To be honest with you, social media is not one of my favorite things. But, recently I'm beginning to warm-up to a social media network called twitter. Twitter allows users to post statements, quotes, and really anything in 140 characters or less onto the internet and the public can read what random information the users are willing to share.
To keep a long story from getting too long I am going to share with you a recent victory for the Kingdom of God through a simple post onto twitter (also known as a tweet).
About a month ago from today a woman posted onto twitter about a family in need of help moving furniture into a house. One of my fellow missionaries Stephen Glasser was informed about the tweet and felt the need to respond to this tweeting distress call for muscles to move furniture.
The day after the tweet occurred I found myself with two college students and two other missionaries moving furniture into a house. It was a fun and different opportunity to bless someone we did not know previously. The initial "God Thing" of this whole furniture moving experience is that we were moving furniture for a woman that attended the church we go to, First Assembly of God in Fargo. The woman's name I will not share to protect her privacy. She was moved by this random gesture of young people coming to help her, especially people that she had never met! She thanked us multiple times and was moved to tears multiple times as we carried in beds, a couch and chairs.
It was a blessing to get to help this woman but the story does not end here.
Two days ago this woman and her two youngest sons came to church. Unknown to myself this woman had gone forward during an altar call at the end of the service. Fellow missionary Stephen Glasser was up at the altar ready to pray with people and to his surprise the youngest boy came up to him. Stephen simply asked how he was liking the house since he moved in. The boy replied, "Ever since I've lived there I've wanted to accept Jesus into my life but I haven't yet." Stephen was moved with joy and prayed with the young boy to accept Jesus into his life for the first time.
God is always at work in our lives. He constructs and orchestrates every relationship we have and every connection we make. We need to be ready to act when opportunities arise to share the love of Jesus Christ, even through twitter. God uses everything to His glory at the times of His choosing.
"Be blessed, be a blessing to others"
-Mark Erickson
Do you have a Twitter? Feel free to follow us both at @MarkE116 & @soccerpnut!
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Thursday, November 7, 2013
Shining Light on the Future
The Chi Alpha interns got the opportunity to
travel to Des Moines, Iowa for the Light Conference where all of the Regional
Chi Alpha pastors and interns gather for a refreshing time of learning,
networking, worship & planning for our SALT Conference in January.
It was much needed escape from the everyday Fargo life (basically a mini vacation for me), I got to spend a lot of great quality time with some of my great friends, sharing our struggles, praise reports and just having some great girl time! Mark got to hangout with the guys hot-tubbing and doing who knows what… ;) I know they had a blast!
Mary Krambeer and I got to share a hotel room, this girl is incredible and means so much to me! She's been mentioned on this blog a few times before, it's crazy how God has intertwined our lives with His plans! Mary was only a wee freshman when I was a senior on the soccer team. We grew so much together that year with our relationship with Jesus as we were both in the same small group. We then co-led together last year and it was an experience I will never forget! She is an INCREDIBLE gift from God and we cherish the fact that we get to experience this internship together (even though I’m not an official intern) :) God's funny like that!
So all in all (I’ll try to keep these posts short, I LOVE to talk/write and love details!) it was great to see what happens behind the scenes when it comes to planning a big regional conference. We gained a lot of wisdom and knowledge from the breakout sessions, we are so blessed to learn from some incredible leaders. After the conference we had the opportunity to make the trek to Ames, IA and sit in on Iowa State's Chi Alpha - which was fun to see the differences between our XA and theirs!
If you could be in prayer for us regarding the future - as we are starting to look and pray very seriously about where God is calling us to go or even stay for the next year. At the moment we are still waiting on God, so if you hear anything from Him please let us know!
Don’t know what the SALT Conference is and want to? You can ask or just wait for an update in January as we know it’s going to be epic!! Be in prayer for it as well! Be blessed friends!
Mark & I at the 2013 Light Conference in Iowa.
It was much needed escape from the everyday Fargo life (basically a mini vacation for me), I got to spend a lot of great quality time with some of my great friends, sharing our struggles, praise reports and just having some great girl time! Mark got to hangout with the guys hot-tubbing and doing who knows what… ;) I know they had a blast!
Mary Krambeer and I got to share a hotel room, this girl is incredible and means so much to me! She's been mentioned on this blog a few times before, it's crazy how God has intertwined our lives with His plans! Mary was only a wee freshman when I was a senior on the soccer team. We grew so much together that year with our relationship with Jesus as we were both in the same small group. We then co-led together last year and it was an experience I will never forget! She is an INCREDIBLE gift from God and we cherish the fact that we get to experience this internship together (even though I’m not an official intern) :) God's funny like that!
These girls are absolutely incredible & beautiful world changers! Get to know them if you don't!
So all in all (I’ll try to keep these posts short, I LOVE to talk/write and love details!) it was great to see what happens behind the scenes when it comes to planning a big regional conference. We gained a lot of wisdom and knowledge from the breakout sessions, we are so blessed to learn from some incredible leaders. After the conference we had the opportunity to make the trek to Ames, IA and sit in on Iowa State's Chi Alpha - which was fun to see the differences between our XA and theirs!
The Fargo/Moorhead crew!
If you could be in prayer for us regarding the future - as we are starting to look and pray very seriously about where God is calling us to go or even stay for the next year. At the moment we are still waiting on God, so if you hear anything from Him please let us know!
Don’t know what the SALT Conference is and want to? You can ask or just wait for an update in January as we know it’s going to be epic!! Be in prayer for it as well! Be blessed friends!
Saturday, November 2, 2013
Victory - Soccer - Chi Alpha
After the incredible success of our Chi Alpha
soccer student organization fan night a few weeks ago I got a text from the assistance coach
asking if I could rally up my “ Chi Alpha people” to come support the soccer girls again
at their last home game. The kicker is this game would determine if their
season ends or not! So of COURSE I’m going to jump on the opportunity to give
these amazing young ladies something I never had: Another actual cheering, crazy fan
section!!!!
I texted my fellow bison soccer alumni, Mary Krambeer and told her the news! She was ecstatic and created a Facebook event "Herd the Bison to the Summit League Tournament". The next thing I knew we had over 40 people coming and they were discussing if it was legal to bring huge drums and megaphones!
Mark, Mary & I cheering on our old soccer team!!
I texted my fellow bison soccer alumni, Mary Krambeer and told her the news! She was ecstatic and created a Facebook event "Herd the Bison to the Summit League Tournament". The next thing I knew we had over 40 people coming and they were discussing if it was legal to bring huge drums and megaphones!
Here’s what the crowd consisted of:
The Chi Alpha fan section!!!!
Needless to say our love, passion and excitement
for people was insane! We could not stop dancing and cheering as the Bison
ladies won the game, it was an incredible victory in so many ways. I was also able to coordinate everyone to storm the field after
the buzzer sounded!
It. Was. Awesome.
It’s my prayer that my old teammates would feel
and know that the love this fan section has for them isn’t just for show, hype or a good time.
But because we truly do love them with the love that Jesus has for us.
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