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Name: Kristen
Country: United States
State: California
Birthday: 6/26/1984
Gender: Female
Interests: jesus, weather,music, dancing, talking, listening, letter writing, journals, drives, dr. pepper, people who are romantic, photography, dancing, laughing, going for walks, geography, clouds, movies, postcards, being candid, word games, dominos, the great outdoors, the beach, hiking, messages on my cell phone, daytona beach, education, concerts, chunky sweaters, shoes, thrift stores, glamour, my boyfriend.
Occupation: Student
Industry: Nonprofit
Message: message me
Website: visit my website
AIM:  lefthandedmafia
Member Since:
8/22/2004
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| Internship Support LetterHello and how are you? This is a copy of my internship support letter (or at least the version I've penned for my Cal Poly kids). Check it out!
May 21, 2006
My dear friends,
What a blessing it has been to have attended Cal Poly these last 4 years! My time here has been the most incredible time of learning and growing, laughing and loving every sweet moment in San Luis Obispo. I have made the best friendships of my life and learned what it is like to share true fellowship with my brothers and sisters in Christ. Now as I am graduating, I wanted to share with you briefly a little bit of what the Lord is doing in my life; but first I’ll start with a little of my history.
My freshmen year I arrived at Cal Poly ready for a clean slate and a fresh start. Though I had been a Christian since the age of 9, high school proved to be a time where I was not walking with the Lord. I had no expectations as to what this new start might look like, but the Lord soon revealed His great plan for my life. It was during my freshmen year that I rededicated my life to Jesus Christ and began to grow in Him as a result of some amazing friendships and the ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ. I experienced freedom from sin and the abundant life that God has for each one of us. This growth continued through out the years, and at the close of my second year I was called to Daytona Beach for a summer project. It was here that I really fell in love with Jesus and developed a passion for His great name and His kingdom. During a seminar that summer, the Lord called me to make a commitment to Him: To give a year of my life to full time Christian ministry. Well, to be honest, friends, I went home and I did not think of this promise I had made to the Lord. I continued to attend Crusade, Bible studies and church, but this passion for the Lord’s work had faded.
Then came my fourth and final year at Cal Poly. This past year has been absolutely amazing, as the Lord has taught me so much through the great opportunity of leading a freshmen girls Bible study. Studying the Word with them, meeting for discipleship and just being able to be involved in their lives has been a tremendous blessing in my life and has rekindled my passion for ministry. My life has been changed by this opportunity as the Lord has drawn me closer to Him and as I have fallen even more deeply in love with the Father.
In February of this year, the Lord began to work on my heart calling me to ministry. Everyday for about 2 weeks, the Lord called to mind the commitment I made to Him during summer project. Through prayer, seeking the Lord and studying His Word it became clear to me that God was calling me to intern with Campus Crusade for Christ! As Christians we have the incredible mission to labor alongside the Father as He changes lives and transforms the lost into Christ-centered laborers. I am thrilled to have another great year in SLO and even more exciting to me is the fact that my job is to share Jesus with others and to help them to cultivate their love for Him! I am now in the exciting and challenging process of raising support for this next year.
My goal is to report to campus on September 1, but before I can I must complete the challenge of raising my financial support. As you know, Campus Crusade for Christ is a non-profit Christian missions organization and as such I am responsible for gathering a team of ministry partners who share my vision and my hope of giving every student on the Cal Poly and Cuesta campuses an opportunity to hear the Good News of Jesus Christ. I must raise $3,000 in monthly support and an additional $4,000 to cover one-time expenses such as conferences, transportation and ministry expenses. As I take this step of faith to serve the Lord, would you consider joining me as a partner in ministry by supporting me with a monthly commitment of $50 or some other amount or a gift towards my one-time expenses? I invite you to be a part of giving to this incredible ministry that we have all been so blessed by. Please take some time to prayerfully consider being a part of my ministry team.
I would also ask you to pray for me as I prepare for this exciting and challenging year. Pray that the Lord would use me powerfully in the lives of men and women next year and pray that the Lord would reap a plentiful harvest on the Cal Poly and Cuesta campuses! I would love to ask you to commit to joining my prayer team for the upcoming year.
Thank you so much for taking the time to read this letter and for taking the time to consider what the Lord would have you do. I would love to meet with you at some point for coffee or lunch before summer starts to share with you in greater detail and see if you have reached a decision and to answer any questions you might have in regards to joining me in my ministry.
Yours in Christ,
“The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray the LORD of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest”
Matthew 9:37-38
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| Spring BreakI have some great news to share: I got the internship with CCC at Cal Poly for next year! Praise God! I am so stoked, you don't even know! Just wanted to give you a brief update. I'll call you soon if your name is Emily, Hannah, or Renee.
Emily good luck on finals
Hannah have fun in Florida
Renee: relax it's spring break!
Haley, I hope you find some of my friends from SLO in Louisiana! | | |
| i seldom post here....but i thought this might just be interesting to my few and scattered readers.
it's official. i applied to intern next year with campus crusade for christ. the application is in, the references are in and now all i must do is wait and pray. and you can pray too. in fact i'd like that if you would.
take care all. truth be told i'm aching for some summer project reunion action... kentucky or ohio anyone?
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| it's christmas, and naturally people are talking about it. i hear people talking about what they do to celebrate the holidays, what they're buying for others and the whole shebang. i also hear them talking about what parts they do and do not celebrate. lately, i've been hearing people say that they don't celebrate the birth of christ. their reasons are that it just isn't logical that a baby was born to a virgin, that christ lived a perfect life and that he is the atonement for our sins. now i wholeheartedly believe all of those things and i do agree that it isn't entirely logical. these things just don't make sense to the human mind. i would go so far to say that all of those things are miracles, things that only a supernatural being would be capable of. i fully believe that christ achieved all that he claims to have achieved, including virgin birth, a living a sinless life and offering the sacrifice of his life that makes me whole. only god could do all these things, and maybe that is why we find it illogical. can we, as finite humans really understand an infinite god? can we try to make sense of the mystery of his love and his ways? i don't believe that my mind can formulate let alone comprehend the fullness of god, and i guess that's where my faith steps in. see, for me it is that element of mystery that attracts me to christ. it doesn't make sense that babies are born of virgin girls and it's hard to understand that someone is fully god and fully man all at once. but what i know in my heart, what is true for me, is that i could not love and serve a god that i fully understood. to acknowledge god is to recognize a being with greater power than we could fathom, and infinite expanse of knowledge and understanding and a being who is perfectly good. that's just scratching the surface. i don't know if this is making any sense, and the truth is i'm just trying to process. i would never proclaim to be able to make logic of the story of christmas, because it's just not there. i find that to be the beautiful part. that a god of such love, such power and such understanding would stoop to become a part of this chaotic world, just to be with humanity. to walk with us, to teach us, to lead by example and finally to die and give us reason for life and hope. it's a mystery. it doesn't make sense. christ's birth is the first act in a play that demonstrates god's love for us, and there is just no logic or equation or fancy explanation for love. think about it. try to define love, try to explain step by step the ways that people come to be in love and you'll be no where.
i love christmas for the music, for the family, for the gift giving and for all the pretty things it is. but i love it most for the mystery it holds. i love being reminded of the amazing and miraculous thing that god did by sending his son jesus to earth. it's absolutely awe-inspiring.
christmas song
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o holy night, the stars are brightly shining,
it is the night of our dear savior's birth.
long lay the world in sin and error pining,
til he appeared and the soul felt it's worth.
the thrill of hope, the weary world rejoices,
for yonder breaks a new and glorious morn.
fall on your knees, oh hear the angels voices,
o night divine, o night when christ was born. | | |
| i'm beginning to think that you get to graduate college not because you get the right amount of units, or that you get decent enough grades. you get to graduate because you make it through the crap-storm of papers, meeting with advisors, going to a multiplicity of offices, being looked at disapprovingly, belittlement and a host of bureaucratic bologna! i'm wondering when something in this process might just go right.... | | |
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