"First Sunday"

1 Corinthians 14:1

Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy.

This month at church we started our monthly worship service, I was very excited to be a part of it and experience the Holy Spirit move in a powerful way.

It was the perfect opportunity to just close your eyes, and let it all go, raise your hands if you wanted to, sing at the top of your lungs or be very still and quiet to hear His sweet voice and it the midst of worship just feel His presence move across the sanctuary.

Such a privilege.

Looking forward to see how God is going to continue to move at Canvas and how our worship as a church continues to grow.

Ugly Christmas Sweater party

I have a church family who knows how to have a good time!

Mel hosted an ugly Christas party at her home and it was a lot of fun!!!
from looking for the perfect sweater, to the pot luck and all the games and great conversations we had that night, it was a lot of fun.
Alayna, Jo and I won the contest for the ugliest Christmas sweater! and in honor of that we had an awkward pose in the last picture, not really I wish I could say the awkward pose was intentional butot was not! Ha, but this picture is pretty funny.
I love spending the holidays with my church family, they are amazing.
I totally forgot my camera all ready and packed up in my bed, what a bummer, so you are looking at ugly quality photos from my iphone. I need to be more intentional about carrying my camera wherever I go, I will just add that to my 2013 resolutions.

Sticky Teams Day1

Last week we went to the Sticky Teams Conference at North Coast Church. Our pastor's,staff & school of ministry, we all made it up there to spend two awesome days learning together.
Baby Antonella made it to the conference with us, it was awesome spending two days in a row with her.
We had a very good first day at the conference, I got something out of every session. The preachers were great and we all enjoyed diving deeper in to our roles as leaders.

Looking forward to Day2 !!!!

Sticky Teams Day2

 Fo the second day we started bright and early and spent the majority of the day up there. We had 2 plenaries and one small break out sessions.
Everything was very practical, many great ideas to apply and it was definitely an eye opener to things that we could all improve in our ministries and our walk with God.
Spending two days straight with these awesome people really helped us bond and grow a little closer, I really love this season of my life and the people I do life with.
Cannot wait to implement some of the things we learned at the conference.

No Show Sunday

Last weekend we had a little surprise for the partners in ministry and the rest of the church when our pastor decided not to set up the church Sunday. You gotta remember that we are a portable church and we meet at the San Diego Unified School District and we have to set up EVERYTHING Friday night.
So it was really funny to see everyone who came on Friday night to set up and didn't know what was going on. But still, to make it look like nobody showed up a few people had to show up and make it happen. I love my church.
It was a great experiment because the next Friday a lot more people showed up to help once they realized that it is a lot of work involved every week to make it happen.

Sunday Funday

My Sunday started at church as usual,

 but as mentioned here before Amanda is leaving to Nashville on wednesday so! we had a little cake party with two gorgeous cakes. 

on the TOP picture: Maria Ortiz made a vanilla cake & on the BOTTOM picture is Jessica Picken's chocolate cake, they were both incredible.

The church wanted to honor Amanda's faithfulness and talent so we gave her a banjo, she had been wanting to get one and now she is well equipped to start her professional career with a brand new banjo.

 After church I went home for a bit before  going  to Jo's house where we had Jess' bridal party. 

An evening with the ladies from church is priceless, we had a potluck of finger food and desserts, mocktails games and a lot of gifts for the bride to be.

It was a lot of fun but I ended up exhausted!

I LOVE SUNDAYS

Urban's Block Party

We had our first Block Party!
The weather was really really hot,we were literally melting, drinking lots and lots of water BUT that didn't stop the people from around the neighborhood to come out and enjoy the sunshine.

The past couple of weeks we went out and did some prayer walks were we hang some door hangers announcing the block party & our backpack drive and some people came out and donated not just backpacks but they were filled with school supplies for kids in need here in SD. It was awesome!

We had jumpers, BBQ fish tacos, lots of balloons, face painting and raffles! it was so much fun.
My favorite part was the Fish Tacos, the Sampo family donated their time and talents and we were all in awe with the flavor! I want more tacos!!!! ;)

After the block party some of us went home and got a little bit of rest before we were headed to our Giant Jenga Night!

I love doing life with my Urban family.

Testimonies and Tea

Tea

Worship

Testimonies

Nail Polish Favors 

having Tea with Mayra

Last weekend we had a Testimonies & Tea event at church. I love the women's ministry at my church. It was a Saturday morning filled with good times and coming closer together sharing our testimonies.
Any tine we have a chance to come together and share with the ladies at Urban it is a good day.
Kuddos to all the ladies who volunteered their time and talents to make this happen.

I am looking forward to the next ladies event.

Revelation 12:11 (ESV)
And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony.

The City {April}

Embracing the camera

My husband I have the privilege to oversee our church's youth group and this month we had an acoustic set of worship and a message on how to live a life of Worship.

My friend Mayra and I have been working on the video department and we love it...well I do, and she seems to enjoy it as well...she doesn't really have a choice lol! 

The City it is once a month but we prepare for it for the whole month, trying to get innovating games and to create an atmosphere were people can come and feel comfortable. It is really fun! I look forward to this day every month.

Bunny Bash {Easter2012}

We had Urban's annual Bunny Bash Easter Egg Hunt. It was super fun. but I was so busy I didn't get to take lots of pictures this time, but here are some.