much better

so i don't know how many people have been praying for me or whatever but i just wanted to let everybody know that i am doing much better.... i can't explain what happened all i know is that i no longer have the heaviness that i had and i'm just doing alot better... still not 100% about everything but it's ok.... thanks for the prayer...

anyways i guess that's all.... oh and summer if you read this you have really been on my heart lately and i hope that everything is going ok.... i'm praying for you!!!!
love ya
allison

Update

so i just wanted to let everybody know once again what's going on.... i must be honest, i'm not doing very good right now..... alot of stuff is going on that i really don't want to put on here because i don't know who all reads this.... anyways some of the things that are going on are...

a guy left.... long story.... and so we got a new guy yesterday.... something else i really don't want to get into on here... and we only have 5 weeks left and i don't know what i'm doing after this.... my life right now is just not going very well.... i mean besides the obvious of being here and all that good stuff.... i'm just really having a hard time recently.... this post is sort of depressing to... sorry about that it's just sort of the mood that i'm in right now.... everything just really seems to be going down hill.... i'm hopeing there's going to be an up hill sometime soon cuz this just really isn't that much fun....
this is the end of my sort of depressing post....
if anybody wants me to go into the stories just email me, but i don't want to do it on here....
love all
allison

Update....

so i just wanted to let everybody know what's going on... things are going better for my fanily, but we still need your prayers because there's still alot going on.... thank you so much for your prayers... they've really really helped... i'm still not sure what i'm doing after this track, which is kind of frustrating because we only have like 5 weeks left... as of right now i have three options... i can move up here and get a job and just not be on staff but still come in at night and everything... (or i could be on staff) i could move to orlando.... a girl (intern) is starting a nightwatch at the house of prayer there and i could go and help her with that.... or i could move to atlanta.... if i move there i will get a nanny position somewhere and do ihop there.... the thing is it would actually be easier for me to move to atlanta because then i would be closer to my family and i would be able to get my stuff from the house.... if i moved up here it would be a little bit more difficult in that area but this is what i know..... so that would be easier.... because i know more ihop people up here..... anyways so i have to go but if ya'll could be praying for me about that it would be very very helpful.... anyways love all
allison

What to do What to do???

so i have started trying to figure out what i'm going to do after this track..... as of right now i have registered on gonannies.com trying to find a job as a nanny in atlanta...... also, i'm looking for an apartment or something in atlanta.... somewhere to live.... i told daddy yesterday that really don't want to move to atlanta or kc or orlando (i could move there and help a girl with the nightwatch there) but i don't know what else to do... i can't just keep doing what i'm doing now (just sort of killing time until something happens) because i really need to figure out what i'm going to do.... especially seeing as we really don't have much longer before we're done here..... anyways please be praying that i will figure something out... love all
allison

adventures in KC

so we have snow again..... i didn't even know it was supposed to snow... now i do.... so here's what happened... it rained all day yesterday... i didn't feel good already so that was interesting... we ate at like 730 and me and one of my roomates went to walmart at like 830.... when we left.... it was raining and there was a little bit of sleet... not much to really worry about... so i thought.... i was wrong though... so we are in walmart getting what we needed and everything and we were fixing to leave and this guy that works there looked at our buggy and he was like... you need to get more than that.... you've got to go out in the snow anyways.... i look at him and i'm like... it's snowing? he's like yeah... so we go pay for our stuff walk outside and it is coming down pretty bad... i mean it looked pretty and everything, but i had to drive my truck back to IHOP in it.... i was a little less than happy about it... i was actually really really mad..... so we load up the truck and everything and we're driving down the road..... there's a car behind us a little ways..... so what happens???
well the truck started going over in the other lane and so i go to pull it back... well apparently that was the wrong thing to do because we spin around (now remember my roommate is in the car to) so we spin around and slam into the curb..... i just knew we were going to flip, but only by God's grace we didn't..... where we were there was one of those drain things... but i think the only thing that hit was the front tire..... i think everything is ok though..... anyways i have to go or i would tell you more....

love all
allison

YAY!!!!

ok so it turns out that my family has worked it out to where Buddy is going to be ok staying at home.... THANK GOODNESS!!!!! i'm really really excited about that...... anyways so we had the signs and wonders conference this weekend.... it was really good but really really tiring.... i was sick with some kind of cold or something the whole time that seems like it's getting even worse now instead of better.... for most people it might have been a little tiring but for those on the nightwatch where you stay up all night and sleep during to day it's even worse..... you see where normally you are able to get up at like 2 or 3 or whatever i had to start getting up and like 12...... that would probably be the equivalent of normal people going to be at like 11 and getting up at like 4.... it was really bad.... you could tell in the sessions who was nightwatch because we were all asleep.... it didn't matter how hard we tried there was just no getting around it.... i mean i had to stand on the lines last night and i was falling asleep standing up i was so exausted..... anyways.... i got to see people from back home and that was really really good.... so i guess that's all
love all and i want to see people at the conference in March to....
love
allison

a little bit more about the dog situation

i also wanted to let everybody know that he also has a kennel that he sleeps in at night. he also stays in it when we leave the house... right now he's having to stay in it alot because there's nobody there during the day.... oh and i wanted to say he's pretty good with kids.... he loves dylan to death even though he can be a little bit hyper.... sometimes he does go a little overboard, but usually he is great.... Dylan tends to sort of instigate alot of the stuff... oh yeah... he kind of likes to chew on toys though.... of course now it has gotten to the point where Dylan is feeding his toys to Buddy.... anyways.... like i said i would like to have it figured out by the end of this week..... he really needs somewhere to go.....
thank you all
i know this is asking alot and i really really appreciate your patience....
love ya
allison

a really weird question????

ok so this is a little weird asking this but i'm going to ask anyways.... so in light of everything that's going on right now with my family and everything i have to figure out what to do with my dog..... this is where the weird question comes in....

ok so let me tell everybody about him first....
so his name is buddy and he's a boston terrier, if you know boston terriers they are really hiper... and buddy is no exception.... he tends to get really excited and go crazy like he jumps on the furniture (like chairs) and things and he really likes to give kisses.... he is an inside dog and he is house trained.... except on very few occasions he does NOT use the bathroom in the house... he is a fun dog and he will run and play with the best of them.... he likes being outside so when you let him out he sometimes won't come back and you have to go and chase him down.... he's not fixed or anything like that... i think that's about it....

so her goes that question.... i was wondering if somebody (that i know because i'm sure there may be some looking at this who i don't know) would mind taking him and letting him live with them for until March 27th.... you see if i can't find somewhere for him to stay then i am going to have to get rid of him.... i will supply his food and all of his needs other than that.... oh and one thing i forgot.... he hurt his back a couple of months ago and so he needs to be really careful about what he does (for instance, no jumping from higher places... etc.) anyways.... so if you would like to help me out with this please just let me know because i must figure something out within the next week....

you can email me little_gyrl_2006@hotmail.com
if you have any questions or anything like that or if you would like to help me out..
love to all and thanks alot
allison

small update

ok... so this is going to be really short..... evreything's going good here..... we have the signs and wonders conference next week that some people are coming and i'm REALLY REALLY excited about... as far as me well i am doing good.... it's been sort of rough this last week.... but it's getting better.... i hope everybody is doing good and all that stuff.... well there's really not much more to say... love all
allison

prayer

ok so i know that i'm at the house of prayer and all that good stuff.... we are in the prayer business here but trust me i am by no means to high and mighty to ask people for prayer.... i just wanted to ask everybody to keep my family in your prayers because we are going through some stuff right now.... this being the internet and all i won't put what it is on here but just know that stuff is going on and we desperatly need lots of prayer... thanks all
love
allison

sorry this is so short and sort of depressing.....

winter weather

so i have been inside with nothing to do for like three days now..... if you haven't seen the weather for here it's not good.... we had about 2 or 3 inches of sleet(not snow) on the ground right now and it's still freezing rain...... it was sleeting friday when we woke up so they canceled EGS then it was sleeting again yesterday so they canceled it for yesterday and today..... so we have been sitting inside ALL day long and it's getting pretty boring.... the good thing is that i got some school done.... i would have gotten more done except for the simple fact of after about an hour or so of doing it you sort of get tired and plus there are alot of distractions in an apartment of 7 girls.... anyways..... so i hope everybody is doing good.... and i can't wait to see those of you who are coming for the Signs and Wonders conference in feb..... it's going to be GREAT!!! i'm really excited.... anyways that's all for now

love ya'll lots and lots
allison

hey to all

so i decided that i would blog today as you could probably tell.... anyways so everything's going good here.... we are still doing orientation so it's really really busy for the track 1 people and not very busy for the track 2 people because we heard it all last time...... this gives me the perfect opportunity to do school so it's GREAT.... especially seeing as i found out the other day that i have to have it done by the 28th..... oh well it's all good cuz i'm almost done anyways...... so yeah.... God's doing alot as He always does and yeah..... probably the main thing that He is teaching me right now is to WAIT!!! this doesn't sound very hard.... really it doesn't or at least i didn't think it sounded to hard.... but when what you want is like right there in front of your face(or at least you think it is) and you can't have it it's sort of hard..... i guess that's where that saying comes in patience is a virtue.... and apparently i haven't aquired it yet..... oh well i guess that i will during this time.... so yeah i guess that's all
love all
allison

Back at IHOP

so i just wanted to let everybody know that i made it back to IHOP.... just barely it seemed like but i did make it..... yesterday was hard leaving everybody again plus the other stuff that happened weren't to great either..... so here are the events of yesterday..... we get to the airport and everything... oh yeah it turns out we were able to meet daddy and he went to the airport with us, which was really good..... anyways, so we get to the airport and it turns out that they had overbooked the flight and so the lady was like you need to go straight to the person at the desk and get you a seat.... the thing was that i hadn't had anything to eat since early that morning and i was really hungry.... ok so i just changed my mind about writing about all of this..... i'm just really not in a very good place to write it right now.... i'll just leave it as yesterday was really rough... today really hasn't been much different either because i miss my family ALOT!!! and i just left them yesterday.... thanks once again to everybody who has helped me through finances or prayer in these last months and days..... it has helped ALOT!!!!! i can't express how much this really means to me.... thank you SO SO SO SO much.....

i love you all lots and lots
allison

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

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

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

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!!!!!!

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!!!!!

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.