Reed now Jones

My good friend Megan Reed (now Jones) got married this past weekend and it was SO MUCH FUN! I will have a hard time transitioning to her new last name considering I almost always call her 'Reed' or 'Reeders'. I think that will probably still stick...sorry Steven!

So I wrote a post a few weeks ago about her shower and her awesome fiance (now husband) Steven. Well seeing them interact this weekend was even more affirming on how much I love that they are together! I had a lot of fun with the girls on Friday night as we went out on the town...aka scavenger hunt in our pj's to places around Midland that were special to Megan and Steven :)  It was such a good time of connecting with friends I don't see as much anymore (that's a tribute to you Ash, Mary, and Reed!).

on our scavenger hunt we had to reenact Megan and Stevens first kiss...I'll leave it to your imagination as to what the heck was going on here!

I felt VERY special to be an honorary bridesmaid in this wedding. Reed, Kelli, Cotter, and I lived together for 1 year in college and it was one of the most fun years of my college life! That year we found out that Reed had a 'secret life'. Everyday she would walk in talking to someone on the phone and when we asked who it was she would say "oh it's so and so, my best friend from ____". Needless to say, it seemed like she had 500 best friends, yet we didn't know any of them. Hence why we called it her secret life. But anyway, considering the fact that Reed is friends with EVERYONE and literally has like 500 people who she could call her best friend, I truly did feel honored to be a part of her special day! 

Here are some more of my favorites from the weekend...

Reed and her pretty momma!

Reed and her MOH Badash!

All the bridesmaids and honorary bridesmaids!

Thanks Brett for taking this one!

me and my love

sweet father daughter dance...it added to the MANY tears during this wedding!

Until next time!


Kim

i don't know what to title this

Sometimes the "title" portion of blogging stresses me out...thus the title of this one is exactly what I think most of the time that I come to blog. "I don't know what to title this". So, lots of fun stuff has been going on: b-day celebrations, fun work stuff, an exciting wedding coming up, good times with good friends, etc. So I know I need to blog because I haven't in a while and I know you people are missing me, but I can't think of something particular to talk about...so here is a random list.

1. Brett and I went to Blue Sky last weekend with lots of friends (mainly our staff team) to celebrate our birthdays. It was really fun and we felt very loved and appreciated.

Kelli, Katie and I at the birthday dinner!

2. Brett is talking at our CRU meeting this week (Thursday, April 14th) about the idol of success. It is based off of a chapter in Tim Keller's book Counterfeit God's. Haven't read the book myself but based off of everyone I know who has raved about it, I'd recommend it.

3. I watched the 1st Chronicles of Narnia movie last night (The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe). I absolutely loved it and cried a lot. I knew it had spiritual undertones in it, but I didn't realize that they weren't exactly undertones...they are like THE tone. The gospel was so beautifully depicted in this movie that it brought me to tears. I know, I know, I'm like 4 years behind on these movies...gimme a break.

4. My good friend and roommate for 1 year of college is getting MARRIED this weekend! I'm excited for Megan Reed's wedding :)

5. CONFESSION: I'm secretly (not a secret anymore I guess) scared that Brett and I aren't going to have cute kids. 1. because I simply just can't picture it and 2. because my niece is so cute and I just don't think that my kid will be able to beat her cuteness. It's painfully obvious whenever you have one cousin that's way cuter than the other. Well anyway...Brett and I saw a kid at church last week that looked EXACTLY like Brett did as a kid...AND HE WAS CUTE!

For fun so you can see her cuteness, my niece Braelyn.

Okay that's all for now....hopefully I'll have something more exciting to write about soon :).


Kim

baptism

Something fun this year has been the amount of friends I have had get baptized! One of which is my dear friend Claryssa. You may remember me talking back in February about a girl I saw accept Christ (click here to read about that). Well this past Sunday Claryssa made a public declaration of her faith at our church by getting baptized. It was SO SO SO special and fun to see her take this next step of obedience in her walk with the Lord.

If you are curious about baptism and wondering why it's important or if it even is important, I suggest you go here and listen to this sermon by my pastor, Dusty. It is really insightful and I think it may have had something to do with so many friends choosing to get baptized. Even if you are not curious, I think it's still a great sermon to listen to :).


Here are some pictures from Claryssa's special day!

about to get dunked

Claryssa and her bf Kevin

me, Claryssa, and Katie

Can you tell I was teary eyed? haha

After church, Brett and I celebrated with a yummy lunch at Carino's with Claryssa and her boyfriend Kevin. It was the first time for the 4 of us to hang out and we had so much fun!


Kim

MAZE update # 2

Okay, so I got excited a little too soon. The final number is actually 173!!!! SO EXCITING. Many of our TechCRU student leaders have already met up with several of these students who indicated their decision to follow Christ. Many more have appointments set up for the upcoming week, and all others have at least been contacted. Praise the Lord for the work he did with the MAZE!

the MAZE update

I mentioned in my last post that we were having a huge evangelistic outreach called the MAZE. We prayed and prayed and prayed that our Theater on campus that holds 986 students would be filled so that lots of people could hear the Gospel message and get a chance to respond. The event started at 8pm and by 7:15 there were hundreds of people lined up outside the theater doors waiting to get in. It was hard to tell how many people were in the massive crowd, but once the doors open we were SO excited to see that every seat was full and there were people who STOOD in the back and on the side aisle for 2 hours while watching the show! There were 1000 + students who attended.

The LORD is SO good in blessing the efforts of our staff team and student leaders who helped promote this event. It was so encouraging to see how many of our students were stunned and pleasantly surprised by the amount of people who showed up. And what is even better is that 146 students indicated that they made a decision to follow Christ!

Please pray for our student leaders who are now helping in the follow-up process of all these new brothers and sisters in Christ!

Kim

good weekend + birthday week!

This past weekend our staff team took a trip down to Midland for our annual Fellowship Dinner. This is a time where we raise money for Tech Campus Crusade and the Lord showed up in powerful ways...we raised above and beyond what we had been praying for!

Before this dinner though, me and some of my besties went to the lovely Megan Reed's wedding shower. It was so much fun to see her interact with Steven (her fiancee). I had never interacted with Steven much. In fact, I don't believe I had ever met him before. She took him to my wedding, but I didn't actually meet him that night. Actually, when I looked back at pictures, I thought he was a creeper who crashed the wedding since I didn't know who this guy in the background of my picture was! Haha...well it was Steven and I think he is GREAT for Megan. SO excited for their wedding in a few short weeks. Here are some pictures from the shower.

Megan (Cotter), Kelli, Megan (the Bride to be), Lori, and me

It was a couples shower, so Brett came too!

AND one of my best friends from college, Ash, is Megan's Maid of Honor, so she was there too!

Brett and I were exhausted by the time we got back on Saturday night, but it was a good day! Yesterday I started celebrating my birthday week. My birthday is on Friday, but Brett made a surprise dessert for me yesterday....Red Velvet Cake Balls!!! Seriously...I love my husband first and foremost, but these were a CLOSE second. I didn't take a picture of them, but they have BOY written ALL over them. Brett kept complaining that the picture looked so perfect and his didn't look that way, but man oh man did they taste amazing. He put so much effort into them all afternoon and did a fabulous job!

Tomorrow we have a HUGE evangelistic outreach on our campus. We are bringing in the MAZE - a Christian illusionist who will present the gospel to lots of people in a unique way. This attracts people who would maybe never step foot in a church or bible study on their own. Pray that it goes well, that we have 1,000 + people come, and that LOTS of students trust Christ tomorrow night! Check out more about the MAZE at: www.whatisthemaze.com.

Until next time,

Kim

Brett's Birthday

So this past Wed. (March 23) was Brett's birthday! This was a special birthday for several reasons. First, it was his GOLDEN birthday! For those of you who are unfamiliar with this, it means that he turned the same age as the day of the month his birthday is on (he turned 23 on the 23rd). Second, it was his MJ Bday. This one probably isn't as well known as some, but ever since I first met Brett he always talked about the term "MJ Bday". For a basketball lover...this simply means that he turned the same age as the # of Michael Jordan's (MJ) jersey. I am not sure that anyone else really celebrates this but Brett and his friend Luke, but it was special for that. Lastly (and this one happens with ALL of Brett's birthdays), it is the time of the year where Brett and I are the SAME AGE. It only lasts 10 days out of the whole year, but it's fun nonetheless.

For Brett's special day I made him breakfast in the morning, we were able to have lunch together (which never happens on Wednesday's), and then we had a lot of friends meet us at Rosa's for dinner. He felt very loved and special on this day :)

Here is a picture of us on the way to his bday celebration dinner :). Doesn't he look older?

Until next time,

Kim