Youthworker Journal Forums on Faith Community Network
  Forum Tools
Ministry Leaders Folder

Forums |  Register |  Login |  My Profile |  Inbox |  Address Book |  My Subscription |  My Forums 

Photo Gallery |  Member List |  Search |  Calendars |  FAQ |  TOS |  Disclaimer |  Ticket List |  Log Out | 
  Sponsor

RE: MISSION POSSIBLE!

 
View related threads: (in this forum | in all forums)

Logged in as: Guest
Users viewing this topic: none
  Printable Version
All Forums >> [People] >> Singles >> RE: MISSION POSSIBLE!
Jump to post #:
Page: <<   < prev  8 9 10 11 [12]
Login
Message << Older Topic   Newer Topic >>
RE: MISSION POSSIBLE! - 7/2/2008 12:58:38 PM   
joy2give2u


Posts: 4447
Joined: 9/19/2006
From: Indiana
Status: offline
quote:

Joy, read John_O's whole post
Do I have too?

Ah I see.......the title is mission possible........didn't it say mission impossible before?

Trainfan........mission possible is even better since we know all things are possible in the Lord.

I completed both missions......

I talked to five new people........which I admit is very easy for me.......

But what is not easy for me is praying for someone, out loud with them standing there, that I don't know.

As I was outside at lunch I asked God to open my eyes to a prayer need and give me the courage to approach the person.

I was sitting at a table when I saw a woman I know of but don't know.......I know she is expecting.

I asked God if I should pray for her and though he didn't say no or yes (I think he was waiting to see what I would do) I decided to approach her.

She was sitting with three other women.

As I was walking over I was so nervous, my stomach full of butterflies, and didn't think I would do it........I said Lord if you want me to do this have my mouth speak before my mind can stop it.

One of the ladies I know said hi and if I was going to join them......

I opened my mouth.......and what came out......

"No I am getting ready to head back to work but I did have something I wanted to ask ***. I was sitting over there and as I looked over at you I felt I wanted to pray for you. Do you mind if I do.

She said no go ahead.

I prayed for her and the baby........I don't know what I said, I was too nervous, but I know God spoke to her......I could see it in her eyes.

After I was done praying I smiled, said goodbye to the women, and came back to work.........

The thing is Craig within myself it is impossible.....but God he makes it possible...........

AND when it is something he does.......when it is not about us......wow does it uplift you.......

You don't just get the "ok I have done that, glad it is over" feeling.........but

You get this excitement.........wow Lord I can't wait to do that again......who can I pray for next LOL

< Message edited by joy2give2u -- 7/2/2008 1:12:40 PM >


_____________________________

God's Majesty seen through my eyes
Post #: 276
RE: MISSION POSSIBLE! - 7/2/2008 1:20:27 PM   
joy2give2u


Posts: 4447
Joined: 9/19/2006
From: Indiana
Status: offline
I just got an email from the lady I prayed for......thanking me and sharing how much it touched her.......

God rocks.........

_____________________________

God's Majesty seen through my eyes
Post #: 277
RE: MISSION POSSIBLE! - 7/2/2008 8:21:02 PM   
Grace-N-Mercy


Posts: 6194
Joined: 5/2/2005
Status: offline
quote:

Your mission should you choose to accept it is to talk to someone standing near you in line somewhere: grocery store, bank, anywhere is acceptable. Just say something more than hi.


quote:

Your mission is to talk to five (5) new people before Sunday July 6th 2008 (no weasel room!)

You must talk to them first. You must smile and make eye contact.

This can be as simple as looking someone in the eyes at the store and saying "Hi". Anything you get after that is bonus (but you can't count it toward future missions ).


Ooh, sounds like a challenge I'll accept!! But to be honest, when I first read it, I thought "Only five days?? He's asking too much!!" Then I realized there will be plenty of people out & about on the fourth of July. But to be on the safe side, I have a list of places I can go between now and Sunday.

_____________________________

Flirt Thread Open House Day is today. Come join the fun.
Post #: 278
RE: MISSION POSSIBLE! - 7/3/2008 1:57:44 AM   
WaitingforBoaz


Posts: 3350
Joined: 2/11/2008
From: The Hundred Acre Wood
Status: online
quote:

ORIGINAL: trainfan

quote:

ORIGINAL: joy2give2u

quote:

You must talk to them first. You must smile and make eye contact.
How is this a mission impossible? It is way too easy............Harder for me would be to not smile and say Hi to everyone I meet LOL

Three people already done.........I am sure the last two will be completed by the end of the day......




Joy, read John_O's whole post. This is the first of a series of missions possibles. Just b/c it is easy for you it is not easy for everyone. I'll accept the John_O's mission only I will try to do it outside my own store as that is where I have a harder time. It would be easy for me to complete in my store where I am in my comfort zone.


So true I was in 3 stores today and started a conversation with at least 5 people....probably more. Starting a conversation is easy for me. I just need to learn not to freak out when a guy comes up and starts one with me. My reactions are really starting to worry me.

_____________________________


Nadine



"It's like everything good collided today" quote from my 8yr old daughter
Post #: 279
RE: MISSION POSSIBLE! - 7/3/2008 6:13:47 PM   
Grace-N-Mercy


Posts: 6194
Joined: 5/2/2005
Status: offline
quote:

Your mission is to talk to five (5) new people before Sunday July 6th 2008 (no weasel room!)

You must talk to them first. You must smile and make eye contact.

This can be as simple as looking someone in the eyes at the store and saying "Hi". Anything you get after that is bonus (but you can't count it toward future missions ).


I am well on my way!! This afternoon after work, I went to the grocery store and met a guy named Tom. I found out he is a newlywed of 54 years and that he is now the cook... he loves to cook. John, you'll like this... he's making a Cabbage/Kielbasa dish. He's Polish!

_____________________________

Flirt Thread Open House Day is today. Come join the fun.
Post #: 280
RE: MISSION POSSIBLE! - 7/3/2008 6:52:42 PM   
RosieCotton


Posts: 1052
Joined: 4/11/2005
From: The East and West Coast!
Status: offline
awwww.............how did this topic come up??? lol
my mom can go right up to people and say the most weirdest things.......lol Ofcourse i'm hovering in the background and sometimes get pulled into these conversations......but, for me, i'm usually thinking people like to be left alone......though, EVERYTIME i am with my mother, that hypothesis alwayz gets challenged!

quote:

ORIGINAL: Grace-N-Mercy

quote:

Your mission is to talk to five (5) new people before Sunday July 6th 2008 (no weasel room!)

You must talk to them first. You must smile and make eye contact.

This can be as simple as looking someone in the eyes at the store and saying "Hi". Anything you get after that is bonus (but you can't count it toward future missions ).


I am well on my way!! This afternoon after work, I went to the grocery store and met a guy named Tom. I found out he is a newlywed of 54 years and that he is now the cook... he loves to cook. John, you'll like this... he's making a Cabbage/Kielbasa dish. He's Polish!


_____________________________

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
Post #: 281
RE: MISSION POSSIBLE! - 7/3/2008 7:02:22 PM   
Grace-N-Mercy


Posts: 6194
Joined: 5/2/2005
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: RosieCotton

awwww.............how did this topic come up??? lol
my mom can go right up to people and say the most weirdest things.......lol Ofcourse i'm hovering in the background and sometimes get pulled into these conversations......but, for me, i'm usually thinking people like to be left alone......though, EVERYTIME i am with my mother, that hypothesis alwayz gets challenged!

quote:

ORIGINAL: Grace-N-Mercy

quote:

Your mission is to talk to five (5) new people before Sunday July 6th 2008 (no weasel room!)

You must talk to them first. You must smile and make eye contact.

This can be as simple as looking someone in the eyes at the store and saying "Hi". Anything you get after that is bonus (but you can't count it toward future missions ).


I am well on my way!! This afternoon after work, I went to the grocery store and met a guy named Tom. I found out he is a newlywed of 54 years and that he is now the cook... he loves to cook. John, you'll like this... he's making a Cabbage/Kielbasa dish. He's Polish!



Well, we were standing in the checkout counter and I said Hi and he said hi, introduced himself, and shook my hand. Said it wasn't every day he gets to see a pretty lady! I told him I was glad to have made his day. Then he just started talking and we took it from there.

Yeah, I guess I make the assumption people like to be left alone because honestly, most of the time when I'm in the grocery store or running an errand, I like to do it by myself. But that's not always the case. We shouldn't be afraid to just go up to someone and smile. My mom and I are soooooooo different in our relating styles so I had to find my own.

_____________________________

Flirt Thread Open House Day is today. Come join the fun.
Post #: 282
RE: MISSION POSSIBLE! - 7/7/2008 3:59:25 PM   
John_O

 

Posts: 7134
Joined: 9/5/2006
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: Grace-N-Mercy

quote:

Your mission is to talk to five (5) new people before Sunday July 6th 2008 (no weasel room!)

You must talk to them first. You must smile and make eye contact.

This can be as simple as looking someone in the eyes at the store and saying "Hi". Anything you get after that is bonus (but you can't count it toward future missions ).


I am well on my way!! This afternoon after work, I went to the grocery store and met a guy named Tom. I found out he is a newlywed of 54 years and that he is now the cook... he loves to cook. John, you'll like this... he's making a Cabbage/Kielbasa dish. He's Polish!


How very cool!

I'm a real Polack now. I'm the proud owner of an accordian!



OK Next phase of the mission.

Still five people. You must smile, you must look them in the eye, you must find out their name Need to do it by end of the day 7/11. (And reading the nametag of the person working at 7-11 doesn't count)

_____________________________

Psalms 46:10 Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
Post #: 283
RE: MISSION POSSIBLE! - 7/7/2008 4:36:44 PM   
trainfan


Posts: 2751
Joined: 7/26/2007
From: neither here nor there
Status: offline
Since I hardly get anywhere beyond my own store this is going to take longer than I thought. But I intend to do John_O's missions anyway.

_____________________________

Buy local, support local retailers.
Post #: 284
RE: MISSION POSSIBLE! - 7/7/2008 4:42:55 PM   
Grace-N-Mercy


Posts: 6194
Joined: 5/2/2005
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: John_O

quote:

ORIGINAL: Grace-N-Mercy

quote:

Your mission is to talk to five (5) new people before Sunday July 6th 2008 (no weasel room!)

You must talk to them first. You must smile and make eye contact.

This can be as simple as looking someone in the eyes at the store and saying "Hi". Anything you get after that is bonus (but you can't count it toward future missions ).


I am well on my way!! This afternoon after work, I went to the grocery store and met a guy named Tom. I found out he is a newlywed of 54 years and that he is now the cook... he loves to cook. John, you'll like this... he's making a Cabbage/Kielbasa dish. He's Polish!


How very cool!

I'm a real Polack now. I'm the proud owner of an accordian!



OK Next phase of the mission.

Still five people. You must smile, you must look them in the eye, you must find out their name Need to do it by end of the day 7/11. (And reading the nametag of the person working at 7-11 doesn't count)


Oh please... don't play the Chicken Dance with that accordian!!!


Ok, so I didn't make the five people limit, but I did meet two new people... the gentleman described above and a person introduced to me by Lisa.

I can't say that I'll make five a week because of my school schedule, but I'm going to try anyway.

quote:

Since I hardly get anywhere beyond my own store this is going to take longer than I thought. But I intend to do John_O's missions anyway.



These are great challenges, John. Thanks!!!

_____________________________

Flirt Thread Open House Day is today. Come join the fun.
Post #: 285
RE: MISSION POSSIBLE! - 7/7/2008 4:59:55 PM   
John_O

 

Posts: 7134
Joined: 9/5/2006
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: Grace-N-Mercy
Oh please... don't play the Chicken Dance with that accordian!!!



I was leaning more toward something by Petra.

(Have I ever told you that Weird Al Yankovic was my hero?)

_____________________________

Psalms 46:10 Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
Post #: 286
RE: MISSION POSSIBLE! - 7/7/2008 8:35:46 PM   
utilityfielder


Posts: 12989
Joined: 6/19/2005
From: Home of the Champions
Status: offline
quote:

Oh please... don't play the Chicken Dance with that accordian!!!


ROFLOL.

_____________________________

My next trip:

MISSISSIPPI

Post #: 287
RE: MISSION POSSIBLE! - 7/16/2008 10:19:23 AM   
RosieCotton


Posts: 1052
Joined: 4/11/2005
From: The East and West Coast!
Status: offline
what has been happening here??? lol

I love reading what you all have done!

_____________________________

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
Post #: 288
RE: MISSION POSSIBLE! - 7/16/2008 10:55:33 AM   
John_O

 

Posts: 7134
Joined: 9/5/2006
Status: offline
Sorry for my tardiness everyone.

I fulfille dmy mission.

Here's the new one:

You must talk to someone, smile make eye contact, find out their name and find out something about them. Favorite color, if they have kids, what they do for a living, etc. Your goal is to find one piece of info about them, FROM THEM, while you are talking. It can be as simple as what they are doing this weekend or how they cook that roast they are buying. But you have to ask about it.

(Choose your item based on the circumstances. if you see them in the grocery line with 5 cases of some beverage for example, "having a party this weekend or just really thirsty?")

You have until Sunday night.


I'll most probably be out of touch all next week (unless the campground has internet)

_____________________________

Psalms 46:10 Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
Post #: 289
Page:   <<   < prev  8 9 10 11 [12]
All Forums >> [People] >> Singles >> RE: MISSION POSSIBLE!
Jump to post #:
Page: <<   < prev  8 9 10 11 [12]
Jump to:





New Messages No New Messages
Hot Topic w/ New Messages Hot Topic w/o New Messages
Locked w/ New Messages Locked w/o New Messages
 Post New Thread
 Reply to Message
 Post New Poll
 Submit Vote
 Delete My Own Post
 Delete My Own Thread
 Rate Posts


Youthworker Journal Forums on Faith Community Network
  Forum Tools
Ministry Leaders Folder

Forums |  Register |  Login |  My Profile |  Inbox |  Address Book |  My Subscription |  My Forums 

Photo Gallery |  Member List |  Search |  Calendars |  FAQ |  TOS |  Disclaimer |  Ticket List |  Log Out | 


Faith Community Network is a proud member of the Salem Web Network of sites including:

CCMmagazine.com | ChristianJobs.com | ChurchStaffing.com | Crosscards.com | CrossDaily.com | Crosswalk.com | CrosswalkDirectory.com | CrosswalkPlus.com | LightSource.com | OnePlace.com | SermonSearch.com | TheFish.com | XulonPress.com | YouthWorkerJournal.com
Enjoy the websites of these Faith Community Network Sponsors:

ChristianBook.com | EHarmony.com | Gospel for Asia | LifewayStores.com | Campus Crusade for Christ | Trinity College and Seminary | Townhall.com | Moody Distance Learning Center | Billygraham.org

© Copyright 2006, FaithCommunityNetwork.com. All rights reserved.
Forum Software © ASPPlayground.NET Advanced Edition 2.5 ANSI