Clearly...

Okay, clearly we are not people who should be allowed to have a blog. There should be a written code for all bloggers stating your obligation to update more often than say, every 3 months. So, if you are one of the 3 people who sees this blog ever, then let me apologize for not posting since this sites conception in January of this year. Now, for the real topic of today. I am so stinking excited about several things that I will list now in no particular order.

Lillie Cate is turning six months old in 9 days and she literally gets cuter with every passing minute; I get to spend 2 weeks this summer with an incredible Fuge Summer Camp Team @ Union University(which judging by staff emails and the coveted summer staff letter...they rock); Melinda Doolittle is till in American Idol; I just read a great verse...2 Kings 3:18 "But this is a simple thing for the Lord, for He will make you victorious over the army of Moab." (clearly a great reminder that nothing is too difficult for God); my new haircut which was scary at first has actually turned out pretty nice; and finally, I just drank a large Coffee Coolatta from Dunkin Donuts.

Enough for today and perhaps enough for the next 16 weeks...you never know we the Allen Family Bloggers.

Summer 2007

Summer 2007 will be a very exciting summer for us Allens. I am heavily anticipating a great two week run as a Centrifuge Camp Pastor at Union University in early June. This will mark my third summer preaching at a lifeway camp. After spending a whole summer in Charleston at M-Fuge, and two weeks in Greenville last year at a combo camp, I am totally excited about Centrifuge this summer. God has really blessed me during those weeks. It's a really refreshing time and I can't wait to see what He has in store for me this year. Susan and I also have two really great mission opportunities planned for students at FBC Daytona Beach. We'll be doing a stateside mission with Group Work Camps in the Tampa Bay / St. Pete side of Florida and a week with World Changers International in Ufa, Russia in the latter part of July. God has really been intentional with us about getting our students here involved in missions locally and internationally. That has been the biggest blessing about our time here so far! If you have never had a chance to serve somewhere in a mission team capacity, what are you waiting for! God has already commanded us to GO and believe me, that's where the blessing is, in our obedience to Him!

Blessings,

Nic

Welcome to our Blog!

Hi there and welcome to the Allen family Blog for Nic, Susan, Lillie Cate, and Molly Allen of Port Orange, FL. We will be working hard in the next week to make this blog both fun and personal. It's a way for us to communicate effectively with family and friends and share our heart about life, family, parenthood, ministry, and the world. We want this to be a place where you feel special...after all you took the time to logon and see what's up with the Allen's. We also want it to be a place where, above everything else, Jesus Christ is glorified. He is absolutely everything to us. Our desire is to praise Him in everything we do. Now the phrase "everything we do" just happens to include blogging! Fun times. Oh yeah, the name, speedscrabble...I named it that because "theallenfamily" was already taken by some other Allen Family. I began by asking myself what I could name the blog that would be personal to us and not yet taken. At BigLife Student Ministry, we just started a series called "The Game of Life." To decorate the student center for the series, we hung all types of game boards from the ceiling...one of which was a Scrabble board. Susan and I (along with our BFFs Matt and Lindy) love SpeedScrabble and so the name was born! We hope you enjoy our blog. Check back from time to time for pictures and updates and be sure to let us know what you think!

Blessings,
the Allen family