This is our group from the Chicago Mission Trip; that trip was incredible!

I'm alive, I'm alive, i'm alive!

Whoo~ man o' man, what a day! It's only 10:46Am and i'm already exausted. :~D well another round of guess and check for my medication. My neurologist says that she wants to try another med. Well ok... i guess. :D God, man He is working though and I can see his handprint everywhere; even in the midst of confusion and waiting. It's good to wait though. I'm just holdin' tight, clinging rather, to His magnificent promises and knowing that His strength is enough to pull me through and provide for me. I can't wait to see what He's going to do next because though it may be tough now, i know that He's a good and soverign God and that His glory will be proven. Not just in the case with my medication but with everything. But i've got to trust in those promises. He IS good! Hang tight everyone, He's hanging tight to you.

God Bless!

Christina Lindsey

3Oh, send out your light and your truth.Let them lead me.Let them bring me to your holy hill,To your tents.
4Then I will go to the altar of God,To God, my exceeding joy.
I will praise you on the harp, God, my God.
5Why are you in despair, my soul?Why are you disturbed within me?
Hope in God! For I shall still praise him:My Savior, my helper, and my God.

Psalm 43:3-5

Fellowship, Friends, and Family...

Oh what great joy it gives me to know that i can sit around that bon fire and tell all without fear; I have no fear because of Christ. Weather it's my Epilepsy, or my struggles in Algrebra, or just my joys, You're there for me... My brothers and sisters in Christ. and i thank you. I thank Christ for Dying on that Horrible Cross so that I could be free, so that we could be free. but more than that so that we could some day go to live eternally with Him in Paradise! OH He is so good. Fellowship is such a gift, and i am so greatful for it, I'm greatful for you! Chaille, Sara, Pete, Mac, Dana, Heather, the list just goes on and on and On... He is so good to us. And this little Body, affects so much, because we are part of the Body of Christ.. He is so cool! I love ya!

God Bless.

Christina Lindsey

12For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though they are many, are one body, so it is with Christ. 13For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and we were all made to drink of one Spirit. 14For the body is not made up of one member but of many. 22On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, 23and those parts of the body which we think less honorable we treat with the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty, 24while our more presentable members have no need of it. But God has so composed the body, giving the greater honor to the parts that lacked it, 25so that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another. 26And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

(1st Corinthians 12:12-14,22-26)

It's all about trust baby! :^D

ok, ok, so today was a good day. well they are all good days. Just some are harder than others. but today, man God was really teaching me trust. it was like when you go to camp and you play all of those trust games with your group. Only i was playing with God. well... you get what i mean. :D God taught me today to trust Him even with the smallest of issues, and dang does he come through! He is so good. And the thing is it wasn't that i deserved for Him to come through for me but that He deserved the glory in it. He teaches me something new everyday and I praise Him for that.

I hope that you are all doing so great!!

PS> if you need prayer for anything, please don't hesitate to let me know!!

Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 3:12-14)

God is so good!

Moody, Translation, class, and transportation.

ok so today i got up at around 4:oo Am and i was having a really hard time sleeping, my mind was racing trying to figure out how i was going to get my transcrips from Cornerstone to Moody. I knew that God was the only way that anything was going to get accomplished today, especially because i was really tired. I was feeling somewhat discouraged at the fact taht i didn't get everything for my application in on the time that i had hoped, But God reminded me that His will was perfect. I rode into school today with my dad, and we stopped for coffee and pop-tarts! :^) that made my day so much better, not just the fact that we had coffee. :D but that i got to ride in with my dad, he's so great! and then my classes went really well.

Ok and here's where it get's really good... God totally stepped in and slamed me with encouragement and guidance, i went to the regester's office and got my transcrip sent to Moody, and when i went to the Corum to sit and study, there was a WyCliffe Bible Translator's booth set up in the walk way for people to check out, it was simply incredible. God totally did it! (I'm going into Translation :^)) The people at the booth remembered me from a conference i went to last year. and they encouraged me so much! they prayed for me and they just showered me with love. God is so good!!

Thank you for your prayers.

God Bless!!

Christina Lindsey

Parting is such sweet Sarrow...
My Great Aunt Caroline is heading back to her home in California tomarrow. She's been with us for almost three months now and she's been such an encouragement to me and to my family, it is so hard to see her go home. i really don't want her to go but i know that it is God's will for her to go. she is in her late 80's now and is still very vibrant but is growing very weak. I have had the amazing opportunity to watch her reflect Christ in everything that she is, in her letters to me, in her prayers, and now in her presence. I will miss her greatly but i pray that God would allow us to continue to keep in contact that i might continue to learn from the wisdom that God has given her through her years. I thank God for her, and for the love that she's shown me.

Great pic-nic and Baptism!

The day was so beautiful and everyone was wonderful. It was good to just get out and have fellowship with one another at the lake today and eat, and then see so many young and some older believers go forth in excitement and obedience and get baptised in the lake.for me, it was assurance of faith, to see so many believers. They were encouraging.

today was a good day! i hope that you all are having good days! if anyone needs prayer for anything be sure to let me know! i'll be happy to pray for you!

God Bless!!

Christina Lindsey

1Now faith is a well-grounded assurance of that for which we hope, and a conviction of the reality of things which we do not see. (Hebrews 11:1)

13But we look forward to what God has promised--a new heaven and a new earth--a place where everything that has God's approval lives. 14Therefore, dear friends, with this to look forward to, make every effort to have him find you at peace, without [spiritual] stains or blemishes. (2 Peter 3:13-14)

wow, that's a power-packed verse! ok, so today was really tough for me. I had class all day and it was really hard for me. I was struggling with not wanting to be there and wanting to do well... and some other stuff. It was an interesting day, to say the least. But at the end of the day, God once again showed me His amazing grace, and was so good to me. He allowed me to speak to good friends, and find joy in just letting the night be in His hands. it was good. He is good. and i know that even though my classes are tough, and i may get really frustrated with them at times, i can rely on God's strenghth and wisdom for help. I'm not alone. A Stinkin' Men right sara ~ :D keep on keepin' on, every one! i hope you all are doing good!

Oh to be 10 again...

Can you just imagine yourself at age 10 maybe you can't, but i'll take you back to a day in my life when i was 10. just for fun, or maybe because i love the simplicity of those days. when i could just sit on the edge of the water and stare out at the wonder of God's creation and be totally content with "my world."

Today was a beautiful day, absolutely perfect weather. The sun was shining the breeze was perfect, the birds were singing, and the air was just the right temperature. I couldn't have asked for a more perfect day. it just makes me think of how amazing God's creation is. In Genesis God created everthing and it was "good" and i believe that it was. Even though man's sin corrupted the earth and we lost dominion God's creation is still Good! and we are still part of that creation. and God is reaching out to us in love to "hem" us in as Psalm 139 talks about. God wants us to come closer to Him, he wants us to know him better because what son/daughter doesn't want to know and do everything that their father does?

well... thats what i long for to be like the father, for Him to Hem me in, and to let him affect me in a way that i'm not the same. i guess that's what God has been telling me from the very start, from His creation, there's more... Just come.

Therfore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal!
2nd Corinthians 4:16-18