Vacation...

Gooday Mate...

So Kyle and I have been on our 2nd vacation as a married couple... We went to Wilmington... The place that has our heart! We have been wanting to live in Wilmington since before we got engaged! It is the place  where God brought us back together, where our REAL church is... It is ultimately the place we have a huge passion for!

We got here late Friday night and have been staying with Kyle's Aunt & Uncle. We went to a community service project called, "I Love LA." It is the way that Crosswinds (the best church ever) serves their community. It was a new project where the church connected with 3 other churches in the community and they all served together... Not to promote any church or anything like that... It was to promote Jesus and Jesus alone :)! That is just amazing to me! It's very rare that you hear about other churches even communicating with one another. (Side note... 300 churches were invited to join in on this idea... only 6 responded... what does that tell us about "Church" these days) It just really spoke to me that Crosswinds took the initiative to not only try to Serve the World with God's love, but to Serve the World with other churches to show the power of God's love!

So we got to be a part of that event and that just tugged at our hearts all the more! They had several different serving opportunities. Highway clean up, Free Oil change for Seniors & Single Moms, Construction projects, Gave out quarters at the Laundry Mat, and a "Free Sale" (basically a yard sale with donated things, that people could shop for free :) ). It was such an amazing time!  We learned so much about people and just how much people are longing for love! It was really amazing to be able to be  a part of that and just realize the need...

It also taught me how much I am missing in opportunities with people. Since we have been married, we have not been able to really get plugged into our church and serve... So if anyone would join us in prayer to make sure that we are allowing God to open up opportunities for us to serve him in all aspects of our life that would be super... We have had the discussion to make it a mission to move to Wilmington, possibly in this up coming March... With that being said, we have made the commitment to pray that God will show us where he needs us to be, if Wilmington is not where God needs us, then we are praying that He will open up opportunities for us in Greensboro. We just want to make sure that we are not missing opportunities. -- After having this discussion and praying about it on Saturday, we went to church on Sunday... Low and Behold, Chris (Kyle's Uncle) preached on Missed Opportunities... I balled like a little school girl. I don't know what God was trying to say to me, but I was definitely touched by the service and it just confirmed in my soul that I am missing opportunities that I am completely unaware about. And I don't want to miss any opportunities that could be my last opportunity... So Thank you God for opening my eyes and helping me see something that I have been missing.

Plus I am encouraged to blog more... We'll see how that goes ;). I forget that I have this thing, most of the time and then I think, O YEA, I need to look at that and type something in... Kyle didn't even know I had this blog until tonight... I only started it for Kayla, lol and didn't think that I should open my heart up to anyone else... If no one knows about the blog then they won't read it :) then it'll be a small portion of my soul, written out for me and my sister :) Have a good night Kayla :) Love Love Love you!