Actors, Models, and Talent for Christ!

Hey guys!

I want to tell you about an amazing opportunity I've been given to represent Christ through the entertainment industry in this next season. 

The story: One day at work, I was talking with a co-worker when out of the blue I just said what was on my heart. "I want to be a singer!! I want to professionally sing!!" He was a little surprised but was like, "Really? That's awesome! You should check out this audition thing I heard about. It's like this Christian talent agency that guarantee's you success!" I was very shocked and skeptical when he told me about it, but I decided to check it out anyways. 

I went to the website he told me about and I was amazed. It was a legit organization called Actors, Models, and Talent for Christ (AMTC). It was filled with testimony after testimony of people having success in the entertainment industry all the while keeping and strengthening their faith in Christ and letting their light shine for Him. The one thing I loved the most about what they stood for though was the fact that they wanted to send in an army of missionaries into the industry to use their God given talents and gifting to change the industry as well as the world with Christ and what He stands for. 

I was blown away. This exact idea was given to me by the Lord a couple of years ago when He was revealing His heart to me about impacting the world, missions work, and so on through my life. Because I have such a huge heart for missions and for the arts and changing the world with the Lord it was like this huge divine moment where He was giving me an avenue to do exactly what He told me about 2 years prior. So I decided to go to the audition and just see what would happen.

The audition was THAT WEEKEND. Talk about timing. I decided I would try out for everything and just see what happened. I did singing, dancing, modeling, and acting. All the people working there were so kind and humble and really believed in the talent that was coming out of us. So I went for it. And I got a call back! I was selected for modeling and acting and possibly to do singing as well (I have a second audition in a few months for that). 

I really feel like this is what's next for me and I feel it's the Lord opening doors for me and allowing my dreams to become bigger and more alive! Several people have given me words about going into the entertainment industry, doing music, acting, and fashion but it always felt far off or even unimaginable. But I really believe this is the beginning, and to be given the opportunity to train, learn, and grow in this industry is such an honor. 

How AMTC's program works: When you receive a call back, you start training through online studying and completing training modules and tests. Along with that, you attend a weekend training workshop with coaches to pour into and better prepare you for your talent. You also have a photo shoot with your own style team and designers that help you to get top notch photos that will express to agents and others that you are serious about your work. Finally, you attend the SHINE conference which is the final step of the program. This conference is where you will be prepared and polished and will reveal your talent(s) before top people in the industry. Also, you get connected with leaders you might want to network with later, you are interviewed by different companies, and you attend seminars given by leaders in different parts of the industry. It's a jammed pack week. After the conference, you either wait to hear a callback, start searching for different work opportunities, or begin connecting with those you networked with previously. The conference has allowed huge amounts of talented people to make a career out of what they love. Such people as Megan Fox, and Maggie Jones from "We Bought a Zoo," (the adorable little girl) as well as many more.

Whether I get callbacks or receive no work, I believe this opportunity will educate me and better prepare me for the destiny the Lord has for me and allow me to start on the road to my dreams.

If you'd like to check out AMTC's website click: http://www.amtcworld.com/

The cost of this program (not including travel and hotel costs) is: $4,500. 

If you'd like to help support me in getting to be apart of this opportunity click: http://www.gofundme.com/dzal8

Would love to receive any prayers and comments you may have, please don't be shy! 

Much Love, Emily

Update on Life

I can't believe it has literally been almost 2 years since I last posted a blog. I am so excited to be back at it again sharing my life and the journey I'm on right now with everyone. :) 

Since I last posted, I was living in Lynchburg, Virginia apart of a house of prayer there that I fell in love with and changed my life. I then left and attended Bethel Worship School in the summer of 2012. After that I felt led to move to California in September and went to Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry-1st year 2012-13 and got 2  dance jobs (which was a dream of mine), I then moved back home to Arkansas in August of this last year. I became an aunt in November of 2013 to the very awesome and adorable Jackson Drew Nance!, and now I am doing Bethel's online Worship School. It's been a crazy past couple of years filled with ups and downs, crazy joy and excitement, learning and experiencing new things, unexpected turns, and hard situations and decisions. But I am so thankful for where I'm at right now, for what the Lord has done in me and through me, for the many friends and family that have loved and supported me through it all, and for what is ahead for 2014.  It's going to be a great year!

What this girl is tentatively planning:

• Fashion blogs! - Hopefully I'll be able to get a new camera soon that takes quality photos and I'll be able to put together outfits and such to post on here as well as anything else I am passionate about in fashion at the time. (If anyone has an old good camera they'd like to sell at a reasonable price, let me know!!)
• Acting & Modeling training - RIGHT?! Out of the blue this opportunity came open for me to train in both acting and modeling with a Christian organization. What a DREAM! More information to come on this later :D.
• Travel - I've been really desiring to travel this year since it's been a little over 2 years since I've been outside the country. I feel this year I might get to go again, and I'm really wanting to go to Europe. This will either be just to get fresh revelation, direction, or inspiration from the Lord or to minister to the local body throughout different countries we venture to (a few people I might be going with).
• Singing & Guitar/Piano - I've been really working on my singing, guitar, and keyboard playing these past several months and am excited to finally feel confident and ready to play in front of people. I also plan on recording some covers of songs and possible doing some of my own songs. So hopefully that will be soon!
• Moving - Not sure where, when, or if it will happen but it's a desire of mine! Especially to be able to find a great community that I connect well with.

And the rest is unsure. I'm so excited to see what happens this year. Please consider praying for me especially right now for direction and clarity and that wherever I go and whatever I do this year that I'll have great community and that finances won't stand in the way. Love you all and would love to receive any comments you may have :).

Incredible Happenings

The past few months have been quite a ride for me with the Lord. I am honestly just in awe of the blessings the Lord has showweeerrrrreeedddd on me. HE IS JUST SOOOO GOOODDD!!!!!

I think it all really started hitting me when I moved to Lynchburg, VA. I had been praying that God would open up an opportunity for me to live with a great family or friend and allow me to really be apart of a great church community. I also wanted to be able to really dive into worship and the arts heavily wherever I was. So Sheila, my dear friend from The World Race, talked to me on the phone one day and she offered her home as a place for me to stay. She also told me that there was this house of prayer in Lynchburg that was much like the IHOP in Kansas City. At the time I had really been considering going and doing schooling at IHOP so it just all sounded so perfect to me! So I just stepped out in faith and decided to head east!

It turned out that there was an internship coming up at the house of prayer that was about awakening love and diving into some deep intimacy with the Lord and doing ministry as well. It was cheap...and sounded like a great thing to do since I didn't have a job and I really wanted more intimacy with Jesus. Little did I know what that week would do to my life.

The internship consisted of about 20 or so people, about 10 of them being from Shawnee, OK and the rest being from mainly Lynchburg. These people I can now say will be my dear friends forever. They have impacted my life and helped grow and change me so much. I am forever grateful for them. They are all so incredible!! But the internship was a lot of teachings, a lot of worship time, diving into God's presence and experiencing His glory while doing outreach in random spots in Lynchburg. People were experiencing deliverance, healing, and true community...especially me.

I realized at this internship that even though I went on The World Race and experienced so much, I still had a lot of junk within myself. I thought I had figured all this community stuff out as well as believing I was done with healing within myself. But the Lord really did a work in me in those several days. The Lord showed me that I had hurts and wounds from community I had been apart of previously, the truth that God is truly my Daddy hadn't fully resonated in my heart, I had been paralyzed with a lot of fear, and still had issues with depression. He showed me that yes I had been through healing and deliverance in these areas but it's like an onion, where you have to peel off one layer at a time and that it's a process (with much shedding of tears). But I did experience so much healing there and really was given this hope and expectancy for wholeness in the future.

A few other random awesome things happened at the internship:
-The Holy Spirit helped me and several of the other interns play a worship and intercession set for an hour and a half very well! He helped me play the drums :)
-I was given a crazy amount of prophetic words that were all so dead on for my life and my future. I had two that were very specific to my ministry initiative I will be doing in the next few years in Cambodia!!! It was crazy confirmation that that is where the Lord is really leading me.
-A person was completely healed right outside the doors of LHOP of a broken bone!

That's just a few awesome things that happened within those few days together. That week was literally heaven on earth for all of us there. That is how heaven is-living in the constant glory of God, living in true covenant community with fellow believers, feeling whole, and moving in signs and wonders!

That is just the beginning of the incredible happenings that the Lord has brought in the past few months....More to come sooooonnnn!!!!!

Being Back

I have now been home from The World Race for about 2 months. My time at home has been so special with my family and especially with the Lord. I've been able to do a lot the things I've been wanting to do since being on the race-painting, designing clothes, taking bubble baths, etc. It's been so good and after a year of being thoroughly uncomfortable it's been nice to be comfortable again. But through a few events and a lot of refinement, I've realized a lot. 

I can't be comfortable anymore. I can't go a whole day sitting, doing nothing. I can't forget the things I saw this last year. I can't forget the tears I cried over the injustice and brokenness I saw in the world. I can't forget that orphan. I can't forget that one dying of AIDS. I can't forget that one. I still cry, pretty much everyday. I cry because I feel like nobody understands except for my AIM family. I cry because our churches are filled with lots of people, talented musicians, and a preacher but no Presence. I cry because I miss my church-on the dirt with 10 africans worshiping God with all that they have. I cry because so many do not know and live in community, but on the race that's all we had. I cry because I feel like a lot of the believers of 50 years plus really don't KNOW God, Jesus, or the Holy Spirit. I cry because its hard being surrounded by televisions, entertainment, and materialism when all I want to be surrounded by is the Lord's presence and my brothers and sisters. I cry because it's disgusting how easy it is to fall back into the American way and mindset. I cry because I feel like the race was just a dream, that it really didn't happen. I cry because I feel like those I met will never hear the name of Jesus again. I cry because that one HEALED of AIDS may go back to his old ways and the healing be in vain. I cry because I know I can't just sit back and not be apart of that one orphans life. I cry because I know I have to go back. 

 I have to go back. Someday. I have to be apart of what God's doing. So please follow my journey, come be apart of what I'm doing and what God is doing through me and in me! Much love:)