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Alaska Pics

2009-08-10T13:05:00.000-07:00

Kids reenacting the Everything Drama

Hanna and Faith

VBS-Games

Hanna and Faith(the little girl)

VBS-Bible Story

VBS-Music

Faith and Willow tickling Sarah

the moose 2 other people and i got within 20ft. of!!!

Brianna and I

scrubbing cat poop off the floors in Rebeka's house

My room(i use the orange sleeping bag by the heater!)

My quiet time view our first morning in Alaska

Chitina Village, Alaska

The finished product of Rebeka's house she will be living in for a year(hopefully more)

Missions Alaska!!

2009-06-29T10:42:00.000-07:00

I flew in Friday around 1:15 Texas time! But...my journey begins on the 14th of June.

My parents drove me to Garden Valley, Texas to the Global Expeditions head quarters!! I got all check in and took my luggage to my room. Then went back to the building were all the other countries were meeting. I then met several people going on my trip! Kayla who helped me get started(I was on Kayla’s team) and Emily who also helped me get started! This is my first trip with Global Expeditions!!! We played games all after noon!! The next day we started VBS training, we tried out for parts in the dramas! I played one of the drunken people in the Freedom drama!! We then started working on VBS. Aarlene and I did the bible verse and object lessons for VBS. We had so much fun! The second day of training was Evangelism. We went to two sessions that taught us how to share the gospel and our testimonies!! On Wednesday we left at 8:30 am for the airport!! Our flight took of at 2:45 and we got to Alaska about 10:30 -11pm Texas time! I HATE FLYING!!

We spent the night at a church in Glacier View! We went to our villages the next day! My team had 16 people all but two were from Texas!! The other two were from California and Ohio. We stayed at a little church call Kenny Lake Community Chapel; they do a lot of mission work in Chitina, the village we served in for 6 days!! Our first day consisted of moving fire wood. So we moved the fire wood for Pastor Len. It got hot enough out side that we took of our jackets. Our arms got all scratched up!! Haha but we had a lot of fun doing it! One of the girls nearly fell down a very very rocky hill! The next day we went to Chitina a very small village about 30mins from Kenny Lake. There is about 100-150 people in Chitina, about 20 of them are kids and teens ranging from 2-15, or at least that we met.

Kenny Lake Chapel has a member of their community that has lived in Kenny Lake and the Chitina area her whole life. Her name is Rebecca and our service project for the week was to fix up a cabin in Chitina for her to live in for a year, and hopefully more. My team and I moved furniture, car motors, 10+ bags of trash, and a whole lot more!! About 5 other girls and I got the pleasure of scrubbing cat poop off the floors in this cabin and painting the inside of the house I believe I still have some primer in my hair!!! We would eat lunch at about 3pm Alaska Time which would be 6pm Texas time, then go back to Chitina and play with kids and do VBS!! They loved VBS, one day our story was about a boogie man and how God will always be there for them! So we taught them the Veggie Tales song God is bigger than the Boogie Man!! That was their favorite song!! At night we would do a church service that included worship, a drama that the drama team worked very hard on, a testimony from one of the missionaries on the trip, and a sermon, then at the end the kids would get up and sing their favorite VBS song from earlier that day!

One night during church service the drama group performed the Everything drama by LifeHouse. The next day the kids who were in the service performed the drama for us! They hit all the main points and understood all of it!! They were all under the age of 10! Alaska has the highest rates of Suicide and Alcohol abuse in the U.S...so anything we can do to reach these people, and let them know that God loves them is wonderful, even the simplest drama. Please be praying for a little boy named Kyle and his older sister named Katie. Kyle (8) and Katie (10) became Christians through Rebecca. They are soooo happy! They worship God with all of their hearts, but their mom and older brother Joshua (18) practice Witch craft and Wicca, so their home environment is not the best! Just pray that they will stay strong in their faith!!

One day my MA (missionary advisor), another friend and I were walking back to Rebecca’s house to finish up some painting before lunch, when out of the trees about 20ft. away walks a HUGE daddy Moose!! We had been told that if you see a Moose slowly back up and DON’T take out your cameras…well we stopped, then got out our cameras and walked toward the Moose!!! Didn’t quite follow the rules there but he just looked at us and kept on walking!! It was amazing!!

The day before as a thank you for all the work we had done on Rebecca’s house and another building one of the village council leaders brought us Moose patties and Caribou stew with beans!!! It was sooo good!! Pastor Len gave us some smoked Salmon too! That was my favorite meal!!

We learned many new songs, which are great for long bus rides!!

My favorite part of the trip was probably on the last night when the Pastors wife Brenda told all the kids to give us a rock, from some she picked up out side, and she told us that she hopes when we look at that rock, we will remember how God used us this week and all the relationships we built with the kids and the youth group from Kenny Lake!! I literally started crying because I didn’t want to leave!!

During the trip I learned that I need to rely on and trust God more, and that I am almost positive He is calling me to Missions after high school!!

Message if you have questions!! I would love to answer them!
Sarah<><

Change in location :(

2009-05-29T10:48:00.000-07:00

One of the other group leaders Neekla told me that b/c of the flooding on the Yukon that we are no longer going to Fairbanks, but Glenallen. It is about 3 and 20 mins according to google maps. Now we may have the chance to go to Wasilla!!!!

Packing list!! ahhhh

2009-05-19T10:56:00.000-07:00

I have to pack 2 weeks worth of clothing, a sleeping bag, toiletries and towels!!! So...how do I accomplish this???

My group leader Tawny emailed me and told me about these pack towels, they pack small and light, I think they are like micro fiber or something!! Tawny said they were 53% off!! They are $25 for three instead of $53!!! I think we are going to order some of those!!

Sleeping bag still trying to find some one to let me borrow theirs so I don't have to pay like $60 for a good one.

For my clothes i am probably going to roll my clothes, but trying to figure out what i will wear and what i won't wear is difficult. :D I am not going to bring my:

~ flat iron

~ blow dryer

~ make-up

So if you have any idea for me leave me a comment!! I love comments!!:D

Update!

2009-05-14T18:14:00.000-07:00

Hey Everyone!!

Soo in the past few months I have:

~Raised all my money

~ got my very first passport w/a horrible picture on it!

~ been told that I had to pay for my own flight from Alaska, back to DFW! :O

~ been told that i did not have buy my ticket from Alaska to DFW, but from either Seattle, Washington or Houston(will it ever end?!)

~ got an email 2 days ago saying that Global Expeditions got me on a flight to DFW from Seattle or something like that, we don't have to pay for it!!!!!

~got an awesome representative that helps me a lot!!

~got all my forms turned in!!

~and finally got my Global Expedition hoodie in the mail!!!!

Our God is soooooooo AMAZING!!!!!

Find Me Tonight by Everyday Sunday

2009-04-01T10:03:00.000-07:00

Yesterday, I could not feel this
Today Im sick of tryingTo live like I can live on my own
This world around me is suffocating
I keep forgetting
To turn and run into You
So find me
Wherever I am wont You
Find meI got myself lost and I Dont think
I want to be roaming in heartache
Please find me tonightI make it hard and I cant stand it
Cant wrap my head around it
I wrestle with You more than I should
I make a mess of everything
But You see the best in me
Ill never be too far gone
So find me
Wherever I am wont You
Find meI got myself lost and I Dont think I want to be roaming in heartache
Please find me tonight
You speak without sound
Your love is so loud
You always seize me
You speak without sound
Your love is so loud
You always save me
So find me,
I don't want to be roaming
So find me
Wherever I am wont You Find me
I got myself lost and Don't think I want to be roaming in heartache
Please find me tonight
Tonight tonight.

This band is supposedly going to be in Alaska with us!!!!!!

Goal!!!!!

2009-03-30T13:18:00.000-07:00

Hey!!!

My base cost is $1,850!!! I have raised $2,220!!!!

I want to thank everyone who supported me financially!! Everyone who has been praying for my trip, I could not have done it without your prayers!! I really believe that it is Gods will for me to go on this trip!!!!

I am still raising money for passport and other things I will need for my trip!!

Jeremiah 29:11~ "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, " plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."

We shine!!!!

2009-03-27T15:39:00.001-07:00

"...in the darkest place we shine...we are the redeemed, we are the ones who are free and we belong to Jesus..."

Almost there!!!!

2009-03-27T15:09:00.000-07:00

Hey!!!

Sooo I have almost raised my base cost!!! I have $1,600!!!! I only need $200!!!

Jehovah-Jireh is a Hebrew name for the Lord that means "The Lord will Provide", and that is exactly what He has done; he has provided for my trip, and for my family!!!!!!

Only 77 days left!!!

2009-03-22T13:27:00.000-07:00

Hey Guys!!
I have raised $1,515!!!!

need $535!!!

The Lord is providing every thing I need!!

Jeremiah 29:11~ Message
"...I know what I am doing. I have it all planed out..."

The Lord definitely know what He is doing!!!

Garage Sale!!!!♥

2009-03-18T15:41:00.000-07:00

My family is doing a fundraiser for Ashley (who is goin to Honduras) and I mission trips. We are asking for donations!! The Garage Sale will be mid April, if you have some thing you would like to donate PLEASE contact me at 972/984.1419 or 469/667.5821 before April 15th, and we will pick those items up from you!!!

Passport!!!

2009-03-17T10:47:00.000-07:00

Today I went and applyed for my passport!!! We got it applyed for and will hopefully get in about a month in a half!!

I have $1,345

Still need $500!!!

Almost there!!

2009-03-13T12:03:00.000-07:00

So my total as of now is $1,245!!!
And all i need is $605!!

WOW!! God is definitely providing my every need!!!

~Sarah

I met my Deposit!!! yahoo!!!!

2009-03-11T13:35:00.000-07:00

okay...soo i went to the post office today and i had 4 checks waiting for me in the mail!!! the total came up to $220!!! one of my really good friends gave me $150 last night at church!! i'm soo thankful to have her as friend!! thank you!!!!

may 4th, 50% of my base cost is due and i already have it and its not even april yet!! thank you sooo much if you have supported me by giving me money or by prayin for me and my team!!!

So i have $1,045!!

i still need $805!!!

Free Hoodie!!

2009-03-10T08:48:00.000-07:00

Hey Guys!!

So Global Expeditions emailed me and said that if I got $650 posted in my account by March 31 then i would get a FREE Global Expeditions Hoodie!

As of last count I have $675!! So now I just need to post it in my account!! Thank you sooooo much for supporting me!!

I still need $1,175!! With Gods help we can meet this goal!!!

More Money!!

2009-03-04T09:23:00.000-08:00

I got $125 In the mail yesterday!!!!

I have $575!!!

Now I need $1,275!!

Thank you everyone who has given me money for my trip and also to those who have been praying for me!!!!!

MONEY!!!!!!

2009-02-26T18:18:00.000-08:00

I got $50 dollars in the mail today!!

have $450!! yeah!!!

need $1,800!!

Letters and BIG Thank yous!!!

2009-02-23T07:07:00.000-08:00

I sent out my letters on Friday!!! yahooooo lol. I have had two people donate money. You know who you are, THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart!!!

$400 down!! WOW

$1,450 to go!!!

THANK YOU!!!!

2009-02-10T11:14:00.000-08:00

Mark 10:45 says “…the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve others…”

Serving the Lord and other people is a big part of my life; it is one of the many things in my life that I absolutely love doing! At Stonebriar Community Church I serve in special needs on Sunday mornings and as a small group leader on Wednesday nights for 5th grade girls. I love them sooooo much!! I also enjoy studying my Bible, reading books by Ted Dekker and I love photography!!!

This summer I have the opportunity to go on a two week mission trip with Global Expeditions (the enclosed brochure can tell you more about them) to Fairbanks, Alaska!! On the trip my team and I will be doing service projects and VBS(vacation bible school), and a couple days out of the two weeks we will be traveling down the Yukon river to minister and evangelize in the villages. I can’t wait!!

The trip cost $1847. I need your help to accomplish this goal. I need to send in $300 by May 5, 2009 to hold my spot. Guess what? ...you get to choose how to support me. You can pray (which is most needed) for all of my funds to come in on time and for the safety of me and everyone on my team to have a safe trip to and from Alaska. You can also send in a donation of what ever amount God leads you to give.

Psalm 31:14 says “But I trust in you, Yahweh…”
God will provide all I need to go to Alaska. Thank you sooooo much in advance for your prayer and support!!!

Use me here - everybodyduck

2009-02-10T11:12:00.000-08:00

Alaska trip with Global Expeditions 2009!!!

2009-02-09T17:11:00.000-08:00

Hey Guys!!!

This year I am going on a two week mission trip to Fairbanks Alaska with Global Expeditions!! I can't wait!!!

Today I got my acceptance packet it came with a t-shirt and other tools to help me go "global"!!

Global Expeditions is a Christian organization that Teen Mania started in 1987. Alaska has the highest suicide rate! I have had friends who were either suicidal and changed or who have actually committed suicide. In the two weeks I'm there I want soo badly to change someones life by showing them the gospel!!