Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Success!
I have successfully made the first step of launching my devotional blog. It is called Devotional Dose and can be found at www.devotional-dose.blogspot.com I'm hoping to "officially" launch it at the Junior High youth group this Friday night with its first devotional post.
Who is Allison?
Hello! My name is Allison & I just wanted to let you know who I am & what I hope to contribute to this blog. I am 15 years old & will be starting my sophomore year of high school in the fall. I am younger than most of the authors of this blog however I hope I can present an interesting perspective.
To give you some background for my future posts. I am apart of a homeschool, military family. My father is a dentist in the US Air Force which causes our family to move every 2-4 years. I am the eldest of a 13 year old sister & 10 year old brother.
I would love to be able to share with you my journey of how I choose the path I will take post high school. Currently I have not yet decided what I will be doing post graduation & I would love to use this as an outlet to share with others how I approach this journey & make that decision.
I guess that's all for now! Blessings!
To give you some background for my future posts. I am apart of a homeschool, military family. My father is a dentist in the US Air Force which causes our family to move every 2-4 years. I am the eldest of a 13 year old sister & 10 year old brother.
I would love to be able to share with you my journey of how I choose the path I will take post high school. Currently I have not yet decided what I will be doing post graduation & I would love to use this as an outlet to share with others how I approach this journey & make that decision.
I guess that's all for now! Blessings!
My newest ambition
As I get to know my Junior High ladies better and as our time together is fast approaching a close, I don't know about ya'lls youth groups but ours ends with the school year. I've decided to try and make a devotional blog for them to get ideas for their Bible reading. From talking with them, they often times claim lack of inspiration for doing their devotionals but when I asked if I were to give them materials would they do them they said that they would. So this, ladies and gentlemen, is my next project.
My thought for the format would be to take some verse from both the Old and New Testaments and to talk about God revealed to me about them in my time in studying them. Then after that give them verses for that day and the next day for them to look up and study on their own that also relate to what I was talking about or what I will be talking about in the future. I'm hoping to do that three days a week: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
I originally tried to encourage them to do reading on their own but for most of them their idea of a devotional is opening the Bible randomly and selecting a chapter on a whim. Yes, God can definitely work through that method. However, I think that a bit a structure would do them good.
So this, ladies and gentlemen, is currently what is next for me. My goal is to get in to the habiting of posting three days a week before I start Clark University next year. I think this will not only benefit my Junior High girls but it will also encourage me to study God's word more as I help these beautiful young ladies navigate the teen years.
My thought for the format would be to take some verse from both the Old and New Testaments and to talk about God revealed to me about them in my time in studying them. Then after that give them verses for that day and the next day for them to look up and study on their own that also relate to what I was talking about or what I will be talking about in the future. I'm hoping to do that three days a week: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
I originally tried to encourage them to do reading on their own but for most of them their idea of a devotional is opening the Bible randomly and selecting a chapter on a whim. Yes, God can definitely work through that method. However, I think that a bit a structure would do them good.
So this, ladies and gentlemen, is currently what is next for me. My goal is to get in to the habiting of posting three days a week before I start Clark University next year. I think this will not only benefit my Junior High girls but it will also encourage me to study God's word more as I help these beautiful young ladies navigate the teen years.
How to Stay Joyful at Home
I have been reading Jasmine Baucham's blog for awhile now, and yesterday, she started a series about ways to stay joyful at home. So far, it is really helpful, so I asked if I could link to the posts and she graciously allowed me to. :) She is also staying at home. Even though some of you are not planning on staying home, I still think there is much to learn from these posts... Go ahead and read 'em! :)
So here are the links:
This post gives an overview of the series, and then talks about the first way, which is to build a strong relationship with your mother.
Way number 2 is to find your sufficiency in the King of Kings. Very good post! You should read it!
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Rose and Tabitha, maybe you could share why you feel that you should go to college? What prompted you to make that decision?
Thursday, May 7, 2009
What I plan on doing here at home
- Learn Japanese
- "Take over" the kitchen for a month or more :)
- Continue to develop my photography, maybe take a course at the community college
- Continue Bright Lights
- Lead a study about "Before You Meet Prince Charming"
- Help out families in our church with taking care of their children and cleaning etc...
- Continue taking care of our little vegetable garden
- Continue paying bills, etc... for my Dad's business
- Continue writing, but do more
- One on One discipleship's with girls in BL would be great... Don't know if it will work...
- Teach William and Matthew how to read
- Help teach at our Home School coops
- Teach a writing class here at home
- Possibly a knitting class
- Continue blogging
- Helping build our Mona Vie business and building my own
- Studying math (not that I like, but that I need it. :)
- Maybe a course on graphic design at the community college
- Cleaning, etc... here at home
- I would like to do an internship with the Mallys (founders of Bright Lights), not sure if that will happen, though.
- A missions trip
- Continue supporting the missionaries in India that we know
- Continue developing my skills in knitting, embroidery, sewing, etc... and learning new ones
And more. I don't know where the original list is... So I might have missed something on there.
Anyway, I just wanted to make sure you all know that I have plans for my time here at home, and what some of those are. :)
(I do like to teach, as you may have noticed. :) My parents say that is my spiritual gift...)
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Rose Ellen
Isn't interesting how God can bring together three people who have never met and give them fellowship through Him?
I'm sure all who are reading this have different views on women going to college: some along the lines of they should stay at home and work from there and learn how to be a homemaker and prepare for their future husbands. Others think that Christian colleges are the way to go and that's where they have been called to attend. And others like myself and my parents are all for any university, christian or not, that at the very least has a strong christian support group.
God calls young women to all different paths after highschool. Here you have the view of the three mentioned above. I have no doubt that there are many more out there and I wish we could have all of their stories posted here for you to read however as it is you the readers will have to be contented with ours. =P
To begin, my name is Rose Ellen. I am an exiting homeschooling senior in highschool. I live in Massachusetts and have been here my whole life. I row and I referee soccer. I also am a volunteer at the Junior High youth group, which I love dearly. As an exiting senior college is the next step for me. A very small liberal arts school, liberal in both senses of the word, called Clark University.
I applied to eight secular universities was accepted to four and ended up making my decision to go to Clark University based on the financial aid offered and the atmosphere of the school. I also applied to Syracuse University, University of MA Amherst, University of Rhode Island, University of Vermont, Rochester Institute of Technology, Boston University, and Fairfield University. I was accepted to URI, RIT, Fairfield, and Clark. I never got a decision from Syracuse (New York has very strict homeschooling laws so be careful when applying to schools there they want extra paperwork which is a pain and if they aren't clear about what they want it tends to muck up the decision making process for everyone involved.)
I'm going to be very honest with you all and tell you right off the bat that I really didn't even consider applying to any Christian universities (besides Gordan College but they didn't have any of the majors that I wanted). Where I am from, and perhaps this is true or not true else where, Christian universities are very little known and if they are known the academics are not highly esteemed. Even though I am not a straight-A student I knew I wanted to be challenged academically as well as spiritually (Please note that I am not intending to bash any Christian schools with the above statements it is just the general opinion around here. I have the highest respect for Christian universities academics and spirituality.)
Why Clark? Besides giving me the best financial aid offer Clark University seemed to be the best fit for me on many levels.
1. It is a very small school, the smallest I applied to, with combined total of 2,200 undergraduate and graduate students. Small school means smaller more intimate classes, being homeschooled the largest class I have been in on a regular basis was a co-op class of about 12 people. I am an intuative learner and for the most part learn things slightly differently from the majority of people. Smaller classes means for me that I will be able to get more individualized attention from professors and TA's which will be great and will hopefully help the transition from highschool to college for me.
2. It is close to home, I've been homeschooled my whole life and even though I am a very social, independent person I love my home and family. And to be honest have been known to get very homesick when away for extended periods of time. Where I am in Worcester will make me about an hour and a half train ride away from home and fourty-five minute drive which I think is the perfect median.
3. It has the sport that I adore. Lets face it, everyone has something that they really enjoy doing and want to keep doing for as long as possible. Crew is one of those things for me. Infact it actually helped me get into Clark. I contacted the coach and told him that I was a rower and wanted to continue in college and thought that Clark would be a good fit for me academically and rowing-wise.
4. Since it is in MA I will be able to continue working as a soccer referee very easily. Also, two people that i have refereed with before go to neighboring schools in Worcester so I should be able to get rides to work until I can get my own car. God is good.
5. It has a small but seemingly might Christian group which includes a women's ministry. I have already contacted them and they have wonderful plans and activities planned for the coming school year that I can not wait to be involved in.
6. When I went to a homeschooling conference I actually met two different people who are both at different, but wonderful sounding churches in Worcester and near where I will be attending college. I got both of their information and will be contacting them for locations/times when I get to Worcester. Again, God is good!
7. This is an interesting one and my last for now. I may come back and edit this, who knows. Clark is very liberal in thinking, it attracts liberals from all walks of life. There are people from all belief systems and nationalities there. I believe God can use me in peoples lives and also God can use all these people in my life to constantly keep me striving after God as He teaches me how to minister to these people.
All right, its my bed time now. Nighty-night. I hope what I said still makes sense in the morning. If not its back to the editing process.
In God's love.
~Rose Ellen
I'm sure all who are reading this have different views on women going to college: some along the lines of they should stay at home and work from there and learn how to be a homemaker and prepare for their future husbands. Others think that Christian colleges are the way to go and that's where they have been called to attend. And others like myself and my parents are all for any university, christian or not, that at the very least has a strong christian support group.
God calls young women to all different paths after highschool. Here you have the view of the three mentioned above. I have no doubt that there are many more out there and I wish we could have all of their stories posted here for you to read however as it is you the readers will have to be contented with ours. =P
To begin, my name is Rose Ellen. I am an exiting homeschooling senior in highschool. I live in Massachusetts and have been here my whole life. I row and I referee soccer. I also am a volunteer at the Junior High youth group, which I love dearly. As an exiting senior college is the next step for me. A very small liberal arts school, liberal in both senses of the word, called Clark University.
I applied to eight secular universities was accepted to four and ended up making my decision to go to Clark University based on the financial aid offered and the atmosphere of the school. I also applied to Syracuse University, University of MA Amherst, University of Rhode Island, University of Vermont, Rochester Institute of Technology, Boston University, and Fairfield University. I was accepted to URI, RIT, Fairfield, and Clark. I never got a decision from Syracuse (New York has very strict homeschooling laws so be careful when applying to schools there they want extra paperwork which is a pain and if they aren't clear about what they want it tends to muck up the decision making process for everyone involved.)
I'm going to be very honest with you all and tell you right off the bat that I really didn't even consider applying to any Christian universities (besides Gordan College but they didn't have any of the majors that I wanted). Where I am from, and perhaps this is true or not true else where, Christian universities are very little known and if they are known the academics are not highly esteemed. Even though I am not a straight-A student I knew I wanted to be challenged academically as well as spiritually (Please note that I am not intending to bash any Christian schools with the above statements it is just the general opinion around here. I have the highest respect for Christian universities academics and spirituality.)
Why Clark? Besides giving me the best financial aid offer Clark University seemed to be the best fit for me on many levels.
1. It is a very small school, the smallest I applied to, with combined total of 2,200 undergraduate and graduate students. Small school means smaller more intimate classes, being homeschooled the largest class I have been in on a regular basis was a co-op class of about 12 people. I am an intuative learner and for the most part learn things slightly differently from the majority of people. Smaller classes means for me that I will be able to get more individualized attention from professors and TA's which will be great and will hopefully help the transition from highschool to college for me.
2. It is close to home, I've been homeschooled my whole life and even though I am a very social, independent person I love my home and family. And to be honest have been known to get very homesick when away for extended periods of time. Where I am in Worcester will make me about an hour and a half train ride away from home and fourty-five minute drive which I think is the perfect median.
3. It has the sport that I adore. Lets face it, everyone has something that they really enjoy doing and want to keep doing for as long as possible. Crew is one of those things for me. Infact it actually helped me get into Clark. I contacted the coach and told him that I was a rower and wanted to continue in college and thought that Clark would be a good fit for me academically and rowing-wise.
4. Since it is in MA I will be able to continue working as a soccer referee very easily. Also, two people that i have refereed with before go to neighboring schools in Worcester so I should be able to get rides to work until I can get my own car. God is good.
5. It has a small but seemingly might Christian group which includes a women's ministry. I have already contacted them and they have wonderful plans and activities planned for the coming school year that I can not wait to be involved in.
6. When I went to a homeschooling conference I actually met two different people who are both at different, but wonderful sounding churches in Worcester and near where I will be attending college. I got both of their information and will be contacting them for locations/times when I get to Worcester. Again, God is good!
7. This is an interesting one and my last for now. I may come back and edit this, who knows. Clark is very liberal in thinking, it attracts liberals from all walks of life. There are people from all belief systems and nationalities there. I believe God can use me in peoples lives and also God can use all these people in my life to constantly keep me striving after God as He teaches me how to minister to these people.
All right, its my bed time now. Nighty-night. I hope what I said still makes sense in the morning. If not its back to the editing process.
In God's love.
~Rose Ellen
Monday, May 4, 2009
Hello
Hello everybody! I hope you're all having a good Monday (if that's possible) :)
I'm 17 and am in the last quarter of my junior year (woohoo!) and looking forward to graduating next year. By the way, congrats on graduation, Carissa and Rose! I know you guys are excited to see the reward of all your hard work!
I've been going to small, private Christian school since first grade. I'm taking all the basic classes, like Brit Lit and Precalculus, and Biblical Greek. I took Latin ever since first grade until this year, so I'm still thinking in Latin a little bit. :) I've also been involved with the school senate for the last three years, and a Girl Scout since... second grade I think. And I'm going to be working to get my Gold Award over the summer, which should be tons of fun.
Senior year is approaching pretty quickly, and I'm planning to go to college after graduation. I'm not sure which college yet, but my first choice so far is Covenant College in Georgia. I started looking at both secular and Christian colleges, but I was so impressed with Covenant that I'm thinking of narrowing it down to just Christian colleges. I feel called to go to a Christian college because...
I'm 17 and am in the last quarter of my junior year (woohoo!) and looking forward to graduating next year. By the way, congrats on graduation, Carissa and Rose! I know you guys are excited to see the reward of all your hard work!
I've been going to small, private Christian school since first grade. I'm taking all the basic classes, like Brit Lit and Precalculus, and Biblical Greek. I took Latin ever since first grade until this year, so I'm still thinking in Latin a little bit. :) I've also been involved with the school senate for the last three years, and a Girl Scout since... second grade I think. And I'm going to be working to get my Gold Award over the summer, which should be tons of fun.
Senior year is approaching pretty quickly, and I'm planning to go to college after graduation. I'm not sure which college yet, but my first choice so far is Covenant College in Georgia. I started looking at both secular and Christian colleges, but I was so impressed with Covenant that I'm thinking of narrowing it down to just Christian colleges. I feel called to go to a Christian college because...
- After going to a Christian school since elementary school, going to a Christian college won't be such a culture shock. Plus I won't be criticized for my Christian beliefs, which is really important for me, personally.
- At least at Covenant, there are under 1000 students- pretty small, but since there are only 80 kids in my high school and 300 kids in the entire school, it seems plenty big to me.
- I'll be able to take classes that I never had the chance to take in high school (like Spanish or Italian- modern languages aren't available at my school).
- I feel called to be a novelist, so I'm looking forward to all the English classes I'll be able to take. Plus, I can hopefully study abroad in England, where some of my favorite authors lived (C.S. Lewis, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, J.R.R. Tolkien...)
- I also want to take several businees/accounting classes, since I don't know what my "day job" will be. It'll help if I have a "regular job", own my own business, or become a stay-at-home mom.
- That's all I can think of so far, but I'll add more later!
I hope y'all have a good week!
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