A dream, desire, want, vision, longing, calling

There are a lot of things on my mind and heart that I want to say, but I don’t know where to start and I don’t want to leave anything out. So I guess we will start with the first thing in my title…

A dream, desire, and want: Every little girl dreams of the day she will be a bride and marry her groom. Every girl wants a “Prince Charming” in her life. So if I could plan everything out the way I “want,” it would go like this. Within the next three years I would marry someone in the ministry. Preferably I would like to marry a youth pastor. Bro. Stan would become Magnolia’s Pastor and my husband and I would take over the youth at Magnolia Baptist Church. I would continue to lead worship and after I graduate from college in Elementary Education I would possibly go to Seminary to be a Music Minister (depending on how much I learn in piano lessons and how much practice I get at leading worship to see if I feel I need extended training. It would be nice to go and learn more about Bible theology and stuff) but if I do go obviously my husband would have to go with me and Magnolia would be without a Youth Pastor and worship leader for about 2 year. They could find an interim Youth Pastor until we returned and I would eventually become the Music Minister at Magnolia, my husband would be the Youth Minister, and Br. Stan would be our pastor. (Keep in mind this is all me planning everything out the way I would want it) After all of the schooling and we settle down in a church (preferably Magnolia) and I find a teaching job we could then think about having kids. I would like to have 2 if not 3 kids by the time I’m 30. After my first kid I would quit teaching and be a stay at home mom until I am finished having kids and all of them are in school. After they are all in school I would go back to teaching. This is my dream life and what I WANT and DESIRE, but is this what God has planned for me? Is this the route he has for me? I am saying all of this to ask everyone to pray for me, so that I will have wisdom to see God’s plan for my life and be satisfied with what he has planned for me and not just want what I WANT. Pray that I will desire what God desires for me.

A vision, longing, and calling: I have a vision for Magnolia Baptist Church in Saline, Louisiana. Br. Stan has always told me that I am going to be a Music Minister. That never felt right to me until a couple of months ago when I was given a big desire and longing to get a worship service started for the youth on Wed nights. I am in the process of getting people together to start a praise and worship band for Magnolia’s youth on Wed nights. We run anywhere from 30-40 youth and ¼ of those may come on Sunday. Most of the youth do not get to experience worship with music. Worshiping to music is a big part of my life; however, I do realize there is more than just music to worship. Our life should be worship, but the form of worship that touches me most is through music. I want the youth at Magnolia to experience that type of worship without having to go to summer camp or YEC. I want it to become the norm for their lives. Be praying that God will give me the wisdom and knowledge about who to ask to play in the praise band. Eventually when the band gets up and running I want to get a contemporary Sunday morning service started to try to get the youth in. This service will be for anyone who wants to attend but my goal is to get the youth churched on Sundays. This service may start off as just being an early evening service before discipleship training and then they can attend class or it may be an early service in the mornings before Sunday school. I don’t know what God has in store but this is one thing I have envisioned for Magnolia. Be also in prayer for God to lead and guide me in this matter. I know that I’m called to be a wife of someone in the ministry, I’m called to be a Music Minister of some sort (whether it be just leading worship for youth (where I feel the most comfortable) or it be the Music Minister of a church), and I’m also called to be a mother. I have had a love for children ever since I was a little girl and I know God has called me to be a mother of several children. I desire to have several biological children and to possible adopt. Adoption has always been near and dear to my heart and would love to have the opportunity to care for a child that needs Gods love in their life. So there again you can start to pray that my husband and I will have the wisdom to do what God has called us to do in the aspect of having biological children and adoption.

This is just a little glimpse into my heart and they way I think. Be in prayer for all the things that I feel God calling me to and where he wants me to be in life.