People's thoughts on Chick-Fil-A

Here is one of my role model's status' earlier tonight; I loved it!!
"I have tried to ignore and bite my tongue about this whole Chick-fil-a drama, but I couldn't help but feel overwhelmingly sad by today's events and this controversy in general. I have several gay friends who are reminded every single day, some by friends, others by their family, and all of them by the churches they no longer attend, that they are not normal or accepted and they are in "sin". I see the hurt on their faces and in their eyes at the challenges they face by the hate they receive from the Christian community and it saddens me. I certainly do not believe everyone acted in hate today and am not posting this to debate my views on homosexuality nor do I want to offend anyone by this post, but wanted to send out a simple reminder that, It is easy to forget in the midst of standing up for what you believe, there are real people who hurt every day over the hate they receive because they are gay. I have been on the receiving end of judgement and others opinions of my lifestyle and it was extremely hurtful. As a result I have challenged myself to seek first to understand before being understood. As I took the time to get to know my gay friends stories my heart broke for the pain they have gone through. Again I am not here to debate my views on homosexuality, I don't think it's wrong to stand up for what you believe, i LOVE our freedom of speech in this country, nor do I think all Christians acted in hate, I just wanted to send out a simple reminder that there are real people with real souls and hearts who are gay. All my gay friends, while disagreeing with my beliefs and lifestyle, have shown me the utmost love and respect. My heart goes out to them today. He who is sinless cast the first stone."
~Casey J

I just LOVED the way she posted that!!!

Here is another one that made me sit back and think.

"Okay... I am going to be the rebel who posts his massively unpopular opinion on the Chic-fil-a business. Sarcasm? No actually.. because what I'm about to say will piss off the whole lot of you...
I am a Christian. I believe that the Bible is the inspired word of God, I believe it is wholly true and inerrant (there, got the atheists, agnostics, and universalists pretty well peeved) I also believe that this country is an Idea. One where I have the right to say that Homosexuality is wrong (there went the LGBT) and the world has the right to say that I am a Victorian bigot! Well, that's my point. We have the right. It is unpopular with some, disquietting with others, but we both were afforded the costly ability to say screw you! We forget that it is a very rare and precious gift to have the right at all.
Yes, I believe that it is wrong... guess what.. I also believe that hate is wrong. I don't hate people who are gay... I love them as much as I do the people who aren't.. and really why do we have "gay friends" when we never have "straight friends" I don't introduce my friend Charlie Pugh as my straight friend anymore than I would my friend Justin Burt as my "gay friend" they're both people. Shut up.

I believe that marriage is between one man and one woman.. but I also believe the govt should keep it big greedy sticky fingers out of institutions it didn't invent. I am not qualified to define marriage I only echo my God's definition. Congress is less qualified.

I believe it is wrong, I believe hating someone for acting in a way I disagree with is wrong, I believe abusing, defaming, insulting, and mocking someone (for any reason) is wrong. So please people... lets remember the simple truth here... you have the right to call me whatever you want... you have that right... so stop screaming about someone else using that same right to say what they think. If you can't handle that move to China."
~T.C

God is a God of love, not hate. God is a God of justice, not discrimination, or bullying.
Sin is sin.
No one is without sin.
You are no better than the man who raped his 5 year old daughter,  A pastor is no better then someone who is living a life of homosexuality. I am no better then my little sister who stole a dollar from my purse. Sin is sin, we all fall short, we all need a savior, and we all are given that chance.

Update on Summer 2012

Hey! So its been a little bit since I have last posted, summer time has gotten crazy! Working full time as a waitress, and trying to figure my life out has taken alot of my time. Alee came home last week, but is currently counseling at a summer camp for the next 2 weeks. Its been so good to have her around, feels like another part of me has come home.
My passion for india has grown, and keeps growing every day.
Not a day goes by where my beloved India doesnt come up in a conversation. I'm learning to deal with the adult world, but loving being 18 and young.
Working as a waitress I have met so many cool people!
One of the regulars that come in; Dutch and Marilyn, they have been married 70 years!! 70 STINKEN YEARS! and their love for eachother is so evident, it makes my heart smile!
Today we had these traveling hipsters come into work, one had the Lord shining so bright thru him, i wanted to give that man a hug.
I feel as if these last 6 months has made me grow up faster and given me more life experience then I had this time last year.
Ohhhh this time last year, I would have been eating lunch somewhere in southern india, loving on little kids, putting on a drama, and praying over temples. If only I could go back to this time last year, I would.
Andddd right now Im learning to let the Lord be my lover, I dont need boys, I dont need men, I need the LORD!
SO; right now, I am currently look for houses, room mates, and kids that are on fire for the Lord. I know kids who say they are, but then disrespect women, NOT A MAN OF GOD. I know girls who say they do, but have sex with their boyfriend everynight. NOT A WOMAN OF GOD.
Yes, we all make mistakes, heck I have been making enough mistakes to make my own tv show, but there is a difference from repenting and stopping and repenting and still going out. REMORSE. 2 nights ago I cried myself to sleep over a sin in my life, and I knew I needed to repent, so right there, at like 3am I cried my eyes out repenting like a man on his death bed...for one stinken sin.
But its so good to be broken sometimes, and letting the Lord heal you all over again. mmmm. good refinement.
Well, I think Ive typed the most randomest stuff tonight, but thats my update. Lots of love!

Alexandria's Story

Alee's Story

"Standing watching hands go up all around me, young teens on their knees sobbing in friends arms, hearing prayers echoing in the arenas about surrender, love and worth. A warm tingle shoots through my body as I stand there with tears streaming down my face thanking God that I have a chance to see this, that seeing this breathtaking snapshot is my job.

As many of you know, I graduated high school in 2010 and moved to Texas for a one year internship called the Honor Academy, a program apart of Teen Mania Ministries. After graduating I started one of their tracks in January known as the Ministry Team. The Ministry Team is based of 28-32 ‘2nd year Graduate Interns’ who commit to stay and tour and put on a full length production called Acquire The Fire every weekend and live on a bus traveling to each state.

Acquire the Fire is a 27hr Life Transforming Event that sets apart a weekend for thousands upon thousands of teens to encounter God and have a passion ignited within.

Back story for a second.

Every year while I was in youth group we would go into downtown Cleveland for this conference and I went in 2009 and encountered the LORD for the first time in a new and personal way. I went struggling with cutting and suicidal thoughts, and through that event the LORD saved me from that and I experienced His love washing over my sins and cuts. That weekend saved my life and kept me from taking my own.

And now, every weekend I get the privilege to put on these events and get to play a crucial part in the weekend.

I serve as the Concourse Manager and have a part in the drama.

Every weekend I oversee the set up of all the merchandise stands and booths we set up, and manage them during the weekend. Its a high paced and exciting job. I absolutely love it, because not only do I get to do a Customer Service job, but I get to see first hand these teens walk into the arena one way, and see their faces change when they walk out later that day. It brings tears to my eyes every weekend.

I can not do this alone, this ministry I work for can not do this without your help.

The cost is $450.00 every month for me to live on the road and be apart of these weekends all over America.

We are a non-profit organization and through donations we can make Acquire The Fire happen.

I am asking that you would pray about supporting me while on tour around America because without you, it is impossible.

If you feel led at all to donate, even 5 dollars you can go to honoracademy.com/donate and put in ID# 2569651.

This means so much to me, and through your support I can watch the LORD mend the broken teens every weekend, watch what had happened to me in 2009 take place in many girls lives.

Thank you so much"


This woman is changing lives every weekend. She was once one of the hurting girls who sat in the crowd, now she is on stage leading them, loving them. Of course ministry comes with a price. If you want to help her as she continues her ministry across the united states you can use the information about, or let me know :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-ABtNYOoGc

What's been on my mind lately

SEX TRAFFICKING: The Cold Facts

A child is trafficked every 30 seconds.  

The average age of entry into commercial sex slavery in the United States is 13 years old

Human Trafficking occurs in 161 out of 192 countries.

Pornography is a 96 billion dollar per year industry.

Up to 96% of women in prostitution want to escape but feel they can’t.

Human Trafficking is a 32 billion dollar per year industry.

In some countries it is estimated that 70% of men purchase sex. 

Over 27 million people are enslaved around the world. This is more than double the number of Africans enslaved during the Trans-Atlantic slave trade.

Men can customize the girls they want like they were ordering pizza.

Human Trafficking is the fasting growing criminal enterprise in the world.

The sale of women is the 3rd largest industry in the world.

But there is hope. Jesus. He loves to restore broken things.


So many people don't know about this issue! It breaks me heart, how can someone be so blind. It happens in AMERICA!!! 20% of  all trafficked women will go thru the Dallas Fort-Worth area at one point.. THAT'S CLOSE TO HOME! 
Sex trafficking has been found in a wide variety of venues of the overall sex industry, including residential brothels, hostess clubs, online escort services, brothels disguised as massage parlors, strip clubs, and street prostitution. Girls are forced to sell sex by going to rest stops and knocking on trucker's doors.
Ohio is one of the HIGHEST trafficked place the in the United States... OHIO!
Take time to educate yourselves with information, raise awareness with me. Be the voice for those who can not speak!
http://vimeo.com/26792244

"Two is better than one"

Accountability Partner /noun/. One who coaches another person in terms of helping the other person keep a commitment.

AP Time -Time set apart each day, week, or month that you go and bond, share, and love on your AP.

• Walks in the back forty
• Taking pictures
• Watching movies
• Laughing at each other
• Go shopping

Those are some of the things me and my AP did while I was an intern. One night (about 2 weeks after the P.E.A.R.L we went on the new O.C and laid under the stars sharing our lives with each other. Another day we went into the little city and participated in a Human Trafficking Awareness rally. Sometimes, we'd just eat food and fall asleep outside. But this woman of God is amazing.
Mary Kailah  Butler...She is not only a Proverbs 31 woman, but a woman who lives out the bible.
But back to the definition of an AP... the whole "helping keep commitments" she carried that one out...
Little known fact about me-I'm LAZY! I'm the queen of sleeping in til 4 min before class, and making up excuses for not doing corporate.
Little known fact about Mary-Total opposite..she ran for FUN! (total weirdo)
One morning...I was somehow blessed to not do corporate for 8 weeks. (From breaks, to Swat, to rain days, get out of free cards..etc) I was planning on being "sick." So, I'm walking down to corporate in flip flops...half way down Mary pulls me aside and asked me why I wasn't doing corporate, I told her cramps and she nicely told me that she didn't care, and she was going to make me carry through on my commitment...with or without flip flops, I was gonna do it.
So; there i stood, in line with her, in flip flops doing overhand claps, and heel raises. (painful when you don't do them for 8 weeks)..complaining the whole time...
Right after break i had a H.C and she came from work (CCM) and prayed for me before my case, and then was there when I finished.
The night I got dismissed, I didn't want to tell her, part of my heart was ripping apart, but to see the love in her tear filled eyes, to see her experience my pain, meant so much to me. THAT ladies and gents is a REAL AP!
Yeah, now we are literally 1,000 miles away, and we don't  talk every day, but she has continually been there for me, and sometimes I am so selfish and forget to do MY job as an AP... (besides her AMAZING birthday week) But I love her to death, and tonight, I am so immensely proud of her.
She, not only made a commitment with me in August to stay a year, but she made another commitment tonight to be held accountable to the interns before her, and after her. She join the Line...the Fellowship...SHE IS AN AMAZING WOMAN OF GOD!!!

Proverbs 31:36
She opens her mouth with wisdom and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue.

<3 Song of Solomon 8:6-7 <3
[Relentless]

The Dance: By Alee

A dark stage …. A man, a handsome man, steps out from nowhere…yet He seems to have been there the whole time… He takes a breath…a light appears…He moves His hand…things are starting to be created. He gathers dust, blows on it…a figure appears, a young girl, He loves her, the best of all creations… He lavishes her with the beauty of the garden, gives her delightful food to eat, clothes her with a fine dress… tells her to abide in him, and all this, is hers… she agrees, thinking that nothing will ever separate them from each other. And so this dance starts, a dance of the love and life. They spend every second together, and she is enjoying it so much….but then:


sex


love


money


lust


parties


appearance


fears


death






All this steps in to her life… pushes the Maker aside…. the sin takes a hold of her hand… asks her to dance with him instead….she accepts his offer…finding it fun and exciting. At least for a short time….


The Maker isn’t satisfied with that, no he is HEART BROKEN. His creation is rejecting Him for pleasures so disgusting that He can’t be with her, at all. Yet, He doesn’t leave…. He stands there the whole time… when she dances…He’s right there, hovering over her. When she falls, oh how He burns to pick her up, but He only stands there, sad and confused with what she is choosing, rather than choosing Him. She cries over a broken heart. And His heart breaks, He knows that she needs Him. And that heart break she is dealing with, is no match to how He feels. Yet, she refuses to acknowledge Him, or even look over to Him. Still, He won’t leave…. Stands by her the whole time; hoping that one day, she will see Him, and come back… 


Finally that day comes. A sad day, a day where everything fell for her…. Her life, in her eyes was over. She picks up a knife to finish her life. Bringing it closer to her veins, she starts remembering the days before all this started, the garden, the Maker, the love, the dance. She starts to weep, weeping and weeping when a sound escapes her lips, ‘Help!’ 


Before that word is off her lips, the Maker is screaming "YES! I’m here!" He picks her up, throws the chains that the sin dancer had put on her, He breaks them. He washes her, gets rid of the mud that is on her robe. He looks at her and says. ‘I love you’ He takes the knife and throws it so far, she will never find it again. He holds her… and cries, she continues to cries. He comforts her, and repeating those simple words over and over, I love you, here I am, and I love you, im holding on. I love you so much. You are beautiful. Come, take my hand… Let’s dance

Valentine's day, Single Awareness day, forever alone day. Whatever you call it...

I am my Beloved's and He is mine.
God loves you so much. This isn't a lovey dovey type love. This isn't the love your significant other can give you, it isn't the love even your parents can give you.
God saw you and said "I will do anything for you to get into my family" he sent his SON to DIE for YOU! That is mega crazy love.
Every time you mess up, slip up, screw up, God looks at you and says "it doesn't matter, that's why I sent Christ to die on the cross. Because I love you so much."
My heart breaks for all the girls and guys who will loose their virginity today because it seems like the "right thing to do" because "we are in love" If you are one of those girls, you are worth so much more than that. Sex isn't love, Love isn't sex. This is what love is;
1 Corinthians 13:4-8

Love endures long and is patient and kind; love never is envious nor boils over with jealousy, is not boastful or vainglorious, does not display itself haughtily.
    It is not conceited (arrogant and inflated with pride); it is not rude (unmannerly) and does not act unbecomingly. Love (God's love in us) does not insist on its own rights or its own way, for it is not self-seeking; it is not touchy or fretful or resentful; it takes no account of the evil done to it [it pays no attention to a suffered wrong].
It does not rejoice at injustice and unrighteousness, but rejoices when right and truth prevail.
Love bears up under anything and everything that comes, is ever ready to believe the best of every person, its hopes are fadeless under all circumstances, and it endures everything [without weakening].
Love never fails [never fades out or becomes obsolete or comes to an end]
This afternoon one of my friends who works at a pharmacy sent me a text saying that someone just came in to buy the morning after pill, and to pray for them. Once again my heart breaks, not because someone is taking the morning after pill, its not my place to judge for that, but because  some girl is hurting enough to think that is they way to cover her guilt. I wish I could just got to her and hug and and tell her that Jesus covered that, and whether she gets pregnant or not, He has her in his hand, his unfailing love can be for her! That he is the lover of her soul!
I really don't have anything else to say, but pleas remember 2 things;
1-God loves you no matter what.
2-They don't make condoms for your heart.