Jessica Hurst

Jess just chasing us with a stick, she thought
we were being mean to her...

What can I say about Jessica Hurst?

She's awesome, no I am serious. I swear everyone who meets her and wants to be friends with her.

She loves laughter, which is great because she often involved in events involving this sort of activity. Whether its because she has caused the laughter by her ridiculously witty or ridiculous comments. Jess has a knack for getting herself into these situations that just inspire laughter and memories. Laughter just surrounds her, its seriously her spiritual gift.

She also has the biggest heart, some of my fondest memories of Jess are of her yelling because her heart was breaking for others. I also have great memories of her crying on a plane because of a movie, or just crying because we lived a ridiculous life for a month which sometimes it got to be much to handle and we became too emotional over a situation (sorry Jeremy). Her heart is just big, its tender, and its fierce. She will fight to the death to protect those she loves, she is definitely a mother bear when her family is threatened.

Causing trouble and many laughs

Jessica also has this wonderful problem where she has inappropriate emotional responses to certain situations. True story not once but twice she laughed and laughed and laughed when two of our students passed out in the hospital (I must also confess I also suffer from this condition and I feel it was better that we laughed than cried uncontrollably which was definitely our only other option, trust me its a great story though).

Jess loves Babies. African babies however become confused and take a while to warm up to her.

I can't put what this look means in words
but trust me its a look I have seen
many many times. Its her signature look.

Why am I tell you all of this? Well Jess is going on the World Race in Jan, she is on route 4 which will turn into P squad. She needs to raise approx. $15 000 ideally before she launches. This girl walked through a summer I will never forget and so now I want to support her. So I decided to blog about her telling you about Jess's heart which longs to reach out to the broken hurting people in the world. It longs to radically follow the Lord where ever he sends her so long as she remains in his heart.
I am writing because I want to ask you to pray for my dear friend for the next year and a bit, pray protection, unity, faith, provision or whatever the Lord calls you to pray for her. I would also like to humbly ask you to pray about supporting her, check out her bloghttp://jessicahurst.theworldrace.org/ get to know her and there is also a link on how to support her here. If you want and live in America she is also selling t-shirts which are great and you should get one.

I know that this post was different but its my blog and I am going to do what I want with it. Today I wanted to write about a friend in need.

Thank you friends for reading.

Thank you Jess for being yourself, love you!

Ashley

Jess's Kelly face...