Week # Something...I've lost track
3 Comments Published by Bonnie on Sunday, June 29, 2008 at 4:16 PM.
I meant to send this email 3 days ago, but our internet went down.
Its been a crazy couple of weeks. I’m very excited about the direction of
the artwork (exploring the idea of re-humanization and what it means to be
fully human as God intended). Students have gone out on campus quite a bit
now and have had so many conversations with people about where they’re at on
their spiritual journey. Many have been able to share their own experiences
with God and testimonies and some have shared the Gospel in a variety of
other means.
You may remember that a student from Savannah College of Art and Design
Atlanta came on the project here in NYC as well. Her name is Stephanie and
we’ve been meeting for the past few months. God totally provided for her to
be here and the funding came in at the 11th hour literally. Last week she
and another student were on campus doing Soularium at Columbia University
and together they shared the Gospel with this girl. She made a decision to
trust Christ that day and they’re setting a time up to follow up with her.
Praise God for new life!
On another note, one of the students here has been seriously ill for the
last week. Please pray for healing and for wisdom for the doctors. We’re
heading to the doctor again today and praying that things get figured out.
I praise God for these students who even though they just met her two weeks
ago have come around her to love on her and pray for her.
Finally, Sy Rogers will be speaking later today to the entire project, all
90 of us (inner city and campus ministry included). He does an amazing talk
about healing and forgiveness for sexual sin. I think many of our students
will be heavily impacted by this. Pray for them to be attentive and to
really glean what God would have for them in this time with Sy.
Thanks so much for your continued prayers. Please pray for me that I would
be filled with the Holy Spirit and be yielding to Him moment by moment. I
think so often I can do things in my own strength without even a second
thought and my desire is to do things out of God’s strength. Pray for me
also as I plan our last few training sessions. That I would speak with
clarity and that my words would be His.
Oh on another note, things with my bank and the debit card situation finally
got worked out and my claim has been processed and approved. I was able to
get a temporary debit card for now. Thanks so much for your encouragement
and prayers in that situation.
Some pictures for you:
Its been a crazy couple of weeks. I’m very excited about the direction of
the artwork (exploring the idea of re-humanization and what it means to be
fully human as God intended). Students have gone out on campus quite a bit
now and have had so many conversations with people about where they’re at on
their spiritual journey. Many have been able to share their own experiences
with God and testimonies and some have shared the Gospel in a variety of
other means.
You may remember that a student from Savannah College of Art and Design
Atlanta came on the project here in NYC as well. Her name is Stephanie and
we’ve been meeting for the past few months. God totally provided for her to
be here and the funding came in at the 11th hour literally. Last week she
and another student were on campus doing Soularium at Columbia University
and together they shared the Gospel with this girl. She made a decision to
trust Christ that day and they’re setting a time up to follow up with her.
Praise God for new life!
On another note, one of the students here has been seriously ill for the
last week. Please pray for healing and for wisdom for the doctors. We’re
heading to the doctor again today and praying that things get figured out.
I praise God for these students who even though they just met her two weeks
ago have come around her to love on her and pray for her.
Finally, Sy Rogers will be speaking later today to the entire project, all
90 of us (inner city and campus ministry included). He does an amazing talk
about healing and forgiveness for sexual sin. I think many of our students
will be heavily impacted by this. Pray for them to be attentive and to
really glean what God would have for them in this time with Sy.
Thanks so much for your continued prayers. Please pray for me that I would
be filled with the Holy Spirit and be yielding to Him moment by moment. I
think so often I can do things in my own strength without even a second
thought and my desire is to do things out of God’s strength. Pray for me
also as I plan our last few training sessions. That I would speak with
clarity and that my words would be His.
Oh on another note, things with my bank and the debit card situation finally
got worked out and my claim has been processed and approved. I was able to
get a temporary debit card for now. Thanks so much for your encouragement
and prayers in that situation.
Some pictures for you:
Hanging out with some of the girls from the arts track
At the top of the Rockefeller Center with Deanna, a staff girl I'm coaching
Pam and I co-led a Bible Study on the Chicago Summer Project 4 years ago.
Now we're both directors on the Tribeca Summer Project!
Chillin' on the subway
So the students arrived last week and we've been going, going, going. They are a great group and I'm really enjoying getting to know them. Continue to pray for their growth and development this summer as they take steps of faith.
Our focus in the artwork this summer is rehumanization. In other words, we're asking questions about what it means to be fully human and what it means to restore broken humanity to its original creation. We're also exploring our role in that. Its such an important topic, particularly with the lack of relationship happening amongst college students and city dwellers these days. They don't know how to have even a normal conversation with their friends, they're so accustomed to faux relationships on facebook, instant messager, and through texting.
We went out to various parks in the city on Friday in our groups to do Soularium with people that we met along the way. I went out with one of the students and we got into two amazing conversations. One was with a gal originally from Croatia but here on a grant to study at NYU, the evolutionary genetics of one particular type of fish. She came from a Catholic background and said it was very unusual for anyone of faith to be in that field, but that more and more she saw how God's hand was in creation.
The second conversation was with a woman originally from Israel who is currently living in London for three years to work with university students. We didn't even say anything about the topic of rehumanization to her but she opened it up and we had a very long conversation with her about humanity and God and the role that He plays in the restoration of original creation. It was truly amazing. Pray for her. She definitely comes from background in Judaism but seems to have mixed her beliefs with things from eastern religions such as reincarnation. God to her is eternity.
Things seemed to have worked out with my bank account. My claim went through obscenely quickly and was approved, so all the money that was taken out was restored and all fees associated with it as well.
Finally, a quick prayer request. One of the students has been pretty ill this past week (its not contagious) but nearly passed out in church today and we're getting her into the doctor tomorrow. Pray for her quick healing and for the doctor's to have wisdom with her body.
Thanks!
Hey y’all,
I have a huge prayer request for you. Yesterday I received a call from my bank letting me know they saw some unusual activity on my card. Turns out someone somehow stole my debit card number and pin and has been charging it up in Atlanta. So far over $600 dollars has been charged. They’ve closed the card down and have the account on temporary hold until everything clears. Thankfully since I have a good bank, with fraudulent charges, they’ll put all the money back and clear any overdraft fees that were incurred. But it will take sometime and I am currently moneyless in New York City. Luckily, some places do take visa here so I’m able to temporarily use my credit card and friends here are helping me out lending me cash until it gets taken care of.
As you can imagine, this is pretty frustrating considering I’m out of town and in a place where I can’t do much of anything but wait. But I am convinced that God is in control as much as I don’t like feeling out of control in this situation. Please pray that it gets taken care of quickly and that nothing else was charged to the card before it was cancelled.
You might recall that about a year and a half ago, my house was robbed and they attempted to steal our identities. Luckily we were able to take care of things in time with our banks and with alerting the Credit Bureau. Please pray that nothing else has been stolen.
This occurred on the day that all the staff arrived here and I am convinced that there’s some hefty spiritual warfare going on here, not just in this situation but in many staff members lives. Some have had to drop out due to last minute medical complications and one of the other project directors here is in major pain.
Please pray for us to trust God in the midst of these situations and to have wisdom in what to do next.
Thanks!
Bonnie
I have a huge prayer request for you. Yesterday I received a call from my bank letting me know they saw some unusual activity on my card. Turns out someone somehow stole my debit card number and pin and has been charging it up in Atlanta. So far over $600 dollars has been charged. They’ve closed the card down and have the account on temporary hold until everything clears. Thankfully since I have a good bank, with fraudulent charges, they’ll put all the money back and clear any overdraft fees that were incurred. But it will take sometime and I am currently moneyless in New York City. Luckily, some places do take visa here so I’m able to temporarily use my credit card and friends here are helping me out lending me cash until it gets taken care of.
As you can imagine, this is pretty frustrating considering I’m out of town and in a place where I can’t do much of anything but wait. But I am convinced that God is in control as much as I don’t like feeling out of control in this situation. Please pray that it gets taken care of quickly and that nothing else was charged to the card before it was cancelled.
You might recall that about a year and a half ago, my house was robbed and they attempted to steal our identities. Luckily we were able to take care of things in time with our banks and with alerting the Credit Bureau. Please pray that nothing else has been stolen.
This occurred on the day that all the staff arrived here and I am convinced that there’s some hefty spiritual warfare going on here, not just in this situation but in many staff members lives. Some have had to drop out due to last minute medical complications and one of the other project directors here is in major pain.
Please pray for us to trust God in the midst of these situations and to have wisdom in what to do next.
Thanks!
Bonnie
