Well friends, the day has come to say goodbye to xanga and hello to myspace.  I know, I know, it's a sad day.  My new site is: http://www.myspace.com/philippians1verse20
so you can visit there for any updates in my life.  Talk to you later.  God bless.

Grace and Peace,

Alison

Hey guys!  I'm in Hungary again, which means my xanga won't be updated too frequently, so instead, shoot me an e-mail, and we'll keep in touch that way while I'm at school.  My e-mail address is: yeshuasaves@gmail.com  Talk to you soon, and I look forward to hearing from you.

In His Loving Grip,

Alison

Hello all,

It's me again.  I know, I know, big surprise, seeing as this is my xanga site....right, so anyway.  I'm stoked!  I've been seeing the Lord answer a lot of my prayers lately and it's been such an encouragement and blessing.  Everything that the Lord put on my heart or that I was concerned about and was praying about before I came home, I've seen Him answer each and every single one of them or have seen them begin to come to fruition.  And friends, it wasn't just a couple things, or even a handful of things, but at least nine or ten.

I encourage you all to ask the Lord to teach you how to pray.  And when He asks you to pray for certain things, do it, and you will see the Lord do amazing things.  The thing about prayer is that when God asks us to pray, that indicates to us that He's already wanting to do what He's asking you to pray for.  You do however have the option of forfeiting the blessing of being a part of the work of the Lord to someone else who is willing to pray, but who wants to do that?  Isn't is amazing that the One who created the world and all that is in it in 6 days, wants to include us in His plans??  That's a huge privilege!  I pray that we'd realize more fully what a privilege and honor it is to serve our King on our knees.

"Now unto Him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy to God our Saviour, who alone is wise, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and forever.  Amen."  Jude 24-25.

In Christ who is Faithful,

Alison

Well hello there friend!

Yes, it's been a while since I last updated, but no worries, here's an update.  I spent the last week in Indiana/Michigan helping Adam and Val with wedding preparations and what not.  It was a beautiful wedding.  It was fun to hang out with them in their last days of being single.  I'm really excited for them, and plu they get to move to the U-shape next semester.    And you know what that means?  Yes, that's right, cooking whenever they want to.  I hope I get invited.  heh heh...

Anyway, today was my last day of serving at the church.  It was a good day.  The youth room is beginning to look really nice.  I should take some pictures...if only I hadn't left my camera in Indiana...that would be helpful for posting pics.

The Lord's been teaching me a lot lately.  He's been revealing a lot of Truth to me lately, and it's been setting me free and making me more like Christ, which is always a good thing.  I leave for Vajta, Hungary next week Thursday.  I'm excited but I'm definitely going to miss home a whole lot more this time.  Since I've come home this time from Bible College, I feel more like an adult than I do a kid.  And I feel like I can actually make a difference.  And I notice a lot more things that I never used to pay attention to, it's cool.  Being in Hungary has definitely made me grow up a lot and matured me, but I think that was just the Lord more than anything else. 

I was just thinking today how grateful I am for the grace of God.  I'm so stinkin' glad that I'm not saved by works, but by His glorious and unending grace.  Thank You Jesus! 

Talk to you later friends.

Love,
Alison

It's been a couple days since I've updated, so I thought I should do that seeing as I have a few spare moments here.

I've been having a rough time lately, struggling with a couple different things; all of which have stemmed out of my lagging in diligence to get up early and spend quality time with the Lord rather than being rushed and not having time to just sit and talk with Him.  But I believe that in this too the Lord will have the victory and I am so thankful for His undying devotion and commitment to me to complete the work in me that He has started.  Thank You Jesus!

So you can be praying for me about that.  Other than that, not a whole lot is new with me.  I can't believe that my break is more than half over already!  It's just flown by.  I'm getting really excited to come home and move out of my parents house and have a place of my own (well, with Leah, so a place of our own) to have people come over and open it up for ministry opportunities.  But right now I need to focus on today and be diligent with what the Lord has laid before me today.  Thanks for all your prayers.  For those of you going to Adam and Val's wedding next Saturday, I'll see you soon.

Love,
Alison