2024-2025 Interns

Hello Friends! I can not believe we are finishing month 3 already. This month has been remarkably busy learning new things about myself, traveling to other campuses and stepping into new leadership opportunities.

This month we completed the Working Genius Test, which helps us to see what our strong talents are when it comes to a workplace environment. My top two geniuses are Tenacity and Enablement. This means that I am naturally gifted, gain energy and joy from pushing projects and tasks through to completion, and I enjoy providing others with encouragement and help during projects and tasks. These 2 geniuses fit me very well and i can see how I bring encouragement and completion to the team and the workplace.

At the beginning of October all the interns and our mentors had a chance to meet for the day to dive into some different spiritual disciplines. We discussed Worship, Journaling, Bible Reading, Community and Scripture Memorization. These are just a few from a lengthy list of disciplines. I would say Worshiping is my strongest discipline from this list. I love music in general, so it is quite easy for me to listen and sing out my praise to Jesus daily. The one I want to work the most on is Scripture Memorization. I am still working on making Bible reading a daily habit, so the more I get comfortable reading the Bible I fee that remembering scripture will come in time.

We have done our first round of Campus visits this last month. We visited Perrysburg for a Saturday service then Findlay, and South Toledo during Sunday services. This round South Toledo was the only campus I had not been to. Walking into the campus I love their large lobby space! It is so open and welcoming to everyone. Stepping into the kids' space was cool to see the similarities and the slight differences in how the function. I am looking forward to the next round in a few weeks to learn more new things!

Overall, the last 3 months I have been growing my leadership skills as well as my personal speaking skills. I was able to step into the main leadership roll and running the kid's area on Sunday 10/14. I have done most of these rolls before but this time around I felt much more comfortable and confident in myself in the position. I also noticed because I was less stressed, I was able to be more present in meeting families and caring for our dream team. Making these connections felt like such a win for me so early in this process! I am so blessed to work with the Kids Dream Team and be able to help lead and care for them.

Thank you all for the continued support encouraging words!

Hello Supporters!

The last 30 days have been a whirl wind to say the least. I would love to introduce you all to Levi Brice (picture below). Levi attends the Perrysburg campus, and he is experiencing this life changing Internship adventure with me, as the Perrysburg kids Intern. Having another kids intern in the class along with me has been amazing. Jumping into the Internship headfirst was a big adjustment and knowing that Levi is experiencing the same things has been comforting as we can communicate with each other and support each other.

This last month I attended the GROW conference. At this conference it was amazing to meet Pastor Chris Hodges from Church of the Highlands and to hear him speak on his passion to help grow churches and leaders. Being able to learn and hear where Cedar Creek adopted some of the values and the process of how we “do church” was cool to put the pieces together. Sitting there during the talks and hearing exactly what he is saying is the culture we live in but also hearing his heartbeat behind his teachings sparked a fire in me to lean in more and take next steps in my own journey.

The whole month of September went by so fast! All the planning and preparation we have done to move over to our new home was in full swing. I want to give a big Thank You to everyone who has helped in the build out and helping this space come alive. Also, a huge shout out to all our dream team for stepping up for extra Saturday meetings and trainings but also for helping us own our spaces! Our transition to our new space has been amazing, getting to set up our new rooms and order new toys for the kids has been a blast. Grand Opening weekend we raised our weekend kid's numbers to 186!!! We are so excited to see where God is moving in these kids and the journey, we get to walk with them on!

Talk to you all soon!!

Hello supporters!

I am so excited to start sharing my internship experiences with you. Stepping into this season I have been preparing myself for a very open-handed year. This season I am looking to grow personally in so many ways.

Our first internship class we talked about time management and task management systems. Jumping into the internship we have many meetings throughout the week, along with all of our tasks we must complete. Coming back to a “work” schedule has been so giving for my soul as being a stay-at-home mom for the last 2 years has left me craving a task driven lifestyle again.

I was so excited to help during the dream team launch. Being able to serve the team who I have been serving next to the last few years was a humbling experience. Being able to help cast vision to our dream team for the upcoming year was life giving. As I have been learning Cedar Creeks values and passing it on to the team; I hope that we all have a fresh vision going into our new building.

This last week I was tasked with writing out my Testimony. This task made me feel very anxious and nervous at first. My story is very personal and difficult for me to talk about. Through the week as I was finding my words the anxiety started to fade away. I realized that putting voice to my story was very empowering. God gave me this story and gave me my voice to share with others.

Thank you all again for walking beside me in this journey!