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I'll GO!
03 August 2006

Westminster Christian Academy has invited me to teach Spanish for 7th grade. Teaching Spanish in a middle school never entered my mind as a potential place of service as I was doing “my” best to prepare for ministry. Yet, here I am, the Seventh grade Spanish Teacher at WCA, fully confident that I will be able to complete the tasks put before me.

I have had the joy of listening to Merida Brooks, who is the trainer for new teachers, for the past two days. Mrs. Brooks, in her own desire to parent her five children, dove into the Word to find some parenting guidance. This desire to be a Godly parent has blossomed into a system of classroom management that has influenced a generation of parents, teachers, students and their families. I am beginning to use Merida’s principles in the parenting of my own children. I am sure that Mrs. Brooks and her husband had no idea that their desire to be Godly parents would have such an empact.

As I was listening to the in-service presentation, I began to realize that the experiences in my life had lined up, at this time, in order to prepare me to become a faculty member at WCA! Friends, as you have known me in the past 15 years, have you ever known me to say,

“Seventh grade Spanish Teacher! That is it! I will further the cause of Christ by teaching Spanish in a middle school! My unique set of life experience andgifts will enable me to go to the mission field and share the Gospel whilebuilding relationships students. I will use my gifts assisting theatre production in a Christ centered high-school.”

Now for the goose pimply part! I will also have the wonderful joy of teaching Missions Spanish in the High School. Friends, every school day, I will meet with mission-minded students and lead them in the creation of Evangelical performance pieces in Spanish! This class was the High School principal's idea!

WCA sends a group of students to the mission field every year. I will spend the school year preparing these students to use creative communication styles in Spanish speaking countires. We will then we take that set of performances to the Mission Field. Can you imagine the impact?

Those of you who know me, who have been a part of my journey in preparation for ministry, can see God's timing in this appointment! Basically, The Company in Spanish for a Spanish-speaking mission field! I am getting excited just telling you guys about it. I almost want to stand right in the middle of my living room and break into a full performance of Awesome God!

As I was talking to the Mission Team Director, who also happens to be a gifted Theater Technician, doing my best to sell this idea of Spanish Drama, he said to me...

"Are you willing to go?”

Now, I was around last year after the students returned from their mission trip. Those kids had the runs for about three weeks. I saw the pictures! It looked hot and DIRTY! Again, those of you who know me are fully aware of the fact that I don’t much like the runs, hot, or dirty! Yet, when he said,

“Are you willing to go? I (after a completely appropriate and dramatic –freak-out- pause) said, “Sure!” My innermonologue follows... “uhhh… runs… amebas… dirt… hot… sweat… fat… heat rash…. plane rides… money… childcare… noise… teenagers… uh me? Uhhhh… YES, ABSOLUTELY, I’LL GO!”

This is Big! I am waiting for the challenges. I am sure there will be stumbling places and roadblocks before me. Please pray after you read this post! Ask God to enable this vision and to remind us to claim the promise in the following scripture.

"You didn't choose me remember; I chose you, and put you in the world to bear fruit, fruit that won't spoil. As fruit bearers, whatever you ask the Father in relation to me, he gives you.” John 15:16

posted by Ash @ 8/03/2006 08:03:00 AM,

1 Comments:

At 11:22 PM, August 12, 2006,  becca said...

Oh, wow... I am thanking God right now for this opportunity you've been given... And I will pray for you.

 

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Miramax Films
2001
At the start of the New Year, 32-year-old "singleton" Bridget decides it's time to take control of her life and start keeping a diary. Now, the most provocative and hysterical book on her bedside table is the one she's writing."


A Christmas Story
MGM Distribution Company
1983
Deliciously warped and winsome boyhood memories of Christmas are told by a typical American man revisiting his native Indiana during the 1940s. Among other childish pursuits, his overriding obsession to finally own a genuine Red Ryder BB gun consumes his feverish imagination.

Coal Miner's Daughter
Universal Pictures
1980
The story of Loretta Lynn, COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER charts the rise of the queen of country music from her upbringing in backwoods Appalachia to stardom at the Grand Ole Opry.

Fargo
Gramercy Pictures
1996
Jerry Lundegaard is a car salesman in Minneapolis who has gotten himself into debt and is so desperate for money that he hires two thugs to kidnap his own wife. Jerry will collect the ransom from her wealthy father, paying the thugs a small portion and keeping the rest to satisfy his debts. The scheme collapses when the thugs shoot a state trooper and two innocent bystanders in rural Minnesota, drawing local Police Chief Marge Gunderson into her first homicide investigation. At first unaware that the homicides are connected to a Minneapolis kidnapping, Chief Gunderson draws closer to Jerry Lundegaard as his situation further unravels.

Gladiator
DreamWorks SKG
2000
When a Roman general is betrayed and his family murdered by a corrupt prince, he comes to Rome as a gladiator to seek revenge.

Good Will Hunting
Miramax
1997
Will Hunting, a janitor at MIT, has a gift for mathematics which is discovered, and a psychologist tries to help him with his gift and the rest of his life.

Grease
Paramount Pictures
1978
A rock 'n' roll celebration of growing up and falling in love.

Hair
United Artist Films
1979
During Vietnam, a small time farm boy enlists in the army and encounters New York City hippie subculture.

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
New Line Cenima

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2001
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2002
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2003


Moulin Rouge
20th Century Fox
2001
Christian, a young Bohemian poet living in 1899 Paris, defies his father by joining the colorfully diverse clique inhabiting the dark, fantastical underworld of Paris' now legendary Moulin Rouge. In this seedy but glamorous haven of sex, drugs and newly-discovered electricity, the poet-innocent finds himself plunged into a passionate but ultimately tragic love affair with Satine, the club's highest paid star and the city's most famous courtesan.

The Notebook
New Line Cenima
2004
An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to an older, invalid woman whom he regularly visits. From a faded notebook, the old man's words bring to life the story about a couple who is separated by World War II, and is then passionately reunited, seven years later, after they have taken different paths.

Sense and Sensibility
Sony Pictures Releasing International, Sony Pictures Releasing
1995
As Elinor and Marianne struggle to find romantic fulfillment in a society obsessed with financial and social status, they must learn to mix sense with sensibility in their dealings with both money and men.

The Shawshank Redemption
Sony Pictures Releasing, Showtime Networks
1994
Andy Dufresne, a mild mannered New England banker, is convicted of murdering his wife and her lover. Despised at first by the other inmates because of his introverted manner, Andy slowly forges an unlikely friendship with Red, a seasoned lifer and his gang.

There's Something About Mary
20th Century Fox
1998
There's something about Mary that still bewitches Ted. Although he hasn't seen her in over a dozen years, since that shameful prom night, his heart still flutters at the recollection of her. He's still crazy about her after all these years, and curious as to her whereabouts. At the insistence of his good friend Dom, he hires private eye Pat Healy to track her down in Miami.

Urban Cowboy
Paramount Pictures
1980
John Travolta and Debra Winger star in this cowboy version of SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER, in which all the action takes place at Gilley's country-western bar, a rough-and-tumble honky-tonk in the heart of Houston. Travolta plays Bud, a young country farmer who moves to the city to find work at an oil refinery and finds love with Sissy (Winger), a cowgirl of easy virtue and spirit.

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