Former Teen CHELSEA gets BAPTIZED!!! ; )

God is Amazing! On Sunday, we witnessed an answered Prayer with the Baptism of former teen ministry; now campus student, Miss Chelsea Miller!!! : ) 

Pizza, Scattergories, and MOCHi!

I wanted to share the date Drew and I had with Valeria and Paola. : ) The four of us had a fun time makin pizza...sorta...lol played a few rounds of Scattergories for the first time...(lets Go "Shirley Temple and Steve Harvey!" hahahahha)...and finished the night with Paola's first MOCHi!!! hehehe. It was a night filled with Val's non-stop laughter, Paola's happy-faced pizza, and Drew and I enjoyin every minute of being able to encourage our sisters in Christ. : ) Kingdom dates are awesome! ; ) 

End of the Year BANQUET!!!!!

SOOOOO...I must say that that the banquet was awesome!!!! It was so amazing to reflect on how much God has worked in our ministry the past school year and the unity HE has built among us! Here are a few snap shots of the night we had together! We have THE BESTEST ministry!!! ; ) P.S.....we are gonna missssss uuuuuuu SENIORS!!!! ;' )....BUT...BEST of LUCK!!! ; ) You guys will be GR8! ; )

The MOST INTERESTING TEEN

New Brother Last Sunday!!! =}

So happy for our new Baby Brother in Christ, Jesse Garcia=)

WOOHOO!!!!!!

I am so stoked! Ok, soooooo basically I applied to live in a dorm at UCLA
and after I applied the Housing Office offered me a co-ed dorm hall where I would have to share a bathroom that fits 6 showers with 40-50 other girls and the guys bathroom is right down the hall. The hall-type dormitories are known as the more "social" dorms, which is why I did not want to live there.

Sooooo, I requested to have my dorm changed but even then the change wouldn't be guaranteed.
HOWEVER! I found out just now that my change of assignment request has been made and I will be staying in a completely different and better dorm room....woohoo!

God is watching!

Mikey's Spiritual Twin

I know this is late but better late than never. As most of you know, my little brother Deion got baptized on Feb. 28th of this year. It was an incredible day because Mikey got baptized just hours before Deion. So, now Deion is my triple brother (blood, in Christ and black) and Mikey's spiritual twin. Praise God!!!

*tears*

After church my mom told me that she is sorry for not protecting me spiritually and biblically like she should have while I was growing up. Great sermon Marcel.

=')

Come on God.


Justine

New Look

I'm feeling the new look for the blog.

Please Pray for my Family

Well, the title kind of explains it. I just wanted to ask everyone to keep my Uncle Antonio in your prayers. He just found out that he has cancer in his stomach and it's really bad. The doctors said there is almost no chance that he'll live and my family is devastated right now. My mom is especially sad and is having a hard time because her mom died in a similar way. However, my mom visited him and shared the Word of God with him and he seemed very open to it, so hopefully things can get better.

God is Working

For real....

So, about that scholarship interview...I got the scholarship! $1,000! Woohoo! And I know that in college $1,000 can disappear more suddenly than expected, HOWEVER, if I had to choose between having no money or $1,000, what should I do? Yupyup.

I also found out that I got a $250 scholarship and I had another scholarship interview earlier this week. The people in there also gave me a lot of compliments and we really hit it off during the interview so we will see.

More good news.....

A couple of weeks ago I was recognized by my school's head counselor at an awards ceremony. She had shared that back in my freshman year of high school she did not even think that I would make it - there's my sin for ya. However, now she wanted to recognize me for different achievements by awarding me the Best All Around award. I was very encouraged and my sister Jasmine and my mom got to be there with me....another encouragement.

AND! I thought I'd save the best for last (:

My mom is studying the Bible! Yeeah! I even woke up one morning and saw her having her quiet time.
Please pray for her. This is the second time she has studied the Bible so just please pray that God really impacts her heart and moves her to make any change that she needs to do in order to be with God. Thank you!

Justine =)