Every year our church hosts a conference called Make Room. It’s an amazing, jammed packed weekend of strategic principles and resources for building your local church. We go all out to host pastors, leaders and church staff to provide them with anything and everything to help their church succeed. There are so many great elements to the conference – it’s hard to not be involved in everything.
Last year Greg and Kristin Evans came for a short trip to the States during this conference. This year Greg is in town. It …

The Life Church just launched it’s new campus location in Collierville, TN this past Sunday! The Collierville campus had been meeting at the local YMCA but just a few weeks ago we purchased a building to become the permanent home. Since acquiring the building, it’s been a busy time of renovation, decorating and cleaning. This past weekend was the much anticipated launch!
It was a complete honor to be able to serve at the Collierville campus this past weekend. I had actually never served in Collierville before and was so excited …

My launch date to move to Durban, South Africa is getting closer and closer! I am moving to South Africa to help plant The Life Church Durban. It will be a campus of my home church The Life Church in Memphis, TN.
It is such an amazing opportunity to be able to serve my church and build God’s Kingdom on an international level! I am extremely excited to get to go!
Every Wednesday Greg Evans, the missionary living in Durban, meets with a group of people to pray for the city. Some …

A look back at 2009 in 100 words:
(the word count just happened to turn out this way…didn’t plan it!)

Took one of the most fun road trips to a close friend’s wedding (miss you Allie)
Had a crazy start of the year at work but it turned into a promotion!
Welcomed my niece into the world in February (didn’t meet her until April though)
Made some great new friends
Spent two weeks in Swaziland and South Africa
Left my heart in Africa
Made the decision to retrieve my heart and move to South Africa
Heard Beth Moore for …

196 days! There are only 196 days left until May 25th, 2010!
I will be moving to Durban, South Africa as an intern with The Life Church to our new Durban campus! This past weekend our 3rd BIG weekend of our In The House series was Campus weekend. We talked about the great blessing of the Jackson campus, new developments in the Cordova and Collierville campuses and finally…the Durban campus!
Greg and Kristin Evans moved to Durban in July 2009 to begin establishing the foundation for the new campus. They were the …

You know those notes passed around on Facebook about 25 random things about you? Well, I did that awhile ago but thought I’d share it here too. Here are some of the most random things about me. Enjoy.

1. One of my greatest accomplishments was running the St. Jude Half-Marathon in December 2008. I hope to one day run a full-marathon! {updated: I’m running the half again this December! Yay!}
2. I like to shop but shopping with others stresses me out. Don’t ever worry about having to go shopping with me. …

This past weekend was a blast. I feel like I’m just now recuperating from everything! It started off with a busy, busy day at work on Friday. I was anxious about my friends coming in town which didn’t help the demanding responsibilities at work. Five o’clock finally came and the weekend was finally beginning.
The Beth Moore conference was starting in a mere hour and some odd minutes and I was running late because of a work errand. I had make the 30 minute commute home, pick up a friend who …

This past weekend I averaged 4 hours of sleep a night.
I normally average 8 or 9.
Can we say sleep deprived? I do love my sleep but this weekend was jam packed with activities. We had special guest Christine Caine at The Life Church! Chris is dynamic speaker from Hillsong Church in Australia. She also has this amazing ministry the A21 Campaign – a ministry fighting the injustice of human trafficking. 
Church wasn’t what made me so tired. First, configuring and uploading information to my website took a lot of time. I am nowhere …

Good morning.
Well, it may not be morning for you, but I have just finished formatting my blog this early morning hour. I am wicked excited about it and decided to forgo sleep to write my first post! Welcome to my new website! Please feel free to take a look around!
This website is just the beginning of a wonderful season ahead of me. I am preparing for a year long internship in Durban, South Africa. This blog will hopefully serve it’s purpose in informing, helping me communicate and become my base for …