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Minji Lee

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Dec 20, 2012, 6:10:35 PM12/20/12

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HI friends!!

If you are getting this email, it's because you're special to me :) YAY!

As most of you probably know, I'll be moving to New Jersey at the end of this month. It's been a very crazy and confusing process this past month and I still can't grasp that I'm really leaving. I just wanted to express how thankful I am to have all of you in my life and squeeze in an update. hehe :)

It hasn't been long since I found out and I can't say I've had a good attitude about it either. For a little while, I thought there was a possibility to stay because my plans to move near my family had not worked out. I found out 2 1/2 weeks ago that I got a job at an advertising firm (praise the Lord), but in that moment, I probably was the most ungrateful person in the world. All in a span of 2 days, I found out that I was moving in less than a month to a place that was now foreign to me, with no family, no friends, and no home church. I started panicking a lot, not trusting in the Lord.

If you know this part about me, I absolutely dislike new things, new places and new people. I guess in the back of my head, I always assumed that I would be in Illinois the rest of my life. The thought of moving away from all the people I cared about and leaving behind CFC was something I thought I couldn't handle. The week I found out was also the most stressful week of school so, with all this pressure building up on me, I really broke down. I didn't want to tell anyone because I knew I was supposed to be thankful but I was so blinded by the thought of being completely alone.

This also was the week before lock-in. It's crazy how things align so perfectly and God definitely had a plan for me. I had been complaining about my complacent heart these last 2 1/2 years. Yes, it's a long time in which I felt frustrated, bitter, jealous and thought that this was the Christian I was going to be. I questioned God a lot during these years and I felt that it was unfair that He wasn't working in me. It was in this time of ungratefulness that He finally opened my heart. How gracious is He! In my time of panic, he pushed me to become urgent and actively do something with the short time I had left. I can say that week was the first time I felt really hungry for His word in a LONG time. Through this, I can surely say that God has been working in me and that although I forget EVERYDAY, He reminds me every time that He is preparing the way for me. He assures me that He is there in New Jersey already and will continue to be with me.

Many people have asked me why I came to the middle of nowhere. Now, I can proudly say that He brought me here for His purpose. Just as He brought me here to Illinois to learn and to grow, He is opening up new doors and more opportunities for me to serve Him in the exact place He brought me from. (Props to those of you that have left here, trusting in the Lord to be with you wherever you are.) Now I can say that I'm at peace with where God is sending me and I know that He has planned everything for me.

As for prayer requests, PLEASE pray for the transition into a new home as I will be living alone and tend to be dependent on people... Also, please pray that I will be able to find a Christian community QUICKLY, a church that I can grow, but most of all, be able to serve at. And, MOST IMPORTANTLY, please pray that I will be faithful to Him. I still get scared everyday, but I want to trust Him to know that I am not alone. Please keep me in your prayers and PLEASE send me prayer requests so that it can keep me accountable :)

Sorry if it's TLDR, but.... PLEASE READ IT!!!

I'm so so so so thankful for all of you that have been my faithful past leaders & co-leaders, friends, roommates, and all my past and current small groups. My 4 1/2 years here would DEFINITELY not have been the same without all of you. Thank you for all your prayers and... KEEP PRAYING FOR ME PLEASE! :) I treasure each and every friendship I have with all of you!