Happy Fall everyone! I realize that the last time I updated my blog was in September! Yikes! I'm sorry for the delay and hope you forgive my lagging bum. I'll break this post up into sections so you are not overwhelmed with too many words :).
Teaching: My classes continue to go very well this year. As mentioned in an earlier post, I am teaching all of the same lessons which makes prepping this year much easier. My students are very well behaved and truly enjoy learning. One of my personal goals this year was to biblical integrate more into the classroom than I was previously doing in hopes that more discussion would arise about Jesus. Thankfully, the Lord has reminded me to biblically integrate more and the results have been wonderful. Instead of just choosing verses to connect to my lessons, I've decided to focus on biblical stories and apply them to stories that we are reading in English class etc. The students have really absorbed these stories and many of them are bran new to my kids. Seeing God constantly work in the lives of people who lived thousands of years ago and still being faithful today has encouraged a lot of my students. Please pray that they will continue to soak up Jesus and enjoy learning about him through the bible.
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| Students with the Ambassador of Korea |
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| Junior Class pizza party at my apartment |
Volleyball: I only have one week left in my volleyball season which is bittersweet. This year I really encouraged the girls to bring
The Fire to the court when they played. I followed it up with a verse from Romans 12:11 which states, "
Never let the fire in your heart go out. Keep it alive. Serve the Lord." The team really took this to heart and greatly encouraged each other to bring the fire when they played. Soon it overflowed into bringing the fire into their personal lives. I really encouraged them to be zealous in all that they do, especially when it comes to serving Jesus. When a fire comes into our lives it is sure to leave a mark somewhere.
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| Varsity Team |
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| Junior Varsity Team |
Discipleship: A few weeks ago I began mentoring a group of six High School girls. These girls age Freshman through Senior and are looking to deepen their relationship with Christ. When students become Christians in a Christian school, they tend to have a more difficult time of making their faith their own. They know how to be a Christian in school, but are never trained for "the world". My goal is to disciple these girls to have a solid and ongoing relationship with Jesus Christ. I pray that these girls learn how to pray, read their bible, memorize scripture and fall deeper in love with Jesus. The girls in my group fall into every category of "Christian". Please pray that they make their faith their own and not that of the school.
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| Worship night with the High School students |
Events: Our school recently hosted an event titled "Fall Festival". We invited all the students, their parents and much of the community to come to ICSV and enjoy a fun fall evening. There were games, international food, songs and dances by our choir students and even a pie in the face which I unfortunately took part of. All the money used to purchase food, play games and pie teachers in the face went to a charity. Therefore I can't complain too much. It was a lot of fun and I am thankful that I was able to be apart of it.
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| Pie in the Face crew "before" picture |
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| "After" picture |
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| One of my sweet ELL students |
Fall Break: This past week my roommate, Becca (check out her blog
here) and two of our other friends went on a short little trip to the UK. I have some friends that just recently moved to Edinburgh and it was wonderful to see their new home and spend time with them. It was such a great, relaxing and fun trip.
Cliche? Yes. I had to.
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| Lake District, England |
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| Drinking our tea like proper British girls |
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| A sweet visit with Andy and Allie Blaski in Edinburgh |
Spiritual Emphasis Week: This upcoming week our school will be having our annual Spiritual Emphasis Week. This week consists of Chapel every single day. In the past it has proved to be a very powerful week for both students and teachers. Many students come to a saving relationship with Jesus Christ! However, when Jesus is greatly preached, satan is greatly active. Please pray that our armor will be strong against the devil's attacks and that the message of truth will be preached!
Well that was a bit more wordy than I had anticipated. Please continue to pray for my students, my discipleship group and this upcoming week!
