Youth Camp 2015

Youth Camp for 2015 is officially over. It is always such a blessing and a wonderful time spent drawing closer to the Lord and to one another. This year was a bit different for me, however, as I could not attend all week. It was actually pretty horrible to not be there and to hear about all the awesome things that I was missing out on. First, you have to know that Evangelist Andrew Howard preached our evening services. He was used by God in mighty ways and brought us a word from the Lord every time that he was in the pulpit. I am so thankful for his burden and his ministry!
Anyway, due to my recent welcome to adulthood, I was only able to attend Tuesday night and Thursday night through Saturday morning. (This is not a pity post but I'm not going to lie, it was hard. I definitely felt isolated from my youth group for a while.) The time that I was at youth camp was incredible. God moved and called and anointed in such a mighty way. Young people that had recently started coming to youth got the Holy Ghost, backsliders prayed through and we all moved into a deeper relationship with Jesus. I was asked to sing for our morning rally on Friday and before we were finished with worship service God moved. Struggling young people became determined to triumph, one got very close to receiving the Holy Ghost for the first time, and others moved into a deep place of worship. God definitely blessed us with His presence once again. I'm looking forward to what God is going to do at Summer Heritage. If camp is any indication, God is going to move mightily in my youth group. I can hardly wait to see all the things that will be accomplished!

**I will be posting again later today and later this week I will announce who the guest it. I also plan to do a bit of a different post this week. Maybe Tuesday? Regardless, check back later!**

Graduation Photos

As promised, here are some graduation photos!

Some of the seniors. 

        

This is so typical of us that I had to post it. We always have so much fun together!

His face cracks me up! He was all like "uhmm, what are you doing?" But he smelled really good.😆

And now for some ceremony photos! Note: I cried through the entire service. The message was SO good and SO needed. God's presence was very real and near in that service and I'm eternally thankful for that! So if my face looks red, it's because I was crying my eyes out. Lol

Th struggle for a normal photo is real folks. This is the good one!

This a candid. It's pretty hilarious because it shows our personalities.

This one was also about the best one we got. One has never seen a less photogenic group. Haha

Bro. Sewell was so anointed when he preached. I will never forget it! However, when he began, he had everyone cracking up. I was wondering if he was going to preach or host a comedy hour!

I love my pastor!!

I'm so glad that my Uncle Rick and Aunt Kathy Worthen were able to come to my graduation! They were fun to have around. And they made me homemade egg rolls which are to die for and they happen to be one of my favorite things. ;)

I may or may not post more photos. I haven't decided yet... Regardless, keep checking back to find out who is doing our guest post! :) Thanks for reading!

Important Changes & Exciting News!

As you've probably noticed, I've been making quite a few changes around here. It is still a work in progress but it is getting better.-hopefully you agree!
One of the biggest changed that transpired, was not the background, or the layout (hallelujah, its been delivered!) or even the change of the number of blog posts.-which *gasp* happens to be going up and will hopefully continue to!-the biggest change to take note of, is the change of the URL address! The problem was, when I originally created this blog 5 years ago, I couldn't seem to find a URL that had not been taken. This is a very common issue that I have because I happen to have a very popular name.-which means that I have to get creative. So for the first 5 years of my blog, the URL was: *and I quote* "a-day-in-the-life-of-lauren.blogspot.com" which is way more trouble than it is worth! I grew incredibly tired of it, typing it in was a chore, and I'm sure you all felt the same way. Now, my URL is misslauren-nicole.blogspot.com which only has one '-' folks!

Anyway, that is the most effective change that has taken place so far, so for those of you that knew it by that, its time for an update! :)

My picture post is almost done and then I'll have it posted (hopefully by tomorrow evening). And in other news, we have special guest coming on the blog immediately following Summer Heritage (Who is excited?! I'm getting heart palpitations ya'll!). Keep checking back to find out who the guest is and to see those photos!