COC internship

I strongly believe there are things that happen in our lives that completely change the course of our lives. I am completely grateful that the good Lord made it possible for me to participate in this life-changing internship. 

During the spring semester, announcements were made about the internship and I completely had no thoughts about it. But as the semester drew closer to the end I had a strong sense that I should do the internship. Planning for the summer was difficult. There were so many things I wanted to do. Firstly I wanted to stay with Shekinah and planned to either live in Oklahoma or in Indiana but planning everything proved difficult each time because she also was meant to travel during some parts of the summer. I also wanted to work and visit Maya in South Carolina. Lastly the elephant in the room, or should  I say the elephant in this blog. Money. I was just too broke to make all this happen in a timely manner. 

After exhausting all my planning and discussions with my friends I decided that it was best to stay in Oklahoma. I moved to the Lahoma sister's house immediately after the semester and continued working at Price. The Internship was to start in June. I was excited to do this internship and I really didn't think of it as an internship but rather as a time to spend more time with God, to be with other believers throughout the day, and work alongside full-time serving ones. 

The first week came and everything went well, beyond what I would have expected. On some mornings we drove to Oklahoma City to have coordination meetings in which we sang and read a few verses and one of the serving ones explained one important practice and their experience with it. Then we would spend time practicing what we had just been taught. 

After morning coordination, we would read our assigned reading for the month which was on vessels. We would read as interns only and each one would share what they enjoyed from the readings. This reading was very timely for me. You know just being able to know myself not as the world tells me or what I tell myself but knowing what my creator made me as and for what purpose. My key takeaways from the reading were; that I am a vessel created to contain God. Just like a glove is made to contain a hand. As a vessel, I have a human spirit which is my innermost being. I also have a soul which is made of 3 parts, the mind, emotions, and will. I learned that my mind was made to understand and know God, my emotions to love God, and my will to choose God. I also learned that as a vessel I need to take care of what I feed on and what and who I need to contact. There was also a section on numbering our days. There are days that count and some that do not. We had references on this from the old testament, this was unveiling. 

We would then move to projects. This was so exciting. We scripted, filmed, recorded, and edited videos for the youtube channel, App, and website. We also designed flyers and updated the app with events for the fall semester. I had fun being in the creative space with all interns putting our ideas together and seeing them come to life. 

Now here comes this. On several afternoons we went to either the OU campus or UCO (lol finally got it right). We met a lot of freshmen since it was orientation time, we gave them COC flyers and explained who we are and what we do as a club. This I must say was the scariest thing. Now if you know me you know that I love talking to people and I enjoy meeting new people and just having conversations on anything. But this was different, so I was scared, my whole body was shaking, trembling even. I didn't know talking about God would be this scary. Gospel walk day one, day two, and day three, I started to feel more comfortable. We would usually walk in pairs which made it more enjoyable and less scary and we prayed before and during the walks, so God really carried me through. Then I realized something, every time I spoke to someone, my heart was filled with so much joy. Joy unspeakable. Joy I couldn't exactly point out the source. But now I know the source was God. I had to remind myself daily the reason I was going on those gospel walks, I have tasted and seen that the Lord is good. In his presence, there is fullness of joy and peace. When I sing, I feel him move and I just really wanted to share this with someone else. For them too to come to this enjoyment of having a relationship with our creator. Our Living God.

2nd Timothy 2:21

Therefore if anyone cleanses himself from the latter, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified and useful for the Master, prepared for every good work.

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