So before talking about this week, I would like to thank all of you who have supported me so far financially this summer. I would also like to thank you all for your support through the prayer that God has received regarding this. So far this experience has been great and I owe so much of it to those of you who have supported me and made it possible for this to work out as God intended it to.
The beginning of the week I was able to spend a good amount of time with Don Dahl from State Farm who is the head of the finance portion of my internship. I was able to go through the process of recording all the tithes and offerings for the week again. This time I was able to learn more in depth on the internal control process with the money. From taking the money to a place where we would record it using Quickbooks, to learning the deposit strategy between people to getting the money to the bank. This is another project that I will be taking on slowly but surely, is talking to all the PNC banks in the area and making an excel sheet showing certain credential each bank has for depositing money. Specifically night depositing and what that entails for a non-profit like Charis Community Church.
I was also able to meet up with Don at the end of the week to, again, count and record the tithes and offerings via certain information systems. He then took me into some more bigger picture things with Charis starting with month to month duties through excel and other programs. How they make their financial statements and the comparisons they make in figuring out expectations, profits, losses, etc. (We also jammed out to 80's music while doing it, I hear it helps the brain work better haha)
This week I was able to continue in great fellowship with some of the guys from a college ministry here near campus. One kid specifically I was able to talk with more on a personal level and see where he was at with things, while also sharing my heart in areas of my life. Most importantly I was just able to continually try and reveal the gospel through events going in his life. Conversations like that are always the best conversations to have, and just makes a day end with complete joy with the Lord.
My meeting with Jon one of the pastors this week was an unbelievable time together! We continued to go through the book we are reading together and I was able to talk with him about how God has both worked through the book we are reading and through reading the scriptures to bring great realizations to me. The book is basically about Law and Gospel and the theology behind those. The constant reminder by the author and reiteration that as believers in Christ we are COMPLETELY DEAD to sin! This idea sometimes that we think we cannot get out of a rut of that we are held under certain sin because it is "too strong a temptation" is honestly... baloney! As believers in Christ and therefore sons and daughters of the heavenly father, we have power OVER sin, not the other way around. This constant reminder has been something I have been incorporating in my prayer so much recently to be able to really fully understand the strength that God has imputed to us via the holy spirit, to conquer sin.
This conversation with Jon also lead to great conversation with my accountability partner Mitch regarding Law and Gospel and how we need to see things and how today it is so simple to fall into the area of ignorance when it comes to this teaching.
These next couple Sundays at church (counting this last sunday) I will be watching and learning the video side to the service so that hopefully I will be able to serve the church in that way on some Sundays. I am looking forward to that extra way to serve and having the chance to learn another area of technology that I do not fully know how to work!
Last but not least JD and Amy Bridges are the hosts I am living with this summer and Amy's sister Erin had her second child this week! Praise God for that and all of it going smoothly. Crazy how creative God is when it comes to child birth. I honestly took a second this week and was talking with JD and looked over at was like "wow there is a baby in that stomach". Now that also sounds just like a funny thing to say, but seriously it was just so crazy to me that humans can form a human inside them (well women at least). I looked into it further in that God created Adam in the beginning of the world and then God, with Adam not finding a suitable mate, created Eve. God created them! Do we look at the creation of a child in a woman in the same way? He gave us great blessing that we should be able to make a human which was only his duty in the beginning of time. Wow
Lastly this week I was able to serve Christ by being transportation for a high school kid and his mom to a sport doctor appointment. I was able to get to know them as also fellow Christians and hear about their life as well as tell them about mine and why I am down here for the summer. Concluding with the time with them I dropped the kid off, and used what Christ has really put on my heart this summer with the free time I might have towards this family. I offered to give this young man a ride to other doctor appointments that he was going to be having the next couple weeks. I am so looking forward for this chance to serve and also this chance to disciple this young mind that loves the Lord. I am driving him tonight actually and cannot wait to have that short time to be able to pour into him as much as I can!
Well thank you all for reading about my life in Normal, I will see you all next week! Soli Deo Gloria!
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