It’s been a while since I’ve really blogged.

I have totally been slacking off on blogging. Katie Cornell just wrote her first blog today and it inspired me to get back on here and actually write something.

First of all, I wanna say how amazing my church really is. Tonight Monica, Chrissy and I had dinner and shopped around Waterford. On the way back in the car Chrissy said something that got us talking about church, but her one statement really has stuck in my head all night. It was basically this “I was really suprised when we first started going to C3, I mean we’ve only been there a few months and I hang out with you guys all throughout the week..”

That just stuck with me because it occured to me we really are creating a community for once. Not just a building for ‘church folks’ to come together once a week. When I think of C3 I don’t think of a building, I don’t think about Sunday mornings, I think of the faces of my friends there. I talk a lot about how much C3 does to really reach the community, and to truely spread love the way Christ intended the church to, but theres a whole other level to this place.

I have been going to the same church since I was a freshman. We obviously made a huge change when it went from Parkway to C3, but it is essentially the same church. In the 4 years of highschool I attended that chuch, I never made a real friend there. I went Sunday mornings, and went to Bible studies after service, even went to camp. Never made a friend. It was all completely surface level and honestly annoying. My best friend at the time, her name was Mariel, she went with me, she got saved there, and we would talk after church. We were both completely irritated by the fact that it felt like these people would talk to us out of obligation. You could feel that these girls were only talking to you because people were watching them.

It changed so drastically when we transitioned. I disspeared for a while because I didn’t have a car and my parents wanted to follow thier bible study group to Aloma. So I went there for a little bit. When I got my own car I went back to what had become C3.

Once I started going to Community Group a lot of it changed for me. I actually got to know people. What? Getting to actually know people at church? It was kind of a foreign concept to me. But pretty quickly it went from being a ‘church activity’ to feeling more like all my friends were getting together to hang out. The community group did its job, it built community. I honestly don’t remember everything that led up to the friendships I have now, I know it involed a Cheerwine, Crave, and mostly, the college community group. I started going in January, and now I feel blessed to call all these people I’ve met through C3 my friends. Not my ‘church friends’ as in people I see at church and tolerate more than the others, but my friends.

I also havent talked about working with the kids at all on here, so I wanna hit on that a little bit. I’ve been working with C3 Kids and Crave for a little while now, and I gotta say it’s one of the coolest things I’ve been able to do in a long time. I am planning on being a teacher, so obviously working with kids and students is something I love. Powerhouse is a blast for me on Sunday mornings, I get to see Andrea sing and dance with the kids (and yes, on one occasion, I danced, but I will never ever do that again..), watch some interesting skits, and even bet on crab racing. It’s pretty fun. Then we actually break the kids into groups and go over some stuff with them. I co-teach 4th/5th with Nathan right now, and it’s always interesting. The kids are actually pretty cool and for their age level, pay attention enough to get the point. It’s always a fun challenge trying to figure out how to make the lessons work ith our group, but I think we do a good job, and Nathans Bible stories have gotten better.

Crave is a ball too, the students are really awesome and they havent given me any issues yet! Hooray! But really, I love working with those kids too.

On a completely unrelated note, I’m reading a book right now called “The Irresistable Revolution” and you should really go read it. I’m not too far in to it, but I love it. It’s really encouraging, and it’s challenging me to really love people more, and to truely live more like Jesus. Go pick up a copy, it’s awesome.

 

Lastly, tomorrow night Mark & James are releasing thier first CD at Virgin Megastore and playing a set at 6:30, everyone that can make it should come. Also, Friday night there is a truck race my friends Sara and Amandas dad is driving in, anyone that wants to come with, let me know and I’ll grab you a ticket. It’s free. And also, that same night Mark & james are playing Urban Flats in Winter Park at 10, please come and eat if you can make it.