La Sonya

I am here. I am now 26 years old. Deep breath, ahhh. It feels. . . well it feels the same as before only now I'm a delicate flower that is closer to osteoporosis. The cool thing is I've still got lots of good friends who love me :o) I got a group of people together to go to Panara bread on Tuesday night, I've always been a supporter of planning your own parties. Then Wednesday night after midweek we went to Starbucks like normal and there were lots of people there too! I was so happy. I love parties, people and fellowship. They even put up a banner that said happy birthday. :0) I'm going to take it to Norway next year. I love feeling loved and that's one way to help me feel it! People, fun, relaxing and my new mac.

I was reading a book the other evening. I was in bed relaxing from my long day. In the book the main character is helping take care of people who were sick, the people had high fevers and were delusional. The didn't go into to much detail about what they did or said only that they weren't making to much sence or they thought they were somewhere else. As I was reading it I had a very intense flashback to Tchad. The memory hit me without any warning -bam. It was the week that the little boy from our Church died. He had malaria that wasn't taken care of sooner and it had gone cerebrial. He laid in the bed closest to the door, it was a private area and had windows on two of the four sides with one wall being a curtain. He would cry out all night and day, he would cry out to Jesus over and over. He would talk loudly as though he were reliving memories from playing down at the river with his siblings. His family would stay by his side fanning him, trying to hold him, feed him, wi...

I am going to be the new recruiter for the European Bible School (EBS). I will be starting up a Student Mission Program, heading up the social committee, working with the students and living in snow. I won't know anyone at the school. My friend Erin who's job I'm taking will be living about 20 to 30 min away. I will be basically my own boss. I'll use my budget to decide where I will go to recruit (yes, I'll be traveling all over Europe). I'll live on campus in an apartment, eat most my meals in the cafeteria with the students. The care food is all vegan, including no cinnamon and curry spice (sorry Hans!). I think it'll be fun. I've already decided that I am going to take more than my two suit cases. I'm not afraid to bring a little bit more with me. Shoot I'll need lost of warm clothes and things to decorate my apartment with! I'm a regular adult now with an apartment. If you want to go on line to see where I'll be working the website is...

It's been a while since I've really blogged. It's been a LONG while. Since the beginning of March I have been in constant turmoil. I have been blessed with two job offers. Both made of my two passions: international missions and ministry. One job was in Florida working as a Children's and Families Pastor, the other was working in Norway as a recruiter/coordinator for the new missions program. I received both calls almost at the same time. It all happened while I was down in Florida on spring break from GCA. One day I was meeting with my good friends while they told me about the job the day after that I was on the phone or my official interview for Noway. What we to do when it seems God gives us two great choices for life? When He says, "Here, Sonya, you can choose which ever you want. I am with you always no matter your choice". How am I to handle that!!! How did He expect me to choose!! So these last few weeks my head has hurt. I've talked to lots of peop...