club

Its 6:32pm on Monday night and I'm standing in a garage in the middle of Chesapeake singing Taylor Swift with my teammates in preparation for club.  Its freezing... we prepared everything for club stood together and prayed... we were on holy ground.  Who knew that I would every think a two car garage was holy ground but it is.  In a little over half an hour kids would be piled into this garage ready to sing, to laugh and to hear me talk about their need for a savior.

Its 8:24 and I am now screaming that very same Taylor Swift song with a few high school girls. I am laughing and jumping around and all of a sudden Nacho (yes that is one of my teammates names) grabs me and pulls me out of the crowd and into the attached house.  He has a panicked look on his face covers his mouth and goes "A boy threw up." "Ok." I responded "is he ok? Does he need to leave." "No Katie, he threw up in the laundry room, he didn't make it to the bathroom." Meanwhile I am supposed to be running the game and eventually giving the club talk. "I can't go in there Katie I'm going to throw up." I just said "Its, ok Nacho I will clean it real quick." A Few seconds later I am searching this family's house for paper towels (don't worry the family wasn't home and they had no paper towels) and bleach.  Finally I am hands and knees on the floor cleaning up puke... yes I get paid for this.  If you have read my posts before you know I have been housekeeping boss many times so I knew what to do but I couldn't help but laugh.  

I didn't know who Dom was but he eventually walked passed and I shut the door thinking it was another kid but I made eye contact with him.  I know he was embarrassed  and I'm sure he felt bad that I had to clean up his throw up, who knows maybe he didn't care but I was thankful.  It was Dom's first time at club, he saw me cleaning up his mess and then 20 minutes later telling him his need for a savior.  

  I am so thankful the Lord let me do the lowly things so I could later do things that are glorious only because of God's name, what a crazy thing to experience.  Please pray for Dom as I still don't know where he stands but I do pray he felt loved and of course he feels better :)

 

katy, brooke & connor and becoming the fabric.

This morning I woke up to 15 texts, usually one would think the world is ending but I just sighed and looked at the senders and I found myself in a group text with these three sweet girls.  I met the three of them early on last year (their freshman year.) I went to football games to watch them cheer, jv basketball games to do the same and spent a week with them at camp where each of them decided to start a relationship with Christ.  These three girls are precious to me, I love their innocence, their love for each other, their desire to love their friends, but most of all their joy in Christ. 

 I woke up early to eat breakfast with the three of them this morning, as we walked up to Chikfila and the workers didn't give me odd looks because of how we interacted I realized the Lord had done it.  I had somehow become a part of the tightly knit fabric of the Hickory community.  I knew all the workers at the restaurant, I said hey to kids that walked in, I saw parents I had met.  I dropped the girls off at Hickory HS and waved at countless students, they don't think its weird anymore that I'm there... its almost as if they expect it... maybe thats weird?  

Jesus was the fabric of the places he traveled through, he knew people, knew their hopes, their past, their desires and loved them.  Ever since the moment I stepped foot in Chesapeake that was the desire of my heart.  He granted me that desire... I am thankful for Hickory I am thankful for Chesapeake and I am thankful for these three girls and the way that they have help mold my heart to be bold and to love the lost of this community 

brooke and I at Lake Champion 2011

Connor <3

Katy <3