Dear Blogspot and readers,

Dear Blogspot and Readers,

I am afraid to tell you that I will no longer be posting on this blog. I am very sorry, but if you want to keep up with me you can read all about it at my new blog livininthelight.wordpress.com! So please forgive me blogspot. For I cannot escape it now. I have enjoyed our tiem we had together, but it is time to move on. :) So long.

-Hopie C.

I kissed dating goodbye.

Since coming to Kansas, I have had alot of time on my hands and now since we are pretty much settled in I have been able to actually able to enjoy this part of summer. I have had time to read and do some school to try and get ahead. :) Typical Homeschooler fashion. But anyway, one of the books I have been reading is called "I kissed dating Goodbye". When I saw this book in a pile of books we had on our bookshelves, my immediate thoughts were."I don't need that, I already have kissed dating goodbye. " Little did I know, this book had mainly to do with saying no to the temptations of dating, but I have learned so much more from this book.

Josh Harris is the author of this book. He points out kissing dating goodbye in your heart, and heart purity. When I read that my first reaction was to immediately making excuses proving to myself that I had been pure in heart as well as actions. Which told me that I didn't need this book. So I put the book down and pulled out the bible instead, I turned to Matthew and wouldn't you know it I turned to this verse.

Matthew 5:8 "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God."

It really convicted me personally, and challenged me to ask questions about whether I had been pure in heart. I realized that this is a book I need to read. After a day or two of praying about it, I picked up the book again and started reading.

I encourage you all to read this book, whether or not you think you need it. :)

Love you all! Have a blessed day!

Sedgewick County Zoo!

The first of many adventures of the Chambers Fmaily in Kansas. The Sedgewick County Zoo. It is the 18th largest zoo in the Nation and its a mere 15 miles away from our house! Natrually, I was very excited, it had been over 10 years since I had been to a zoo. It was awesome.

My Mom.

My little brother and me. :) oh, those are flamingos in the back. :)

Ben the Camera man

a peacock that was very friendly.

These swans were incredible!

This goat only let mom pet him or her. ;)

A weird chicken

Well, I saw the camera, even when no one else did.

James was correcting the goats, they were hogging the puppy food. :)

Charity

The CAmles we chewing there way through the wooden fence.

THE ZOO OF THE FUTURE!

LOL! Comments?

Daddy and Mike

Actually this was pretty unpractised Grace just ran ahead and snapped a picture. :)

This gorilla was posing for us.

Look at those stripes!

Grace and this Gorilla got along well. :)

And thus, concludes the Chambers family adventure #1 in Derby, Kansas.

Each Step I take.

As everyone has read and has been told. I am leaving Texas tomorrow. I am leaving my home, my friends and sometimes it feels like my life. I am leaving all that for Kansas. But God has encouraged me that He will never leave me or forsake me and that through everything He will be there. Even in stuff as big as moving. The comforting part is that He is there each step I take. He has already cleared the path.

The last move I have had to go through was the move here, I was about 7 and my little brother was 6. A couple of days ago my little brother James (15) said "Moving isn't as fun as I remembered it." He was so right. When we moved here, I was so excited, all I could think about was the new people and friends we were going to have here and how wonderful hat was. I think that's where "child-like" faith is.
As a child I trusted my parents and God that everything was going to be fine and I was going to make friends. Now I am trying to have that same child-like faith. Its harder then it looks. Holding back tears and trusting, but surprisingly I have experienced extreme peace about this move, I didn't say happiness, but PEACE. I am able to trust God with this move, through multiple supernatural experiences I can tell this is Gods will.

I am because of this able to not cry but to look forward to our news mission field.
I love you all and pray for you each day. If your ever in for a long drive we are north I35. :)

With all that said....Goodbye.

-Me

Video!!!

I made a video, instead of writing a blog post. Because, If I sat down and wrote a blogpost about us moving, it would be way too long, sad, and just plain boring. So I did the next best thing. I made a video. * *crowds goes wild* *


Here it is:

Whats UP?

So hey, everyone, hope your summers are all going well.

My summer has been amazing, first my brother got married, then Mothers day, and a whole bunch of birthdays, and parties.

I love summer in Texas, they are so beautiful, the corn surrounding my house is taller then ever this year and I am not quite sure why. "Once you think you won't have something, you appreciate it a lot more." -quote from a really smart person....Well, anyway, whoever wrote it, this was never truer to any person than me. When I first found out we were moving to Wichita, Kansas, in October 2008, I thought I would never see another Texas summer again. There is something so different about them, they are incredibly beautiful and I used to hate the heat, but now I soak it in, I used to hate how there were storms every night, now I can't wait to see the lightening. It is so wonderful. Thank you God for Texas Summers and allowing me to partake in them, once more. :)

Other than that, I had an opportunity come up that would allow me to go to South Carolina and watch Nationals and all the fun that comes with it. Naturally, I was enthusiastic, thinking what could be better. My parents were a little less enthusiastic, they said they thought it would be better (since my Dad would be in Kansas) that I stayed home to help out. I was so upset, I felt like this was a perfect opportunity for me to get to hang out with my ARC buddies before I left for KS. But God, had a different and better plan. Now, most everyone left for Nationals on either Friday or Saturday and since then, I have learned so much from staying home, patience, peace, forgiveness(!) , not to mention I got to see "UP", go to an amazing Evangelism boot camp that has changed my life ( tract anyone?) and I have just overall, learned that God is in control.

It started the balls rolling in my head, that maybe my attitude at first wasn't right, when I found out that Beth M. posted the End of the Year video at ARC on the ARC blogs ( http://www.arcblogs.com/2009/05/21/end-of-the-year-slideshow/) I immediately started listening, I listened to that first song like 7 times. The song talks about thanking God for the times He said "no." And at first I was like "hey, I really wanted to go, it was so perfect, How could he do this to me ? " Then after praying for a couple days, I realized not only is it too late for me to go, ( =) ) but also, God REALLY just didn't want me to go, and He says that there is a reason that He didn't want me to go, so I am looking for that reason, and I will let you know when I find it. :)

Just wanted to let you all know what was happenin' in my life.

Thanks for reading.

Don't forget to check out the song, I put the link up. * *hint, hint* *

Happy Birthday!!!

You may think that this post is about me, well, it is, but this day about 13 years ago, a littleboy named Michael Nathan Chambers was born. Thats right, Mike was born on the same day as me!...only 3 years later. Now, I can tell you stories about that day, i was blowing out birthday candles all alone...no, not really. Actually, My Dad wanted me to feel special so he presented Michael as a birthday present that God gave me. :) It was pretty cool, so I thought, until I got to be about 4, then I figured it out that Miek was not mine. So we celebrate our birthdays on different days like mine is in March and Mikes is in April, that way we are still different. :) It works out great. Buy today I am celebrating the birth of my little brother by posting a few pictures. 

Mike Sweeping the fron porch, he wasn't posing for this at all. : o)

Mike at a Rattle Snake Roundup. He was about 7. 

Mike coloring. He is so cute! lol. 

Anyway, I guess all I wanted to say was Happy Birthday, Mike and I love you!