Pursuing Jesus

Wow! I know I haven't posted in a couple weeks, life has just been crazy! The other interns and I have been working on going through our phases to be able to do our own sessions! Right now we are in between co-leading sessions with a staff and the staff shadowing us. I have been learning so much about working with the kids and it has just been awesome! Last week I was sick with a cold and ended up staying home from work for two days, then I just rested during the weekend to try and get better in time for the similar ministry conference. This past Tuesday I got off work at three and was able to go hang out with Katie and Margaret! It was so nice to spend some time with them! We went to Smith Rock and went and put our feet in the river and just talked for a while! It was awesome to connect with them and see how everything back home is going! On Wednesday we got to the ranch early to scoop the paddocks before people started getting there. Then from 11:40-1 us interns were on parki...

It's Sunday afternoon and I'm sitting on the couch, looking out the window and thinking over all that has happened these past two weeks. My host family is relaxing around the house. Alyssa and I are working on how to tell everyone at home what we have been up to, what we've learned, and how we've seen God work. Overview: These past two weeks we've been shadowing sessions in the afternoons. That means that we are assigned to a leader (one of the staff) and child, and we watch their session. We rotate through the different leaders so we can get a feel for how they each lead their session. The goal isn't for us to learn how to lead like a specific staff member, but to learn from all of them to better how we will lead sessions in our own unique way. I have led sessions before at my home ranch Glory Reins, but it has been so awesome to see how multiple people lead and get ideas that I wouldn't have thought of. That may look like something we do (being crea...