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December
Update
Dear WVCAC,
The past two months at
Princeton have been a whirlwind, with the holiday season
in full swing and students cramming for midterms and
papers. I am grateful that God has delivered me through
the busyness, and that I have been able to grow in my
faith along the way.
The fieldwork component
of my internship has required much more of my time and
energy that I initially expected. During November and
December, I spent many hours preparing the Freshman
Small Group study on Mark, as well as planning bonding
activities for the freshmen. Such events included a
baking party, a Thanksgiving dinner, and an ice skating
trip to Rockefeller Center in New York City. In addition,
I have been spearheading outreach efforts, like distributing
a worship CD that Manna's praise team recorded and organizing
a World AIDS Day awareness campaign at Princeton. On
World AIDS Day, a group of students also went off-campus
to New York to participate in a global reading of the
names of children in Africa orphaned by the AIDS epidemic.
In addition to my fieldwork
responsibilities as small group leader and outreach
coordinator, I have been counseling and discipling a
handful of students on a regular basis. This has posed
many personal and spiritual challenges for me, but I
believe that God has been using these opportunities
to sanctify me, humble me, and refine my faith.
Besides fieldwork, I have
been reading assigned books on biblical content and
counseling for the education component of my internship.
The latest book that I finished was "The Bible
for Dummies," a very enjoyable and insightful guidebook
to the Bible. Also, I have been continuously interviewing
people and reading books and articles for my research
paper on depression at Princeton.
Please
continue to pray for God to help me be a good steward
of my time. Please also pray for vision concerning my
plans next year -- both personally and career-wise.
I will keep WVCAC and especially the English ministry
in my prayers.
Blessings,
Ellen
Past
Newsletters
September
2007
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