9 months have passed...dang!

Honestly I think I forgot that I even had a blog until a friend told me the other day that he came across it and found some of my entires rather amusing. It's telling of the busyness of my life lately. In the past 9 months I have been out of town for, collectively, 2 months, more if you count when I was just gone for the weekend to visit family or for a student conference. This is a record for me. I'm kinda having a love/hate relationship with all the traveling. I've gotten to connect with people and friends, which I love but it also means long hours in airports and planes and leaving behing people and friends whom I love. But the opportunites that I've had have been awesome...In the past 9 months I have:

• Emceed IV's Orientation for New Staff in Madison, WI


• Went to Chicago for vacation
• Went to Miami for Divisional Meeting


• Was invited to be a part of the planning committee for the Atlanta 2008 National Black Student Conference and was flown to Madison, WI for meetings


• Led 2 seminars at our Sonburst Conference (one on Being Bi-Racial which was awesome!


• Went to Chicago for mentoring and IV's National Women's Conference where I danced in front of 100 women (something I hadn't done for like, 13 years)


• Spoke at Perspective Staff Days conference in Austin, TX on God's Will for Your Life
• Went to the infamous Simpson Wood in ATL for Regional Staff Conference
• Celebrated my 29th Birthday with a great party - Why Wait till 30 when you can Celebrate 29!?!


• Went home for Christmas and for the first time in 3 years didn't have to fly out the day after


• Went to St. Louis, MO for National Staff Conference


• Was interviewed for an Assistant Area Director position in Austin, TX


• Accepted the position


• Flew out to Austin to see what I was really getting myself into, drove around with the GPS that I got for Christmas and still managed to get utterly lost
• Went to Gainesville for an AWESOME church confernece
• Went to Jax for another Divisional Conference...also very cool


• Directed and emceed our Spring Leadership Conference...fun, ligistical nightmare but had a student say "yes" to following Jesus which made it all worth it


• Been on monthly phone conference calls for Atlanta which feel like being out of town on a meeting


• Spoken at too many mission conferences to count


• and tomorrow I fly to Atlanta for our Black Staff Conference...

I think I might need a vacation. Oh, and in case you missed it, I am moving to Austin, TX. I know, crazy! But it is a God thing for sure and I could go into details about how all that came about but it would take hours so if you are really curious, let me know.

Well, that's a little update on my life lately. I tried adding more pictures but apparently blogger wasn't happy about that so above are a few from the summer and women's conference.

I can't make any promises that I'll be on here again soon, but i'll try....

Until then - Peace