Dedication to Weeks Dorm

"Be Still is dedicated to the 2007-2009 Weeks' girls and the 2008 Women's Soccer team. My two years on staff at MBBC have been a source of joy, encouragement, love, and hope. Being your dorm supervisor/coach has provided precious memories that I will NEVER forget, for through good times and bad you have pointed me to God's Word, kept me sane, and made me laugh. My love for all of you can never be expressed in words, but I hope that as you listen to this recording it will shine through in the words of the title song:

Be Still, my soul, the Lord is on thy side;

Bear patiently the cross of grief or pain.

Leave to thy God to order and provide;

In every change HE faithful will remain:

Be still, my soul, when change and tears are past;

All safe and blessed we shall meet at last."

I love all of you girls so much and miss you already! Remember what we have all learned together! Stay strong, do right, and love the Lord more than anything!

Always and Forever Your Dorm Sup,

Hayley

GO INTRAMURAL BBALL TEAMS!

Mediocre or Monumental Christianity?!

"Growing up in Christ: taking our Christianity from mediocre to monumental."

This semester in Week Dorm we are exploring what it means and looks like to have a vibrant, active, visible relationship with God. Let me define the two key words in our theme.

Mediocre- Moderate to inferior in quality, ordinary.

Monumental- Of outstanding significance.

I am not sure about you, but I want my Christianity to be MONUMENTAL, I want it be of outstanding significance! Well... how? Here is what we have explored so far this semester!

TIME: Psalm 119 is packed full of verses that speak of a close personal relationship with God. The author speaks of a passion for His laws, rules, and will. If our Christianity is to be MONUMENTAL, there must be a relationship behind it, right? YES! That relationship develops over a period of time of spending time with the Lord. But also, more importantly, we must MAKE the time. In our day and age, we are all crazy busy. MAKE time, or you will not have any time at all. You make time for what is important in your life. Make time for your relationship with the Lord.

PRAYER: Talking to the Lord can sometimes become like a robot reciting commands to it's user. That should NOT be how we talk to the Lord! He is our creator, our maker, our Abba Father! We need to pray conversationally, personally, and specifically! When we talk to friends and family we talk conversationally, personally, and specifically... why do we not do that with the Lord?! If our Christianity is to be monumental, we need to revolutionize the way we think about prayer! Prayer is personal! Let us not be robots! Robots are NOT personal! They are cold, lifeless, and have no sense of humor! That is NOT how God is to us, and it is NOT how we should be to God.

Some things to think about...

Hello, girls! Some food for thought. :) This year our dorm theme is going to be "Being an Example". Ok, so, yeah yeah, we have ALWAYS been told to be an example, right? Well, as a Christian, what does being an example look like? How do I live out being an example in my own life? What should my motivation be behind being an example? Pleasing others and getting praise, or pleasing the Lord? Those are some of the questions that we will be answering this semester. I hope it will be a challenge and encouragement to you, as it already has been for me as I have prepared it. :)

Are you here yet?!?!?!?!

Hello, my girls! I am so excited for you to finally get here! :) I am praying for all of you! If you have any questions, please just e-mail me at hmcgrail@mbbc.edu.

Kayla Heaton's Dad Got Saved!

Those who were in Weeks this past year know that one of our girls, Kayla Heaton, was praying for her dad, who was diagnoised with cancer this past semester, to get saved. Kayla just wrote me an e-mail to let me know that he has accepted the Lord as his personal Lord and Savior! What a blessing! Please keep Kayla's dad in prayer as he still is fighting the cancer and needs to find good health insurance that will help him get the treatments he needs before the cancer spreads more.

We love you, Kayla, and are praying for you and your family! :)

What Will My Dorm and Room Look Like?

Watertown Flooded! Pray that it goes down soon!

Welcome to Weeks Dorm!

Hi, I would like to welcome all of you to our Dorm. On behalf of all the girls in Weeks, we are very excited about this coming fall when you will join us. We are really excited to meet you gals face to face in the fall, but we want to start getting to know you now! :) That is the purpose of this BLOG. We want to get to know you, and we want you to get to know us! I have placed pictures of all the returning students so you can see what we look like. I have indicated who is the Dorm Sup, (ME!) who is a RA, (Floor leaders) and who is a PC. (Room leaders) Each of you will come in with one of these PC's as your room leader, and one of these RA's will be taking care of your whole floor. Hopefully seeing our pictures will help you be a little more at ease when you get here.



I would love to eventually get all of your pictures up here as well. We want to be able to recognize you as well when you get here! So, if you can, please e-mail me your picture at hmcgrail@mbbc.edu, I will get them up here as soon as I have can.


The way that we will communicate with each other on this BLOG is through the comment section. I will post something, and I would love for EVERYONE to comment, returning students AND new students. Please write your full name, as we do have a couple people with the same first names. If you indicate your last name, then we will know who it is. :) You may ask, "How do I comment on a post?" Here are the 5 easy steps for you.



HOW TO COMMENT


1. Click on "Comments" (This is located at the bottom of EACH post. Pick the post you would like to comment on and find it's "comments" link)

2. Type in what you would like to say in the "Leave Your Comment" section.

3. Type in the "Word Verification". (Just type in what letters/numbers are in the box for verification)

4. Type your name into the "Username" (No password is neccessary, just leave it blank)

5. Click "Publish Your Comment"


Make sense? I hope so! If you have any questions, please e-mail me at hmcgrail@mbbc.edu. If you guys have any questions about this coming year, concerns you may have, PLEASE comment and ask about it. We would love to help you out in any way that we can.



So, what to do first? To help get you started on commenting, I would love for all the new students to comment giving your name, where you are from, and what your major will be this coming fall at MBBC. :)



I am looking forward to getting to know all of you girls! I am praying for you already!

Your Dorm Sup,

Hayley McGrail

From Sarah Jones:

Hey you guys! Thanks so much for praying for my family it's been a rough week! We went on vacation for two weeks to Europe to see my brother get married, came home found out my grandma was in the hospital and week later she past away. Talk about an emotional roller-coaster. But the roller-coaster didn't stop, my mom called me from work this morning to tell me my cousin Charlie got in a bad car accident in Pheonix and passed away last night around midnight. My family needs a lot of prayer right now. Thanks you guys!

Sarah

Pictures from last year... Good times!

The Best Dorm on Campus
WEEKS

If you guys have anymore pics, send them to me and I will get them on here!

Pray for Sarah Jones and her family...

Pray for Sarah Jones and her family as her grandmother passed away early this morning.

We love you, Sarah, and are praying for you!