Communing with nature AKA Junior High Camp

Next week I will be communing with nature... WITH 300+ Junior High Students. So there won't be much time for communing, which is fine with me!
I will be leading a group of 8 girls, all 7th and 8th grade.

Please be praying for this time away, as of course the whole idea is to introduce the kids to God on a deeper level. In between worship, sessions, crazy competition, painball, rock climbing, mountain biking and who knows what else my heart is to really help my girls to understand who God is and get them ready to follow God in their day to day life, especially once school starts again in September.

I really want God to show up for my girls (and the other 300 as well) in a huge way and change lives.

Please pray that God would show up, that He would help me to get to know the girls, pray for them, have fun with them and that team YELLOW would win all the competitions! LOL

But seriously, would appreciate your prayers. Camp is from July 30 - August 3. Photos will be posted soon after I'm back...

To get immediate updates, follow me on twitter: twitter.com/jackie_doyle or go to the official church camp blog: centralparents.com/blog

Thanks

A Saturday Story

Last Saturday my friend and me ended up having a few different events where we both would be at the same time and place.
So to help me out (no air con in my car) she decided to pick me up at my end of town, drive all over town, go to House warming Parties, pick up craft supplies, dinner and craft night.

It was a great day and I had decided to treat it as a 'Fake Road Trip'. Here are some pictures from that day! :)

All packed for the 'roadtrip'

First Stop pretty much on the opposite end of town! Nice neighborhood eh?

Oh yeah, Juan Pablo Montoya was with us all the way! He is very helpful and doesn't stress at all when you take a wrong turn!

I had a bit of time to kill... There are probably about 15 more pictures that look exactly like this one! LOL

After the House warming party (no pictures; forgot to take in the camera) we went to dinner at Red Robin! Best deal ever: BOTTOMLESS Rootbeer Floats (or coke float in my case) So fun!

Fun with my friends. We usually get together and they scrapbook.. Since I don't scrapbook (coz I don't really like it) I go and hang out, do cards, and my newest thing: necklaces.

I love these nights. Mainly because everyone is slightly crazy.... From a parent who had a 'boys vs girl spitball fight' in her house, to the young adult who's parent pretended to be an alien... LOL Oh, the memories....

Such a classic picture.

And this my friends is my science project for the day. I accidentally left gummy worms (see picture) and Lfesaver gummies in the car during the House warming party. After more than an hour in 110 degrees the gummy worms (generic brand) looked like this....










The life savers hadn't changed at all... I'm not sure what scares me more...








And this concludes the pictures of my 'fake roadtrip'. Hope you had a good insight into my life! :)

The car fund is growing!!!

As of today I have over $1,000 set aside for a car,
with another $300 ready to be processed soon.

My goal is to have at least $2,000
before I start looking seriously for a car with air conditioning. :)

It's been one of those cool experiences with God, as I have been praying for more than a year now for God to provide a car for me. It's a prayer said every day and sometimes it comes out with frustration and questions. But most times it's just me and my Dad talking about how cool a car with AC would literally be; how cool it is to be able to drive the car I currently drive, that is not mine and how much I still have to learn.

A few years back I really wanted an ipod. Now, an ipod isn't one of those things that you NEEEEED. But I knew I wanted one. So every now and then I would mention it to God. Nothing happened.

Then one day in the summer I heard God clearly say that I could now start really praying for an ipod and so I did. I made a couple commitments (such as no more buying fast food, drinks or treats until I had the money for the ipod).

I saved up up every dollar for the ipod and I didn't ask anybody to give towards it.
There was an ipod listed on craigslist, but it had been there for a while. Since I didn't quite have the money together yet, I was not holding my breath that I could get that ipod.
Yet, God came through and to this day I have still no idea how exactly the money came together. Within 3 weeks I had all the money to now call the old craigslist listing and ask if the ipod plus all the extras was still for sale.
It was.

I picked it up that day... And I think I've been using it every day since then. Thank you Lord.

Any chance you could do a similar thing with the car? :)

An epic fourth of July

On Fourth of July in the States you basically celebrate the birthday of this country. On that day you're allowed to set off fireworks like crazy.

This year I went over to my friends place again, who puts on one heck of a show every year with lots of fireworks, good people and good food.

This year we managed to set the neighbor's lawn on fire. It was awesome. Apparently he burned his leg hair while he stomped out the fire... (This is where I was happy that girls shave the legs...)

Luckily I was wearing shoes and could participate in the fire suppression efforts.

The fireworks were great, but setting the lawn on fire might have been my favourite part of the night (since nobody got hurt, the lawn has a few black spots and nothing much else happened...)

It was also fun to see the neighbors jump when another thing blew up sideways and went into their bushes about 2 yards from them.

What a night! Happy birthday USA.