Hey Friends!,

Thank you for all your prayers! Just wanted to update everyone on the way God has been moving. Today I was officially accepted into the NYCUP Summer Internship Program for Summer 2010! I am so excited. Also, I received my first my contribution today in a big way! Here is the story:

This week started off with a bang, but then sort of died down. Monday morning, the entire advocacy department went to a protest outside of City Hall. This coalition called Real Rent Reform (a.k.a. R3) organized a civil disobedience rally to pressure the local legislators to repeal something called "vacancy decontrol." Armed with megaphones, and accompanied by dancers and a marching band, the protesters voiced their cries of discontent, and 13 were arrested for blocking the doors of an office building.

Some of you know that I spent the past week volunteering at Basileia, the year end retreat for the New York/New Jersey region of Intervarsity Christian Fellowship. Basileia is Greek for “Kingdom of God,” and God definitely met with us there! Between all the fun and fellowship, I had an accident resulting in a broken finger on my right hand. I was told I would be unable to work at my job for at least the next week and maybe even longer. Anxiety over not being able to pay my rent set in immediately. Enter: a lesson in Trusting God.

Because of the holiday, most of our internships didn’t start this last Monday. We didn’t have anything scheduled, so we went exploring in the Heights. This neighborhood was mostly the same as the Bronx, but slightly more wealthy. Because the Heights are in wealthy and corporate Manhattan, it is automatically given higher revenue. It was so hot that day. I have to confess that I wasn’t really up for another day of walking around in the sun. I was still pretty jet-lagged, and my body wasn’t used to the high level of moisture in the air.