the news

there could only be 3 reasons why you are reading this blog post:
1. you are here to find out what my exciting announcement from yesterday is
2. you are a regular reader/subscriber of my blog
3. you saw this posted on facebook and decided to investigate and you now have plans to stalk the rest of my blog.

its ok if you have to admit to being a #3 person.  i don't mind. haha!

i won't keep you waiting any longer cause i just know i've had you on the edge of your seat wondering what my exciting announcement is!  to put it simply...i made it to "round two" of interviews for World Changers summer staff!!!!!

now, i realize that not everyone who reads this blog will know what World Changers is so i'll do my best to explain.  World Changers is a missions organization that organizes (how ironic that an organization actually "organizes", right? ha!) week long mission trips across the country for youth groups from southern baptist churches.  they do construction on houses and buildings in need, they provide services for people in the communities that they are working in and they just generally love on those around them.  every summer WC hires around 60-70 college students who have been on previous WC trips to be on teams that basically run the show for the time that they are in a particular city, and i applied to be one of those summer staffers!

my process started back in july when i went on a WC trip to North Pole, AK.

i spoke to one of the team members about being a summer staffer and decided that it was definitely something i was interested in.  it would be $250 a week for about 10 weeks in the summer to serve and minister to others all over the country.  i would totally do it for free but i don't mind at all that it's a paid job ;)  anyway, when i got home i started the lloooonnnnnggggg application and had it turned in by the end of september (it wasn't due until november...haha!).  after that it was just a waiting game.

about a week into november i received an email from WC saying that they would like to interview me over the phone.  awesome!  not everyone gets a phone interview so i was super stoked about that!  the next step in the process was to get invited to WC interview weekend in good ole' Nashville, TN at the end of january. 

well, you guessed it (and i already said it earlier in the blog so no points for guessing)!  i was invited to that weekend in january!  that is still not a guarantee of getting hired, but its a start!  this has been the desire of my heart for the past few months and it has been great to see how awesome God is and how faithful he is to answer prayers.  of course, he would be worthy of praise even if i did not get selected to attend the weekend.  i'm sure with all of my heart that he has a plan for me and his plan is better than mine any day, but i won't lie and say i'm not excited about how well this has worked out!  for those of you who knew about this already and have been praying for me, thank you!  i really appreciate it!  keep those prayers comin cause i still need them!

so that's my news!  i hope it was worth the anticipation i built up about it!  it totally was for me :)

if you wanna find out more about World Changers you can check them out on their facebook page or on their website at http://www.world-changers.net/

until next time, goodbye, my loves!