graduation

The day finally came--I graduated!! I'm excited to be done with high school and I can't wait to see what God has for me in the future. The night I graduated was amazing. It was great to have all my family and close friends there with me. I'm definately going to miss all my friends from school--especially my senior class. I honestly think we have the best class and I hope we all can stay close to each other and most of all to God.

2008 Calvary Christian School Graduating Class

missions conference

Last week we had our missions conference. Out of all the special meetings that we have at church I'd have to say that missions conference is the best. This year we had three different missionaries and their families. They are going to Peru, South Korea, and Arctic Canada. It's always fun to have the missionaries over for a meal and to get to know them better. We're getting ready to take down the decorations and posters that were put up for the conference, but I wish we could leave them up longer. There are so many posters that we have up with great quotes about missions. I wrote a couple of them down (well, I guess more than a couple. ;o)...but you won't be disappointed if you take the time to read them.

"God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply" -- Hudson Taylor

"God isn't looking for people of great faith, but for individuals ready to follow Him" -- Hudson Taylor

"The Great Commision is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed" -- Hudson Taylor

"If I had 1,000 lives, I'd give them all for China" -- Hudson Taylor

"God uses men who are weak and feeble enough to lean on him." -- Hudson Taylor

"Expect great things from God; attempt great things for God" -- William Carey

"He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose" -- Jim Elliot,

"In the vast plain to the north I have sometimes seen, in the morning sun, the smoke of a thousand villages where no missionary has ever been" --Robert Moffat

"Sympathy is no substitute for action." -- David Livingstone

"Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell; I wish to run a rescue mission within a yard of hell." --C.T. Studd

"No one has the right to hear the gospel twice, while there remains someone who has not heard it once." -- Oswald J. Smith

"We talk of the Second Coming; half the world has never heard of the first." -- Oswald J. Smith

"If God calls you to be a missionary, don't stoop to be a king" -- Jordan Grooms

"In our lifetime, wouldn't it be sad if we spent more time washing dishes or swatting flies or mowing the yard or watching television than praying for world missions?" -- Dave Davidson

"No reserves. No retreats. No regrets" --William Borden"The gospel is only good news if it gets there in time" -- Carl F. H. Henry

"Go, send, or disobey." -- John Piper

"You can give without loving. But you cannot love without giving." -- Amy Carmichael

"The mark of a great church is not its seating capacity, but its sending capacity." -- Mike Stachura

"To stay here and disobey God -- I can't afford to take the consequence." -- Amanda Berry Smith