Life (CU AGM and housegroup)

yes, I'm still alive my dear readers (yeah, that would be you, mum...) so I thought it was about time to update this, really...

Life has been really busy. i have lectures pretty much every morning and afternoon and one evening free a week (friday). And it's week 5 of spring already!! where did time go?? i'm desperately trying to find the pause button but I can't even find the remote control in the war scenario my room has become. I can't actually see my floor...

Last wednesday was an eventful day. We signed for our new house! I'll be living with 5 other girls. I'm so excited about moving in with these lovely girls! We've decided (well, Becca and I)that it'll be a multi-cultural house if you consider Wales and Ireland as a different culture.Anyway, Jo in herself is already multi-cultural as Becca said very well. It'll definitely be an interesting mixture of accents with two english, two welsh (one that sounds very welsh and another with an interesting mix of scottish, welsh, irish and american), one irish (that def sounds very irish) and then myself that sound very... well let's save me from embarrassement and not talk about my accent.

Then we had our Annual General Meeting for CU. It's scary that the last AGM was more than an year ago! If you look through my old blog posts you'll find the one I wrote about it.
We voted for the new committee that was aproved unanimously! I'm really excited to see how God is gonna move this next year and work in and through these guys. Pray that we, as a CU, may be able and willing to support our leaders in prayer and in anyway we can. these guys' job is not going to be easy but it's so encouraging to see the way they stand up, willing to give their time and effort to serve our Almighty God.
We praise God for the way He worked last year through the committee at the time. The way that He provided was immense... beyond belief. And again, these guys were amazing. The way they lead us and stood firm in the Word even through tough times was such a blessing!

So now is a time to look back and remember what God did last year and thank Him for that. We prayed for the guys of last year's committee and for the CU and God answered our prayers in an amazing, astounding way! But it's also a time to look forward and ask Him for His guidance this next year. That again we may know nothing but Christ crucified.

The past few days have been filled with work for a test I have this week... scary. I really don't like statistics...

Today we had housegroup. The subject was the crucifixion of Jesus and it was great just to discuss with those guys the meaning of the cross for us as christians and for non-christians. it's so cool to learn with each other the truth God reveals through His Word.
And it was so challenging to see a non-christian saying that if all we were saying was true (about who Jesus was and what He came to do), then people would have to start looking at the cross, even when represented in necklaces, churches, paintings, etc, and seeing the man that died there and that He died for our sins. He said that people should stop thinking about religion when they see a cross because, and I quote, "that guy died for my stuff. I would have the hammer in my hand, man!"

Sometimes as Christians we see the cross and it doesn't mean much to us. It's just a symbol to represent religion as an institution as this guy said. but no... the cross was where our Saviour died for every lie that I tell, every bad thought I think, every bit of pride or envy. so that I could have a relationship wit the Holy God and live with Him forever.so yeah... this non-christian guy was wiser and more focused in these words than I am many times. Humbling.


This next week will prob be as busy if not worse... I'm thankful I have been able to sleep well at night so I can have the rest I need.

Right, gotta go, now. Joshua to finish till tomorrow and I'm half way through... eek.

ASG