Wow!

O wow...so much has happened since my last post. So now I am here at Stephen F. Austin University in Nacogdoches, TX. We will be here until Friday. Our FIRST camp is this week! It's the second day and it's going GREAT!

Registration day was yesterday and it was pretty crazy...I have a newfound respect for people doing registration at events because chances are that if you are waiting to sign in at a place, the reason you are waiting is because the staff is pretty busy and is trying their best to accomodate you. 1600 students are here now so it's finally the real thing! Overall, everything has been fabulous.

It's rained here for the past 4 days...I am not used to this. It hasn't rained hardly any in Alabama for months! Today is the first recreation day and it's Water Day (all water rec games) so the rain has made for an interesting first day for the Rec Team.

Vicky Beeching is our worship leader this week. I met her Sunday night and she's incredibly nice! Wes Hamilton is our camp pastor and he's been doing a great job as well!

I'm sorry I haven't been able to call anyone lately, things have been pretty crazy around here. My day usually begins around 7 and ends around 12 or 1.

God has been doing amazing things here and in my life as well. I'm finally learning what it is like to give all of my responsibilities, relationships, etc to God and to live in total freedom, knowing that God is sovereign and He is strong in my weaknesses. I am learning to trust that God will supply everything I need to serve Him. It is my desire to live my life with this attitude because it's one in which I want to completely surrender and be able to follow wherever I am called to go.

Thanks for all of your prayers!! Please continue to pray for Prim, we still haven't heard from her yet. She's waiting on a letter that will hopefully allow her to get her visa and come work with us!

Amanda

Aqui a Shocco...

Hey guys! Ok, so I am here at Student Life at Shocco Springs for training week. We are here until Friday and then we will drive to Stephen F. Austing University in Nacogdoches, TX...at least I think that's how you spell it. So far we've had meetings all day since Sunday...I'm ready to get into action so I can really learn everything! I can't access Facebook and Myspace while here at Shocco so you guys can comment on here or shoot me an e-mail at amanda08@uab.edu ...I miss you all! I do have AIM here on my computer in the office so during the day I'll be online. I'm learning how to work the Student Life databases and how to operate an iMAC computer also so that's a little challenging but exciting.

Please continue to pray for Prim, our compassion representative... she, along with 3 others (for the other SL teams) still have not been able to get a Visa from the U.S. Embassy in Uganda. These representatives are LDP graduates which means they have grown up in the Compassion International project programs and have been sent to college and are not graduates of college. The U.S. embassy is afraid to let them leave and come to the U.S. because they believe they will never return to Uganda. For those of you that don't know, Compassion International is an organization that allows people to sponsor impoverished children around the world for $32/mo. One LDP graduate is here (on the blue team). His name is Dennis and I can't wait to hear his story on Thursday night!

Well, I'm going to get back to work. I'm about to begin assigning student housing for our camp at SFA next week. There is so much more I want to tell you guys but I just don't have all the time right now. I will post again as soon as I get a chance! Continue to pray!! Thanks!!

En Cristo solo,
Amanda

Casi aquí...

Almost here...It's 1:00AM Sunday morning. I leave TODAY (in 8 hours) for Student Life! O wow, 8 hours...I had better get a little sleep. I'm so excited; I cannot wait!! I am really going to miss my family, Dane, and best friends but I know God has AMAAZING plans in store for the summer. I cannot wait to see more of what God can and will do!! How awesome a creator we serve! I am off to sleep in my own bed for the last night until mid-August. Please pray that God is glorified in ALL I do this summer!!!

Leave me comments and let me keep up with all of you as well!!

Una poca información por el verano

A little information for the summer...

May 28-June 1 Stephen F. Austin State Univ. (TX)
June 4-8 Ridgecrest Conference Center (NC)
June 9-13 "
June 18-22 Windermere Conference Center (MO)
June 23-27 "
June 30-July 4 Lee University (TN)
July 5-9 "
July 10-14 "
July 16-20 Liberty University (VA)
July 23-27 Oklahoma Baptist University (OK)
July 31-August 4 California Baptist University (CA)


The easiest way to send mail is to send it to the Birmingham office and they will forward it to wherever I am at. My address there is

Amanda Minnix

Orange Team
P.O. Box 36040
Birmingham, AL 35236

Still no news on Prim's visa. Hopefully we'll hear something this week! Please continue to pray for all the Student Life staffers and the teenagers that will be there this summer!

Ore por favor...Please pray

Each Student Life team has a representative from Uganda for the organization Compassion International. As of last week, Prim (a girl representative on our team) has still not been able to get her visa to come to the U.S. After several tries some of the others finally received their visas; however, Prim and a few others are still persistently trying. Please pray that God's will be done and that if she is supposed to be with us here in the states this summer that He will change the people's actions at the American Embassy in Uganda. I know God is sovereign and He will be glorified whatever the result!

El primero blog

So here's my first blog. I leave a week from this coming Sunday (on May 20) for Student Life! Yay!! I'm super excited!

Check out this blog throughout the summer to check out what God is doing in my life and in teenagers lives at Student Life camps across the country!