Internship Update Pictures....

My co-worker teachers...

Our Parents' Night Program promotion display...

Building and painting castle walls....

My friend Justin painting...

Painting the castle's front door....

Almost done!....

My friends and awesome helpers...

The final product of the front of the castle!

More pictures of our awesome castle stage to follow next week....Praise God! :)

4th of July with the Telangs!

4th of July with the Telangs!

Well, in amidst my work with First Baptist Church and the Day Camp program, I had the wonderful opportunity to spend the 4th of July weekend with my Telang family from Detroit (and Chicago). We all drove up North to Uncle Dinesh's and Aunt Teresa's beautiful cottage near Traverse City, Michigan. Their lake house is very spacious and hosted all the family wonderfully. Activities included eating amazing food, tanning, swimming, boat rides, tubing, and water-skiing. I even swam across the lake! (About one mile across) I also had a great time playing board and card games with my cousins. They all are very competitive, so I had some good competition. Most definitely a highlight was just getting to spend time talking with everyone one at time. Family reunions are great times to get to catch up and hear about God's work in the lives of your family. I was blessed by my Telang family's kindness and generosity towards me!

Another highlight of the weekend was going over to Uncle Ramesh's cottage on Torch Lake - Michigan's longest inland lake and second biggest. Here we got to go jet skiing!!! Yes, I got to drive a jet ski several times around the lake. It was awesome! This was my second time jet skiing (first was last fall 2010 in Pensacola for a friend's birthday celebration). We also got to go for a boat ride on Uncle Ramesh's pontoon. This was amazing! The whole family went for the ride - over 20 people! What a great blessing this was.

All in all, my visit with the Telangs was so wonderful and how blessed I was to get to have this opportunity. May God bless all Telangs with many blessings! Lord willing, I will get to see them again in August. Looking forward to that! :)

4th of July with the Telangs Pictures

Jet Skiing with Jeevan!

Beautiful Torch Lake!

My Telang family...

Cousins...

Aunt Julie and Me!

Internship Update....

Internship Update....

Well, it's hard to believe that another week has come and gone by so fast! It seems like just yesterday that we were in June, and now July is quickly passing by. However, I am pleased to see that a lot has been accomplished in these past couple of weeks here in Michigan!

Praise to the Lord, teaching at the First Baptist Church Day Camp has been successful so far! I am enjoying my time with the children learning about God through song, verses, Bible stories, missionary stories, and crafts. God has helped me develop creativity in my every day lessons and activities. I have had numerous experiences teaching children in the past years, but this experience is very unique in so many ways. Perhaps the greatest thing I am learning through this opportunity is the importance of organization and planning! I spend time in the evenings planning the next day's crafts, lessons, games, and activities. I cannot express how important these planning sessions turn out to be the next day! But good planning with no organization is not good. So, I have also been working on becoming an organized teacher! (Probably not one of my strongest areas in life! :)

Game time and sports are definitely favorites among my students. I have had so much fun playing with them and seeing them compete with one another. Sometimes after major sport games, I am so tired and they are ready for more! I guess that I could say that I am "feeling my age" - meaning that I am getting older? Maybe... :) According to the children, most of them think I am 30 years old....though I have told them I am barely 20! Nonetheless, I am blessed to have students who respect and trust me. Praise God for my opportunity to influence these children!

I am just about half way done with my internship, and we are about one month away from our Parent's Night Program. I am currently busy planning and organizing this special night. It will be on August 7th, 2011, and I can most definitely use all the prayers for this. I am building a set for the program and working on preparing the children for their presentation. They will be singing songs, quoting their Bible verses, doing a small skit, presenting their missionary project, and displaying their craft projects. In addition, we will have some special music, preaching, and a video slideshow. All of us staff members are praying that this would be an opportunity to reach out to the children's families and community, possibly seeing some come to Christ through this outreach. I am excited about this, but I do have my work cut out for me for the next couple of weeks as we prepare for this special night!

I wanted to thank all of you for your prayers and support this summer! I have been so encouraged by many of you through messages, e-mails, texts, and phone calls. How wonderful it is to know that I have many prayer warriors out there praying for me! Thank you very much. God bless you!

I have posted some pictures of some of the crafts we have made that are pretty cool. These and many others will be displayed at our Parent's Night Program.

Crafts pictures....

PCC Proclaim Team!

PCC Proclaim Team!

Yesterday, one of the Pensacola Christian College Teams came to the First Baptist Church to represent the college and praise the Lord in music, skits, and preaching. It was a great blessing! I knew just about all of them from school, and it was so awesome to get to fellowship with them. They spoke for the youth at the church and also ran the Wednesday evening service. In addition, we ate pizza, played games at the church including the Wii, and spend time sharing about our summer experiences. The three guys stayed at the Hicks' house with me, so we had a blast! It was nice to have college friends around! Overall, their stay was a blessing and I praise the Lord for their ministry. May the Lord bless them as they continue to travel this summer!