Life Lately

   It's almost Thanksgiving so the anticipation of going home and seeing my parents and extended family is welling up inside me. HOORAY i'm so excited. I'm traveling home with two guys from my brother house and one of my housemates... and i'm terribly excited to see one of my brothers step foot on a mountain for the first time! It was fun enough to see him experience snow fall for the first time but i can't wait to see his face when he sees an entire mountain (he's from an island near Jamaica).
   CHRISTMAS has already arrived at our home in Spokane. It's been snowing for about a week and the four Christmas trees in our house are set up... i repeat... FOUR! I got a head start on Christmas gifts and i officially can mark off the person who is THE hardest to shop for.
   I'm super excited about my new church and the fact that we are going through Romans! WooHoo! My new PCM is beginning in about two months which is really exciting and nerve recking all at the same time.
   My classes are coming to an end in about 3 weeks (what the heck... weird). I have finals Dec. 12th-15th and i'm pretty nervous because i know they are going to be hard.
   I'm starting to read How to be Free from Bitterness... wish me luck
   Learning to pray scripture because it just seems better... call me crazy. Psalm 139" Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting." When you ask God to show you the offenses in your heart... He actually does and then you have to deal with them.
   I need new tights.

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Life Services!

   It's encouraging to know that there are well over 500 students in Spokane serving in some way every week. Thank-you Moody Bible Institute for reminding us Bible students that it isn't enough to read books about serving, talk about serving, encourage other people to serve, and wait for the day when we can "really" serve.
   Each semester at Moody, a student must be actively serving in our Practical Christian Ministry (PCM). This first semester i spent visiting churches and listening to pastors and teachers tell us all the ways we could serve. I was slightly discouraged at first when i didn't find a church that i fell in love with BUT... i've begun to go to a small church called Sunrise Bible that i adore (brownie points that my favorite  professor goes there). Due to the fact that they are relatively small, there wasn't a lot of places to serve aside from children's ministry.
   Hope was not lost. I started looking into a ministry called Life Services which is a free clinic for mothers with unexpected pregnancies. Most of the young women are in their teens and are weighing the options between abortion and keeping their babies to term. I fell in love with the ministry this place has.

Did you know:

• It is legal in Washington for a girl of any age to get an abortion without her parent's consent...
• BUT it is illegal to give a girl under 14 treatment for an STD
• Since 1973's Roe vs Wade, 53 MILLION lives have been lost to abortion. That is equivalent to killing every person in Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, Montana,and Utah today.
• In 1997, Norma McCorvey (known as Jane Roe) became a born again believer and recanted her involvement from having anything to do with the tragedy of abortion.
• The abortion rate for children with down-syndrome is 95%
• 65% of women who have abortions claim to be protestant or Catholic

I'm reading a book right now called Why Pro-Life? Caring for the un-born and their mothers. It's amazing to hear the argument against abortion and still see human beings kill other human beings. I honestly believe that it is the lack of knowledge and pure ignorance that keeps so many people pro-choice. The director at Life services is a post-abortion woman and to hear her story was incredible. I love the fact that this ministry doesn't only focus on the saving of lives but also on the hearts of each woman and family who passes through their doors.

Materials i am devouring:

1. Why Pro-Life? Caring for the un-born and their mothers by Randy Alcorn
2. 180 Movie
3. Anything about Margaret Sangers (founder of Planned Parenthood)
4. Guttmacher Institute (Guttmacher took over Planned Parenthood when Sangers died. Read the information and take it with a grain of salt)
5. Dr. Peter Singer (this man makes my skin crawl... ugh)

Life Services...