Toccoa 2

This is a picture from the girls breakout group on "identity theft", and finding your identity in Christ. Sabrina Bailey is playing the cello, while Tara and I are singing the More I Seek You for worship to end the session.
Mahalo friends and family for all of your prayers! It has been a challenging, yet beautiful past two and a half weeks.
Last weekend, about 8 interns, including myself, went to a place called Henderson Falls Park, and it was amazing. The first thing we saw was a copperhead snake, and of course the boys wanted to touch it, but that held off for a couple hours at least. Haha. We had an adventure at the waterfall, and though it was small, it was still very beautiful. God definitely reveals Himself in nature. The water was soooo cold, but refreshing and we were under a canopy of extended branches from trees that surrounded us. We played in the water and Melissa, Timmy Tew, and I followed the creek as far as we could until we hit a gate, and some disgusting stagnant water. We then came back and we found an empty field and played ultimate until Kortney and Shelby got tired (which was within the first three scores..haha). After finding and catching a huge crawdad and dunking Shelby and Kortney in the water, we found a spot to lay all of our towels out and we shared Scripture for about 45 minutes. We then were hungry and went to Walmart and came back to the Conference Center and made a bonfire by the huge lake we have a beautiful view of, and cooked hotdogs and went swimming. We then played volleyball out on the rec field, and ended a fun packed day of fellowship and loving Jesus. That Sunday we went to Ebenezer and just had Jesus time and finished setting up for week two of camp.
Week two of camp began with registration again, and I had the amazing opportunity of meeting all of the youth pastors and female leaders before camp even started and getting to know what they are like under intense stress (of being on a bus with their youth for almost 8 hours each). So, it was intense to see the different responses. My contact was really bothering me during registration, and I rubbed my eye a lot and I couldn’t understand what was wrong. We listened to Fred Luter speak the first night, and it was really good. “Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall, and all the King’s soldiers and all of the King’s men, couldn’t put Humpty together again. Why did Humpty fall? Why didn’t they look to the King?” The next morning I woke up to one eye completely sealed by hardened puss (so gross I know). I waited for the nurse to see me, she prescribed me go to a local clinic. Pink eye. So I was out of commission for two and a half days and received the high priviledge of being alone with God for two and a half days. I did get the opportunity to sit in the back with TD and listen to the sermons each night and pray for each of the kids during that time period. So, God definitely taught me a lot with the time I got with Him, and I had time to rest. I missed the kids and the interns so much, but I really learned much about God being enough.
God has taught me much about His grace and mercy, just because I have been reading in 1 Thessalonians and I decided to do a word study on grace and peace (since I had plenty of time in the two days I was out), and there are several verses with each of these, but remember that grace leads to salvation and teaches us to renounce worldly passions and trains us in righteousness and how to do good. Peace is given when our minds are stayed on Him. 
God has really blessed me with friends that I have made here. Hannah is my best friend already, and it’s been intense to live right next door to each other and not see each other very much, but it has been good to see how God is transforming her life and using her in the midst of the sin in both her life and the campers around her. God is really showing me that in my life, that He uses the unredeemable who He has so radically changed and formed and is sanctifying for His purposes. Tis’ grace that He uses the simple. God has really used Tara Davis in my life. She is a beautiful artys woman who I have the priviledge of also seeing the Lord transform her life and teach her right before her life. She sings with me and has a beautiful voice. She is becoming closer to her Jesus. On that note, I have met three of my favorite ATF people ever: Red, David, and Heather. Red is pretty much the person who is most similar to me when it comes to being relaxed and loves Christian rap. We jam to Shai. David and Red have code when we play rummy and Tara, Heather, and I are still attempting to figure this out. LONDON IS FOREVER. (Inside joke.) Um, God has really placed Heather in my life for some reason I don’t know why, but He has placed such a special love for her in my heart and I’m not exactly sure why, but He’s using her in my life. She is such an encouragement and she loves Jesus. Her cousin died within the last 24 hours so you can pray for her. There are little things that God has just proven Himself to be so evident in. Like, I sent Heather a text yesterday night that didn’t send until right after she found out her cousin died and it says “Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.” Psalm 116:15. God uses little things like that to show His preminence and how He perfectly orchestrates things for His glory. How beautiful.
This weekend has just been a weekend of rest and sleep. This is the last weekend that we have to stop. Next weekend we travel to Virginia and the weekend after that we make the long roadtrip to Texas. (19 hours!) I am really cherishing the love of my friends back home whose text messages are all that I get to really see of them because I have little to no time, and the time I do have I don’t really want to talk to anyone, to be honest. (Alone time is so necessary here.) But, I miss all of my friends from Southwestern. This is the second year in a row I haven’t been able to see my daddy for Father’s Day, but it is a blessing that I have a father and that I have a phone to call my precious father. So, family and friends, know that I miss you so much and I have so much that you can be praying for!
Prayer:
-Next week of camp. God’s really been working in my heart about being intentional with the campers. There are two opportunities for almost every intern where they are intentionally placed somewhere for them to get to know their kids: 1. Breakout groups: the interns teach, lead worship, and play games with the kids. 2. Church Share Groups: an intern sits in the share time and helps if needed but really just gets to know the kids. Because I am in the drama team, I practice during the breakout groups and because I am a discipleship group leader I do not have an opportunity to have one specific church to be with, so I have to be very intentional with getting to know the kids. So, pray for me to be discerned in my speech and who to speak with and get to know.
-Discipleship groups: I have three amazing girls in my group! Amanda Barragy is an amazing girl who has so much trust in the Lord. She is a volunteer and I only have one more week with her. Shelby and Sarah are both interns. Lovely and beautiful girls. I only have two more weeks to intentionally get to know them and pour into them! So sad! Please pray that I will spend adequate time set apart just for them each day, and that I would really seek God in how to pour into them. I have been reading through some Scriptures with them, and praying a Puritan’s Prayer with them in the mornings and then just asking what God has been doing throughout their weeks. It’s been awesome to see what God is doing, but I feel like God can do so much in the next two weeks in each of us having accountability and hearing them and seeing them grow. So, pray for humility in that as well. I am taught so much by them and their humility.
-Silence and Alone Time. I need alone time with my Lord every day, and when you only have 5-6 hours of sleep a night and 3-4 depending on if anyone needs to talk or pray about something, it’s really hard to wake up an hour early to spend time with the Lord. So, please pray that I will have that opportunity, and even if I lose sleep that I would just absolutely desire nothing but to be poured into. Because I cannot pour out if I do not get poured into. My mind needs to be quieted as well, because I have all of these prayers and intercessions and sometimes I just need to hear God speak.
There’s so much that you can pray for. Anything that you feel the need to pray for. Do not forget to pray for our missionaries around the world proclaiming the gospel, and also do not forget to pray that God would cement the tongue of the false prophet to the roof of his mouth.
Lord, shield us from the lies that so often deceive us, and tame our wreckless hearts and our flesh.
Daughter of the King,
K-Dizzay.
“Do not be anxious in anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God, and the peace that surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and your mind in Christ Jesus.” Phil. 4:6-7 (Please pray this over my heart, if I could ask one thing! Sometimes I’m so anxious and it’s not trusting the Lord by any means.)