Living Intentionally

The Lord has been really working on me lately about the way I live my life. The way I take so many conversations, moments, meetings, get together's for granted. He is challenging me, that even as we go about fundraising and meeting with people to share our heart and vision for the orphan child, it is not just at these times that I need to be thinking and focused on what the Lord has called me to do. It is every minute of every day. It started 27 years ago and its called...

Life.

It passes with...

every breath

every blink

every laugh

every tear

every prayer

every class attended

every meeting sat through

every church service

every vacation

every day

every week

every month

every year

every decade

every century

every millenium

It goes on and on, generation after generation.

Where do you fit in to that? Where does your existence fit into the hundreds of billions of lives that have been lived on this planet?

What did you do today to make a ripple in the ocean that is time?

What is it that you will do tomorrow that will impact a life and change it for the better?

Life is lived, 24/7/365. We all choose what we do with that time, with that precious vanishing vapor that is our lives. We have been given this gift, this opportunity to utilize the talents and blessings that the Lord has given to us.

We all live. But do we simply live for ourselves, or do you feel that pull to something greater? That yearning deep in your heart that you could do so much more...

Why not choose to live intentionally?

What is living intentionally?

Purposefully electing to allow God to use your life for His purposes.

There is no greater success to be measured in this life or eternity.

Why not step up? Why not invest in what God is asking you to be a part of with the tools and abilities that He has already blessed you with?

You can choose to make a difference right now, today, in your next smile, in your next conversation.

Don't let another opportunity pass you by to share God's love with those around you.

Smile intentionally.

Talk intentionally.

Give intentionally.

Repeat Daily.

Anna Challenges the FCC Youth

As the Jr. High Youth leaders at our church, we have had a blast getting to know the FCC youth group and teaching them, challenging them, and watching them grow. Youth ministry is a tough, yet very rewarding calling. The past two years, we are very thankful that we have been able to serve in this area of ministry. We certainly have a better idea of what it is like for those who are in it full time and what we have learned will come in very handy in Mexico and Haiti working with orphans and youth group age kids there.

Here is a video of the end of Anna's message to the youth last Friday night at the all-nighter lock-in.

She has a gift, and the Lord is already using her mightily. I cannot wait to see her in action on the mission field that God has called us to!

As the month of May starts, we are now set up on the Back2Back system and are able to receive donations noted for our account. We are in the process of getting all of our existing donors moved from donating to our Church, to Back2Back. Along with that we are starting our fundraising full time now.

As you learned in our last post, the miracle that God has planned for providing the funds to achieve the vision that He has given us has grown! It is exciting to look forward and anticipate how God will use you all to achieve His miracle and provision for us to care for the orphan child!

As we are getting the ball rolling in the next week or two, please do not hesitate to contact us (aaconrad@agconrad.com) if you would like to hear more specifics about what God has called us to do and vision He has laid on our hearts for the orphan child. We would love to get together with you and tell you our story, and how you can be a part of God's plans. If not, you will most likely be hearing from us directly as we would like to meet with each and every person who is reading this to share with them personally how and why God has called us to this and how you can become a vital ministry member in serving the orphan child!