God keeps blessing me!!!!

The past few days I've been kind of broke and just waiting for payday. The other day I came upstairs to my room and someone had tacked a fortune from a fortune cookie to my door that said "An unexpected payment is coming your way" Now I don't really believe in fortunes or anything like that hut I do believe in God. Well I didn't think a whole lot more about it. Then today I came back from eating in the caf and checked my mail. In my mail box was a check for $250!!! It was from Hoopa, the people that pay my scholarship. The letter simply stated that my scholarship had been increased due to an increase in budget!! Praise GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He is so good to me!!!!!!!!!

Help!!!!!!!!!!!

I CAN'T SLEEP!!!!!!!!!! I think I'm an insomniac or something. I was doing really good there for a while being able to sleep and stuff but now I'm hardly able to sleep unless it's like after 3 am!!! I should probably do something about it. Although insomnia is kind of a good thing during finals week lol.

A New Blog. . .

I have decided to start a second blog. Now I know you must be scratching your head and saying to yourself, "But Yvonne you barely post on this one!" I know I know but I have good reason for beginning this new blog as it is totally devoted to Drama ministry. Specificly it will be a journal of my journey into this ministry that God has called me into. I may not post on that one as often as I do this one and then again I may end up writing mainly for the new one. I have titled the Blog, "My Passion, My Praise, My Ministry." You can find out more by clicking that link. I hope you all will enjoy my newest venture in the wonderful world of blogging!

Love you guys!!!!!!!!!


Yvonne

Great news in the apostolic music arena!!!!

I was checking out Sis. Jana Allards blog a few minutes ago and I was pleased to find that a wonderful apostolic quartet from California has released their debut CD!!!!!!!!!! The quartet is called freeWAY. I grew up with one of the guys in the quartet and never expected him to grow up and have such an amazing voice!! Not only that they are very annointed. I've included a link here to Sis. Allards blog about the quartet where you can see a video with some awesome samples of the guys singing. If you like great gospel music you should invest in this album.

A new direction. . . .

As you know from an earlier post, I am feeling God call me in a slightly different direction in my life. I have been attending UAM for about 3 years now pursuing a degree in political science. It has been my intention to either go to Law School or enter a Graduate program and pursue a PhD once I finish here. However I feel called to immerse myself in; I don't know what you would call it; God's work I suppose. I feel like the more I surround myself with the things of God and his people and his work the closer I will be to God.

Drama is my passion and it is what I feel like God has called me to do for him. While of course nowhere in the Bible does it say anything about drama leaders (grin) there is the command to be a witness and to spread the precious truth. I feel that Drama is a very effective tool for that. Anyway on with the story. I've been talking to God about becoming more involved in the field of drama ministry and a few times Bible School has come to mind. Then the other night I was talking to a friend at a drama practice in Conway and he asked me if I had considered gong to Bible college. He told me he thought it would be a great way to get my ministry started. To me that was like this confirmation from God(THANKS JARED!). I had already done a little bit of looking at some of the UPCI endorsed Bible colleges and I knew that if I went I would probably want to go to Indiana Bible College. I came home from that drama practice and began doing a little more research. The more I look at it and pray about it and think about it, the more I think I really want and need to go. I've discovered that IBC is about half the cost of UAM. The downside to that is you can't get federal financial aid to go. So now I'm off to try and save roughly 7-$8,000 for my first year of Bible school. I've simply told God that if it is his will for me to be at IBC then he will make a way and provide the money. I'm going to continue to pray about this and seek God's will. I'm asking all of you to do the same. Your prayers are very much appreciated and needed.

all my love,

Yvonne

A success

Well the Easter Drama is over and I couldn't be happier!! Lots of time, effort, stress, prayer, fasting, and work went into it. I so appreciate all the people that helped make it possible. I couldn't have done it without you. At first when the drama was over I felt horrible there were several mistakes that I could see, things that didn't go as planned. Then tonight in the evening service I heard over and over how it had touched and stirred different ones and someone also got the holy ghost tonight!!! I was also blessed and refreshed in a beautiful way. The best way to put it is I was drunk on the holy ghost!!! When the service was over I felt like I had just gotten off the phone from a 3 hour conversation with my best friend. Anyway I just wanted to let y'all know that the drama went great!

Love y'all

Yvonne

Two Days. . . .

Well it's only two days until the Easter Drama!!! I know that God has great things in store for this. Pray tomorrow's practice goes great!!!!!!!!!! We need things to go flawlessly. Thanks for your prayers and again pray that we touch someones life.

Yvonne

A Directional Change

When I was living in Crossett we often had an evangelist by the name of Bro. Proctor come and preach for us. Bro. Proctor was famous for stopping in the middle of his preaching and saying "I feel a directional change." We always thought it was kind of comical. A few days ago however I think I litterally experienced a directional change. I'll be quite honest it scared me at first and I'm still completely uncertain. I felt all of a sudden like God was completely changing the direction I thought my life was headed. This is scary for me because I thought I had my life all planned out and it's like God is saying "psst hey blondie I don't want you to go that way I want you to go this way!" The best thing I know to do in this situation is hit my knees and talk to God about it and then hop up and change directions to fit God's plan. While yes I may welcome some of the changes in my life I am a bit scared about some of what God may have in store for me. So anyway I guess I'm asking for you all to pray with me about this. When it isn't 2 am and I'm not half asleep I'll tell you a bit more about my situation. Until then keep me in your prayers.

Love always

Yvonne

Just Because. . .

I woke up this morning wanting to do something special for someone. I don't know why but everyonce in a while I just like to make my mom smile. Perhaps it's everything she does for me or just the simple fact that she is and always will be my mommy. While yes I celebrate Mothers Day I actually hate conventional Holidays. I think everyday should be Mothers Day. So today I sent my mom flowers. I didn't do much just two Gerber Daisies and some babies breath but I think I succeeded in making her smile.





If you have the privelege of having a mother that is living do something nice for her "Just because"

A sad day for me. . . .

Well today I am very sad. As some of you know I have been working for the Huckabee campaign in an attempt to get him ellected. Today John McCain cinched the nomination by winning all four of the states today and therefore Huckabee is dropping out of the race. I truly believe Huckabee is the best candidate for the whitehouse but alas that will not happen. So for now I will mope and perhaps cry for a day or two and then pick up the pieces of my broken heart and move over to the McCain camp and do everything I'm capable to do to prevent Barrack Obama or Hillary Clinton from wining the whitehouse in general election.

Ok Ok I know this was a bit overdramatic but I was trying to get my point accross!
I really am dissappointed in the conservative party for not seeing Huckabee for the conservative he truly is.

An easter drama update. . . .

Well guys it's less than 3 weeks away and I don't mind telling you I WANT TO PULL MY HAIR OUT!!!!!! LOL no it's not quite that bad but there have been a couple times where I wondered if it will come together. I know that it will it's just stressful sometimes especially when you can't get everyone to the practices due to conflicting schedules and such. Anyway just please remember to keep us in your prayers. I really want this to be a tool of ministry. I know that this is the area of the church God intends for me to be used in and I'm so thankful for that opportunity. The drama is called "Through the Eyes of Mercy" and it tells the story of the crucifixion from the perspective of the adulteress woman. Please pray that everything falls together and we have an annointing on us that will somehow reach someone and show them the wonderful Mercy of God.

The cast and crew to pray for are

Destiny
Debbie
William
Leah
Joy
Charles
Anthony
and ME!!

Thank you all for your prayers they mean a lot!

Love
Yvonne