WOW!

Hey Gang - Thanks so much for all your prayers! It's been a SUPER EVENTFUL month! So much so, that I had to write early.
First of all, thanks for the prayer for midterms - it really did last for 4 weeks ending at Thanksgiving break. So far, everything I've gotten back I've done well on though am still waiting to get most grades back (Keep praying those miracle prayers!)

My first Thanskgiving in CO was a smashing success! My good friend Michele (old roommate from College) came out from RI (AND tutored me in Greek as she has recently finished seminary herself!), three people from my apartment came and two new friends (Sara Massy and her sister Jill - for those of you who know them) from back East came as well.
We had a great time getting to know each other and sharing what we're thankful for this year. It seemed like it was very meaningful for all of us in very different ways. Some folks didn't have anyplace else to go and no other offers, so this was a really blessing to them (and me too!) We had dinner at 1:30pm and I kicked the last guest out at 10pm; a good time was had by all.
Next piece of news! I am officially 2LT Chaplain King! I finally got my paperwork over the break and swore in officially this morning! My advisor in the school is a retired Air Force Lt Co., so she was allowed to swear me in - see pics! I will be scheduled to got to basic this summer! I'm really excited about this - I've been working on it for SO long and was wondering if the Lord was really going to let me do this after all! Thanks to all of you who keep me in prayer about this new calling!
















Prayer for December:
Praise God:
- For such success so for this semester!
- For surviving midterms
- For a new mentor! (We got 1 - a wonderful covenant pastor - Win Jackson-Houwen)
- For the EXCELLENT apologetic conversation I had with my neighbor Jeff - I was able to ask him to help me with my paper at the TG dinner and we talked last Saturady for 4 hours! I think trust was built with him and God is beginning to be revealed!

Pray:
- I still need to arrange 1 more mentor for next semester - pray that God would set the right MILITARY person for me (preferably Army!)
- For stregnth to finish well - two weeks after this one left!
- For wisdom about what to do with the Christmas break and good rest before tackling a January Term class (ystematic Theology I)
- Pray for Jeff - he's not super far from the Kingdom - pray he comes in!

Also, would you pray about helping me out with book money this semester? If you were thinking of giving me a gift for Christmas, that would be what I need most - thanks! - Ter

I think I can...I think I can...

Hi y'all! Sorry its been so long - midterms spread out for three weeks, and I'm still shoveling out! (I'm just down to one Greek exam and a 13 page paper due next week.) So much has been happening, and yet so little's really new since our last 'chat.' I've settled into a fairly good routine of daily study and spending time with new/growing friendships. It has become increasingly difficult to balance the hefty load I've taken on at school with spending time with people to develop truly quality relationships. So far God has been very gracious to me in balancing my time. I'm mentally fatigued, but emotionally pretty good (a nice change of pace from my former life). There are some things that I'm in great need for the Lord's intervention - please pray with me this month for:

- I really need 2 mentors starting next semester. Part of my degree requires I have 2 mentors, one in my field and one in my denomination. My pastor here is praying about taking on the role, but it looks like he's going to be too busy with other DenSemers who've already asked him - please pray for wisdom for him as he prays to decide if he can mentor me as well. Baring that, please pray God gives me a good other option in my denomination (I think it has to be locally). So far, it also looks like both my mentors will in all likelihood be men. While this is not inherently bad, I would appreciate prayer that God would somehow contrive for one of them to be a wise woman - I will be working with these folks for the next 3 years, it'd be nice to have one wise woman's voice as well!

- Please pray for continued good health and strong will to finish the semester well. Though I am though the most difficult part of the semester (finals doesn't look as bad as what I've just done), there are still lots of details to be cleaned up - I still can blow it - please pray God's strength for me.

- I will be having an apologetic discussion with someone in my building this month (probably this guy named Jeff). This is for my apologetics class, but please pray it would be a good and right conversation with the right person. That God would give me skill, grace and courage as I take this up in the next few weeks. Pray the Jesus would be spoken, heard and received!

- Please pray for me especially these next 2 weeks as I take this Greek exam and write this paper - I'm very nervous about them both and they count significantly towards my overall grades in both classes.

- I live in a relatively poor apartment complex in a working class neighborhood. For Thanksgiving I've invited my building to get together to share the holiday. So far there are few takers, but pray that Jesus would call the stragglers (like me) together and that no one would feel shame at having no where else to be. Pray that it would be an opportunity to share the love of Christ in each other's fellowship here.

Thanks Gang - your notes and prayer are truely a blessing on my life - Love, Ter