music music everywhere!

we have so many talented students at the summit... there is always music everywhere! so many people playing guitars, violins, and drumming on trashcans. it is amazing :)

i get to to go webcampus in about 15 minutes... makes my day!!

students finally here!

session one is officially underway and i'm working in afternoon kitchen again. i love the kitchen! it is such a fun place to be. i made black magic cake (chocolate cake with coffee in it) and apple bran cake today. both turned out AMAZING! at least that is what the students kept on saying :) since i'm on afternoon kitchen, i probably won't get to go to sports time tomorrow... oh well. i will eventually! i will have wednesday off work this week.

i got letters this week from two amazing young ladies :) made my day twice! now to write them back...

what are we shooting for?

so staff training is going well... here are a few thoughts we have been talking about...

"Ideas are like grapes... they always come in clusters."
"Non-Christians don't read the Bible... they read Christians."

Colossians 1:28 says "Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ."

so what is maturity in Christ? some ideas people said were

• needing others less but loving them more
• knowing God's will
• glorifying God
• obeying - love Him & love others
• bear fruit
• confession

after talking about the answer to this question for a while, eric (the boss man leading the discussion) told us to go to luke 10:25-28 and he contended that maturity in Christ is loving God and loving others. he also pointed to Galatians 5:6 in which Paul was explaining how "For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love." did you catch that? the only thing that counts for anything is faith working through love(agape). one thing a lot of young Christians can get caught up in is faith working through knowledge instead of love. they forget that love is even a key factor much less the only thing that counts.

so faith breaks down into faith and trust and trust can be built up by both classic and cultural apologetics which we cover here at Summit. then what is love? we went to 1 Cor. 13 and lamented that this chapter has been hijacked by weddings and forgotten in life.

• love is patient. love is not impatient. being impatient is a sign of immaturity in Christ.
  
• love is kind. love is not unkind. being unkind is a sign of immaturity in Christ.
• love does not envy. wanting something that isn't yours is a sign of immaturity in Christ.
• love does not boast. bragging is a sign of immaturity in Christ.
• love is not arrogant. arrogance is a sign of immaturity in Christ.
• love is not rude. being rude is a sign of immaturity in Christ.
• love does not insist on its own way. insisting on having your way is a sign of immaturity in Christ.
• love is not irritable. being irritated is a sign of immaturity in Christ.
• love is not resentful. resenting someone or something is a sign of immaturity in Christ.
• love does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.
• love bears all things.
• love believes all things.
• love hopes all things.
• love endures all things.
• love never ends.

did you know we are supposed to be kind? did you know we are not supposed to be rude or impatient? what in your life right now is an area of immaturity in Christ that you need to work on?

staff are here!

i spent all of yesterday cleaning the well (powerwashing and hosing it down). literally hours. like from 9 to 4ish with a lunch break. sooooo much dirt! then we started staff training last night for a few hours after dinner which was Parmesan chicken. i'll post more later about what we are learning and talking about during training. today was making of the beds and such. i stayed in the kitchen and did random stuff. we are having brisket tonight :) which is always amazing.

opening already over?

so we are down to all the tedious stuff in the hotel... cleaning fans, lining trash cans, etc. i spent this morning scrubbing down every single trash can that is in the hotel. from the smallest ones in the bathrooms to the huge ones in the kitchen. it was pretty gross. mike helped and we decided there should be a "no gum whatsoever" rule because it was all over the trash cans! but once i realized i was going to get very wet and dirty, i made the best of it and practically took another shower in dawn. and the scotchbrite pads are great for exfoliating...

then was lunch and more tedious things. i am now the "sweet tea girl" on call at all times. when i walked into the honkens house for dinner, she asked me if i would mind making some for dinner. russell helped me. yay russell is back! and koryn! who goes to charleston southern and knows kristen b.

we watched american idol tonight after dinner and i LOVED kris's rendition of heartless. i'll probably buy it tomorrow :) mom said she wants danny to win and ruthann is pulling for adam.

lindi just came in with cinimon pretzels from auntieannie's :D

i don't know where my roomies went... should i be worried?

address

here's where you can mail me things...

Kristin Kay
Summit Ministries
Box 207 or 935 Osage Ave.
Manitou Springs, CO 80829

and i'm back!

my computer was MIA for a day or two... it had a higher calling upon it. actually Doc Noebel's son-in-law was using it. i really wanted to get it back in time to watch webcampus today... i caught the second half and it was AMAZING. we serve an awesome God.

saturday was more hard work... cleaning the classroom and lobby. i got to sew up a couch. learned how to do an invisible stitch from lisa. I FOUND TEA BAGS AND SUGAR!! so sweet tea was made. i actually really like the cold brew bags because it is a pain to heat up water in large doses. last night we had salmon, couscous, and an amazing strawberry salad for dinner... i am so spoiled. then i went to sophias again for meghan's birthday :) then went back to the honkens to watch a movie. we watched the tale of desperaux or something like that and i didn't like it... it scared me now! can you imagine watching it as a child?

today (sunday/mothersday) is our day off. so i woke up around 8:15 and got some breakfast. then read Acts for a while. we took a starbucks run because we ran out of coffee in the hotel (tragic). we made grilled cheese and tomato soup for lunch. played a game of monopoly with jenny and mike (guess who won...) while lauren and ryan watched youtube videos on my phone. then i just watched the second half of the service and i'm waiting for dinner at 6:30.

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY MOM!!!! i saw you now have twitter :) i totally messed up the grammer this morning... but i fixed it! mother whom i truly-uly love! i got your emails... i didn't know what the pics were of and i was downloading the first one on my phone. i jumped and made a funny noise and everyone looked at me. i hope it heals well! i'm probably going to tell you all of this in a second when i call... but you can come back and read it whenever you want :)

some pics.

i've been taking some pictures and putting them on facebook. here is the link.

yesterday was more work... i mostly scrubbed sinks, showers, and floors. inhaled some more comet up the nose. had fajitas and strawberry shortcake for dinner. then we all went to sophias which is a greek orthodox coffee shop down the road a little. i had a chai frap and it was really good. it was fun sitting outside and talking to everyone. the weather has been really nice.

i got back to my room and was getting ready for bed when i saw a cricket-like bug on my dresser... so i killed it and flushed it. but then i had a dream in which i killed three more cricket-like bugs, a rather large spider, and some other bug i can't remember.

today was more cleaning... we finished the third floor and the dungeon (half of the second floor). then we worked on the dining room for a while... others dusted and swept while i mopped the floor. i like mopping wood floors that have been swept. the wood is so pretty! tomorrow is when we are going to clean the kitchen... it is going to be really hard work but i'm so ready for it to be clean!!

we played apples to apples tonight after dinner (we being me, lauren, tori, jenny, mike, and brian) and it was fun! i almost won... the green cards you win are supposed to describe you. mine said I am cool & collected, cozy, gloomy, up & coming, dark, old & wise, tried & true, and dead & gone. i'm not sure about that last one quite yet.

you know you're at summit when...

so day 1 of work was fun! the kitchen is still being worked on by ben, so we started on the fourth floor. we almost finished! or it seemed that way... we will probably have to go back and do stuff we missed. i spent most of the time scrubbing sinks with comet. that stuff is intense. i accidentally inhaled some... so it probably killed any flu i had. also scrubbed some showers, tubs, floors, windows...

dinner was delicious as usual. spaghetti with italian chicken sausage in the sauce or something like that... and a salad that had a lot of fruit in it. brittany and ryan came by to visit and it was really good to see them. the honkens don't have a tuesday night tv show they like to watch, so we just talked about random things. eventually we started talking about homeschooling vs other types of education, parenting, and the gospel for hours. ahhh i missed this place!

got back to the room and the roomies were reading. lindy had brought us antie annie's pretzels... AMAZING. i slept hard. and once again i was up at seven this morning. about to go eat breakfast.

goooood morning.

flights went well yesterday... my bag was 49.5 lbs :) i am not dead with flu... yet. i have two roomates so far: jenny and lauren and they are awesome. we unpacked and took a walmart run. i only spent $25. then dinner at the honkens' house at 6:30 which is always amazing and delicious. we had grilled chicken, green beans, and salad. for dessert olivia and tori made dark chocolate brownies, put them in a waffle bowl with strawberries and vanilla ice cream on top... not even kidding. we watched 24 all together and then went to bed.

morning. so we are supposed to be ready to work by 9. but that is 11am my time so it is kinda sleeping in. remember: mountain time is 2 hours difference. so i'm going to go get breakfast. and then work hard.

airports.

finally on the way! time flies.

i have a whopping two hours to spare here in the charlotte airport so i thought i'd let you know what's up. i am wearing my new pink cowboy hat. but i forgot my medical mask. my mom is going to freak. i promise i didn't do it on purpose!! i left it on my bed. so say a prayer i don't get swine flu.

i have a long week of hard manual labor ahead of me... well it is mostly cleaning. but hard work nontheless. and carrying buckets of water up multiple flights of stairs is my favorite part.

not sure what my job will be yet. most likely kitchen. unless i get a surprise job :)

this is kinda surreal. i have another hour until we even board so i'm thinking of watching some tv online.