"Sarah's Salon" :)
running up the dunes
"Charqleigh and Gerty"
I wanted to update this to let you know I haven't fallen off the face of the earth :)
Training camp here in Buchanan, MI is going very well. Our team is comprised of 9 guys and 9 girls this year (much different from our 10 girls and 5 guys from last year :) Thank you for praying for the unity of our team. Even though we have only been together for 5 weeks, the Lord has really started "gluing" us together. We have had great times playing together (as you can see by the pictures) and also times of sharing our testimonies and our hearts with eachother. I am excited to see how God is going to use our team as we are continually surrendered to what God has for us.
This staff training is a little different for me than the past two. The past two years I was used to spending 6-7.5 hours in worship rehearsal each day. I am now transitioning into a role of mentoring the girls and there are no set "training sessions" for that during the day. So my days have been a little more wide open but somehow at the end of the day they were really full :) I have been doing a lot of reading, hanging out with the girls, helping in whatever way is needed. I have gotten to be a family assistant for a couple families in the last couple of weeks, which have been a blessing. I pray that I would be open and flexible each day for whatever He has for me.
There is some new news that some of you have yet to hear of.....drum roll.....Sarah Tranel is in a relationship! There is a young man (Luke Johnson) that traveled on our team last year and we casually got to know eachother and then at the end of our travel year he approached me to pray about a relationship. We started intentionally hanging out and getting to know eachother. We continued to develop our "friendship" over the course of the summer and the Lord was confirming it over and over again. He is the youth speaker, semi-truck driver and team manager on our team. Realizing that the both of us came on the team to minister, we are seeking the Lord to know how best to have a relationship without being distracted and pulled away from our ministries. I would greatly appreciate your prayers :) So, this year is full of newness for me, and I want to have a good balance with everything.
I will keep you updated on life...hopefully on a monthly basis :)
