Speaking Blitz!

As of last night we have officially been in Texas for a week. Wow! God is already doing so much. We've been having great responses at all of the schools and churches we've gone to and God has also been doing some amazing stuff just within our team. And, to my surprise, I actually like Texas! I never expected that but it's actually really nice.
People always ask me what exactly blitz is so I'm going to try to explain it. On Blitz, we go to different churches and schools and we present opportunities for teens to get more involved with missions and stuff. But really, the heart of what we're doing is to encourage teens to get to know God better and to make him known. Like I said, we provide opportunities for them to do that but we're not about promoting ourselves, we're about promoting God. We do this through dramas, videos, and testimonies and then after the program, we just spread ourselves into the crowd and get to know people.
So far, we've spoken at 6 different schools and churches.We even got through the back door and spoke at a public school! This was definitely a God thing seeing as the principal didn't know we were coming but we got to speak anyways. We've had the opportunity to talk and pray with a ton of students and we have several who have committed to coming to Royal Servants and Kairos. It is so cool to witness God at work and to see how he uses our stories to change these students lives. It's also cool because each one of us students has to give our testimony at some point in time and a lot of our testimonies had to do with Royal Servants or Kairos but God has been having each one of us change them so that the focus is now on him. Speaking of which, I'm giving my testimony tomorrow at a christian school so please be praying for me. I'm actually pretty excited about it because I am one of the ones who had to change it (twice actually) and I really believe that I had to change it for a reason because there's going to be someone in the audience who needs to hear what I have to say. It should be good.
You can also be praying for me because lately I've been having a lot of anxiety attacks. This isn't normal for me. I mean, I've had them before but it was maybe one every couple of months. But on blitz, I've already had like four or five and we've only been here a week. One day I even had two. I'm not completely sure why it's happening but it is so please be praying for that because it's really hard to do my job and talk to people when I'm freaking out.
Other than that though, Blitz is going really well. If you want, you can check out http://www.reignministries.org/topic/kairos-discipleship-school/ and you can read more specifically about what we've been doing as well as what the Georgia team is doing. Our class was big enough this year that we were able to split into two groups, one to Texas and one to Georgia/Tennessee/Alabama. My team has 14 people- Drew, Kaymi, Tony, Phoebe, Dean, Chad, Jason, Leandra, Acacia, Lindsay Lair, Megan, Kate, Cindy, and me. I love our team! We've been getting a lot closer to each other and it's great!
So anyways, that's pretty much it for now. Please keep praying for me, my team, the Georgia team, and everyone we're speaking to. Thanks!
~Emily