FCA Camp

I recently got to go to FCA Camp! What an experience! It was amazing! Not only did I become closer to God, but I also got to try out crazy new things, like horseback riding, repelling, and high ropes courses. It was so fun!

I would encourage everyone who reads this to talk to your local FCA or church to find out how you can go to one of these totally awesome camps. Also to encourage all your friends. You can go to http://www.fca.org/ to get more info.

Here is a video from this year at my camp. It is kind of blurry, but it's great!

Palm Sunday

OK, I'll be in Florida on Palm Sunday, so I won't get to put in an entry on Sunday. So I'm doing it today.

Hopefully you all know what Palm Sunday is: it is when Jesus rode into town and all the Jews who were there laid leaves and branches for Jesus and his donkey to walk on.

I just wanted to wish everybody a happy Palm Sunday and a good Spring Break.

Jesus Rock

Every day I carry around a little stone in my pocket to help me remeber to act like a daughter of God at school. It really helps alot more than I first thought it would. And it doesn't have to be a rock. It can be a piece of paper, a coin, anything really. Try it.

Free Rice for Vocabulary Words

There is a website: http://freerice.com/, where you can answer vocab. words and for each word you get right, 20 grains of rice are donated through the United Nations to help stop world hunger. IT doesn't seen like a lot, but last night I spent about 25 minutes messing around with the words and got 7240 grains of rice donated. And even a little bit can make a difference.

Compassion

There are a million little kids in counties in poverty. I know that a lot of places that you can sponsor children from cheat people out of their money and only about half goes to the children and I know that the sponsor people can be extremely annoying when they send you all that extra crap about sending more money and having other people sign up and stuff, but knowing that a little kid is getting helped makes it worth it.

I am currently sponsoring a 11 year old girl in Ethiopia named Emebet. She is so cute! And at times when I question why I signed up to sponsor her, the next day or so I'll get a letter from her in the mail and it makes me happy and ready to help again. Like God is trying to help me stay on track to help her. She always sends me these cute little pictures she's drawn of cars and animals and herself. And then I remember why I do it. The people who I sent the money to is Compassion.

So what I'm trying to say is we as God's children should help his other children in need, whether it be helping out in your community or sponsoring a child. Do something! Remember ARKs?
And if you are currently sponsoring a child somewhere, that's great! And if your not and you would like to, check it out here.

Acts of Random Kindness

Ok, so this is something I've been trying to do more of. In the bible it says all that stuff about going the extra mile. So I've been putting little sticky notes in my pocket as a reminder and throughout the day they remind me to do ARKs. (Ok, I got "ARKs" from Evan Almighty...but it's pretty good.)

And anyways, it feels cool. You all need to try it. At least for a day.
It will be like a chain. Trust me. Like the Starbucks chain at Christmas.

Year 2008!!!

Happy New Year to everyone! This is the first post of the new year, and I just wanted to say that I hope by the end of the year, this blog will start to get settled. Happy New Year!