I think New Years is to bloggers as Christmas and Easter are to nominal church-goers. If you are gonna post, it should be on New Years! You review your last year, give goals or resolutions for the new year, it generally makes for a good read. Well, today is January 2, so the year is still new:)
About this time last year I was in Dallas, TX. This was when I decided to work as a Scripture Impact worker, I had been in Dallas for about five months doing the beginning linguistic classes and not loving it. It was such a release and relief to change my track and get into training I really enjoyed!
March is when I officially decided to serve the Konyanka people with Brittany and the Brolliers. I had been praying for a people group and a team since July 2010 when I began with PBT. This was such a huge answer to prayer- to work with an unreached people group with a team of people to support me and support!
In July I finished my last PBT training class and came home to raise support. This part of the journey I was a little anxious about, but God provided, so many of my church family has been generous and supportive and are on fire about God's Kingdom spreading to the Bible-less!
Then in October I moved to Chambery, France and began to learn French in preparation for Guinea, where that is the official language. My time here has been very blessed with new friends and team-building with the Brolliers, though they leave this month.
As far as goals or resolutions for 2012, I just read this blog about making four resolutions: spiritual, intellectual, physical, and social. This sounds like a good idea to me, I'll give it a try!
1. Spiritual- I want to really work on scripture memorization this year, I should probably name a quantity to keep me accountable....lets say a passage (vague on purpose) a week.
2. Intellectual- this one is easier, I just discovered i-tunes free weekly podcasts, they have ones on economics, science, history, all kinds of things I will never sit down and read about but can listen to a podcast about!
3. Physical- one word: jogging. No diet resolutions this year, come on people I live with Brittany Bedford!
4. Social- I will not hole up in my room and hide from French-speaking people, I will talk to them and make mistakes but build relationships through it!
ok folks, hold me to it:) Happy New Year, love you!
