Hi Everyone!
We are planning on holding our college group for 3 more weeks this summer. Then we will be taking alittle time off to regroup and plan for the fall. We are planning to have prayer meetings in the month of August and pray for our campus and ask God what he would like to do on campus this year and in your lives this year. Intercessory prayer (praying on behalf of others) is an area that I consistently feel challenged in and I feel that we should start the fall having committed everything to God.
I will be sending out an August calendar shortly.
Thank you all for attending this group this summer. It has been wonderful to see God move in our midst as we meet together. I look forward to pressing in to God together for the next 3 weeks, and seeing what God wants to do in each of us.
Grace and Peace
Katie Goulet
We spent the last week at the Vineyard regional conference. It was great! Encouraging, refreshing, and full of God.
We heard this song several times while we were there, and now it is forever stuck in my head. So I thought I would share it here.
Fail Us Not
Every year we have a dunk tank for the church picnic. Every year Daniel is the dunkee in the dunk tank at the church picnic. Every year Daniel HATES getting wet in the dunk tank at the church picnic.
Why do we like dunk tanks so much? Do we all secretly get a thrill out of legitimately making others more miserable than we are? Is it an act of getting our aggression out? Or is it just plain fun?
Yep, I'm going to go there....
I if Jesus were alive he would let people dunk him. I mean he let people mock him, and publicly humiliate him. He was not very concerned with preserving his own dignity, and he knew that God is his defender. And of course, he wouldn't need to get wet cause he could just walk on the water. :)
We recently had a church event in which we were given NEON yellow tshirts. They are the kind of bright that can burn your retinas. Seriously, turn off the lights and the shirt glows. Driving up to the event, from hundreds of yards away we could see the bright yellow shirts. After the event we drove home, right when we got out of the car our neighbor commented, "WOW those are bright shirts." "thanks" we said.
When Jesus says in Matthew 5:14 "You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden. 15Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. 16In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven." He talks about when your a Christian your life should look different, that you should not hide your faith in Jesus.
I think these shirts are a perfect example of nonhidenness. That we should live lives for Jesus like these shirts. The kind of life that is so different that it can't be hidden. The kind of life for Jesus that our neighbors notice. 
Daniel and I are preparing to hold our annual Seder dinner this weekend. This is a traditional meal that walks through the story of passover. For those of you familiar with the Exodus story, before the passover came various plagues. WHAT, you're having trouble remembering what the plagues were? Do I have the thing for you, plague finger puppets. Now you and your friends act out the plagues. My favorite is the boil puppet. 
I found this today and I had to share it, it is hilarious and awesome. Its a gospel workout video. "It starts in your spirit, taps your soul, and makes you sweat."
I particularily like the names of the dance moves. Like the "praise up," and the "shake the devil off."
Lately I have been challenged at the way that I pray, talk about, and think about God. I was laid off from my job over a year ago. Then we had our first child, Nathan. The past year we have been constantly leaning on God and trusting that he will provide for our family. While I feel as though Daniel and I are doing what God wants from us daily, I have spent alot of my prayer time asking God about our future. What should I be doing? Should I be working? Do you have a job for me God?
Over the past week I have been fasting and on spring break. And the only revelation that I have had is that I deserve nothing. That I can beg God to provide for my family, that I can ask God for a job. That I can ask God for anything. But I deserve nothing. And every answer, every miracle, everytime that he provides it is by his choice and it is a gift. When he doesn't answer me, he is still God. When someone isn't healed, he is still God. When we don't have enough, he is still God.
The I found this video, it is a story that will inspire you touch you. And after watching it, I was reminded that our disappointments over the last year were the best things that happened to us. I am a better mother, wife, and follower of Jesus becuase of my circumstances changing. I cling to Jesus more tightly than I would when I could rely on myself. And I love Jesus more deeply becuase he has been with me in dark, sad, and uncertain times.
Watch this with a box of Kleenex near by.
The Story of Zac Smith from NewSpring Media on Vimeo.
