Day 45

Before and After

 

My time: 37:51

Tomorrow I leave for camp! I'm really excited. I'm doing for this week what I did when I was in Colorado: posting a verse each day and what I get out of it. One of the days my wonderful mom is going to guest post for me! It would be such an awesome surprise if I came back and got a nice update on our total...(: Come on, it's helping someone else.

~Haley

Day 44

Before and After

My time: 39:46

I'm home for the next 2 days but I leave for church camp on Monday! (It's been a busy few weeks!) Unlike the mission trip I won't be able to have anything electronic so I won't have any pictures or graphs, just the signs and my time. And a post written in advance. 

Sorry I've been so late posting the last several weeks. I haven't been running until like 8 or 9 at night because its so hard to get up in the morning. Hopefully that will change. 

In the meantime, we are so close to getting enough money for one well. And I think if we pray and keep spreading the word, we can raise $1,000 by the end of the summer...wouldn't it be great if it was even more though? It can be, if you help. 

~Haley

Day 43

Before and After

My time: 36:00

As you can see, I look like a walking Nike advertisement today, from my socks to my tank top. (My shoes are my usual Newtons!) I was really motivated to run due to my new running apparel! But unfortunately, my side started cramping within the first few minutes so that didn't last long...

If you haven't yet, can you donate today? Even the littlest but helps. Or if you can't, tell someone about it! Or a lot of people :)

~Haley

Day 42

Before and After

My time: 38:52

Blogging every day is hard. Inspiration only strikes every so often and it's difficult to just pull something out of my head. I've mentioned "Living water" here on the blog several times. So I thought I could explain it.

Now Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John— although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples. So he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee. Now he had to go through Samaria. So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon. When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?” (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.) The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans. ) Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.” “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?” Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” (John 4:1-14 NIV)

First of all, when it says "now he had to go through Samaria" the original Greek translates as a divine calling. So God was calling him there. 

Living water is salvation. God is offering us to drink from the well of life and says we will always be satisfied. If we mean it, we will find complete satisfaction in him when we can't in anything else.

You can help provide living water by donating today.

~Haley

Day 41

My time: 37:27

I came up with something really good to write about while I was running but I forgot it. Sorry. And then I fell asleep before I got around to posting. Today's run coming later! I did run yesterday as you can see. July 3rd

~Haley

Day 40

Before and After

My time: 40:01

I can't believe I'm already on Day 40.  I'm over halfway done. It's a little sad when 3.5 miles seems like a short distance. You'd think my times would be decent by now...

Please help these people in India, and motivate me by donating today.

~Haley

Day 39

 

Before and After

My time: 39:07

Colorado 

Burger King!

My youth group took a trip to Colorado this last week. We returned to the same place we did last summer, and got to see a lot of the kids we worked with before!  Each morning we got up and worked a Backyard Bible Club with the kids, who ranged in age from around 4-13. It's sort of like a Vacation Bible School. We had games, crafts, snacks, music, and bible study. Me and my friends Tiffany, Sierra, and Sarah worked crafts with them, and it was pretty fun!

From left to right: Sarah, me, Sierra, Tiffany. 

Crafts with these beautiful children were so much fun!

In the afternoons, the pastor taught a fly-fishing class. Some of us were mentors for it, and on Friday, they all went fly-fishing. The seven of us (including me) that decided to work the bible club on Friday did other things in the afternoons when we weren't watching the class, like prayer walk.

On Wednesday, as you may remember I was raving about how beautiful it was. That afternoon we took a day trip after the fishing class to San Isabel National Forest. While the mentors practiced fishing, I got to run the most gorgeous forest and lake and rivers. Here's some of the scenery:

While we were there, Sierra and I had a little photo shoot.

This is just my favorite picture of us ever, hands down.

Grilling.

The "crane" yoga pose.

And that's just a sampling. 

Friday the kids and mentors went fly fishing. It sounded like they had a pretty fun time. When they got back, the pastor had an invitiation, and about 6 or 7 kids received Christ! Friday evening we held a block party and we had a pretty good turnout! One of our guys broke through 4 inches of concrete with his head (don't worry, he's okay!) and another bent bars and broke through concrete slabs with sins written on them with his arm as a symbolism-type thing. (He's okay too!) Our band played and us crafters worked the concession stand. I was serving snowcones and by the end I was covered in syrup from head to toe! I don't know if anyone came to receive Christ but some families said they were interested in coming to the church so that was good. It is a church plant, after all. 

I had to say goodbye to these pretty girls, Nya and Kiana! It was sad, but I am now pen pals with both!

Overall, I would say it was successful, and I loved seeing all those kids! I sure will miss them. Please keep them in your prayers!

I've had some new donations recently, want to add to it?! :)

~Haley