Posted by: Stephanie
Almost 10 years ago I met this girl who had just finished 2 years with Anastasis in the Drama Department. She showed me the video about Mercy ships and talked to me about how Mercy Ships brings hope and healing to the poorest of the poor. I was in college at the time.... well mostly I was skipping classes, developing an impressive social life and wardrobe. One night after talking to her I went home found the Mercy Ships website and for the first time in my life I had clarity and purpose for my life. I knew then that Mercy Ships was for me. That summer I worked at Hume Lake Christian Camps and had a mentor nmed Stephanie. We went through all of my strengths and weaknesses and pretty much just picked the career of nursing. At the end of the summer I got really sick and spent a long time in the hospital and God placed the desire in my heart to be a nurse and re-sparked my desire to go work with Mercy ships. After bit more screwing around in college, I over heard one of my so called friends telling another girl I would never make it through nursing school or to the ship. That one comment was the turning point for me, when I enrolled for my courses that semester I new it would be different this time. Not only would I finish these courses but I would do well and this time I had the motivation of not only proving that I could do it, I also knew that I wanted to work with Mercy ships in Africa and Nursing was my vehicle. So in 2004 I served 1 year on the Caribbean Mercy as a nurse. In January, almost 10 years from that day I watched that video my husband (Tyrone, whom I met on the ship) and I are heading to Sierra Leone to work on the Africa Mercy. I will be working as a nurse and Tyrone will be working as the Cheif Cook. My plan was much different, but God is so good and His plans are much better than mine. I am so excited to be on the ship with Tyrone using the talents God gave us, to serve Him and truely bring hope and healing to those in need.
Done...maybe
I think I finally finished playing around with the whole website in general...but maybe to come back and finish a page for each one of us. One Tyrone page, one Stephanie page will probably be added on this blog underneath the introduction link on the right hand side for our favorites and such...
Websites & such...
I have mostly used frontpage to do most of my website work...no code to write and pretty much get anything cool added or on my website. BUT nowadays they have stopped updating frontpage (I think maybe since 2003) and I am trying to grow with everything else in order to keep up...
I have all this great coffee cup software that can do almost anything so I am trying to use its many different stand alone programs, and they even kind of jive together. Right now I am working with the blog feature which is pretty nice. It is real light and less of a hassle than all the other software that you can have on your own host. Like: Wordpress (I changed my mind about this obviously), nucleus, pmachine...
This software was a free download for using Lunarpages as my website host and domain name server...you can check the prices and things and see if its right for you. I really just needed a good host but now that i have been playing around with this software and learned a few more things like php and mysqul databases...whew, now I am having fun!
So bare with me as you may not be able to access things from time to time. As a side note, did you know that Books-A-Million has wifi now? Yep, and if you have one of their BAM cards (which is only 15$ a year - good for discounts too!) you use the number on the card and get the wifi for free. That would be worth 15$ a year...especially the one I like to visit when I am at home. Nice plush chairs, no hassle, 50cent (not the rapper) coffee for life if you buy one of their coffee for life cups.
Yeah, life is good sometimes....then you go to a third world country. And it gets better...you realize you CAN live without all this STUFF. And you enjoy and appreciate it more when you come back to visit on breaks and fund/support raising trips. Oh, and by the way...I borrowed the BAM card and coffee cup from my father. Yep, good ol' dad.
Here's to ya! While I sip my Vanilla Nut Coffee and upload this post.
I have all this great coffee cup software that can do almost anything so I am trying to use its many different stand alone programs, and they even kind of jive together. Right now I am working with the blog feature which is pretty nice. It is real light and less of a hassle than all the other software that you can have on your own host. Like: Wordpress (I changed my mind about this obviously), nucleus, pmachine...
This software was a free download for using Lunarpages as my website host and domain name server...you can check the prices and things and see if its right for you. I really just needed a good host but now that i have been playing around with this software and learned a few more things like php and mysqul databases...whew, now I am having fun!
So bare with me as you may not be able to access things from time to time. As a side note, did you know that Books-A-Million has wifi now? Yep, and if you have one of their BAM cards (which is only 15$ a year - good for discounts too!) you use the number on the card and get the wifi for free. That would be worth 15$ a year...especially the one I like to visit when I am at home. Nice plush chairs, no hassle, 50cent (not the rapper) coffee for life if you buy one of their coffee for life cups.
Yeah, life is good sometimes....then you go to a third world country. And it gets better...you realize you CAN live without all this STUFF. And you enjoy and appreciate it more when you come back to visit on breaks and fund/support raising trips. Oh, and by the way...I borrowed the BAM card and coffee cup from my father. Yep, good ol' dad.
Here's to ya! While I sip my Vanilla Nut Coffee and upload this post.
Foodaphilia: FlufferNutter Cake
Ever had those tasty peanutbutter and marshmellow fluff sandwiches in that store bought sliced white bread? Re-live your adult dream with this cake...
Foodaphilia: FlufferNutter Cake
Foodaphilia: FlufferNutter Cake
Appreciation Dinner
This week I will be going 'home' to Alabama to host and cook an appreciation dinner for friends and family...mostly members of my home church.
What is a home church? The church you feel you have embarked from and/or originally hailed from. I feel that most jobs and traveling have always been temporary relocation's, of which I will relocate again next year to Sierra Leone. Care to join me?
Hopefully I will leave behind an existing business 'launching' to be able and look back to see them survive and actually provide a small base of financial support for my mission/charity/humanitarian/volunteer work...call it what you will, nobody pays me for it. ( lest I forget, my wife is also part of this, I usually just speak for myself on this blog, force of habit). I work for Mercy Ships, in case you didn't know already...or are new to my blog.
Well lets see...back to the dinner, if you feel this would be something you are interested in (financially supporting my wife and I) this is fully covered at our website tyroneandstephanie.com. AND there is also a link at the bottom of the blog to donate and receive a tax receipt/credit for giving to a charity.
If you are going to be in the Huntsville, Alabama area please drop me an email telling me you would like to attend and I will be expecting your presence at the dinner!!! All the information and a map is supplied VIA the website.
Our catering company is currently developing specialty products for National online sales, as well as local cakes and baked items for the holiday seasons. That can be accessed thru ExclusivelyYoursCatering.com.
If you are coming to the dinner I'll see you this Sunday!!!
What is a home church? The church you feel you have embarked from and/or originally hailed from. I feel that most jobs and traveling have always been temporary relocation's, of which I will relocate again next year to Sierra Leone. Care to join me?
Hopefully I will leave behind an existing business 'launching' to be able and look back to see them survive and actually provide a small base of financial support for my mission/charity/humanitarian/volunteer work...call it what you will, nobody pays me for it. ( lest I forget, my wife is also part of this, I usually just speak for myself on this blog, force of habit). I work for Mercy Ships, in case you didn't know already...or are new to my blog.
Well lets see...back to the dinner, if you feel this would be something you are interested in (financially supporting my wife and I) this is fully covered at our website tyroneandstephanie.com. AND there is also a link at the bottom of the blog to donate and receive a tax receipt/credit for giving to a charity.
If you are going to be in the Huntsville, Alabama area please drop me an email telling me you would like to attend and I will be expecting your presence at the dinner!!! All the information and a map is supplied VIA the website.
Our catering company is currently developing specialty products for National online sales, as well as local cakes and baked items for the holiday seasons. That can be accessed thru ExclusivelyYoursCatering.com.
If you are coming to the dinner I'll see you this Sunday!!!
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