Jesus paid a high price

Auburn has one of the best Christian subcultures in the country. So, yes I am going to grow in my faith more than I have in a long time. At church on Sunday the college minister was talking and he said something that stung like a bazillion bee stings all at once. It was like a slap in the face. He said, "We spend too much time on facebook when there are people all around us that are going to hell. Jesus didn't die on the cross for you to have a great Christian subculture here at Auburn. He died for the lost souls. These people are going to hell and it doesn't even concern you." It broke my heart to a billion pieces when I realized that I was all about mission work, and serving the Lord… but I turned a blind eye to my surrounding area. There are roughly 9,000 Christians at Auburn. That's an incredible number, but there are 20,000 students that aren't saved. That should break our hearts. Hell is a place I wouldn't wish on my worst of enemies. It is a dark, fiery pit of anger and hatred. It is a terrible way to spend an eternity separated from the one that loves you more than anything in the world. God loves us more than anything in the entire world, but you know what? God loves sinners and the lost more than anything in the world too. So, we should be telling them that. We have something to fight for. Our faith is something worth fighting for. We have got to stop being afraid of the gospel. It is the power of the Lord and the salvation to all who believe! (Romans 1:16) People will believe, but how can they believe what they've never heard or been told. How can it not break your heart that there are PEOPLE walking around with no hope, because they don't know any better? They don't know about God's amazing love for us, and the joy that he gives to us. It breaks God's heart that there are people that are going to spend an eternity in hell AND it breaks his heart that we won't talk about it and that we shy away from telling them about our faith. If we have faith in God, then what are we so afraid of!? Jesus paid MUCH too high of a price for us to decide who is capable of believing in him. That is all for now. Just think about all of those unreached people and believe that God can and will save them. It's a winning battle; we already know the ending of the story. We know that He's going to win, so that should be motivation!
God Bless!
Maggie
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FRESHMAN

So far this week I have labeled myself as a FRESHMAN about 20 times. I get so turned around on this campus! It's nuts! Sunday I went to First Baptist Opelika. That place is absolutely amazing. You can feel the presence of the Holy Spirit there. As I looked around before it started I must have seen over a thousand college students in the college student service. It was amazing to see so many people my age or a little bit older going about 15 minutes away from campus to worship. It was amazing. I'm so excited to partner with them during my college life experience. I know that they will do great things in the name of Christ. My roommate Lauren Swindle is the most fantabulous roommate in all of Auburn University. She's the bomb.com (yes I did just say that). I'm so excited to see what God does in our lives while we are here at Auburn serving Him. I hope that we grow to be doers of the word and Godly women of faith. I am so fired up for this new experience and I hope that you will partner with me and pray for my roommate and I as we stand firm in the faith and follow the Lord to the exact place he wants us. Right now He wants us to be at Auburn...WAR EAGLE!!! Praise the Lord
Thank you so much for the prayers they are greatly appreciated!
In Him,
Maggie

im coming home!!!

I'm about to get on the plane. While I am excited to go home and I know that is time for me to go, I am sad to leave, because I know is working in Sacramento. Please continue to pray for Sacramento. Hana will be here for another week, so please pray for her ministry for the last week and that she won't get homesick working by herself. Thank you for all of the prayers and letters this summer. Y'all are the best! See you soon!

God Bless

Maggie

Maybe I'm here to love

Maybe I’m here to love.
That is what I have learned this week. I wasn’t needed to run a VBS or teach. This week I just loved on the kids and played recreation games with them. I listened to all of their stories that they wanted to tell. It was this week that I truly grasped the reason why I’m in California. I knew I was supposed to serve God and in that I would end up serving others, but I never thought that I was sent to love. I thought that was just a given. Of course I was going to be sharing Go’s love with others, but I didn’t know that would be my main job f the summer. God opened up my heart and showed me how to love others like Jesus loves them. Tomorrow I am getting on a plane and flying to Georgia, and for 5 days that will be my mission field. On Saturday I will drive to Auburn and for the rest of the year my mission field is going to be Auburn University. I have to take what I have learned this summer with me. This summer I learned that sometimes a smile is enough. I learned that even if people don’t understand what you’re saying, they understand a smile and it puts them at ease. I’ve learned that all service starts with being humble and not too good to do something as gross as take out the trash. I’ve learned that sometimes, missions is just loving people. It’s not always going to be going door to door sharing the gospel sometimes it starts with friendship and love. Christ paid too high of a price for me to pick and choose who is capable of believing his mighty truth. Please continue to pray for me as I move to my new mission field and my partners as they settle in to their new mission fields. Home is a mission field just as Sacramento is a mission field. Soon I will be on a mission at Auburn University...WAR EAGLE!
God Bless!
Mags