10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Sara

Q. What food could you eat every day without getting tired of it?
Pizza and Cheese

Q. Do you have a favorite Bible verse?
Romans 5:3-5 and James 4:8a

Q. What is your favorite color?
Orange

Q. If you could travel back in time to revisit a famous event in history, where would you go?
I would love to be there when Queen Esther stood before the King to speak for the Jews! What courage she had to be able to do something for God and her people even though it could of taken her life! I pray that one day I could have just as much courage to do great things like Queen Esther!

Q. What was the best thing you did all summer?
Going to the beach with friends and family

Q. If you were stranded on a deserted island, what three things would you want with you?
My camera, Bible, and a pair of sunglasses!

Q. How do you like to spend your free time?
Blogging and spending time with my sister

Q. What was your favorite subject in school?
Art and History

Q. Are there foods, smells, flavors, or sounds that bring back memories of when you were 10-14 years old?
Hummm, I would have to say snow cones! When I lived in Oklahoma as a young girl my Dad would take us to get our favorite flavor on a hot summer day! My favorite was RAINBOW!

Q. What is one lesson about life that God has taught you recently that you can’t wait to share with someone else?
Sure, lately the Lord has taught me that through trials and hard times He is always there, and that He is also using those times to produce character in me to be all that I can be for Him!

Be sure to look forward to Sara’s Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall . . . Who are you pleasing, Sleeping Beauty: Waiting for God’s Best, and Life: Can You Handle It sessions at the conference.

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.

We’re so excited to have a chance to tell you more about the conference!

To get you started . . . .

About Gotta Be Me
Gotta Be Me is a fun-filled weekend conference designed to encourage tweens to pursue a daily relationship with their Creator, help them realize their beauty and worth in His eyes, and give them practical tools on how to find God’s amazing plan for their lives as they travel through life’s journey!

The Sessions
What are these sessions about? Will any of them interest YOU?
You’ve come to the right place to find out! Keep reading for a list of the sessions and a sneak peek of what will be covered!

The Speakers
Gotta Be Me’s speakers come from varied backgrounds with unique personalities and goofy traits–but we all agree on at least one thing—-our love for the Lord and His children! We hope you’ll enjoy getting to know us and we’re looking forward to meeting you at the conference!

Thanks again for visiting! We look forward to getting to know you more in the weeks ahead!

~ Melanie