Friday 24th Sept!

Hey everyone!
So! i will try and fill you in on the last week or so, Sometimes there are things that i wont be able to write on my blog, so if you reading this thinking I'm missing things out that is properly why!!

Last Thursday i came back up to the wonderful world of Manc, and went back to The Message on Friday!
This week has been our first week doing our placements and proper timetable! so my average week looks like this:
Monday- Prayers, Teaching, lunch, General creative workshop, tea, detached youth work on my estate.
Tuesday- Prayers, teaching, lunch, Vocal workshop, tea, Alpha
Wednesday- Prayers, teaching, fitness, lunch, Drama workshop, tea, Youth group at my church
Thursday- Prayers, teaching, lunch, Dance workshop, tea, Eden bus
Friday- refection's, lunch, Free afternoon to rehearse/ sleep!!

SO that is pretty much what i have done this week. We spent sometime meeting the bands that are at the message and hearing their stories, and getting some teaching on how to handle schools missions, in particular the question times, and what sort of questions they get asked.
We also had a worship meeting at our new church this week, and Me and one of my house mates are getting involved and helping out the next two Sundays, then being put onto the leading rota for the next year, which is all very exciting. By the sounds of it, it is pretty much a clean slate to be creative with. very exciting.
Having bible teaching everyday is a bit intense, but is good. Its very weird being back in the classroom and having to do lots of writing, and I've discovered i am not very good at sitting still!!!!
The early mornings are still a struggle, the bus goes at half 7, and some nights we wont be back in till 11pm. So prayers for energy would be really appreciated!!!
I would love to hear from some of the Yeovil lot, so feel free to comment or email me with questions about what I'm doing!!!
we should be getting proper Internet soon!! Ive had a argument with 02 today...!! so it should be on its way! haha!
hope you are all doing well
Rosie

Tues 14th Sept

Okay, blog number two!
As most of you know, i have been really ill this week, and have ended up back at home with some nasty antibiotics!
which is rubbish i came back on saturday and should go back on thursday, i can not wait to get back up to Manchester.
So I'l attempt to give you a day by day encounter of whats happened since last monday!
Tuesday- Every tuesday first thing, there is prayers with all the message staff. So we went to that. Then we had VIP brunch with all the important people that we need to know, so all the bands, tutors and head of department staff. To try and see what we want to get involved with and chat to the right people! i think its sometimes called networking!!! Then we had lunch with all of the Eden leaders (http://www.eden-network.org) Then, we spent the afternoon with in yer face theatre group, who do modern day gospel sketches and teach community theatre in Manchester.
Wednesday- We got a lie in!!!!!!!!!! YAY! Then we went into central Manchester for a tour of the city, it is MASSIVE! the trams i swear try to run you over! the arndale centre is amazing! i can not wait for christmas shopping :)
Thurs/Fri- Every month the message have a whole day of prayer with all the staff and random people attached to the message, and because its the start of the new year, they decided to have 2 whole days!! to start with i was like err two wholeee days of prayer... but it was actually really good, had worship and a few different people spoke, and then we prayed for a few different things, and Andy Hawthorne spoke about a few different exciting things that are about to happen at the message!! most of them i cant go into on here, but they are EXCITING! and well worth praying about.

Also!! we've been asked to do a little bit of promoting! one of the messages bands
LZ7 is realesing a song into the chats on the 26th of september, they arent just a band but a movement. Its called the "shine your light campaign" and its getting young people to shine their light with random acts of kindness all across the UK.
http://seed.sproutbuilder.com/kgAE9371M--cDOqW

On a plus note i have not got lost at all this week!
Prayers for my health would be good! as i really need to be better asap!

All of the StJames church people, i'm sorry i havent sent you a video of how im getting on yet! the internet in our house hasnt been sorted yet, so i dont have enough connection to send a video, but im working on it! :)

Rosie x

Monday 6th September!

Hey Everyone!
So today was Day1 of my two week induction to Manchester.
It has been amazing!!!!
I will try and do a little bit of a catch up of whats happened since Saturday,

We moved in on Saturday, In my house there is Me, a Girl Called Theresa and two girls from Manchester Called Leanne and Becca.
After being in the house about 2 hours, Leanne and Becca went out to a gig, leaving me and T (the 2 Southerners)in the house by ourselves.
After 10Minuit's we realised that the hot water wasn't working...!! ISSUE. we looked for ages for switches and couldn't find any! So we phoned Matt are course leader, and he came and rescued us and showed us how to work the heating system.
Then Sunday morning, we went to our new church St Brides Old Trafford if you want to look it up! We are based on a Eden project on our Estate, so we have 3 other people who live on the estate who go to our church, but they weren't there as they had to go to another church for a friends commissioning. The people were lovely, and i think we are getting involved with pretty much everything straight away.
On our way to church, which is only a few streets away, we turned a corner and witnessed our first house raid, a few police ran past with a heavy metal door knocky down thing!!! so that was interesting! then on the way home from church we got lost...!!!
we went to pizza hut for lunch with our Eden workers which was lovely, then we went to Asda, Our asda is a bit of cultural experience in itself!! its humongous and just so many different people. and we managed to get the wrong bus home, but it was okay!
Then today was are first day at The Message HQ !
Its such a amazing building, with soo many amazing people. We had talks from a few people about different projects we're going to be involved with, and what The Message are planning for the future. There is one particular project i'm really excited for, so would appreciate prayer as i try to decide how i want to be involved. If you want to know more just ask!
We finished early today, so me and Theresa decided to try and adventure to the Trafford Centre. In theory this was fine apart from The Message is in Sharston which is nowhere near the trafford centre!!!! soo we thought a adventure would be fun! and hopped on a random bus and hoped for the best!! it turns out it was right yay! and would be quicker to use that bus in the morning to get there, and managed to change buses to get to trafford centre. I even met a guy who used to live in yeovil on the bus!! crazy.
Trafford centre was AMAZING! SOOOO incredible! i will definitely be visiting there more often. Obviously not spending money though.
Then Me and Theresa came home, and started cooking tea, then all our electrics went out... uhohhhh!!
SO i left T cooking and i went on a mission to find our fuse box, actually couldn't find it anywhere!!!! our house is huge and i searched every cupboard pulled furniture out, and couldn't find it. So T went and asked out next door neighbour where theirs is. Ours wasn't in the same place, but she said that on some of them its outside at the back. Now, this normally wouldn't be a problem, apart from the fact that our landlord has lost our back door key!!!! SO we phoned Matt again!!
So Matt came round, and found are fuse box in a cupboard almost instantly!! but, it wasn't that. Our house it the only house that is actually being rented and that the message don't own or haven't used before. and it turned out that we're on a metre with a card, and we have to go to the little corner shop to top it up with electric!!! SO Matt sorted that out, and we're now running on our emergency £7 !

That's pretty much whats happened so far! My house mates are amazing, they are all properly on fire for God. We are having so much fun. I am truly loving it.
Its still slightly weird being away from home, and knowing how far away everyone is, but this is totally where i am meant to be for now. I might even be getting a northern accent!!! eeek!!

please please please email me at singit_fromtheheart@hotmail.co.uk
or comment on here ! would love to know that you're reading ! :)
Lots of love
Rosie xxx

1 week to go!

Right this time next week I should hopefully be in the car near the M6 somewhere!

I now have my address in mancheseter, if you would like it please let me know and i will email it too you.


This summer has been so busy, and this week has come round so quickly, its all a bit overwhealming. I have now sold my car, and i have started my packing!!!!
As always packing is a slight trauma i have just about packed one box of stationary(!?!). Im hoping to pack some more sensible things like clothes next week.
There is going to be 4 of us living in our house,and we are all doing Genetik. Having a house of our own is very exciting, and attempting to be vaigly responsible!
Just have boring things to sort this week like contents insurance and internet. so if anyone knows any cheap deals :P !

Would really appreciate everyones prayers over the next week, as everyone gets ready, and as well all settle in.

feel free to leave me comments and ask me questions! I also have skype that im going to use when im in Manchester so if you have it let me have your name :)

Rosie

Genetik Fundraising!

I want to say a MASSIVE thank you to everyone who's helped me with my fundraising. I have now got all my course fee's :) YAY!!!!
I have loads of people to thank for helping me get this money, and I'm not going to list them because I'l probably miss someone out. But all the people who helped with my concert, all the individual donations, all the people who have prayed and supported me, and my church just for everything and anyone else Ive missed. Thank you.

I would not be going to Manchester without your help ( and God too ) and I am sooo grateful for all you guys.
I am so so blessed to have you all, you are all amazing wonderful people.


Lots of Love
xx

Lemons... ?

When life gives you lemons...

make grape juice. Then sit back and watch the world try to figure out how you did it

so when life throws up the unexpected what do you tend to do?
make the most of it?
or dwell in the fact you've been handed lemons when in fact you wanted like grape juice??
maybe the lemon was what you did really want,but didn't know it. maybe it was the kick up the backside that you needed to move on to something better.

So when life hands you lemons do you expect lemons? or do you expect something better like grape juice?

and maybe the lemon is all you want because you don't feel good enough or strong enough to cope with having the grape juice.
or maybe having lemons is a bit of a comfort blanket and you don't feel quite like you without it.
Or maybe the lemon is something that's happened that you've built yourself upon, so to have it replaced with a grape juice you would have to start a rebuilt yourself
which is a scary prospect so would rather stay in the comfort zone of the lemon.

So when you get to the point of having the grape juice, will you tell the world how you did it? or let them wonder around clueless in the lemon world.
Or will you just make the most of having your grape juice and keeping it to yourself before your next lemon comes along.


So i wrote all of the above very late at night, and am not at 11pm the following night gonna try and make sense of it.

When life hands you difficulties(lemons)...

Be controversial face them head on with God deal with them (grape juice), and then when your a better person let the world know how you did it.

:) so let me know if this does make sence?

Beautiful

So living beautifully is something that keeps popping up in my life lately.

Its said that saying "your beautiful" to a girl is the nicest thing you can say, and also if its said to you, it means whoever is saying it really likes you.

But being beautiful doesn't rely upon someones opinion, or it shouldn't at least, and being a beautiful person isn't just about the outside.

So back in march i thought I'd created a new concept of "living Beautifully" and figured this should contain:
- The way you look after yourself and treat your body.
so eating good things, and being healthy, not to much drinking that kinda thing. But also the way you present yourself, i have quite strong opinions on how people should present themselves but I'm not going to go into that now, but think people should care about how they appear in a way of showing respect to themselves.
- The way you treat other people.
in my little plan this was generally being loving towards people, and actually that's just a nice thing to do.
- How you conduct your feelings
SO for me this meant not exploding how I feel all over face book and moaning at every single person possible about how i felt, and instead dealing with why i felt how i felt, and not taking it out on other people.
- Finally.
God time, bible prayer that kind of thing!
also decided killing everyone with kindness was a good plan!

I was quite happy in the knowledge id created this concept and told one of my friends about it... and did it for a while then let it slip...

Then as i was sat in a morning talk at Spring Harvest the speaker started talking about the marks of a beautiful life, turns out a guy called Dr Hans Rookmaaker had come up with the same thing but well, a lot better!
- Friendship
"if we could just be friendlier maybe we wouldn't need so many new activities"
- Humility
-Pace
Jesus wasn't in a hurry
- Place
He knew where he was from
- Skill
had a trade to contribute to society
- Learning
-Fun
Jesus loved life and we should actively seek Joy and fun
So his kinda made a lot more sense, and i thought about this for a while THEN

At my church weekend the topic of the weekend was....
Beautiful church...
and basically what it took a whole weekend to explain was that a beautiful church is made up of:
praise, power and love.
and have time to listen, have praise, have love


After all of this I kind of figured Beautiful living isn't something you can put in a box, or just have one way of doing it. Its possibly more a personal thing, to do with how different people see their own lives and feel about themselves.
Even as I write this it still challenges me actually what parts of my life aren't beautiful, and what can i do about them.