stutzie on Xanga

stutzie	He is so good to me..

stutzie

Name: Shaina
Gender: Female

Interests: God, hanging out with friends, a good game of volleyball, piano, laughing, laughing so hard u can't breathe, good long talks, text messages, emails, smiles, a good book, water skiing/ boarding, a good cry, sleep, monster cookies, my mom's popcorn...mmm, milk.. preferably 2% or whole, kids meals, stars, the beach, swimming, driving with the windows down, letters by snail mail, packages, praise n worship, feeling loved, receiving compliments, listening to someone playing guitar, hugs, pictures, fruit smiles, being clean, sunsets, falling asleep to the sound of rain, playing loud music n singing at the top of ur lungs by yourself.
Occupation: living my life fully for God

Message: message me

Member Since: 9/11/2006

SubscriptionsSites I Read

Subscribe to stutzie
Get trial subscription

brokenmiracle
LdyBgz03
wallaceapprentice
kickinbass16
JaysIliad4
kelbz_discursiveness
bigonthepig
inluvwithasia
shels_16
filterthis
cobies_333
brookelyn3411
deborahrose86
Al_Giordino
janellmiller
kpgiggles10
mustangsarajane
Hebrews116
Donsgirl1
burpmeone11
graberguy
adrianmil
kimmygirl83
lovetochatwithyou
oh_thats_so_jana
beilerbball
hershfam4
Dream_it_first
Jusmerenzee
yohoosiers
emilychupp
adm_x3
kari_mi
specialkgroup
nelly_day
wmills4033
cmillerp91
bettss1952
jdset1volley
BareFootFarmGirl
a_yod
coltsirish
jomilmin
Carolynofgreengables
cant_we_all_just_get_a_hat
Smuck_not_schmuck
jen_huber
ColtsGreatestfan
CRAZYIRISHKID84
subwolferandhooptie
JoJoDawn
midorilea
joellekurtz
lilantz
hemi2
becca_troyer
keishajoy
shegirl225
thefreshingqueen
kat250
hoover571
solitary_melodrama
everydaysunday_girl
SharonYo

Blogrings
Rosedalians 05-06 previous - random - next Mennonite Madness previous - random - next Youth Fellowship Camp -High5 for Happiness! previous - random - next

Posting Calendar

\|<< oldest \| newest >>\|
view all weblog archives

Thursday, December 20, 2007

HEELLLLLOOOOOOOO!!!!! long lost friends of xanga whom i have deserted for..a long time. yes, i too have facebook, but i do still enjoy getting updates from some of you people out there!! i just don't always comment. i'm doing pretty swell here. of late i have been a bit sick, but hopefully will be getting over that soon as to not be sick over Christmas. God is still working in my life and I constantly fail and He constantly..faithfully..ever so lovingly lifts me back up again and sets my feet upon a firm, firm place..thank You.. I keep growing and learning daily. Well pictures so often say it better than words so..some of my life since i've been back....

ok, so i'll add a few words...a Hummer Limo eve with friends, coaching Jr. High vball, friends, family, laughing and laughing and laughing with friends, so many beautiful sunsets and sunrises..it's amazing, tea party, traveling and jamin with my fam :), Thanksgiving/Christmas with Dad's side in OH, going to PA to see my teammies again!!!, youth Christmas banquet, snow, snow, and more snow!!!, and our church girls college age gift exchange. so much has happened..so many memories..so many good friends...and if you weren't in here that doesn't mean you're not imortant..i just may not have a pic of you or i'm running out of time and need to go to bed..i know, lame excuses. well, hope you enjoyed!! God bless till next time i feel like updating!! and MERRY "CHRIST"MAS!!!!!!! ALWAYS remember to celebrate HIM!!!! He's thinking about you..

10:12 PM - 54 views - 6 eprops - 3 comments - email it

Sunday, August 26, 2007

Hey everyone!!! yes, i am home, home now. i've been finding things to keep myself occupied during this time of transition. i am currently coaching my old school's jr. high volleyball team with Dianne Eberly, a dear friend of mine. we've had two practices and they are doing well. i think we should have a fun year. tomorow i will start back at my old job of working at the factory. i'll just be doing three days/week for now and we'll see if God has something else for me later on. He has been faithful in providing for me daily and i have total faith that He will continue to do just that.

yesterday i went to prison and helped at a Freedom Rally with Gospel Echoes!! it was really interesting and really great for me to actually see a prison..or this was a correctional facility..and a rally. i think God really touched some of the guys' live there. us a girls weren't able to do much as far as interacting with the prisoners as they were all guys. i def think if it would have been a woman's prison and i would have been able to interact with the women, it would have been even more enjoyable for me. and we got to ride down and back on the team's big buses!! that was a lot of fun hanging out with all the people on there as we rode and sleeping in the bunks!!! good times..

thank you to all of those who keep praying for me. it has def been hard adjusting to life here again, but as i said..God has been so faithful in providing me with what i need..the strength i need and the people i need to be around. He's guiding me and speaking to me...like in our amazing service today at church, including the worship time...God is sooooo AWESOME!!!!! i love Him!!!

2:55 PM - 22 views - 10 eprops - 5 comments - email it

Monday, July 23, 2007

My last team letter...

Shaina Stutzman

July 23, 2007

Germany Team Letter #35

So I was laying in bed last night and I realized "Oh no!! I forgot to write the team letter for this past week!!...woops!!"

In our last letter we had a prayer request for us to be able to fit everything into our suitcases. Well, God really heard that prayer because He answered in a really big way. Jen had some stuff that just didn't fit in her suitcase or the rest of ours without being overweight. So, this presented a problem.

The rest of us had either been able to send stuff home with visitors or leave stuff there in Germany, later to somehow reconnect with it. But Jen didn't have some of those options so we were trying to figure out how to help her. One of our friends was at our house calling the airline company for her trying to figure this all out to see if she could have a suitcase that was overweight or just bring another suitcase home and how much these options would cost her. The airline company said that she couldn't bring a third suitcase on because the plane was too small. So in the end, we came up with the solution to pack everything in Brent's huge suitcase and just have it be overweight. But, this would be rather pricey and Jen was prepared to have to pay a price that would not be pleasing to her ears.

The morning came for us to leave our wonderful memory-filled apartment on July 13, 2007. A sad day this was for many people. Our amazing outreach coordinators came and picked us up and took us to the airport in a very large van. (This was needed since we had 12 suitcases all together.) Into the airport we went, pulling/carrying our heavy luggage..up the elevators and into the Lufthansa Airlines line.

We waited patiently in line wondering if our luggage would be overweight since we had used our friend's bathroom scale and had packed so good that most of our stuff was either right on, or just a bit over..well, except for Jen. We finally got to the desk and since we were all kinda together, we all went to the same clerk. We handed in our passports and she got stuff typed in. "Jennifer Henson," the lady said. So Jen put her first suitcase up on the belt/scale. It was underweight!! She had weighed it at home and it was right on. At this point I began to get excited, realizing that mine was probably underweight too. So I started shoving more stuff from my backpack into my suitcases so I wouldn't have to carry so much with me through the airports.

"Next." Jen (with Eric's help) lifted the overweight suitcase onto the belt. We waited..and prayed..

"You know that you're only allowed 23 kilos, right? the lady questioned.

"Uh-huh," Jen tediously responded.

"And you know this ones 49 kilos?"

"Uh-huh."

"Does everybody else in your group have two suitcases?"

"Yes."

"My wife and I each have a guitar and they're both way under," chimed in Eric....Silence...Long pause as she typed away on her computer. She began to tag Jen's suitcase (or rather Brent's suitcase) with the "heavy" label.

"You're gonna have to take this to Bulky Luggage. That's down the hall on your right."

"Okaaaay.....," Jen replied as her and Eric began to take the suitcase off the belt.

"Janae Nolt," the lady said next.....Jen didn't have to pay a dime.

Jen, and the rest of us, were just in shock and totally in awe of the favor God showed Jen, and the rest of us, through this lady.

Then Jen lost her passport on the plane as we were landing at the Frankfurt airport, and we were told to go to lost and found. We were told five or six times where lost and found was and each time they sent us in a different direction. We finally found it and as Jen was on the phone with the lost and found people, Val felt like she should check Jen's backpack one more time. So she did, and way down in the bottom of one of the pockets...was Jen's passport!!!! Jen was our little "miracle child" that day. :)

We arrived safely and without further complications at the Philadelphia airport at approximately 4pm on Friday, July 14. We are now in our second week of "Post Field" or "Re-Entry" here at the Harrisburg Discipleship Center in Harrisburg, PA. Most people are past ready to be home and can't wait to get out of here. But this time really has been beneficial to us for preparing us to return to what we once knew as familiar. Some are excited, some are nervous, and others are just ready to move on.

We've been challenged to find the positive aspects and depth of our home congregations that we'll be going back to, even though they may be very different from what we've been accustomed to for the past 11 months. And to keep our exuberance for serving the Lord alive and burning within us well after we've returned. Well really..forever.

Sadness now wells up within me as I realize that I'm coming to the close of my very last team letter. I have thoroughly loved and enjoyed this phase of my life and have changed and grown so much while I've been away. I have a new World View and a deeper appreciation for God and close, challenging (in a good way) friendships. I left a part of my heart in Germany and I feel that open hurt in me beginning to start the healing process. And soon I will leave another bigger chunk of my heart with every one of my team members that I will have to part with. That day will be one filled with mixed emotions of sadness from leaving people who have become so dear to us, they are like family..to happiness from being reunited and going away with other special people, who are also our families...to a place we call home.

Prayer Requests:

-Good re-connections and adjustments with our family and friends

-Strength and grace for ourselves to continue to adjust to the US culture and being home again

-God's guidance for all of our futures

-For our families and brothers and sisters in Christ back in Germany, as well as the Soli Deo church..they need leaders in their church

Praises:

-We made it safely to the US

-Getting stuff home that we wanted and not having to pay anything!!!

-"Good" times of saying good-byes

-Our re-entry time is going well

-For wonderful friends and family back home and all over the world that have supported us and are praying and have prayed for us for the past 11 plus months...thank you

May God richly bless all of you,

in Christ's love,

Shaina Stutzman

P.S. For our past newsletters visit: http://germanyyes06.blogspot.com

11:32 PM - 33 views - 8 eprops - 4 comments - email it

Saturday, July 14, 2007

back in the States...

Well, here i am..back in the States. I feel so lost, confused, sad, numb, like I could cry, scared, hungry..but not hungry, tired, stuffed up..my nose, drained, like a piece of me has been torn away from me, excited...I feel so many things, but yet feel like I don't feel anything at all. It's sooooo weird to be back. I wish I could be more excited. I guess I have only been back for a day. I just need to process everything yet and totaly rely on God for my strength and purpose. Please pray for my team and I as we are adjusting back to the US culture and ways of life. And for guidence for our futures.

7:00 PM - 10 views - 12 eprops - 6 comments - email it

Thursday, July 05, 2007

I have been tagged to share random facts/habits about myself.

Rules:

1. People who are tagged need to share seven random facts/habits about themselves on their own blog.
2. Include the rules.
3. Choose seven people to tag include their names and leave them a comment and tell them they've been tagged.

Random Facts about me:

1. I talk..or mumble in my sleep. I did not know this till I shared a room with two other girls, one of which tries to talk back to me.

2. I love photography.

3. I sleep with my eyes partially open, no I am not staring at you.

4. I enjoy cutting people's hair.

5. I can cross one eye and not the other.

6. I gave 11 in of my hair to Locks of Love..an organization that makes wigs for children with a diease that makes them lose their hair and can't afford to buy one.

7. I love to swing on big tree swings on big old trees..what a rush.

I tag Sus, Sharon, Kari M, Nate K, Craig Y, and Jeff M..sorry if any of you have done it before..I don't remember. :)

10:14 AM - 21 views - 6 eprops - 3 comments - email it

Next 5 >>