Beloved Osaruchi

Winner Announced

Posted by BelovedOsaruchi Friday, February 4, 2011 comments (0)

Hey Ladies.... and gents!
I apologize for the lateness of this email, I am just now making it back into the house. Long day, but we thank God!

Gonna make this a quick post and get straight to the point!
The winners of the What's Your favorite book in the Bible giveaway and why?! are:

JenellyBean & Liz

I will contact both winners at the email addresses provided! JenellyBean, since your name was selected first, you get the option of choosing which gift card you would prefer. Liz will then get the other :)

Thanks to all who participated! And look out for giveaways in the near future!

God bless you all!
Osaruchi

Valentine's Day!

Posted by BelovedOsaruchi Thursday, February 3, 2011 comments (0)

Valentine's Day!

It's that time of the year again...or rather that time of the month!

Yep Yep, the love month as most know it....February! (woot woot)

But I, we, those in the faith of our Father know that the TRUE LOVE month is every month, every day, every second when you're fully surrendered and devoted to a Savior who took on the wrath of humanity, bore your sicknesses, diseases, and all of man's condemned wrath so that you could live the life! A life that flows with milk and honey with eyes fixated on Heaven's throne knowing one day you shall come face to face with your Maker!

Now That's true love!!!! That's Real Love!

And Kingsword International Church Chicago is back at it! That's right! Come February 13, 2011 @6:00pm, REAL LOVE will be held at The Lighthouse!

If you've come in the past, you definitely cannot afford to miss it this year, so free your calendars, get your outfits, buy your tickets and show, not in that order, but it actually does work, yay!

NMT Multimedia, Heralds of Praise and most importantly, the presence of The Most High will be in the building.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

God bless,

Osaruchi

Snow Day 2011! Yes yall, it hit the Windy City!

Posted by BelovedOsaruchi Wednesday, February 2, 2011 comments (0)

Amidst the numerous warnings signs and the weather forecast for this week about the upcoming blizzard, I'm sure no one in Chicago expected the weather to be this drastic, let alone this much, yikes!!!

But upon waking up this morning around 9:30am, the severity of what had been mentioned on CNN, WGN, & all other "important" somewhat reliable news stations, the truth had been revealed. A SNOW STORM had indeed hit Chicago with no remorse :( Unable to open my front door, the realization had set in that we were indeed going to either be stuck in the house all day, [which I had no problem with seeing as there is work for me to do], or that Chicago residents would have to brave the mountainous heap of snow and shovel it ourselves. I opted for the first option, but popz made it clear that the second was his preference. And judging from the looks of my face in this pic.....

one can tell I wasn't ready to go outside yet, or let alone, go outside to shovel snow. Even my shoes didn't want to go outside, not together anyway.... (Ha!)

However, after 4 hours of what I called torture, our back and front had become somewhat clear and where there once was a walkway, just 2 days ago, we were now able to see it.... Hope you all enjoyed your snow day! Now after being done, I'm going to attempt to do what I should have started in the 4 hours I will never get back....

But at least pics were taken :)
Enjoy!

Before we started....

The front of my house

Our block!

Big Sis & Dad getting to work on the shovels...

Baby Sis just wanted to be cute

We were both getting tired....

Had to get the job done though


This is where Big Sis' randomness emerged

I started ignoring her at this point


End of the SnowDay clean-up.... 4 hours in the cold :(

Thanks alot Chicago weather! And a special s/o goes to the City of Chicago for not coming by to clean the roads....Yall did wonderful :)
#majorsarcasm

God bless,
Osaruchi

Back from sabbatical

Posted by BelovedOsaruchi Saturday, January 29, 2011 comments (0)

Guess who's back!!!!

In light of my recent travel adventures, and feeling overwhelmed with work and other daily adventures, my blog has taken a hit :(. But I'd like to thank you all for remaining "followers" and for those who have recently joined, it's all appreciated.

I recently went to Los Angeles California for the Lyricist Lounge 4 event and I have to say that it was well worth the trip. God definitely showed up last Saturday, January 22. Over 1,000 people attended the event and more than 30+ people dedicated their lives to Christ. What a presence that filled the room that evening. It was truly surreal.

A week later, and I still feel as though the effects of jetlag are taking over, but thank God for strength in times of weakness. While I was in Cali, there were a few things I enjoyed and a few things I saw that I wanted to do more of.

1. I definitely enjoyed fellowship with other believers in the faith, it was truly a privilege and an honor to worship with the P4CM family! (S/O to the Davis fam)

2. I enjoyed traveling with the Chicago fam also, God definitely has a way of revealing Himself to you through others and looking back at the events of last week, I can now appreciate growth in some areas.

3. I definitely enjoyed traveling!!!! Although I've traveled about 3 times already this year, this was my second visit to Cali, a region miles away from my home city of Chicago. I was reminded that there is life outside of Chicago as well as varying cultures, disparities and hearts that yearn for Jesus. So in honor of my recent travels, I look forward to many more out of town visits this year, God willing! Mainly for the witnessing of the Gospel, but leisure wouldn't hurt :)

With that said, I'm going back to dwelling in the secret place of rest as I was reminded of the message that was preached last Sunday at the P4CM service.

C. Davis, Thank you for your message on Sunday...God's sovereignty is truly a place to find refuge.

Enjoy some pics.....

First Night @Roscoe's Chicken & Waffles (minus Tanikia)

The ladies (minus De'ja)

They say I was always on my phone....

Childhood memories....

The fellas

The ladies......

She is just too cute...and gifted. I look forward to seeing her serve her generation.

God bless,
Osaruchi

Random Fun Times!

Posted by BelovedOsaruchi Monday, January 17, 2011 comments (2)

I think I spent way too much time this weekend with "Nikki" from Nikkiandthecity and it's gonna continue this Friday as we head to LA for P4CM's Lyricist Lounge! So I guess we got started early on the pics...

Here are a few from yesterday: