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Hey Everyone! I know its been a while since I've made a post. In the past month or so I have been very busy! I had midterms right before spring break and then I went home for spring break and brought my friend Holly from school/Seattle with me. Some of you probably met her. After that I drove back down here and some friends from Oregon came with. That was a fun filled but very busy week for me, trying to combine school, work, and hanging out with my friends from home. The same day that they left to go back to Oregon my ISP team had a car wash for our trip. We raised about $450 dollars in five hours and we are very proud...I also got a tan, just in case you were wondering. Saturday I tried to relax but ended up doing a lot to prepare for Sunday's event. On Sunday, first I was announced as a member at my new church down here (and they said my first name wrong...but thats a whole different story) and then I spent the following 6 1/2 hours at our Night of Islam. Our team put on an informational event at a church here in Riverside. The event included a potluck with food from the Middle East, tables decorated with Middle Eastern themes, a worship portion, prayer for the Middle East, a love offering and two different speakers. One speaker is a professor at my school named Ramy, who has travelled all over the world entering war zones and such. His life amazes me and I would like to follow in his footsteps...scary I know! The other speaker is an older man who fled from Lebanon with his family after his 2 million dollar business was burned to the ground because he was a Christian. Both stories touched our team, and the 75 people who attended the event. At the end of the night we received a love offering of over $1500. It was so amazing that complete strangers would give so much to us, and offer to pray for us! Although this whole weekend was awesome with our fundraisers and such, my team still needs about $18,000 as a whole. So if you have not given yet, you still can! And if you cannot give, then please keep us in your prayers because we definitely need them! We still have two more fundraisers to go, so be praying that they both go well. Thanks everyone!