A few week ago, I had the honor to be a bride's maid in one of my best friends' wedding.
It was a beautiful wedding and an amazing bride!
The next week, my husband and I got to travel to Oregon to go to Christian Youth in Action (CYIA) and visit family.
We stopped at Multnomah Falls
We actually hiked all the way to the top. We did not realize how wet and cold we would be by the end of it, but we still had a ton of fun.
CYIA this year was pretty great! It was my 9th time being at CYIA (if you count that time in Arkansas).
This year we had five different CEF missionary groups from around the world that we learned about and raised money for.
Each day we heard about a different one. Monday was Martha from East/Central Africa, Tuesday was Pastor D. from Madagascar, Wednesday was Dr. Christopher from India, Thursday was Korn (pronounced Gone) from Taiwan, and Friday was Daniel, Rachel, and Michelle from Oregon representing the Arise program though CEF.
The theme of the week was "Around the World".
This year I got to lead worship and be a team trainer. I had the best team!
Joseph, Colette, Chris, and Michelle were the greatest teammates I could have wanted. I was very sad to say goodbye at the end of the week.
After CYIA, I finally got to see my family. We have had a lot of fun!
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| Foot art with paint Sharpies |
I am also attempting to launch my photography ministry. I call it Pics with Purpose.
I started taking pictures of my sisters, taking yearly family pics, band pics, and most recently my parents asked me to take some pictures of them for their newsletter. This made an idea start to form in my mind. What if I took pictures for missionaries and other people who need cheap pics to use in their newsletters, prayer cards, and anything else they needed? Having just gotten married I know that getting photographs done can be quite spendy, so I can up with the idea for Pics with Purpose.
My idea is that I would go to lunch with you to learn about what you need and get to know you. I think that knowing each other a little bit will help get the pictures that you want and help make the photoshoot more fun! After lunch we would go to the desired location and take the pictures for as long as it takes to get the shots you want. After that I will go home and edit the pictures. I will then find another time to meet with you to give you the final product. I will give you all the raw footage as well as any that I edited. We will do this digitally; I will bring a flash drive with all the pictures and you can download them onto your computer.
There is no charge unless you want me to print the pictures for you, and in that case I will only charge what it cost me to print them. I do accept donations if you feel inclined to pay me, but it is definitely not required.
I would love to use the gift of photography to bless people who would otherwise not have pictures.
If you are in the Spokane area and would like to have a few pictures done, you can go to my Facebook page (Pics with Purpose) and send me a message or you can reply to this blog post.
One more exciting bit of information is that Christopher and I will be traveling to Germany this Christmas break. We will be there from the beginning of December till the middle of January 2018. We might be a little bit crazy, but it will be an exciting adventure!
More information to come about why and what we will be doing while we are there.
