Into and Questions

 Hello Sweet Friends !

I have been wanting to start up a blog for my journey in NYC and so now I finally have a bit of time =)   Of course I'll have news letters but I think this is another great way for me to connect to friends and family back home ! For my  first piece I would like to take sometime to answer some common questions I have been getting  !

1.  How did you get involved with Cornerstone ?

  My  journey with Cornerstone actually began last Spring before I went to Colorado but I had no intentions or thoughts of NYC at the time. In my mind I was  way off from imaging being here ; however God used my small group leader Tim Bargo to encourage me to come with a group of girls from my home church Immanuel before I went to CO for  the summer.  So, I decided to take the step and  really God had been doing some early work in my heart before Cornerstone because I had been here before with my 1:8 Leadership Team.  My 1:8 Leadership team was huge because it was the first time I opened up my eyes to NY ! And so having some  time here before  helped nudge me along.  Therefore, when I arrived here in NY  that week during the Spring God started planting a seed ! 

I wasn't aware what this seed meant til the end of my summer in Colorado but  I knew in my heart one thing that I was passionate about missions. And so,  as I started praying and God reminded me  of NY  and what made it soo special to me during my 1:8  Leadership, I asked God to show me if this was the door  He would take me through and He did ! 

God allowed me to  connect with Cornerstone and have conversations with the Tubb's  to see if it was His will and now I am here in Brooklyn as an intern !

 2. What were your first thoughts of NYC before coming ?

To be honest I never thought of NYC as a mission place till my 1:8 Leadership team. In my mind NYC was a busy crowded place that I thought I could never live in. 

3. What are your thoughts now of NYC ?

 I am still exploring NYC  but I have more of an open heart  after experiencing with my 1:8 Team and my team from Immanuel !  And because God brought me here  before for one month and now a year  I am able to see it as a sea of beautiful faces !  There are some days everything feels so huge but  when I sit down or see an individual I know I think wow !, this is what NYC is about ! I believe in order to truly  experience NYC you have to slow down with open eyes ! If you  live  in a fast paced mind set ; you'll miss the little moments such as be surrounded by soo many ethnicity's ! I also love how  I am able to know how to get certain places and   know names as I mentioned!


So, in a small nut shell this is a little bit of how I got to NYC and  why ! I hope you'll join me as I blog more in my journey !