There's something about setting goals, envisioning them, vocalizing them, and then "making a plan" to see them come to pass. While this "Bucket List" is a work-in-progress, I thought it important to set about to create lists which make me think about, on a regular basis, the immediate goals in my future.
In 2012, I hope to accomplish several things:
1. Observe more Fast days. (And the challenge to myself is to learn to fast food/meals successfully.) Accomplishing, starting May 2012.
2. Run a 5K. Accomplished in April.
3. Purchase passports for me, Stephen and Psalm. Accomplished July 9, 2012 Received in the mail July 30, 2012
4. Finish the first year in becoming an Assemblies of God minister.
5. Start saving for our family's missions trip to Europe next year.
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Providing that Jesus has not come back to get us, I have started my Bucket List for 2013:
1. Attend another Project Gideon conference with T.D. Jakes.
2. Finish year two in the Assemblies of God ministry school, becoming a licensed minister.
3. Travel with my family on a missions trip to Europe.
4. Observe Lent.
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The following Bucket List is a general list I am compiling which includes goals I would like to see come to pass in the course of a life-time. In time, some of these goals may appear on specific yearly lists.
1. Become an ordained minister.
2. Regularly go on the mission field.
3. Go to every continent in the world on missions trips, helping to spread the Good News and encourage people in the Lord.
4. Open a Mission in the U.S.A., perhaps in my hometown, to help the tired, weary, underprivileged, and down-trodden.
5. See a Christian pageant system launched nationwide, then globally.
6. See a Christian theatre circuit launched, organized, and producing plays nationwide.
7. I would like to write/publish non-fiction and fiction books. (Some for Christian encouragement; others for children, youth)
8. I want to go parasailing.
9. I would like to go snorkeling.
10. I want to swim with dolphins at one of those theme parks in Florida.
11. Get a license for chaplaincy (maybe).
Monday, April 30, 2012
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Elevator Speech #1: Personal Testimony
Hi, I’m Shirley Yandell.
I’m 40 years old.
I’m a Wife, a Mother, a Teacher,
A follower & servant of Jesus Christ
And a child of the Most High God.
I was born into a family of ministers & I was raised & served in the Church
from earliest childhood. I learned the Word & saw “The Life” lived &
examples I could follow.
But in college, every year took me farther and farther from my relationship with Him until—by the time I’d graduated with my first Masters degree, I was what you could call a very secular Christian.
When I relocated to start my career, He led me to a church where people loved me for who I was and where I was, and they encouraged me to take one more step, no matter how small, toward Him. In time, I found restoration, & renewal, in my relationship with Christ.
Today, I do my best to do what others did for me—by encouraging those who are right where I used to be—spiritually bankrupt, struggling to believe, finding it difficult to take that first step. Forward. Toward Him.
My Life Verse is John 3:17: For God sent not His son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world, through Him, might be saved.
I’m 40 years old.
I’m a Wife, a Mother, a Teacher,
A follower & servant of Jesus Christ
And a child of the Most High God.
I was born into a family of ministers & I was raised & served in the Church
from earliest childhood. I learned the Word & saw “The Life” lived &
examples I could follow.
But in college, every year took me farther and farther from my relationship with Him until—by the time I’d graduated with my first Masters degree, I was what you could call a very secular Christian.
When I relocated to start my career, He led me to a church where people loved me for who I was and where I was, and they encouraged me to take one more step, no matter how small, toward Him. In time, I found restoration, & renewal, in my relationship with Christ.
Today, I do my best to do what others did for me—by encouraging those who are right where I used to be—spiritually bankrupt, struggling to believe, finding it difficult to take that first step. Forward. Toward Him.
My Life Verse is John 3:17: For God sent not His son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world, through Him, might be saved.
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