What am I doing here?
A whole lot of people have been asking me what I'm doing in Arkansas. To be completely honest, I'm not really sure sometimes myself. I'll do my best to describe where I'm at in this adventure called life.
As some of you know, I had a major turning point in my life during the last week of August '03. After that I ended up in Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil on a YWAM campus going through a bilingual Discipleship Training School. When that ended, so did my visa and I went back to Minneapolis, MN. I thought I as supposed to stay there and find a church to root myself in.
I spent a lot of time from July '04 to November '05 trying to find a job, but everywhere I went, nothing worked out for very long. It was starting to get frustrating, all the doors slamming in my face.
I came to visit my aunt and uncle (Jim and Barb Nizza) and also my cousin (Josh Levin) for the week after Thanksgiving '05 down here in Ozark, Arkansas. They had just moved onto a large campus a couple months earlier and needed a lot of help cleaning and fixing things. I wasn't working that week so I volunteered my time to help out with what I could.
While I was here that week, I felt like God was telling me I needed to be here at least for a while. I went back to Minnesota and did my best to tie up loose ends. That was an adventure in itself trying to get everything I owned together... it was all spread from the northern to southern ends of the state. On top of that I didn't have any money, a vehicle, or a phone. Somehow it all worked out, amazing.
While I was visiting, Jim and Barb had mentioned that Jonathan (DTS leader) might use some help with the school if I could. They told me that it would be starting with a two week "outreach" trip to New York City on December 19. I still didn't have any money so I went to all my relatives and told them I wanted to go on this trip for my Christmas present.
December 18, at 6 o'clock in the morning I found myself at the greyhound depot ready to catch a bus. I arrived in Fort Smith, AR a little after 3 in the morning and my cousin Josh was kind enough to get up in the middle of the night and pick me up. It's about a 45 minuet drive from there, so by the time I got here I had just enough time to pack a duffel bag and take a shower. At 5:00, ten of us (5 dts students and 5 staff) and were all in a van headed for NYC.
I basically jumped into staffing this school and doing part time maintenance with both feet and hit the ground running. God has clearly shown me that this is where I'm supposed to be at this point in my life. It's not easy, but it is a relief.
So this is where I'm at in life up to this point.
As some of you know, I had a major turning point in my life during the last week of August '03. After that I ended up in Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil on a YWAM campus going through a bilingual Discipleship Training School. When that ended, so did my visa and I went back to Minneapolis, MN. I thought I as supposed to stay there and find a church to root myself in.
I spent a lot of time from July '04 to November '05 trying to find a job, but everywhere I went, nothing worked out for very long. It was starting to get frustrating, all the doors slamming in my face.
I came to visit my aunt and uncle (Jim and Barb Nizza) and also my cousin (Josh Levin) for the week after Thanksgiving '05 down here in Ozark, Arkansas. They had just moved onto a large campus a couple months earlier and needed a lot of help cleaning and fixing things. I wasn't working that week so I volunteered my time to help out with what I could.
While I was here that week, I felt like God was telling me I needed to be here at least for a while. I went back to Minnesota and did my best to tie up loose ends. That was an adventure in itself trying to get everything I owned together... it was all spread from the northern to southern ends of the state. On top of that I didn't have any money, a vehicle, or a phone. Somehow it all worked out, amazing.
While I was visiting, Jim and Barb had mentioned that Jonathan (DTS leader) might use some help with the school if I could. They told me that it would be starting with a two week "outreach" trip to New York City on December 19. I still didn't have any money so I went to all my relatives and told them I wanted to go on this trip for my Christmas present.
December 18, at 6 o'clock in the morning I found myself at the greyhound depot ready to catch a bus. I arrived in Fort Smith, AR a little after 3 in the morning and my cousin Josh was kind enough to get up in the middle of the night and pick me up. It's about a 45 minuet drive from there, so by the time I got here I had just enough time to pack a duffel bag and take a shower. At 5:00, ten of us (5 dts students and 5 staff) and were all in a van headed for NYC.
I basically jumped into staffing this school and doing part time maintenance with both feet and hit the ground running. God has clearly shown me that this is where I'm supposed to be at this point in my life. It's not easy, but it is a relief.
So this is where I'm at in life up to this point.
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