Georgia, There and Back Again, A CI Tale :D

Where to start? The trip to Georgia to help in a children's program was . . . absolutely amazing! A growing experience for sure, going out of my comfort zone, a million miles out of my comfort zone! :) A 'stretching' experience as some would say. ;) We were working with Romanian families over the course of eight days. They so generously opened their homes and hearts to us in ways we would never be able to repay. Our purpose was to be used of the Lord to strengthen the kid's hearts in following Christ as the parents were encouraged to seek Godly principles in Bill Gothard's seminar and to consider the option of homeschooling. It was awesome to see the Lord opening doors, not only to the children's hearts but to the young people's lives as well. It is such an amazing experience to be able to be used by the Lord, because I can heartily attest that whatever was good was most certainly the Lord! God is good! In between those eight days, the whole team got to travel to Tennessee for some time to relax. That was a blast! We hiked, and talked, and played ultimate Frisbee, and did more talking . . . A lot of fun! :D

I won't bore you any longer with my ramblings, so here's some pictures. Apologies if you might have already seen them. Also, most of these were taken by Andrew Stevens, Andrew Ouatu, Kevin, and Darleen Waltman, photo credits go to them. :D Except for one that I took, and you can probably guess which one's mine. ;)

Us girlies waiting excitedly to get on the airplane. BTW, flying was 'fantabulous', one of the words we liked to use with the kids. :)

Kevin making sure that I understood everything, a very hard job I assure you. ;) Working on a sign for CI registration.
Here's a good depiction of what the kids looked like to us leaders. :D
Joking aside, the children were absolutely adorable! You couldn't help but love them! They all had such cute personalities.
We had our break times too, here's us girls looking meditative . . . This may look like a very 'blah' picture to you, but oh my, it was not 'blah' driving and riding around in that thing! :) We had a blast using the Ceausu's boat! Lois and I were sold, and decided we needed to get ourselves a boat and load it up with cheesecakes, and pies, and lots of that kind of stuff, and never get off. ;D Just kidding, of course. Thought I should add that, lest you take me seriously and think that I'd gone crazy. :D
Here's two beautiful pictures of Tennessee, photo courtesy of Kevin Weston. :)
The whole group, or at least a good part of it. It was a blast to really bond with each other, share about God's work in our lives, and have good times.
Darleen Waltman, so sweetly took some pictures of us girls! I love photography and watching her was amazing. She has a lot talent!! It was wonderful to get to know the whole Waltman family, they really made the trip! :)
A lovely picture of Lois, we spent a lot of time together, as we were in the same house. She was such a blessing to be with!

A really good picture of Cristin, she was my 'adopted' older sister for the trip. :DMe and Kendra or Kendy, our new nickname for her. :)My super bros, who, without them, I would most certainly have gone crazy. :D They were tremendous in everything!I wanted to end with this picture because I think it really sums up our whole trip. Looking at it makes me see that even though we are 'dark' with sin, Christ can still shine through us with His glorious light! I can wholly say that I am so unworthy to have had the honor of working with those children, yet I saw, despite me, Christ shone through! God is good!

"I can do all things through Christ which strengthaneth me."

Philippians 4:13