Over the next few weeks before Gotta Be Me, we’ll be giving you a behind-the-scenes look at the five of us! Hope you enjoy getting to know us and we can’t wait to meet you in person!
10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Sylvia
Q. What food could you eat every day without getting tired of it?
Fresh peaches with cheese on the side (cheese is good with just about everything!!! Well, except peanut butter)
Q. Do you have a favorite Bible verse?
Philippians 3:13-14: “… This one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.”
Q. What is your favorite color?
Cranberry red
Q. If you could travel back in time to revisit a famous event in history, where would you go?
I would visit the Garden of Eden at Creation. I can only imagine what it must have been like to see the world come about at God’s command; to taste fruit pure and new and uncorrupted by sin or death; and to play with the animals with no fear. But I guess that is largely what the new heaven and new earth will be like when Jesus recreates them.
Q. What was the best thing you did all summer?
The most meaningful (and fun) thing I did all summer was go to SMITE camp in Louisiana. It was a week full of Bible Clubs with kids in the inner city during the day and three- to five-hour preaching services during the evenings back at camp.
The second best thing I did was to visit friends in Florida. For the first time in my life, I rode a four-wheeler! And then, best of all, a friend taught me how to ride his dirt bike… until I ran it into the electric fence… But ahem, we’re going to skip that part…
Q. If you were stranded on a deserted island, what three things would you want with you?
(Can those things include people?) I would want a good friend, my Bible (with a good book hidden inside, so it only counts as one item 
), and a hammock. But, on the other hand, if I chose those, I probably wouldn’t survive, so the practical side of me says that a survival kit with something like a knife, a rope, and a big piece of canvas would be a lot more helpful as far as the physical needs go. After all, with the rope and canvas, I could make a hammock, and I have the Lord always with me and His word in my heart…
Q. How do you like to spend your free time?
I enjoy reading, cooking, a good movie, and handcrafts when alone. When with friends, I love to do children’s ministry and to travel. This summer I went farther north than I ever have been before—to Indianapolis for a spiritual conference. Compared to Houston, everything there was so green!!!
Q. What was your favorite subject in school?
In school, I loved literature. I’ll do anything for a good story… although I hated Edgar Allen Poe… Ugh! Gives me the creeps just thinking about it. He wrote a lot about prisons and murder and things like that. Makes me wonder why he was considered such a classic author. Yuck.
Q. Are there foods, smells, flavors, or sounds that bring back memories of when you were 10-14 years old?
How about opening the oven? I was pulling a hot tray of cookies out of the oven one day when one side of the tray slid out of my hand and badly burned a couple of spots on my arm. Even though it healed within a few weeks, I am still kind of afraid of ovens! I know, it’s pitiful. I need to get over it.
Q. What is one lesson about life that God has taught you recently that you can’t wait to share with someone else?
The amount of influence that music has on a person is something that has strongly stood out to me recently. About a week ago I stayed up half the night reading a book called Music Matters by Cary Schmidt out of West Coast Baptist College. What a life-changing book! It explains how music goes past the filter of the brain and directly influences the heart—your will and emotions. All music does have an effect on us, in one way or another, whether we want it to or not. So I have to be careful to guard my heart, as Proverbs 4:23 says, “for out of it are the issues of life”: from my heart come the decisions that will determine my destiny.
Join Sylvia for the Sleeping Beauty: Waiting for God’s Best and Who’s at the Wheel: Deciding Who Will Control You sessions at the conference.
ok i know this has nuttin 2 do with this but i coulnt figure out how 2 go back and change the mistake i made on my registration!!!i put the wrong number 4 the emergency guardian contact number..the actual number is saposed to be ———!!so sorry bout that!!!!see ya on november 20-21
Hi Kodie,
Thanks for registering! We’re looking forward to seeing you!
I just changed the emergency contact number on your registration form. Thanks for letting us know!!
Looking forward to seeing you next month,
Aaress
Hi,
I’m a friend of Sylvia Swetnam, and I prayed for this conference and I finally visited the website today. I want to let each person involved in this ministry know that your service to God will be rewarded. Sometimes, we don’t know the impact that we had on another’s life, but oneday, we will see the big picture and relize how God used our every move for His glory or shame.
I praise the Lord, that there are still young people today who have a burden for the needy and the lost.
Please kep up the great work, our world needs the Christians to be the light.
I will close with this final statement. Service and dedication to Christ may seem hard and difficult, but never forget what Jesus did for us on the Cross. When I think of His sacrifice, it completelychanges my view of a situation and the attitude of my heart.
Thank you again,
Joshua Reese