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Name: Joy
Birthday: 1/20/1987
Gender: Female
Interests: GOD...The big man upstairs and growing closer in my Relationship with Him every day! , SPORTS!!! , BIG TRUCKS!, living in the country, bonfires, and just Hangin out with all my cool friends, music, making movies, and dancing. just havin a good time!
Expertise: Expert at: telling people more than they need to know...
Occupation: Student
Industry: Other
Message: message me
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AIM:  Crunchberries05
Member Since:
6/7/2004
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| : Today I spent a rediculous amount of time writing a paper : : I am done with college in a year : : I am so ready to be done : : Part of me does wonder if I will miss this stage of my life? : : I'm getting married!!! : June 20, 2009, after I graduate from college, I will marry the most wonderful man that I know! I am so excited about starting the rest of my life with him. Starting a family with him eventually. He is Prince Charming and I am the most lucky girl there is. I've never met a man like him before, and to be honest I didn't think men like him existed. He's perfect and I am so thankful that God placed us in eachother's lives. Time to go. love: love: love: Joy | | |
| Earlier this week all I could think about was getting out of this town. I just kept saying, "2 more years of college and then I'm gone!" I even wrote a song about it (i'm on this new singing/song writing trip...lol) anyways...I just kept looking around this little town and feeling like i'm not doing anything with my life. like i'm stuck here forever because i didn't go :away: for college. I want to do something with my life. To go away and become something, to change peoples lives. I want to influence people, and tell them all about Jesus! But then I saw all the people in my life right now. All the people around me in this little town that i supposedly hate. And I am making a difference! I am influencing people! I am telling them all about Jesus! I am so in love with my young life kids! and my friends, and I realized that God has me here for a reason. There's a reason he kept me close and wanted me to go to Cedarville. And I need to be content with where He has me right now and make the best of this time in my life! I still want to move and go away, but until that time comes, I'll be a person of influence here and now! Man...God is so wonderful! I love it when He teaches me something new! Another thing... I've gotten to see my family a LOT this week and it has been so wonderful! My brother is here with his new wife! My sisters here from Chicago. And my other sister got engaged the other day! I have spent so much time with them all and I realize that the older I get the more I apprectiate them and become closer with each of them. We saw my dad's side of the family on Christmas Eve, and we see them all the time, but I felt like I got a lot closer with them the other day. Even two of my cousins that I hardly ever talk to, we talked quite a bit. it was a wonderful time with all of them and I am so thankful that God has blessed me with such a wonderful family. We're having family over here again today so they can all see my brother, and I'm pumped! I love it when they all come over and when I get to see em! I am just really thankful for my life, my family, my friends, and where God has me right now! | | |
| This weekend was my big brother's wedding! It was a beautiful wedding and a wonderful time of celebration! I love him so much and look up to him a lot. I'm so thankful for such a wonderful brother! I am also thankful for his new bride. She's a wonderful woman of God and I know her and my brother will have an excellent marriage. As I thought a lot about marriage this weekend, my prayer is that God continues to mold me into the woman He wants me to be and that He molds the heart of the man that I am supposed to be with someday. I know God's got a plan for me and I hope that I have the faith it takes to wait patiently for that man. My brother was such an example of patience and I am truly blessed to have him and Emily in my life/family. 
Siblings! 
The BEST man ( my "other brother"), Matt 
they had time to play football! 
and some game they made up involving Duck Tape! 
Mikey and Moma! 
Mr. and Mrs. : ) 
First dance and Husband and Wife 
Cutting the Cake. 
SO IN LOVE I will WAIT to find a love like that! love. love. love. | | |
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the girls Mackenzie! Starfield Family Force 5 Every day Sunday tobymac My weekend was Pretty Amazing! I went to the National Youth Workers Convention in Cincinnatii. It was a refreshing and fun weekend for me. Amazing Concerts, Amazing Speakers, Amazing Seminars, And Amazing fun with Deb! David Crowder and Jars of Clay were there too, but I didn't get pics ; ( Anyways...this weekend was wonderful and just affirmation that THIS IS MY CALLING! I am so incredibly blessed that God could use a sinner like me to love and teach teens the Truth of His Word. I hope everyone else had a wonderful weekend and that God blessed you as well! love. love. love. | | |
| I had a great convo with my best friend this afternoon. It's been a while since we've talked like that and it was nice. I miss her...a lot. We talked about a lot of things and one subject that we talked about more than the rest was our womanhood. We both have a passion for leading women in ministry. the only difference is that her passion is with college women and mine is with high school girls. but it's nice that we share the same passion and can talk about it and share thoughts with eachother. Today we were talking about what it means to be a woman. What it means to me a wife, a mother, a woman in ministry. All these things are different aspects of who we are/want to be. God has given each of us the passion and desire to be a wife and mother, but He has also given us a desire to serve and minister to other women. So we were talking about the different roles that God has placed on Women. I'm taking a women's ministry class here at CU and we have been talking about what the Bible has to say about women in the church. What are our roles as Women? Do we have boundaries? Are we allowed to lead? Some of the opinions I have heard kind of sadden me because some believe that women and men should have completely seperate ministries, except for Sunday morning church. And that women have some things they can and cannot do. Is that really what God intended? I definately believe that the Bible teaches that the MAN is the Head, and the WOMAN is the helper. I don't question that, but when it comes to the church. Is the woman only to teach other women and children? Is that all she is good for? I don't believe that! I believe that a man is to be in charge of the church overall, but that women should be allowed to voice her opinion and to help out as much as she can. Can she preach? I don't know if she needs to preach every Sunday, but if God is giving her a message that the whole church needs to hear and the pastor is ok with it...Let the woman preach! I just pray that my future husband understands my ministry passions and loves me for my heart to serve the church. I pray that he does not discourage me from being involved and helping as much as I can. I guess my real worry is that God has given me a passion for youth and churches may choose not to hire me because I am a woman. I don't desire to be the "main" youth pastor at a church, but I do desire to work along side and partner with someone so that God can use my abilities and passions that he can give me. I just pray that the fact that I am a woman does not detour me from getting a job. I just have to TRUST that GOD will PROVIDE. that's all I've got. love. love. love. | | |
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