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Name: Kimberly
Country: United States
State: New York
Metro: Rochester
Birthday: 3/4/1980
Gender: Female
Interests: Expanding my relationship with God. As well as: photography, reading, crocheting, swing dancing, line dancing, hanging out with friends
Occupation: Campus Crusade for Christ
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Member Since:
2/9/2005
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| An email from Ireland to all of their brethren in the States...a point to ponder despite your political affiliations:
We, in Ireland, can't figure out why you people are even bothering to hold an election in the United States.
On one side, you had a pants wearing female lawyer (married to another lawyer who can't seem to keep his pants on) who just lost a long and heated primary against a lawyer, who goes to a hate white America church (who is married to yet another lawyer, who doesn't even like the country her husband wants to run)!
Now...On the other side, you have a nice old war hero whose name starts
with the appropriate 'Mc' terminology, married to a good looking
younger woman who owns a beer distributorship!!
What in God's name are ya lads thinkin over in the colonies! | | |
| Where do I go from here? (the road I will travel)For those who do not have facebook or do not read facebook notes, this is the same note I posted there:
The school year is ending and for me that means an end to my time here
in Rochester. This year was my second year as an intern for Campus
Crusade so that meant either join staff (a long term commitment) or
move on to the next thing.
This decision was extremely hard for me as I love working for Crusade
but I also miss my family back home and I have acquired a good amount
of school debt thanks to RIT. So after many hard nights of praying and
thinking it through I felt I should not join staff but move back to
California to try and save money and work to pay down my loans.
So this means I will be leaving Rochester this summer for the last time
(incredibly sad, I know). I don’t know the exact date I will be leaving
yet but it will be about mid or late July. So if you are leaving RIT
for the summer these next two weeks will be the last chance I have to
hang out with you (perhaps we should do a cook out before everyone
leaves?), if you are staying for the summer then there will be more
time.
I do want to say these last four years have been so amazing
and have changed me in so many ways. I will miss each and every person
I have met here and just because I’m moving across the country I hope
that doesn’t mean I don’t stay connected with y’all. I will always treasure all my friendships I made here and who knows when our paths will cross again.
As for what I will be doing when I get home I’m not quite sure of that
but I would like to get a job in the archiving or the museum field. I
am basically leaving it in God’s hands and trusting Him, and who knows
maybe in a few years I’ll be back in Rochester working for Crusade full
time or I could be in Guam (Betty would love that, but I probably won’t
be there…sorry Betty).
My Trip Home:
For those of you not in Rochester there is a chance I will be driving
by your home and I’d love to see you. I know I am driving through a lot
of states where I know people who live there but unfortunately most of
y’all don’t live near the highway I’ll be taking. But if you do live
near the route I’m taking or would like to meet up near the route
please let me know. Stoners it would be amazing to see some of you on
the way too. And I’ll be taking this trip with my Mom so it won’t be so
lonely.
So my tentative route is this, again I don’t know exact dates yet but it will be mid to late (probably more late) July:
- Leave Rochester, NY and head to Springfield, VT (my Mom’s home town) and stay a night or two
- Possibly heading to Maine (the southern coast, I really want to
see Maine before I leave the East coast) and taking the coast (95/495)
to Washingtonville, NY (just north of the city), this means I might go
through Boston-not sure on that though
- If I don’t go to Maine then Springfield straight down to Washingtonville and stay a night or two
- NYC: I will be visiting NYC for a day or two seeing a few
different sights. If you are in NYC let me know and we can try to plan
something. I won’t be taking my truck into the city so travel will all
be by subway, walking or cab
- Leave NYC and go to DC for a day or two to see the sights and
visit a friend and stop in Manassas on the way out of the city to see
another friend
After this the stops are not set in stone but the route will
probably not change. I think I have places to sleep at the above stops
but nothing after that yet (so hotels then). Housing in NYC or
Washingtonville is still not set for sure.
- Leave DC and take HWY 81 through Virginia and Tennessee, stop somewhere near Knoxville, TN for the night
- Continue through Tennessee taking HWY 40 (will be taking this all
the way to CA) through Arkansas stopping for a night around Fort Smith,
AR
- Drive through Oklahoma and the top of Texas and probably stopping around the Texas/New Mexico border (maybe more west)
- Continue through New Mexico to Arizona (still on HWY 40) to
California and home, not sure if I’ll be adding another stop in there
If you live near HWY 40 or any of the other areas I’ll be going
through please let me know. I know some of you live a few hours from
the route I’ll be taking and if you want to meet up closer to the
highway (as I can’t take a bunch of side trips) I’d love to see you.
Just let me know ahead of time so I can schedule it in to my trip, and
we can figure out the details.
I LOVE YOU ALL!!! And if you ever find yourself in Southern California, please let me know so we can meet up.
Love Always,
Kim
Pim
Kimbie
your sister (for Debbie only)
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| Today wasn't the best day. Why you ask? Well for many reasons, which I don't want to get into here (as many people read this, including some I don't know) but I had an unexpected break down today. It derailed my plans for the day (and wasn't fun), which had included working around my apartment cleaning it up but instead I ended up laying down and taking a nap.
A good thing that I was glad I did today was I went swimming. As the day was so bad and I had been wanting to swim again (it had been over a week since I've been) I decided to go for a late swim at RIT. I just got back a little bit ago and I must say it definitely helped. I just hope I'm not too sore tomorrow like I was the last time. I'm trying to get into a regular routine of going swimming to get in better shape. I realized this summer, there's nothing like going hiking in higher elevation with more in shape people to show you that you're not in as good of shape as you could be (or once was).
Anyways, another sad thing I did today was take my California plates off my truck and put the New York ones on. I knew this was something that was coming but I still didn't want to do it. I love my California plates, they show everyone where I'm from and I'm proud of that. But in reality I should have done this a year ago as I was legally a NY resident then. So since my CA tags were due this month I decided it was a good time to change over as I would not be paying anymore money then I had too.
In other news in my life, I'm still not at 100% with my support, which disappoints me. I was really hoping and praying that I would be done by now but I still need to raise $715 per month of support. Which is so close but not 100%. The other day at our staff meeting (which technically I'm not suppose to be at--or on campus for that matter) we talked about Myers Briggs, which is a personality test. It was really interesting and afterwards Mark, Chris and I were having lunch and talking about our personalities and support raising. Mark told Chris why he has trouble raising support and I asked him what my problem is. He told me I have trouble raising support because I'm too nice, which is so true. It's hard for me to ask people for money but I know that is what God is calling me to do.
A bit more on the Myers Briggs, if you're interested. I think this is a great personality test and it tells you a lot about yourself and others and Campus Crusade uses it a lot with the staff. When I was on summer project I found out my profile however when I took the test online it came out slightly different. The last letter I am split on, almost 50/50 but I think overall my profile is more of an ISFP. What this means is that I'm introvert, sensing, feeling, and preserving. The last one that I also can be at times is J or judging (which is not as bad as it sounds).
If you want to take the test you can do that here. And if you want to see my profile to know a bit more about me, this is the ISFP profile (which I tend to lean more to) and this is the ISFJ profile (which I have a little of as well). And another interesting site is this one which tells about ISFP with relationships, including friendships at the bottom of the page. Also keep in mind these profiles are not exact meaning everything said in them is true for someone but they are more guidelines.
Well I guess that is enough for now, I'll just end with a request that you keep me in your prayers. The stuff I was dealing with today is ongoing and probably won't be solved anytime soon. God knows what my problems and struggles are so no need in knowing the details but one big detail you can pray for is my support. Thanks!
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| I know I should put another update on here as a lot has happened since my last post however I feel posting about the following is more important or more on my heart right now. This all comes from the book The Fuel and The Flame by Steve Shadrach, which is a great book and I recommend to anyone interested in igniting your college for Christ.
I received this book from the Traveling Team when they came to our campus last year and I finally got to reading it this summer. The book is broken in two parts, the first being 'the fuel', which talks about five keys to your personal preparation and the second being 'the flame', which talks about five keys to your ministry implementation.
As I've been reading this book it's amazing how many times I've come across something and thought, wow that exactly what we've been talking about or struggling with at RIT. Or I've come across something that God is just been placing on my heart. So I wanted to share some of that on here.
Right away Shadrach asks what is college and gives his own great definition of "a four (or more!) year window in a person's life when God has maximum opportunity to build a foundation into a life lived for Him". I don't think I ever thought of college this way, though I should have. He goes on to talk about how pivotal of a time this is and that we need to lay a strong firm foundation now to build the rest of our life on.
In the second chapter Shadrach talks about how to develop your character. Here asks a great question, what comes out of a Christian when they are squeezed? Meaning when you squeeze oranges you get orange juice and grapes you get grape juice but what about Christians? If we're filled with Christ shouldn't He come out when we're squeezed (in the hard times)? So does Christ and "the fruits of the Spirit" come out or is it "our carnal and worldly reactions"? Wow, what a great question. I know for me I can think back to times when it's not Christ coming out and that's not what I want.
To help with this Shadrach goes on to list "four qualities every Christian laborer must possess and four pitfalls every Christian laborer must guard against". The qualities being: love, holiness, servanthood, and faithfulness and the pitfalls being: fear, sexual immorality, pride, and bitterness. He goes into each of these talking about them and giving great examples of how to achieve or avoid them. Obliviously I'm not going to put all that on here cause there just too much good stuff there and I don't want to copy his whole book or plagiarize it. So you'll just have to get it and read it for yourself.
However there was a few other points he makes that I thought were worth putting here. One he asks about your convictions and what are you exchanging your life for? What is important to you that you put your time into? As Matthew 6:19-21 talks about, where is your treasure? A great note in the book is "You cannot pass on to others that which you do not have yourself". So if you don't have a personal, real, ongoing relationship with Christ how can you pass that on to others?
I could go on here and I was going to put more but I'm starting to realize this is sounding like a book report and by now most people have probably stopped reading. For those of you who did read this all I hope it has giving you some desire to get this book and read it. I have even been considering getting a couple copies to have for Crusade to pass around, help fuel the fire as it were.
At this point I'm only halfway through the book and I just looked at the appendix today, which has some great stuff in itself. It's pretty cool as a lot of this is going to relate directly to this year and I'm excited for it. And some of this is coming from my summer project, where I learned so much and I'm ready to apply to RIT and Rochester.
So that's just a little about this book. And a side note totally off topic I'm looking at an amazing moonrise. It started out the orangest I've ever seen the moon and it was so great, plus it's a full moon. By now it has calmed down in color but there is still a slight yellowish color to the moon. I'm sure the great color is due to the recent eclipse but non the less very cool.
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