Its Been A Long Time

Hello Family and Friends,

I know it has been a really long time and I am so sorry about the long long long absence. I thought once basketball season was over I would slow down a little bit and have an easier schedule. But boy was I wrong. I have done so many things since the end of basketball season it all seems like a blur. So I am just going to take some time and let you all know what God has been doing in my life lately.

First off basketball season had many ups and downs this past season but I had so much fun. I think had a successful college basketball career. I was able to do something that so many people desire to do but do not get the opportunity to do. I thank God for all of my college basketball experience. I finished my Montreat basketball career with 337 points and 177 rebounds. As a team this past year we ranked nationally in many areas; 2nd in field goal percentage, 6th in 3 point field goal percentage, 20th in scoring offense per game, 31st in defensive rebounding percentage, 41st in total scoring offense, 45th in steals per game and 47th in 3 point field goals made per game. It was a fun year and I am truly going to miss playing college basketball. One of my best games of my career was on senior night against Tennessee Wesleyan where I had 16 second half points.

After basketball season I really started thinking about my future and what would be next for me. I knew that I had one semester of school left and would be graduating in December of 2012. My school advisor had been telling me about this best semester program called the LA Film Studies Center (LAFSC). So I started looking into it. Basically it is a program that is exclusively for Christian college students who are juniors or seniors. Students go out to Los Angeles, CA and take film classes and do an internship at a film or television studio in Hollywood. I got really interested in the program and applied. About a month after applying I was told that I was accepted to the program for the fall semester. I was so excited and I couldn’t believe that God had opened a door of opportunity, like this, to me. There are about 44 students in the program this semester. We live in apartments with other students in the program it will be a great time. I am going to learn so much and this will be the platform that allows me to get my foot in the door of the film industry.

Now as many of you know I have spent the last four summers interning in Greensboro, NC with Time Warner Cable. I did not do that internship this summer so it allowed for me to spend the entire summer with my family and help my parents do our Destiny Basketball camps. I was so excited about that. We did a basketball camp at Calvary Worship Center in Colorado Springs, CO and it was amazing. Then that Saturday after the camp the Waldo Canyon Fire started and our summer drastically changed. Not only did we have to cancel the rest of the camps but we had to evacuate our house. The fire ended up stopping about a half a mile from where we lived. That is one experience I will never forget. The fire came so fast I couldn’t believe it. The police were actually going house to house telling people that they had to leave. I am so grateful of God’s protection.

After the fire was controlled and we were able to go back to the house things slowed down a little bit. I helped my family move houses and the Destiny Project was able to get a new office which is very exciting so I was able to help move into there as well. Then my parents decided to go on a tour/anniversary trip. They were going to celebrate their 25th anniversary down in Florida and then travel to many states to visit with partners of The Destiny Project and to gain new partners. They planned for just the two of them to travel to these states and many people were disappointed that my sister and I would not be with them. But as many of you know God works in mysterious ways. One of our family friends in Colorado Springs was going to be moving to Orlando, FL, they have five kids and needed help. They needed someone to dive their truck while the husband drove the moving truck and the wife would be driving their other vehicle. My dad asked my sister and me if we would think about helping the family and then him and my mom would pick us up in Florida and we would do the rest of the tour with them. My sister and I accepted and helped them move. I drove the truck and she helped with the kids. We had some truck trouble along the way but we had so much fun. I got so attached to the kids I feel like their big brother or uncle or something and I plan on being in their lives and seeing them grow up.

So then our parents picked us up and we did some serious traveling we went to Georgia, North Carolina, Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky and some other places. Then we drove across country, stopped in Colorado for a night and then drove out to California and my parents brought me to LA to start my last semester of college. I will be graduating from Montreat in December. We traveled coast to coast in seven days.

This year and summer has been an incredible journey and I know without a shadow of doubt that God has his hand on my life and is with me everywhere I go. I arrived to LA on Saturday August 18th and I am loving it here already. The people that are in this program with me are some amazing men and women of God and I feel so blessed to be a part of this movement out in Hollywood. Like I said I am living in an apartment with four other students from the program. All the expenses are paid for through my tuition except for food. And I know God will continue to provide for me. But if you feel led to send a care package or anything like that do not hesitate to send me an email. Because if any of u know me you know I love to eat (lol). So please be in prayer if you think he is leading you to help me out in anyway while I am out here because my internship will most likely not be a paid one.

Now I have to talk about something that is very important in my life. Monica Wheeldon she is my girlfriend of 1 year and 9 months. We are doing the long distance thing right now, like serious long distance, literally coast to coast because she is in Wilmington, NC (the beach) and I am in LA (the beach). But I am so in love with her and I am truly blessed to have her in my life. I miss her very much but I was able to see here while my family and I were in NC.

I will try to do my best to update my blog regularly, but as you all know I have a tendency to get very busy but I will do my best. Please keep me in your prayers and in your thoughts. Also if you would like to see some of the videos I have made over the years here is my YouTube channel link (Christian's YouTube Channel).

Thank you all for reading my blog and remember You Have A Destiny!