Can you Believe this?

Happy Father's Day!

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I Love My Volunteers!

Hey! So we're doing a six week Wednesday Night Program called Summer Camp! It's so fun and so messy! I'll post more on that later. But some of my volunteers were having so much fun they decided to do a little dance :o)

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The joys of working at an old church!

Wow! It has been forever sense I posted! I've been really busy and having lots of fun! And being really stressed out because I started and planned to much stuff :o) But it's awesome. As I've been doing some cleaning around the church property and organizing stuff, I've found some really amazing things! Things worthy of taking pictures because no one will believe me!

One of the first rooms I decided to clean out was the Resource Room. Here are some pictures of what it looked like before:













And after I have all my new bins organized and label I'll show you my progress pictures.

But here are some of the things I've found!

This is a box of old Bible stories with record soundtracks....I don't even remember the last time I saw a record! Let alone listen to one. This is just a Sunday School classic!


Um, I didn't realize that Jesus had a tv through which He taught HIs disciples?


I also found this Bible story Album! It's great! If you look closely at the cover of the album you can see the Bible School Teacher teaching the little children about Jesus and they sit in awe!!!! I don't think I've ever seen a projector that takes old film like this. I feel like I've been digging around in some old movie theather and I've found some lost film!

Hey look you can see the pictures!


And I totally forgot about Peaches music store! Do these still exist? I loved that store!


And this tape was copyrighted the year I was Born!


If anything ever says "As Seen on TV" it's probably not a good idea....


And I'm pretty sure this is the hymnal book the disciples used!

And these are the orginal communion cups the church used when it first started!!!! They would put the grape juice in the silver pitcher thing and then I guess they would pass the cups around to the congregation? Sean like the call them the "Holy Grail."





Lol, I've had a lot of fun finding all this old stuff and really learning the history of FCCO. I may make fun of it, but I do think it's important to remember where you came from. These are the people that have built the foundation of FCCO and withouth them we'd have nothing--even if they did drink out of the holy grail! God is good!

Thank you God for projectors, old film slides, silver cups, and dust! You are so good and we know that through you all things are possible! That we don't have to have the latest and greatest technology, we just need to put you first and watch the ordinary become extraordinary!

Believe!

So this is one of the posts, I should have posted a really long time ago, but because I couldn't download pictures I never did. On March 28th and 29th I went with Christ's Church to Believe. It was kinda weird because I had already started my new job and on my first weekend, I was going with my old church to a conference as a sponsor. But it was great! It was good to have closur on a great experince and say goodbye to some people I really love.

Here's a picture of me and some of the sponsors. TO the right of me is Nicole Benscoter. I love and miss her so much! We were 10th grade small group leaders together and she is seriously the best person I have ever met! She is so real and she loves God so much.


And here's a picture of my group and another group sitting on the bulls outside of our convention center.


Also we had Civil War Reenactors at our hotel! So of course we had to take pictures with them! This is a once in a lifetime expereince!


It was really a great time! It was a great time to say goodbye and to start my new adventure. It also reminded me of the importance of pouring into someone else and doing life together. We're not meant to be on our own little islands. We're made to live in community and to CONNECT (theme of Believe) not only to each other but to God.

God is so good! Thank you GOd for Friends, Family, Community, and Civil War Reenactments!

Postcard, Friends, and Noah's Ark

Ok, I have a ton of blogs to post. However, I keep leaving my camera cable at home and so I can't put up any pictures. So much stuff has happened. I'm still working at FCCO and I'm still living with Becca. But everything else just feels like a whirlwind (more explanation later).

So I made my very first postcard! It's for a parent meeting I'm hosting next weekend. It took me forever to make because I don't have Illustrator on my computer and I had to make it in Publisher...which I now hate. Anyway, I got most of the graphics off of istock.com, which my lovely friend Crystal introduced me to. Here's the front:



And here's the back:



I'm going to Jacksonville today to watch the Office with Terry and Tammy, and then I'm going to get a bunch of stuff done on my car tomorrow. I really miss all my friends in Jacksonville. And I really miss The Well. I miss just acting like myself and being surrounded by people I knew. The people in Orlando are great but I don't really feel like I can act like myself yet, and I don't know anyone's name! It's just different right now.

So I've already made someone mad :o/ I was cleaning out the church resource room and apparently I throw away an Ark that someone had made. And the measurements were to scale. It didn't look like an ark. It looked like a paper organizer or mail sorter. Someone else thought it was a paper organizer also...because there were paper's in it. Anyway it made the lady really mad and Shan had to clam her down. And he's having someone make another one for her. So fun times....

I'll post more later!

My Second Day On the Job

So I've offically been on staff at FCCO for a whole two days now! I'm totally loving it and I'm so excited to see what God is going to do! I'm having so fun but I really haven't done anything yet. On Monday, I pretty much unloaded my car and set up my office and had my first offical "staff meeting." On Tuesday I finished setting up my office and had a couple of meetings and walked through the building and classrooms.

Here are some pictures of my adventure!



This is our staff in the conference room/ Dorothy's office. We're kinda in the middle of renovating the backside of the offices. So my office, the conference room, and Dorothy's office are in one big room -- it's work in progess. But anyway, every Tuesday is Firehouse Tuesday and we eat Firehouse subs together. So this is us eatting our lunch. On the left is Trisha, she's the church secetary. I love her to death! She's loud, Itailian, and has a ton of energy -- we're going to be best friends. Nest to her is Dorothy. Dorothy is our Senior Adults Minister. She lived In Guahna for 38 years. She is full of energy and totally has a heart for God! It's funny because she's the sweetest person you'll ever meet but she's not afraid to tell you when you're being stupid or selfish. Next to her is Shan. He's the preacher and he knows how to kill a person in 25 different ways. Next to him is Sean. he's the Youth Minister, a huge Miami Hurricanes fan, Star Wars Fan, and Lord of the Rings Fan. And then there's me.



This is Shan going to "talk" to one of our neighbors. They guy was trimming his bushes and then throwing the scrap pieces over the fence on to our property. Trisha and I watched and laughed from my office window.





This is my temporary office space.




And these are all my boxes and trash from the move.



And this is what I get to wear to work everyday! Jeans and Flip Flops!!! This is the best job ever! Man I need to get a pedicure!