Cambodia 2016

I'm planning on going to Cambodia as a sweet 16 birthday present*Woot Woot* anyways once there I will be volunteering at a care center or orphanage! I am absolutely excited BUT ( a very big but) I need all the help I can get. I decided to get a head start on preparations as well so I decided top set up an gofundme account to help alleviate the stress on my parents. Currently I'm not old enough to get a job but when 15 hits and I find a job I will save some money for spending, some for college and some for Cambodia and future volunteering projects. I find great pleasure in volunteering my time and caring for others, I can do it 24hrs and never tire of the smiles I see everyday. I volunteer at MOSI the Museum of Science and Industry and it makes me elated to see the happiness of children and adults alike satisfied. SO if you would like to help me go to Cambodia 2016 donate at  http://www.gofundme.com/alap7c

The Art Of Erasing

You might be confused on the whole title of this post but one thing it definitely has to do with is Iraq. Iraq has demonstrated the art of erasing almost flawlessly. I just would never understand how a country would want to eradicate all aspects of Christ, all aspects of history. I just would never understand how president Obama pushed gay rights' on anti-gay Africa yet won't push religious freedom in Iraq. I just won't understand how the pope has access to $200,000,000 annually yet all he says is let's pray for our Christian brothers and sisters. Does that even make sense? I'm tired of nobody knowing what's going on. Is it not our duty as American citizen or just citizens in general be aware and well informed on what is going on around us?!?!?!? It's sickening knowing that this is happening to other Christians yet here in America the Christians have gotten comfortable and compromising enough to not fight for what's right. Not even just Christians but citizens everywhere!!!! Have we gotten so comfortable and I guess you can say arrogant that we've turned a blind

eye to what is going in foreign countries? There are so many questions in my head that are still unanswered and it's not a good feeling. Yes your prayers are truly needed but what about finances, shelters, true God-given support!!!!! HELLOOO PEOPPLEEE!!!!!!!!! THERE ARE MANY DYING FOR SOMETHING 

YOU WOULDN'T EVEN DIE FOR!!!!!!!!!! I don't even think I would!!! 

Could you imagine the thoughts, the fear of actually dying for your beliefs? I'm pretty sure if most of us were faced with the option to Convert or to Die, majority will convert to save their own head. Look to Daniel 3:22  Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego  did not bow to the idol yet stayed loyal to God. If they can form an uprising to uproot Iraqi Christians surely we can lead an uprising ourselves.

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How awesome is it to be able to go home to your wife?

 Aren't you blessed that you haven't been killed for being a Christian? 





At least your child has not been killed for being a Christian.

How bad do we really have it as Christians in America?

BAGHDAD IRAQ-As I was scrolling through the Yahoo! homepage I seen something that caught my eye, something that is a chilling reminder of how great I have it here being a Christian in America. Islamic militants have been instilling fear into Christians in Iraq.On Thursday via loud speakers Christians were told bluntly to give up Jesus Christ and convert to Islam and pay a religion levy, or death. Thousands chose to fled abandoning centuries worth of Christian history behind like the Chaldean, Assyrian and Armenian churches. I wish I knew about this sooner than I did. Iraq had about 1 million Christians in 2003 it is said that the percentage of Christians dropped as much as 50%. It is believed that around 450,000 Christians are still standing. This makes me want to scream at the top of my lungs "Reverend Al Sharpton I understand you being out spoken and controversial for African American injustice and civil rights but what about doing the same for Jesus Christ?"

"When the Islamic State people took over Mosul weeks ago, they were nice to us at first and they used to knock our door and tell us that they mean no harm to the Christians in Mosul and they even gave us a mobile number just in case we are offended by anybody," Sahir Yahya, a Christian and government employee from Mosul, said Saturday. "This changed two days ago. The Islamic State people revealed their true savage nature and intention." 

Just 3 hours ago MSNBC posted about how Iraq is going into a downward spiral of chaos and destruction... Let me just stop there and insert a little side note... I want to know how many Americans know about what is happening around them and how many American Christians are praying for our Iraqi brothers and sisters?Neighborhoods are being ghettoized AND sealed off!!!! Is it just me or is it a flashback to the Holocaust except way quicker and with out some other factors too but too many close ones as well. So as brothers and sisters in Christ lets lift our Iraqi brothers and sisters in prayer.

The side notes are talking about the bombings that killed 27 people and why I put "Strict laws based off ideals"  it's because of the Islamic terrorist/militia covering advertisements with women faces on them. 

Evers, E. (2014). Time is running out for Iraq as nation spirals into chaos. [Blog] MSNBC. Available at: http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/time-running-out-iraq [Accessed 20 Jul. 2014].

Cia.gov, (2014). The World Factbook. [online] Available at: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/iz.html [Accessed 21 Jul. 2014].

Rasheed, A. and Fick, M. (2014). Ancient Christian population of Mosul flees Islamic State. [online] Yahoo News. Available at: http://news.yahoo.com/ancient-christian-population-mosul-flees-islamic-state-181327322.html [Accessed 21 Jul. 2014].

Usatoday.com, (2014). Under threat, Iraq's Christians flee city of Mosul. [online] Available at: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/07/19/under-threat-iraqs-christians-flee-city-of-mosul/12893939/ [Accessed 21 Jul. 2014].

Mother of four murders four year old son she thought was gay.

The title says it all as heart wrenching as it is, things like this occur everyday. The simple fact that she murdered her four year old. This case reminds me of an episode of "What would you do" when the father (male actor) tried to get other people to convince his son (child actor) to stop grabbing the barbies and go for the toy cars. Now from what I heard from other mothers (on the show) that playing with "girly toys" is a phase and it's best to let your sons and daughters experience both boy and girl toys and stuff. I remember when I was six all the way until I was ten I loved playing football, basketball, four square, gymnastics, wrestling, watching WWE, I definitely disliked skirts,dresses, cup bras,pink and everything associated with girly stuff. I was a tomboy and my mom allowed me to explore everything. Did I grow out of it yes all except for two sports and sports bras regular bras aren't my thing. What I'm trying to say is that how could she have know he was gay? Enough with my experience I must say this story is one of the many that brought me to tears. Just three hours ago the woman Dutro's now eight year old daughter testified. The four year old who was murdered name is Zachary he died August 2012. Dutro's boyfriend Brian Canady pleaded guilty to manslaughter to the first degree




"Zachary’s older sister told investigators that “Jessica and Brian” beat Zachary until he was sick. They knew he wasn't doing well, but they didn’t tell anyone, she said.
She also reported that she and her two preschool-aged brothers were put in timeout for long stretches. They were forced to “face the wall” with their hands in the air. If their arms dropped, she said, Dutro or Canady would hit them"
What the little girl said.
The girl and her two surviving brothers now live with Dutro’s relatives. "It's fun" she said







Information Sources:
 http://news.msn.com/crime-justice/prosecutor-mom-killed-son-she-perceived-to-be-gay
http://www.oregonlive.com/tigard/index.ssf/2014/03/jessica_dutros_8-year-old_daug.html#incart_river_default
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STEaM Science fair 2014

So today I'm at science fair and I'm absolutely nervous! I've been last  year but I was not competing... This year I am... Enough with the dot dot but about the JCBIBLE Journey I have been slacking.. I thought I said enough with the dot dot dot but yeah. I hope I place or get best board, something I don't care at least I made it to district right?

2/11/14 7:33 AM

Should students be content with mediocre education?

The answer to that should be no but if it's yes please feel free to share your opinions in the comments below. Where you want to admit it or not education is very crucial to us as Americans, it's as Patrick Henry   said give me liberty or give me death...Well give me education or give me.. definitely not death but poverty. The deprivation of education will eventually lead to death of knowledge which leads to poverty and generations of stupidity. I know the school system will say "well you have to be self motivated" but self motivation isn't enough for the people who have no example of hardwork and persistence. It's harder than what people think really it is. Even the stereotypes that are dished out to each race plays a key role in our education. When one race is labeled as dummies sure enough they will get dumber the more you label them intelligent the more intelligent they will be. Of course I know stereotypes  are not an excuse (of course not) but to give an example when you are teaching a dog a trick you repeatedly say it until they get it and sit down. Another example you have a baby, you name that baby, eventually your child will start answering to that name. So yeah stereotypes do play a part. Students should want more for theirselves because in the end we are the ones who need to get a job later on not our teachers who already have one. We need to take control and not allow all this bleh blah bleh get in our way. Its so hard I know but at the same time we can do it I wonder when we will finally get our act together and perform our very best. I know we should all want top notch edu. I will never wrap my head around just settling for something less. All I know is that as for me I will get me education to the fullest. I hope everyone finds the drive to want more..

How I feel on Nigerian men getting arrested for being gay...

First I want to start off by saying that as a believer in Christ Jesus I'm against homosexuality, I am entitled to that opinion and so are you, you are welcomed to post your comments below. Personally I feel as if you can't force your opinion on everyone and it goes for both parties Nigeria and Human rights activist, as Americans we should stay out of other people politics and business because one it can start a war as we almost experienced with the Syria incident, and two we can't force what we think on other countries. Just as we gained and fought for our independence by ourselves (the French did help us towards the end) and for other things like voting rights, how about  we let the people of the country fight out their battles. Sounds selfish doesn't it but the truth hurts, it might even sound mean letting a 'underdeveloped country' fight their own battle something they've been doing for how long now, but it's not, if the people want gay rights bad enough they will fight for it. America has a big heart if you want to say so I can understand why we want to help everyone but that's if the person wants it and all that other stuff. If you are a believer in Christ this is for you if you're not this is still for you because it speaks to everyone... You have a choice. I mean its just like how God gives a choice to either serve him or not. Hope that makes sense because I don't think my point is being conveyed clear enough. I don't agree that they throw them in jail for it but at least they could expose the love of Christ to them because ,again, God, gives us a choice. Wait... that is what I was trying to say earlier but I don't feel up to it to go up and fix it lol. Anyways I still think that people should bash Africa for banning homosexuality, that's like other countries bashing America for using inches instead of centimeters... (not really but really) It's a sexual orientation right yeah, but then again it's apart of life nothing will be fair,free, or just.  If you happen to notice I am just talking about America and no I'm not slandering my country, there are other countries including Nigerian who are standing against the Jail the Gay, This is me saying why America shouldn't heavily get involved with it.. but to each his own. One more thing I'm not condoning any type of wrong doing towards the men involved.

By the way you can read about the incident on:

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/01/14/dozens-alleged-gay-people-arrested-in-north-nigeria-even-before-new-anti-gay/

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/01/13/nigeria-bans-gays-marriage-gay-meetings/4457085/

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/nigeria-bans-gay-marriage-criminalizes-homosexuality-article-1.1578175