wow, robbie's right, i havent written on my xanga for a long time. i can't believe summers almost over.  it doesn't even feel like we've had a satisfactory summer yet... had about 30 days of sun... which i guess for england is monumental, but considering i spent the last two summers in LA, its a bit lame.

there's been SO much going on here.  had a youth camp which i went to help out with.  so much fun i'll tell ya. funny cos there were more 20+ year olds than teens but i really connected with a few of the girls which was amazing... kinda reminded me of being at MA... *wistful sigh* and we all did the hokey pokey and father abraham around the camp fire... can u see it?! 120 people doing the hokey pokey around a camp fire?!  good times...

then Phil Dooley and United came to church which was great.  they did two services and both were packed out.  we had a queue going all the way around the theatre and up the block to 3 streets up... pretty amazing!

Joyce Meyer is speaking this weekend and im SO excited... never heard her speak live before and i love her.  we had christine caine and donna crouch and brian and bobbie houston all come speak in the past few weeks.  so great!  so blessed to have access to this rich teaching.  Donna and Christine have to be my fave speakers tho... outta everyone, i would listen to them all day if i could.

had a leaving party for my french friend sarah salmi... so sad to see her go back to france.  but the party was fun! we made her a homevideo which was such a laugh... i've decided my calling is more behind the camera than infront of it!! haha.

and work is going really well!  for one of the first times in my life, i have a job i actually enjoy!!  they've given me the job of logistically putting together this huge store closure party which has been so much fun! going to different hotels and checking out their facilities and doing a write up on cheapest alcohol, nicest dj, best location etc etc!! im loving it!  anyway, i've pretty much caught you up to speed on life... hope ur all well!

I’m not sure bout whether I’m going to be in LA... applied to do Mission Adventures but haven’t heard back from them yet (my friend Katie already got told she was accepted so doesn’t look good for me) and some people have been talking about how they don’t think I should be doing MA again this year… but I really felt God wanted me to do it… I had this horrible dream last night that Andrew Wood and I were supposed to be training Tambourines again and the day we got there we were told we had to teach the first bunch of kids (who were from that Air force base) but we hadn’t been taught the ‘dance’ yet and everyone was yelling at us saying we HAD to teach this dance perfectly otherwise there was trouble and then Jared came up to me and was like ‘erm Jo, don’t know how to tell you this but, you didn’t actually get accepted to Mission Adventures… you need to go home.” And it was in front of the whole base and everyone started laughing at me and I was crying… it was a horrible dream! So this morning I’m convinced that I probably haven’t been accepted.

But God’s in control... I have to keep giving him back the control cos life has a funny way of getting so screwed up you simply cannot control it and HAVE to admit Gods the only one who can navigate you thru it with minimal pitfalls...