Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Home for the Holidays

just wanted to let everybody know that i'm home until next wed. i made it here safely and all that good stuff. the plane ride was lots and lots of fun. anyways so i got places to go and people to see so i'll talk to ya'll later.
love all
allison

Thursday, December 21, 2006

HELLOOOOO??? (echo echo echo)

so nobody is posting or anything..... has everyone fallen off the face of the earth or is everybody caught up in wedding stuff???? just wanted to let everyone know that i AM COMING HOME ON SATURDAY!!! WOOOOHHOOOO i'm so excited to get to see people....... love all
allison

Sunday, December 17, 2006

Where did everybody go???

i was just sort of wondering where everybody went..... people haven't been posting in a while..... or are alot of people doing wedding stuff or what's going on here???? anyways.....

love all
allison

Friday, December 15, 2006

a week

so i just thought i would let everybody know that this is probably going to be a really busy busy week..... seeing as it's the last week of our internship and all that good stuff....... anyways....... yeah i'm really just sort of killing time right now..... although i'm really not sure why..... so oh yeah i went to the prophetic rooms yesterday.... it was really good..... i really don't want to say on here what all they told me though.... all i will say is that it was really good...... i'm really excited about being able to see everybody for a little bit...... i really don't have anything to say right now.... so i guess i'll just go... love all lots and lots and lots.......

allison

OH YEAH AND DON'T FORGET THAT MORGAN AND DAVE ARE GETTING MARRIED ON SAT.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOOOOHOOOOOO!!!!!!

Monday, December 11, 2006

The Big Day!!!

SO I JUST HAD TO LET EVERYBODY KNOW THAT TODAY IS THE BIG DAY!!!!! WE ARE HAVING OUR BANQUET TODAY AT 9 PM!!!! IT'S GOING TO BE SOOOOO GREAT!!!! I'M SO EXCITED IF YOU COULDN'T TELL!!!!!

Sunday, December 10, 2006

Meanings

so i just figured i would go ahead and put the meanings of the things i right about or at least what the abbreviations mean so here goes

FITN- Fire in the Night- this is what i'm doing
Nightwatch- is from midnight to 6
EGS- is Encounter God Service, we have these on MOST Fri. and Sat. nights
FCF- i'm really drawing a blank right now and i forget what this is, but we have it on Sun. nights
GBF- global Bridegroom Fast- first 3 days of every month except in Dec. we do 7, this makes 40 days a year

prayer room chatter-
sets- that's the two hours that each worship team plays
worship team makeup-
1)worship leader
2)assistant worship leader
3)antiphonal singers (responsive singers, they respond to whatever was sung or prayed on the prayer mic) oh and you have four or five of these
4)prayer leader
5)the assistant prayer leader
6)then you have all of the other band members to

this is by no means in the right order because i'm really not sure what that is..... but these are all of the people who are on stage..... i will explain more about these as i explain the different sets
four different kinds of sets-
worship with the word- in this one basically they do a few worship songs and then they sing something out of the Bible (like last night a group did Psalm 45: 10 through something) then they just develop it.
the process- one of the singers sings the passage, then the prayer leader highlights one of the parts by saying it on the mic, then the singers reply..... it's really neat you just sort of have to hear it.... it sounds really confusing i know but once you get used to it it's really good

devotional worship- the way Mike Bikle puts it this is basically like a concert. the people on stage get to really stretch and show their full musical abilities.... they pretty much do like worship with the word though..... this is a time where you can do homework or whatever

intercessary worship-this is when we pray and intercede for people, this is when people can go up and pray on the mic

prophetic worship- this is basically when you just worship, there's really not that many of these, but sometimes the intercession part turns into this



so that's really all that i can think of right now so if you have any questions feel free to ask. i don't mind explaining anything. so yeah i guess that's all....

love all
allison

Support?

so i just figured that since i can't get in touch with everybody i would go ahead and put my support letter on here for everybody to see.

Hey everybody,

Many of you know what i'm doing right now and others of you don't, so for those who know what i'm doing, here's more information, and for those who don't this is what i'm doing. Right now I'm doing an internship at the International House of Prayer (IHOP) in Kansas City, Missouri. The focus of IHOP is to be a place for people to come and partner with God in prayer and worship. IHOP first started in 1999, it is commited to 24/7 prayer and worship until Jesus comes back. We pray for many different things like revival in America, the ending of abortion, and whatever else is on our hearts. There are many things that happen during the night that aren't of God, but we want all of this to change, which is why we are doing this.
The internship that I am doing is called Fire in the Night, and this is what it is devoted to. Fire in the Night is broken down into two three month tracks. It is designed to help adults from 18-30 to develop and live lives of extravagent prayer, encountering the knowledge of God, and to pour out our lives in the great commission to the nations of the earth. (Math. 28)
In both tracks we are up from about 2pm to 6am, and we are in the prayer room from midnight to 6am. The first track focuses on intimacy and shows us how to encounter God by devotion and intercession. I have also been taking a few different classes that focus on different parts of this. On Friday, Saturday, and Sunday we have services over at the Forerunner School of Ministry that are pretty much chruch services that are usually taught by Mike Bikle.
The second track focuses more on hands on ministry training, which includes the prophetic, praying for healing of the sick, deliverance, and teaching. The teaching in this track focuses more in the study of end times and what happens then. Another part also focuses on prophetic of God in the key hours of human history. This track also further helps intimacy in God, but it also helps us to become forerunners and prophetic voices in whatever we choose to do in life. After doing both of these tracks I will also have 15 credit hours to transfer over the the Forerunner School of Ministry if i decide to do that.
The reason I'm writing this letter is to ask you to prayerfully consider supporting me either through prayer, finances, or both. I will be finishing Track 1 of Fire in the Night on December 23rd and I would really like to go ahead and do Track 2 also. I think this would be a great opportunity to grow deeper with God. I am trying to raise $2300, which includes tuition plus gas and other essentials that i may need while up here. The tuition includes room, board, meals (18 a week), classes, and books for all 3 months. Would you please prayerfully consider supporting me as I look to fulfill God's purpose for this season of my life. I would also like to add that if you can't support me financially you can still support me through prayer. If you would like to support me financial then i will need that before December 21st.
Thanks you so much for you support this far and i look forward to continuing my journey with each one of you. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or if you would like more information. If you would like to keep up with what's going on with me i update my blog regularly. The address is www.theallisonblogspot.blogspot.com. I try to update it at least once a week and whenever something big is going on. Again if you would like to get more information just let me know and i will send it to you.
Thank you so much
I love you alot
Allison Clemmons

so there it is. if you would like to support me financially then you can just make it out to me and give it to mama. if you live far away and don't have their address you can email me at little_gyrl_2006@hotmail.com. and i will give it to you. also, once again, i just want to thank everybody for your support in prayer and finances.

Saturday, December 09, 2006

a really quick update

so i just wanted to let everybody know what's going on right now here. we still have a little bit of snow on the ground. actually it's pretty much just ice now. anyways. so this week has been VERY busy. we have been doing a 7 day Global Bridegroom Fast. i think i'm going to do a post where i define all of these things so that i won't have to explain them every time. anyways. not right now though. anyways. so yeah GBF, at the beginning of every month we do a three day fast except in Dec. we do 7 so that it will be forty days. anyways so this means that we are in the prayer room alot more. oh and i have 2 weeks left before i get to see everybody. anyways so i guess that's it.

oh and i also wanted to let everybody know that i sent out an email asking people to do 2 things if they would like to support me financially. i don't think i got everybody and i also think that there are some people i don't have email addresses for so i thought that i would go ahead and tell people on here to.

so here goes.

so we only have two weeks left. one thing i need people to do if you won't to support me financially then i need you to make it out to me and give it to mama. also, i need to ask people to let me know how much you are going to support. since i am living off of support right now i need to know how much more i am going to have to raise before the end of this track. if you could do these two things that would help me out TREMENDOUSLY!!!!

also, i just want to thank you all very very much for your prayers and support.
love you all
allison

Monday, December 04, 2006

IT'S A RECORD

i have never had snow stay around for this long..... it snowed on thur. right.... well the snow is still here today..... it's sort of fun except for the fact that it like melts a little and then at night it goes down to like 10 degrees and so it freezes back.... this means LOTS AND LOTS of ice...... which is pretty hard to walk on when going back and forth from the apartments to IHOP.... not only that a friend of mine (an intern) Carrie.....

i will tell you the whole story i guess instead of starting in the middle.... so basically what happened was that... ok so they are like the furthest apartments from IHOP...... they actually have never been used before because this is the biggest track that they have ever had.... anyways so this guy went around to most if not all of the other apartments and put salt down and shoveled our sidewalks.... well i don't know if they didn' t do it there or what but anyways..... so on fri. and sat. we have EGS (encounter God services) and so they were headed there...... so she's walking to the car and slips on ice fall and not only sprains but also BREAKS her ankle....... so she had surgery yesterday morning on it and i'm really not sure what's going on now......

the really bad part is that she had already wanted to go home..... she went home for thanksgiving and didn't want to come back pretty much...... anyways.... so one of her roomates talked to her yesterday and she said that she was staying but then she was also probably doped up on pains meds to seeing as she had just got out of surgery..... we actually tried to go and see her but she hadn't made it out of recovery yet so we couldn't.... anyways so i gotta go

love ya'll lots!!!!!
allison

Saturday, December 02, 2006

It's HERE!!!!

so i just wanted to let everybody know that winter is here.... on tues. i was walking around with a t-shirt on..... on wed... there was ice and it started snowing.... the really funny thing is that it actually started snowing as i walked over to the cafeteria for breakfast (for me that was at like 2:30ish) i go in the cafeteria for like an hour and when i leave it's coming down really really hard and there's already like 1-2 inches on the ground maybe more... it was INSANE!!!! it snowed until about 12:30am or so.... WE GOT LIKE 8 INCHES OF SNOW...... it's so crazy..... i've never seen this much snow in my life.... although i froze my tail off and almost got frostbite on my legs trying to clean my truck off it's been GREAT.... and it's SOOOOOO pretty...... it actually might snow again this week.... i don't know though..... actually it might have been mon. that i was walking around in a t-shirt because the day before it snowed it was freezing rain.... which was quite painful to say the least.... yeah it was mon. that i was walking around with just a t-shirt on because tues. it was freezing rain and so they moved our great exchange class over to the multi purpose room......

anyways so i have to go now.....

love all
allison