Mighty Warriors

I have realized that giving my life to God isn’t going to be a temporary thing in my life. I learned that it’s not enough to give him some parts of your life and keep others for yourself. God has this perfect plan for our lives, a plan that we can’t even imagine.
Girls can relate to this:
You know how you already have your wedding planned by the age of 15? You know what dress you want, you’ve picked out the perfect flowers, the perfect “first dance” song, and the perfect shoes. Well imagine a wedding planner that comes in and tells you that this isn’t at all what you want. She changes every plan you had... but you like it better. It fits you like a glove, almost like nothing you could ever imagine. This is how God’s plan is for our lives.
If God is who He says he really is, and he’s who we believe him to be… then why won’t we give him our lives? Why won’t we surrender to Him? He obviously knows more about us than we could ever know. He knows me better than I know myself. He looks at me and sees Jesus. Not because of what I’ve done, but because of what He did. He loved us ALL enough to sit quietly as His son pleaded with him to let the cup pass from him. If all this is true as we believe it is… then why are we such wimps? We are like a bunch of Gideon’s…
Gideon is basically the biggest wimp in the Bible. He was scared of tons of things, but when God looked at him he saw a Mighty Warrior… He looked at him and thought, I know you’re scared, but I’m here... you are a Mighty Warrior.”
When God looks at us, as scared as we may be… he sees a mighty warrior just waiting to stand for him. Being scared is normal, but know that God knows what he is doing. Let that simple fact give you peace, and go be a Mighty Warrior that God knows you are… And I know you are.
Stand Strong for your Lord!

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home sweet home

I am now home! I am sitting on my own bed typing this to you! :D I am so excited to be home, but I miss Montana already..God is going to do some amazing things in Montana and I can't wait for it to happen. Continue to pray for Montana, please!

God Bless,
Maggie

Radersburg..my last stop

I am in Radersburg for my final week doing my final VBS for the summer. I fly home on Friday and will be landing at 3:24! I am excited, but sad at the same time. I have made some awesome friends this summer that I will miss greatly, but I am ready to see my mama and my daddy! :D I am ready to be a senior, but I am NOT ready for school.. I don't know... But I am ready to be home and to eat at El Charro! Radersburg is a very small town, it doesn't even have a post office! It's INSANE! The VBS is a small VBS, but it going to be a GREAT week. I can already tell. There are only 5 kids, but I can feel the Lord moving in Radersburg. Please pray for us this week. Please pray that I have a safe trip home. :) And please pray for Montana

God Bless,
Maggie

Church Camp

This past week at Camp was amazing! You could feel God's presence. I was a counselor to high school girls which was really interesting since I'm only 8 months older than them, but they respected me. They listened to me and did what I said. We shared our testimonies at the camp fire. We also got to see some of the youth we worked with earlier in the summer. The Butte kids and Boulder kids were there and we had a lot of fun with them. We also got to see a lot of the missionaries we met at orientation this summer. It was an amazing week. Tomorrow we are headed to Glacier. I am very excited about seeing the beauty of Glacier! :)
3 missionaries in West Yellowstone were in a really bad wreck. They are all brothers and are all in the hospital. One of them may not make it. Please pray for them and their family. Please continue to pray for all of us missionaries in Montana and continue to pray for Montana.

God Bless,
Maggie

it may be a while

As it gets closer to time to come home, I will be in an area with limited Internet access. Actually this coming week, I will have no Internet at the youth camp here. They say it's in the middle of nowhere, but that it's beautiful. On Thursday I will go back to Townsend and go to glacier, and after that I will be in Radersburg, which is smaller than the smallest town I can think of. They say there is no Internet access there either. I just thought I'd let y'all know what's coming up. :) VBS this ween went amazing, we had three salvations I am so excited about what God has in store for Butte in the near future! I can sense that he's going to move in Butte in a huge way. Yesterday I went rock climbing, repelling, and zip lining! It was so fun! Please continue to pray for Montana and us as we finish up the summer.

God Bless,
Maggie

just a little note to say...

PRAISE THE LORD! VBS is going really well this week. yesterday we had two salvation's! :D Which is a HUGE break through here in Butte! I am so excited to see what else god has planned to do this week. Next week we will be at a youth camp doing whatever they need us to do. I am so excited about the rest of this summer. I miss you guys.
Please continue to pray for us and Montana.

God bless,
Maggie

Butte... :D

Hello from Butte!

My daddy informed me yesterday that he was counting down the days to my return in red on his calendar..He told me that I had 23 days.. And I didn't even realize I had been gone for that long at all! WOW! Now that I think about it, it makes sense. I've been in so many cities: Missoula, Wolf Creek, Boulder, Townsend, Three Forks, Belgrade/Bozeman, Helena, Livingston, and now Butte, west Yellowstone... I only have two more cities left! It seems so crazy to me! So I only have 22 more days... I can't decide if that makes me sad..or excited
Anyways... Butte has had the biggest VBS that we've been apart of this summer. They have more than 40 kids! Which is AMAZING for a Montana VBS! I am running Recreation, which a great break from teaching preschoolers! :) Recreation is different and has it's challenges, but it is also really fun!
Butte is the most different city from Georgia we've been to this summer. It is a very interesting city with tons of history. the street names made my day! Butte used to be a mining town, so the street names are: Gold, Silver, Steel, Platinum, Diamond, etc. I just can't help but laugh at the street names every day! :D
Please pray for us and for VBS in Butte. As well as a statewide "great awakening" since Montana never had a "Great Awakening" like the rest of the United States did. All of them have somehow managed to skip Montana...

God Bless,
Maggie

I'm back..

I'm sorry for the long pause in my blogs. This past week was a very busy week for me. We worked from sunrise to sunset. We did a six hour VBS and after that we advertised and passed out paperwork for their block party. Big Sky fellowship was a very hard week for us, but we made it through the week. It ended up being a great week, and the kids really loved everything about the VBS week. We got a chance to go to Yellowstone yesterday, and today when we arrived in Butte we got a chance to go the the nationwide folk festival. The festival moves around every three years, and this is the biggest thing tat happens in Butte all year long. This is the second time they've hosted it. After Butte it will go to another area of the U.S. entirely. Pray for the VBS this week in Butte

God Bless,
Maggie

The 4th

Hey y'all,
I hope everyone has a wonderful Independence day! We get to celebrate the fourth by going to a community potluck with our supervisor. After that we get to help them clean up, and then we're getting ready to go to a rodeo. At the rodeo, we will possibly meet up with the group that is working in Missoula. Stephanie will be making balloon animals, while i face paint. I am very excited for this Independence day. I can already feel God working for tomorrow. I think it will be the best fourth I've ever experienced! After the rodeo, we will watch fireworks. I am very excited about this, because Montana is known for their firework displays! I heard this rodeo has a huge firework display! I hope y'all have a wonderful Independence day. Please continue to pray for us in Montana. Especially one missionary in particular. Trey Fischer is from Wesson, Mississippi. His grandfather died recently and he was close to his grandfather. Please pray for him. He returned back to Montana two days ago, he only went home for the funeral, because he believes his work is here in Montana. Please pray for him, because I know he is going through a really tough time right now.

God bless,
Maggie

face painting

Today at VBS I did face painting during crafts for all of the kids. The preschoolers had crafts before snack, and at snack they had they had to pray. When they prayed for snack, they prayed and thanked God for face painting! It was so cute and sweet. They acted like face painting was the coolest thing in the whole world, you could tell it made their day! :) VBS is going great! We have an average of 14 kids, which is good for this church!

Please continue to pray for us and all of Montana..

God Bless,
Maggie

Helena

We have arrived in Helena. Yesterday we went to an airshow. It was amazing, the thunderbirds did an amazing job, of course! This church's VBS is at night, so we went to church in the morning and had VBS at 6:30-8:30. This week we will probably have a lot of free time during the day, and work at night. I am helping with crafts, which is pretty cool. This church had fourteen kids today, and I am excited to see the Lord work in their lives this week. Their VBS is only Sunday- Wednesday. Thursday we are helping them with a food drive, I'm pretty excited about it! :)

Please keep us in your prayers. <3

God Bless,
Maggie :)

Belgrade/Bozeman

We've been in Belgrade for the past week. This week we have organized clothes, followed up on VBS, cleaned the church, and written over 300 letters. This week they gave us some time off though, and we went white water rafting! It was really fun. My parents came to see me this week, which was awesome! Today we hiked to the M. It is so beautiful here. When we reached the top, you could see for miles and miles. It was so beautiful. This week the church didn't really give us much work, so I don't have much information to report on our work... We had four contacts and three of them are seriously thinking about coming to church! That is an incredible decision, because Montana is so lost. They told us that Montana is almost like a foreign mission field, most of the people here don't even know where the churches are in their own cities/towns. We are leaving tonight for Helena, where we will be for the next two week. Pray for Montana and my fellow missionaries all over the state of Montana.
God Bless,
Maggie

my address

also..if anyone wanted my address that doesn't have it and wants it..i get mail once a week! :)

Maggie Smith
c/o Alesia Fowler
1 Broadwater Road
Townsend, MT 59644

I love y'all! :)

Mags

Hello all!
I have left Boulder. I am now in three forks, which is where 3 rivers meet to form the Missouri river. Tomorrow we will be weighing fish, so I will basically be smelling like one tomorrow evening. Tomorrow three forks is holding a fishing tournement. I'm excited to see how God can move in the fishing tounement tomorrow. Boulder was a very interesting place. I felt like I was in a western movie the whole time! On Tuesday they held a surprise Birthday party for me, which was awesome. I was in charge of the drama camp for the week. It was fun, we even had some kids who were in summer school come and take part in the camps. The camps were a great outreach for the community. Jennifer (one of my partners) was in charge of the basketball camp which had the greatest amount of kids come. Back yard Bible club for the youngest kids was headed up by Lauren and Stephanie (my other two partners).They did a great job. Our group has really gotten close. We seem like a family now, which is good. We've been praying for unity! :) It is June 19 and I have just now figured out all of the ins and outs of blogging, it took me long enough didn't it?
Continue to pray for Montana. :D

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Today was my last day in Wolf Creek. I'm pretty sad about it, because everyone at that little church was so sweet. My preschoolers actually got something out of VBS this past week. Surprisingly, the youngest girl in my class remembered the most bible verses for the week. I was blown away at how much that little four year old could remember. Kids are a lot smarter than the get credit for! Today when I said goodbye to everyone, Emmy (my four year old) told me bye and that she loved me. That made my day. :) The church ladies knew it was my birthday, and gave me a birthday card that has really nice messages on it as well. I just had a bittersweet day.

Tomorrow we leave for Boulder, and get our mail!! I'm pretty excited about getting my mail!

Maggie Smith

John 3:30

in awe

Montana is the most beautiful place I've ever been. I am constantly reminded of how GREAT our God is that we serve. I am at a small church for the week with a VBS that lasts all day! It seriously lasts from 9:30 TO 3 P.M.! isn't that crazy!? I've never heard of anything like this in my life! I am working with 3 year olds to pre-schoolers and they are as cute as a button, but they are a handful! We are being spoiled this week by the church members...they make THE best food EVER! I am saying in a log cabin that was made by the owner.

I really think these kids are getting something out of this VBS. Please continue to pray for this summer in Montana.

God Bless!!!

Maggie

Hey y'all...
I have arrived Montana, ... I stayed up for a really long time yesterday, but I am very excited about this summer. All of the Montana missionaries are here in Missoula with me. We are staying in a church. :) There are like 15 girls and 5 guys. I am only serving with one of the girls. the other two i am serving with have already gone through orientation!
I must go..
God Bless

Maggie

14 days

Hello all!
Time has flown this year. I am down to fourteen days before I leave for Montana. I am very excited for what God has in store for me this summer. Please keep myself, and the other missionaries that will be serving with me in your prayers. Pray for the summer and pray that something huge will happen in Montana this summer.

God bless. <3