This past week is a week I will never forget. My faith was challenged, I got to lead worship, and we went on a team bonding trip. SO here we go.
This week we had a teacher who had a whole new perspective on how to believe certain things. This teachers topic was “Nature and Character of God.” So who God is by His choices and natural things. Now within this topic, he brought up whats called the Nature of Reality and what God knows. What He believes (and I respect his belief but may not agree with it) is that God knows all that is possible to know. That God only knows the Nature of Reality. So in other words, God does not know ALL that is going to happen in the future but because He knows us and our personalities so well, He can assume the choices we will make. Now, this is a whole new perspective that I had no idea was such a thing until now. God really challenged my Faith by giving me a teacher who also strongly believed in what he grew up believing. I stand strong to my faith and what I believe, even though this teaching and my belief of God’s ability to know things are different. I believe that God is omniscient (ALL knowing) and He knows all that is going to happen and the choices we are going to make not just because He created us but because He is all powerful and all knowing.
THEN I was asked to lead worship for Friday morning before we left for our trip! I was so excited when they asked me. So I gathered a team. A few people didn’t want to do this right away but I got my best friend Audrey to play the drums… Now we don’t have drums or a cajon so she just sat on the big speaker and kept a beat for me on that. She felt like a dork but I thought it was awesome and helpful. BUT she did buy a cajon knowing we needed one and she has also always wanted one. We should be getting that in the mail today! YAY. Then I asked another girl who I am really growing close with. Her name is Alaina. She can sing and play the ukulele. I thought, “we’ve got a team.” I wanted to keep this first time team slightly small, just to see how it goes. I played the piano and sang and it went so well! We had an hour and a half, I didn’t think we could fill the time but God provided and we did. Prayers were said, stories were shared, and we sang our heart out to God. It was so amazing! I can’t wait to be asked to lead worship or to even just be part of the team again.
Finally we ended the week by spending the weekend at Lake Geneva where we bonded as a team. The place we stayed at was a Christian Conference Camp. It was beautiful and fun. We had camp fires, sat by the lake, played games, ate really good food, and had an amazing race competition. I definitely stepped out of my comfort zone in one of the tasks. Well first, we had to eat bananas (and most of my teammates hated bananas), then we were blind folded and the seeker (me) had to find my teammates by hearing their voice and take them back to a certain spot. Now remember, we were ALL blind folded. This was fun but not easy. We also had to try to get everyone through the spiderweb without touching it. So lifting each other up and trying to get them through the hole. Well that was hard. By the way, every team except mine had a guy in them. SO our team was called “Winning Women.” Lastly, we had to carry each other through swamp. LITERALLY through gross, mushy, muddy, sea-weedy, disgusting swamp. I won’t go into details on the rules of this games but I stepped out of my comfort zone here as I don’t like getting muddy and I hate lakes because I can’t see the bottom and all thats living in it! Can you imagine a swamp… It was awful but we got through it as a team and really enjoyed it too! (I was wiped out by the end of the day, hence my last picture.)
What a week this was. Like I said, it was so fun and challenging! I hope you all are doing well back at home or wherever you are reading this from. I truly am loving it here at the TC (training center) in Madison. I am starting to call it home, although Larchwood will always be home too! Love you all so much! My service here is not great, so I’m not on social media much but you are always welcome to call or text me anytime. Also, Friday night is outreach reveal night where I will find out what my 3 choices are for my outreach trip in January. I will then pray about it and ask God where He wants me to go. I will rank my choices and find out on Monday where I will be going. Thank you for reading! Blessings to all of you!
By His Grace
Kendra Michael ❤
By His Grace 