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I know this is a few days late, but I've been sleeping and unpacking the last couple of days. It's great to be back home, but my experience in St. Louis was full of amazing experiences, wonderful people, and over a chance for me to grow and learn. My last week in STL was one of my favorites. As our internships were winding down, all of the interns got to spend a lot of time together. One day, we all worked in a conference room together, getting to both get work done and chat with each other. When the summer started, I never dreamed that I would grow so close with the other five girls, but I did. We all hailed from different places and had different backgrounds and majors, but we bonded over CPH, John Mulaney, Christ, and the fact that we were all outsiders together. We were joyful, tearful, and laughable. We ate cupcakes and pizza, visited tourist sites, and went to church. I am so thankful for Adele, Emily, Katie, Audrey, and April. In addition to all the fantastic people I ...

My time at CPH has flown by and I now only have one week left in St. Louis! I had a lot of fun this past week, though. As the VBS intern, a lot of my job has consisted of updating and changing files for next year's VBS, Miraculous Mission . I got really good at using the "find and replace" tool in Word! However, this week I got to do more with creating original files and content. Adele and I have been working on creating the PowerPoints for the song lyrics and the opening and closing sessions of VBS. This required a lot of waiting for various art files, waiting to make sure the song lyrics were proofread, and waiting for InDesign to export files. After this week, I could go years without using InDesign again and I would be happy! But really, it's been so cool to put together something that I know will be used by churches next summer. Heck, I'll be using it! When we were exporting lyrics for what felt like the thousandth time, Adele and I reminded each other about...

Oh what a week it was! After taking the week of July 4th off to visit home, it was decidedly more difficult to get back in the swing of things at CPH, but it was a great week nonetheless! In terms of what I was working on day to day, most of this week was spent writing a few blog posts for the CPH VBS website. I got to collaborate on these posts with my fellow intern, Adele, which made it an even cooler project. Our first post is already up, if you would like to check it out! I'll put a link at the bottom of this post. We've also been working on creating PowerPoints, PDFs, and other documents that will be a part of next year's VBS, Miraculous Mission . It has been so amazing to work on this VBS and know that churches all across the country will use it next year, including my home church! It is going to be a fantastic way to share Christ's love with kids, and I'm a part of it! I just really love this job. Most of the excitement this week came in the form of activi...