am not doing myself. A lesson that's true for so many things.

Martha was distracted by the preparations and worried and upset about serving Jesus and yet at the end of the day Jesus just wants our undivided attention.

It's disheartening for me to think about how many times have I been distracted, worried, and/or upset about something that I think is all for Jesus, when really He's probably saying to me STOP put down the preparations and sit with me.

All simple truths AND yet as I look at my life as I am starting to get stuck into life here I realize how quickly I can pile on "duties" without really knowing if it's what Jesus want of me.

So BAM! - put on the fire, get a blanket, make a cup of joe, and get me some time at those sweet smelling feet of Jesus!

Prison Ministry

Last weekend I had the opportunity to travel to London with two of my friends, Pippa & Ronan! We went to attend a concert to support people in England who do prison ministry which is what Pippa & Ronan do!

All excited for the 3 hour car ride! :) It was sweet to hear these guys heart for the boys in the prison and the challenges they face as they enter into their lives.

Of course we made a stop along the way for Starbucks! :)

AND Ronan (a personal trainer) got some KFC - do as he says not as he does I guess!

Here's a taste of the concert! Let's just say we were the minority - a great experience to get me out of my element! :)

4 hours later when we were ready to leave we walked outside to this! We were hoping this was our car as we began to get all the snow off AND 5 hours later we arrived back in Sheffield at 5am!

I had a great time with these two and loved learning more about how God is working in the prisons - pretty sweet!