{"id":3688,"date":"2017-08-29T09:40:13","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T13:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.faithlafayette.org\/voh\/?p=3688"},"modified":"2017-08-02T13:44:24","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T17:44:24","slug":"life-long-disciple-meet-ashley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.faithlafayette.org\/voh\/2017\/08\/29\/life-long-disciple-meet-ashley\/","title":{"rendered":"Life-Long Disciple: Meet Ashley!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">As we continue in our blog series introducing our wonderful group of interns, I ask that you take time to pray for our interns and their time here.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">Would you please pray that the Lord strengthens them with His power as they sacrificially serve staff and residents? Would you please ask that God give our interns teachable, humble hearts to learn all the Lord has for them here and to be ever sensitive to ways He would have them change? Pray that their love will be sincere as they minister to the women of Vision of Hope.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">We deeply desire you to lift up our ministry, including our interns, in prayer.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">Now, let Ashley share with you how the Lord brought her to VOH:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;font-family: Times New Roman\">My name is Ashley Beaman and I am 27 years old from New Castle, Pennsylvania. Before\u00a0coming to Vision of\u00a0Hope, I directed a parachurch organization called the Greater\u00a0Waynesburg\u00a0Christian Outreach. Through this organization, I ran an after-school program, youth drop-in center and summer day camp, among other community ministries.\u00a0In addition to enjoying Bible studies, organizing events, and working with children and youth, which I had the\u00a0privilege of doing as part of my job, I also\u00a0really enjoy\u00a0spending time with friends, trying new restaurants, coffee, thunderstorms, bonfires and fall!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">I came to know\u00a0the Lord at a summer camp when I was 12 years old and began to take my\u00a0relationship with God seriously when I was in high school.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">At another church camp during my freshman year, I heard the Gospel in a fresh way and was convicted that I could not continue to live as a lukewarm Christian \u2014 I wanted to be \u201call in.\u201d When I returned home, I talked to my mom and my youth pastor about recommitting my life to God. My mom and I were baptized on the same day in 2004!\u00a0My years following high school, attending Waynesburg University, were very\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">formative<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">\u00a0in my Christian walk. I became a part of a church family who poured into me.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">It was here that I learned true discipleship, devotion to prayer, commitment to the Word of God, living righteously and full dependence in Christ! I grew in holiness through these godly relationships, the preaching of God\u2019s Word and wise counsel. I was equipped to disciple others and I began investing in other women and children around me.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">\u00a0As I worked with the\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">Greater Waynesburg\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">Christian<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">Outreach,<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">\u00a0God continued to use me to proclaim Himself to the people of West Waynesburg. As He gave me more responsibility and eventually moved me to the position of director, I was given new opportunities to minister and I grew exponentially &#8212; both in my personal walk with the Lord and as a servant leader.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">As I look back on my testimony, one thing rings true above all else \u2014 God is faithful! He has given me a passion for helping those who are hurting and for loving people. I desire to serve Him and to make Him known! I desire to see hearts truly transformed by God\u2019s Word. I yearn to grow closer to the Lord and I am so thankful for His goodness in every season!\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">How did you hear about the VOH internship? Why were you interested in coming here to serve for a year?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">I was first introduced to Vision of Hope through the\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">Biblical Counseling Training<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">\u00a0Conference (BCTC) at Faith, which I have been coming to for 4 years with members of my church family in Pennsylvania.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">Our<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">\u00a0group was\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">connected<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">\u00a0with two VOH graduates whose lives had been transformed by God<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">\u2019<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">s work within these walls. My\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">years of attending the BCTC became personally applicable as my church family and I rallied aroun<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">d a woman and her young family as she started her journey at VOH.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">It was here in Lafayette that the Lord began to stir my heart for the hope found in biblical counseling done well. As I ministered to my neighbors in Waynesburg,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">I was met with the numerous needs, hurts and often hopelessness of the people. My greatest desire was for them to find hope in Jesus, yet there was often a disconnect between meeting their practical needs through community-based ministries and truly knowing the God these ministries were anchored in.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">This vital seed-planting ministry was often falling onto \u201cheart soil\u201d that was unprepared, due to the deep, unresolved sin and suffering that took root in the lives of the people.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\"> The Lord began to connect my passion for helping people with a realization that intensive counseling using God\u2019s word produces lasting change.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">I deeply desire to see people become life-long disciples of Christ, even when faced with the hardest of circumstances. At VOH, I believe the Lord will continue to equip me for His service, while I, myself, continue to grow as His disciple.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">What are you excited to learn and grow in at VOH?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">I am most\u00a0excited about a full year to learn and grow,\u00a0under such astounding leadership! \u00a0I\u00a0believe my experience serving at VOH, compounded with my prior experience leading faith-based community ministry, will equip me for God\u2019s\u00a0service in years to come.\u00a0I will also be working towards my ACBC\u00a0certification while I am here.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">If we had a fun themed day at VOH, what would you want the theme to be and why?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;font-family: Times New Roman\">I would choose a\u00a0\u201cBack to Childhood\u201d theme so we could enjoy\u00a0things like coloring, sidewalk chalk, freeze-pops, puddle jumping, and Saturday morning cartoons with cereal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">God is faithful! We are confident that Ashley will continue to witness His faithfulness to her and others as she serves at VOH.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we continue in our blog series introducing our wonderful group of interns, I ask that you take time to pray for our interns and their time here.\u00a0 Would you please pray that the Lord strengthens them with His power as they sacrificially serve staff and residents? 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