PLANS!

I have SO much to look forward to!! This last few weeks of school are going to FLY by...and then its offical: I will be a SENIOR! :)



KSU Junior Day:

Me, Jenna, Andrea and our parents are heading to Manhatten for Junior Day at KState! So excited to yet again visit campus and see my future home with my future roomies! (most likely lol) :)















YoungLives Camp:



I am (most likely) going to Camp Buckner in Texas to be a childcare worker for the teen moms going to camp. I am excited to be able to serve God in such a fun way...and with my friends :)



















Challenge 2010:


I CAN NOT WAIT! Challenge is in Columbus, Ohio this summer. I am wayy beyond ready/excited for this trip! Kristin Stanfill will be the worship leader...he is great! Check him out! Multiple speakers will be there....and they will all be fantastic! I have been waiting for this trip since July 4, 2008! (When we got home last time)

Kids Camp at Camp Quaker Haven:

SO excited for this trip too! I look forward to it every year! Last year was probibly the funnest year yet! I was blessed to have my (now) good friend Jessica as my co-councelor and an awesome group of girls to hang out with!! This coming summer is going to be so so fun...I am most defintly counting the days!!! (I should probibly turn my application in soon... lol)

Needless to say: Summer, P L E A S E hurry up!! :)

Seven Signs

If you have never read the book, The Power of a Praying Teen by Stormie Omartian, you are missing out!

Chapter 9 is the greatest...it is titled: Having Good Relationships.

Through out High School and recently, several of my friendships have struggled so this chapter ment alot to me!

Here are some parts that really spoke to me:

-We should look carefully at our friends and ask ourselves, "Is that the kind of person I want to be like?" If not, we should ask God to help us get free of that relationship and bring someone better into our life.

-Our closest relationship, the ones that influence us the most, need to be with people wo love and fear God.

-The main quality to look for in a close friend isn't how attractive, talented wealthy, smart, influential, clever, or popular they are. It's how much they love and fear God. The person who will do what it takes to live in the perfect will of God is the kind of friend who will impart something of the goodness of the Lord to you every time you are with them.

Seven Signs of a Desirable Friend:

1) Tells you the truth in love

2) Gives you sound advice

3) Helps you become a better person

4) Helps you become a wiser person

5) Remains close to you, even in tough times.

6) Loves you and stands by you, even when you do stupid things

7) Helps you when you are having trouble in your life so you won't have to go through it alone.

Seven Signs of an Undesirable Friend:

1) Is ungodly and doesn't care if he hurts other people

2) Is changeable and unstable, and you never know how that person is going to act from one day to the next.

3) Is often angry about something

4) gives you bad and ungodly advice

5) Is an unbeliever who doesn't obay the law

6) Does foolish things; a fool does things without thinking through what the consequences will be.

7) Is not reverent toward God and His laws.

I thank the Lord everyday for my friends who fit all 7 signs of a desirable friend :)

A Much Better Valentines Day

Instead of sitting at home alone on Valentines Day, my friends and I cooked dinner together :)

Here is what we did :

First we went grocery shopping!

We got all the grocerys to make: spagetti, salad, bread, chocolate covered strawberrys and of corse we got sparkeling grape juice with some super cute Valentines Day wine glasses!

Here are some pictures from our lovely night :)

Browning the meat for Spagetti sause!

Here is Maisy washing our new glasses for the sparkeling grape juice!

Mmmm :) While the noodles cooked, we made the chocolate covered strawberries

Here is our table :)

Michelle, Me, Maisy, Sarah and Andrea (we missed Jenna!)

I loved spending Val Day with my best friends!

John 15:13 Greater love has no one that this, that he lay down his life for his friends.

Jesus is the reason for Valentines in my opinion...after all, he is the greatest love!

Dear Sirvilla,

**(Here is a side note...this past summer i went on a mission trip to inner-city St. Louis. I met an 8 year old girl named Sirvilla. I was able to share with her the truth about Jesus Christ. She was so excited and accepted Christ with me! It was an amazing experience...one that i will never forget! Later that night, another girl from the youth group told me that when Sirvilla left, she shared with her mom that she had accepted Christ and her mom wasn't excited (not mad though)...also Sirvilla had told me that she was not allowed to read her Bible. These things crushed me. I just couldn't imagine living like that! Sirvilla has been on my mind latley, and sadley i don't have an address to send her a letter, so I am going to write it here!)

Dear Sirvilla,

I miss you so much! I wish that I could travel to St. Louis and give you a big hug!

I have been thinking and praying for you alot latley! I feel like God has put you on my heart for a reason...but I am not sure what that is. He knows though! How cool!

I hope that you have been able to grow in your relationship with Jesus. I absolutly loved the time I got to spend with you durring VBS at Jubilee! It was so exciting that you made Jesus the Boss of your life! What an exciting night! As I told you before, we are sisters now!! Even if I never get to see you again on this earth, we will get to party in Heaven together! YAY!

1 John 4:15 saies, "If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God." You have acknowledged that Jesus is the Son of God, so this verse tells you that God lives in you! I think that is so exciting!

I want you to know that you are loved! By God and by myself. I am praying for you and will continue to pray. I encourage you to grow more and more in your relationship with Jesus. It is unbeleiveable how he can change your life around!

I love you Sirvilla!
-Hannah

Tounge and Attitude

This semester, my small group is starting something different. We are picking a new topic each week and reading 10 verses on it. What I have done is read one or two verses each night and then i pick them apart. Its been cool

Jan. 20 TOUNGE

James 1:26
If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not keep a tight rein on his toungue, he deceives himself and his religion is worthless.

if our tounge goes "crazy" our religion is worthless. Wow. That should scare us. It most defintly scares me!



Jan. 27 ATTITUDE

Psalm 19:14
May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, O LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer.

The word and is very important here. It can become easy for the words of our mouth to be pleasing to the Lord, but the things in our hearts can be more challenging. People might not know what is going on in our hearts, but God sure does. BOTH of those things need to be pleasing to God


Proverbs 3:5-6
Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding;
In all your ways acknowlege him, and he will make your plaths straight.

Definition of ALL: -the whole of -the greatest possible -nothing but
We need to trust the Lord with NOTHING BUT our hearts.

What do I have if I don't have you Jesus?

Here is another great song that the one and only Starfield sings. It has ment alot to me this past week.

Cry In My Heart
There's a cry in my heart
For Your glory to fall
For Your presence to fill up my senses
There's a yearning again
A thirst for discipline
A hunger for things that are deeper

Could You take me beyond?
Could You carry me through?
If I open my heart?
Could I go there with You?
(For I've been here before
But I know there's still more
Oh, Lord, I need to know You)

For what do I have
If I don't have You Jesus?
What in this life
Could mean any more?
You are my rock
You are my glory
You are the lifter
Of my head
Lifter of this head


This has been a very encouraging song to me. What do we have if we don't have Jesus? NOTHING. If only I could beleive that 100% every day.

I am Thankful

I just had a really awesome extra creadit opportunity in English...its gonna bump my grade a whole letter grade! YAY!! :) I love me some A's!!
Anyway, we had to write 5 essays on a blogging sight. He gave us a ton of writing promts, and one of them was list 25 things that you are thanful for. I decided to do this one, and i thought i would share them with you all :)

I am thankful for my loving parents

I am thankful for the Bible

I am thankful for Jesus

I am thankful for TRUE friends

I am thankful for EFCA's Challenge Conference!

I am thankful for the youth at Jubilee Comunity Church in St. Louis

I am thankful for my siblings
I am thankful for a supportive youth group
I am thankful for a wonderful small group
I am thankful for cousins that are more like friends
I am thankful for cool fall days
I am thankful for my car so i can get places
I am thankful for the book, Crazy Love by Frances Chan
I am thankful for my bosses who are so wonderful to work for
I am thankful for AHS because I am getting a good education
I am thankful for the soldiers that protect us
I am thankful for pumpkin spice lates from starbucks!
I am thankful for a warm house on cold days
I am thankful for a comfortable bed
I am thankful for the teachers who care about my education
I am thankful for Christmas time
I am thankful for Summer break
I am thankful for Grandparents who love me
I am thankful for open lunch
I am thankful for pineapples...mmm!

I have so much more to be thankful for :)