Moving Into the Neighborhood

So, as many of you know...
I have lived with a very precious and dear friend of mine, Holli Almond for the past 2 years! We have grown and matured a lot together in our faith the past couple of years and because of that so has our friendship. We have laughed together, cried together, sang together, taken road trips together, went to SBP together, argued together, taken random cook-out trips together, stayed up in the wee hours of the morning chatting together, etc. We've spent a lot of time together!

This year Holli decided to follow God's will for her life and become an RA. She decided to use her position, of being an RA, as a platform to share the Gospel with freshman girls. Although Holli didn't get the position in a specific dorm that we had been praying for, the Lord knew the lives that He intended to use Holli to reach in Witherspoon Hall. Holli has freely given her life to minister to the girls on our hall and from her laboring for the sake of the Gospel this year we have seen 2 girls come to know Christ and several others who really notice something different about Holli and keep coming around to spend time with her.

I admire Holli so much for her willingness to lay down her comforts and give her life away for these girls. She is a prime example of what it means to "move into the neighborhood" as Jesus did in John 1:14 "And the Word became flesh and DWELT among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth."  

Jesus also makes a very powerful statement in  Matthew 9: 36-39 " When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, "The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest."

I just wanted to share with you a little bit about Holli and how her desire to live missionally by committing to live with freshmen as a junior and now rising senior has really challenged me. 

I am so very sad that my time of rooming with Holli during college is coming to an end after this summer after the CCP, but I am so excited for what God has planned for her next year as an RA in Moore Hall (the very building she lived in her freshman year and  we were praying for her to be an RA in!) It's amazing how God answers prayers! 

So who will I be rooming with next year?!

 I will be living with Morgan McDow in Holshouser Hall and hoping to continue our personal ministries in the nursing program and start a ministry on the 8th floor! Morgan and I met in high school as President and Vice President of HOSA, but really weren't friends until we met through a Bible study that was held in her dorm room our freshman year. Morgan is a nursing student as well, so we have lots in common. I am excited to live with Morgan and share the very vision and heartbeat of Christ with her!

Morgan, Amy, and Me at CO's end of year cook out in May 2010