Summer Update
Hi friends and family!
Thank you for your continual prayers and support! I hope you have all had a beautiful and joyful spring and summer! I am hopping on here to update you on what I have been up to the last few months, and what this summer will look like for me!
The last two months have been full of responding to texts and making calls for our tour follow up! I have been calling attendees from my tour stops and two other teams' stops to check up on how their experience at the event was and encouraging them in their walk with the Lord. These calls are so encouraging and I feel so privileged to get to hear how the Lord is moving on so many high school and college campuses around the country. I also helped with a weekly bible study that circuit riders was running for high schoolers in the Huntington area.This ended a few weeks ago but now I have been helping to run another weekly bible study on monday nights for people that attend our large monday night gatherings that happen during the school year. The vision for this bible study is to get better connected with the students who attend our monday night gatherings, in a smaller setting. Hundreds of people from around Orange County attend our Monday nights, and so these bible studies have been so special to get to actually know who attends these nights, and connect them with one another! I am helping to run and speak at a group for the high schoolers in the area. It has been such a fun and sweet experience!
Along with this, the majority of my summer is being spent continuing to fundraise and build my monthly support team! In order to prepare for the busyness of the fall and the travel that I will be doing for our tour season, I am using this time to prepare and build my support team!
In addition we also have our high school summer camp in LA this upcoming week for students all around the country that we are hosting, called Riders Camp! At the same time we have a school running the same week, training students in media, music and speaking! Unfortunately I will not be able to help out during the actual week of either of these, as I am visiting home.
On a more personal note, my roommates and I have been hosting lots of people in our apartment! We have people often staying here who are visiting in town and need a free place to stay. We have also been hosting dinner parties, and lots of hang-outs for friends and as a way to connect and build community with others we don't know as well. This is one of my personal favorite things to do, and has brought me so so much joy, creating a safe and peaceful place for people to come to. Fostering this hospitality has been such an important part of renting this apartment for my roommates and I! Other than this, and on a more sad note, I am visiting home in Issaquah, for a few days this upcoming week for a memorial. As many of you probably know, my grandpa passed away in December, so I will be going home for his celebration of life. Later this month I will also be visiting Idaho for two weeks, joining the rest of my family on our annual family vacation to the lake! Lastly, I also have many weddings I will be attending in the next few months, because so many of my friends are getting married! It is so exciting getting to watch so many of my friends entering into this new season!!
