AHHH!

Need 2,000 dollars by the end of this month! Pray that God will provide! Thank you! Over and out :)

Me

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Its not all fun and games....but some :)

We went on this gorgeous hike through the jungle to get to a 1000 foot waterfall. It looked like jurassic park. It was an incredible chance to get away from all of the overwhelming things going on with school, like a vacation for a day ...We had to hike through rivers and over boulders and it was one of the most strenuous things I have ever done, and probably the most beautiful place I have ever been.

Love.

Hello everyone!
I apologize I am not so good at putting up new posts, things are just so hectic!
The last couple of weeks have been awesome.
We have learned about the father heart of God, we have studied the Bible in depth, and we have looked at the Lordship of Jesus!
God has been moving in my life more and more. I am learning more about Jesus every day, and really how to let Him be Lord of my life. I am reading this awesome book Irresistible Revolution by Shane Claiborne. To sum up what I have gotten from it so far I really feel that my life is meant to be lived in the sort of way that mirrors the way Jesus lived. I want to see the injustice issues going on in the world the way the Lord sees them. I want to have Jesus' heart for the poor, the rejected, and the oppressed. I want to live in LOVE.
God is teaching me about His heart for the people, but also for me. I am learning to love myself, which is a struggle every day. But as I learn to see myself in God's image and see his love for me, I can then be set free of any lies that the enemy has planted in my spirit in the past. And I can be attuned to know when he is trying to lie to me again and reject it! This is a battle that I am winning more and more every day. Being free and full of the joy of the Spirit means that I can do the work of the Lord without anything holding me back!
So it is really my dream to love people how God loves them. To be his hands and his feet to reach the people.
My prayer this week is that I would be able to manage my time so that I can really organize my thoughts and have time to process all that I am learning, but also get all of my school work done.
Thank you for your prayers! God bless!!
In Him,
Cambria

Friends!

Here are some pictures of the friends I have been making!
(In no particular order :) )
(p.s. if you are not in any of these photos dont feel like you are not my friend, its just because I dont have any pictures of you! Sorry!!)

Cale from California!

Ashley from Colorado Springs!

Amazing leader Anne- from Dallas!

Lulu- my awesome and hilarious friend from Germany!

John from Canada!

Lindsay (Omaha) and Naomi (New Zealand) !!!

Stacy and Brittany- they are both Canadians!

Where do I begin?

Hello my family and friends! Hope you are doing swell!

I want you to know right from the beginning this is going to be ridiculously long, but after this post I will make things MUCH more brief!!
God is doing some amazing things here on the campus of University of the Nations, but he is especially real within my little PhotogenX DTS (but maybe I'm biased)! I have only been here a couple weeks, but it feels like much longer!! So much has changed in my life, I feel like a new person. I can only imagine how I will feel in 6 months (or 2 years) once God has opened my eyes to more of his heart and plans for my future.
Ill give you a bit of a summary of what I have been up to and what I have been learning.

The first day I arrived here I already wanted to turn around and go home because I was assigned to a very early morning work duty (if you're reading this you probably know I am not a morning person), and I didnt know a soul. I didnt feel welcome, or like I fit in. But of course there was NO turning back. And I am glad about that because things changed quickly!!
The weekend I arrived my school had a beach day where we went to a beautiful beach north of campus. I started making friends with some of my roommates and other people in my DTS, and of course got to take some pictures!
Since then relationships have only been building more and more, and I got seriously blessed with a mistake in the work duty records so my work duty is now from 5-7 pm!!
But these arent the things that have changed my life in the matter of two weeks.
What has been so amazing is presence of God in our classroom every day.

For those of you who dont know how a DTS works ill explain a little: Essentially a DTS has a focus (which mine is photography, obviously), but the main point of it is to build a strong relationship with God and find His calling for your life. It is sort of like an educational bridge to your future (often times with YWAM ministries). My DTS has two AMAZING leaders (along with an incredible group of other staff members) Paul and Susi Childers who run the whole thing! So every day from 8am-12pm I have lectures led by various guest speakers and often Paul. Every night we have class from 7-9 which is either an educational movie, photo class, small group times (I have an amazing small group leader Anne who I am getting to know and love) or community lecture. We also have worship every morning from 8-8:30 am. We get photo assignments every week which are turned in every friday (along with other homework like journals and book reports), and then evaluated on mondays in front of the class!

So back to the life changing part!
The first week of lectures was about hearing Gods voice. We were assigned to read the book Is That Really You, God? by Loren Cunningham (The founder of YWAM). We spent the first two days going through our entire group of 53 people sharing our testimonies. This was an amazing time for us to grow closer as a group.
The second week is really where God showed up in our little classroom. The theme of the week was Freedom in Christ. Our guest speakers were Faith and Andrew Dutton from New Zealand/ Australia. They were amazing and eye opening about what it looks like to die to the flesh and grow up and begin walking with Christ. We ended the week with two days of confession where we got up in front of our class and publicly declared our sins and asked God to forgive us. It was so eye opening and wonderful, and I felt like a huge burden was lifted from me and of course I grew much closer to my wonderful class.

So that pretty much gets you up to date!! I will be uploading pictures of some of the adventures I have had in between all of this growing and learning! Thank you so much for reading and for you continuous prayers!!!

In Him, Cambria

My intro to blogspot!

So facebook will not let me put pictures up currently so for now I am going to try out this thing they call "blogspot"? Is it two words? Or is it called blogger? I dont know! I am sorry there is not much to look at right now but I am surely going to add a lot very soon!! I am also sorry that my punctuation and english isnt perfect for those of you it may bother. I am aware, but too lazy to capitalize every single "I" or put an apostrophe in every "isn't". :) .This picture is blurry I know but it is the only one i have right now that you can see my new hair-do. I cut it short to keep it manageable and also to keep cool!! I am sitting at the top of a cliff that I later jumped off of! yay!! okay more coming soon! bye!!