Thank You!

"If you believe in Jesus, you are not to spend all your time in the calm waters just inside the harbor, full of joy, but always tied to the dock. You have to get out past the harbor into the great depths of God, and begin to know things for yourself--begin to have spiritual discernment...” from My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers

Dear Friends and Family,
Thank you so much for your love, prayers, support, letters and encouragement to me these past two years as I followed the Lord to the unknown waters of Georgia. RAD Ministries has certainly rocked my boat. God has used situations both fabricated by RAD and also through life circumstances to teach me more about himself and also more about myself. I have learned not only my strengths and weaknesses and seen myself in the most vulnerable of places, but have learned to live victoriously despite all that may or may not be around me. I do not claim to be “healed” or “fixed” as living for the Lord is a daily CHOICE that I am still learning to walk in. I do however feel equipped and ready for my next steps in life.

What exactly is next for me? At the moment, my family is reunited in Indiana for the summer. We are traveling around a little bit visiting family and friends. But the summer is floating steadily away and soon, I will be a freshman at Indiana Wesleyan University. School starts on September 2nd. I will be studying Medical Technology and Pre-Physical Therapy. I am very excited for this new step in my life as I know it is where God has specifically placed me. With it though, I know there will be new storms to weather, new people to meet, and new victories to win. My prayer is that I will be diligent in my studies, my devotion to the Father, my character, and in my social life bringing glory to my King.

As I begin this new phase in life, I am hoping to stay connected with my friends and “family” in Georgia and with RAD. I would like to ask for your continued prayers for the ministry as it begins the necessary preparations of office, finances, staff, and students for the coming year. Also, I am hoping to pay off the remainder of my RAD Internship Tuition before I start school in September. I still have a balance of $850 to be paid to RAD. If you are interested in supporting me in this area or would like to commit to praying for RAD on a regular basis, please let me know as soon as possible so I can send you more information. Thank you for enabling me to embark on such a great and fulfilling adventure of discipleship.Thank you all for blessing my life.

Sincerely,
Kristyn Concepción

The wedding we have been waiting for

The McCullough’s have been our closest family friends for as long as I can remember. When we heard that Danielle was getting married to Tomy Bruno, we knew we could not miss that wedding! And we didn’t. On July, 12^th, just four days after Dad and Shelby arrived in Indy from Honduras and after months of planning, weeks of shopping, and hours of invitation making, we all gathered in the beautiful courthouse for a perfect wedding. And a perfect wedding was what we witnesses.

Congratulations Danielle and Tomy Bruno!

IWU Registration

Yesterday, my mom and dad took me to IWU for my college registration. The whole day went very well. We were able to experience several aspects of college life including the GINORMOUS cafeteria and Evans dooms. The student building was simply amazing. It has a long hallway called the "Mall Way." It is set up to look like you are walking through the streets of Italy! How awesome is that (I have always wanted to go to Italy!). The Mall Way is filled with small stores, gathering areas, Cafés, Computers, an art gallery, and more. It was really cool. After and early breakfast, we went to the into in the Phillippe Theater before I started testing. I was SO nervouse about testing! They said some tests take 10 Min. and others almost an hour....it just depends on which one you get. My math test was only 12 min. long! When my score said 57, I about freaked out! I found out later that that was a good grade though.... not a percent. I also tested out of 4 levels of Spanish! After walking through all the booths in the Mall Way, I talked to my Administrator and got my schedule all set up (and my student ID made).

Major: Medical Technology (and Pre-Physical Therapy)

Classes the semester: 

General Statistics

Principles of Biology

General Chemistry

Biology Lab

Freshman's Leadership Class

plus 3 chapels a week

sounds very "mathematical" to me.... but I like math better than English any day. Hope it's not too hard!!!  

Several Other exciting things happened that Evening.  I was able to buy all [way too many] of my school books and Mom and Dad decided to use my student discount to buy a little mac book!  It came with a free printer and ipod touch too!  Feeling Jetson?!?!  I'm feeling a bit overloaded with technology, especially since we just hooked up our new wireless internet today too.  Yikes!  

A Different Kind of Celebration

4^th of July was a little different this year, but fun none the less. Dad and Shelby were still in Honduras so Mom, Cori, and I spent the holiday in Ft. Wayne with Grandma and PawPaw. We went out to Orchard Ridge for dinner and let Cori play around at the carnival (okay, I admit it. I played too.), before watching a late, but fabulous display of fireworks. It was a very fun evening, but it felt a little funny not having the whole family there. I love 4^th of July.