Ashley wants to make YOU part of what's happening in Atlanta!
I am your youngest North American Board Missionary. I am a full time student at Georgia Perimeter College majoring in Media Journalism. My passion is working with people and that’s exactly what I do at Kensington Station Apartments where I serve as the After School Director.
Went into the office to help Tom and Zoe set up for the big Reuse the News Collegian Earth Day event.
We had a great turn out. Everyone seemed to love the “News Wad Toss Game” where they aimed for a cleaner earth and won lollie pops, cookies, and cupcakes.
The ladies also enjoyed learning how to make the newspaper headbands.
Happy Earth day, tree huggers!
Love,
Ashley
Finished my Geology take home test.
Miles, Jesse and I went to El Torero.
CPR class was loooong. She takes role at the very.
Rainy all day.
Jesse was a BIG help to Annam helping her out with her new phone.
Love,
Ashley
95 on my Geo quiz!
Finished the last touches on the Civic Engagement Center article.
Zoe got her birthday present! 
Home to study.
Love,
Ashley
Mama and I drove out to get people excited about missions at FBA this Sunday.
I enjoyed watching Dr. Charles Stanley. He talked about not holding on to things, relationships, money, to hard. Open your hands to God’s blessings.
Passed out all our prayer cards! Daddy always says, ” Prayer’s not a strategy, it’s THE strategy. ”
Love,
Ashley
Rachel and I went to lunch and then down to Candler park for the Earth Day craft festival.
Jessica and I worked out to Barry’s Bootcamp. That was a hard 15 minutes!
Love,
Ashley
I had fun hanging out with Jessica.
We watched old movies.
Love,
Ashley
Rocks and Religions today. Interesting learning about Hinduism.
Met with Mrs. Bonet. She was unhappy with me saying that the new Civic Engagement center was “empty”…which it was…
Edited and worked on laying out my pages for the newspaper.
Talked to Dad in Costa Rica!
Love,
Ashley
Mama and I went to Mountain Park FBC this morning. My favorite is always the worship. Pastor Bill talked about going. Go and serve God now.
Picked Jesse up and ate at Quizno’s.
Ashley and I drove out to the country for Emily’s baby shower.
Mansfield is about an hour away and everyone out here owns horses or as Em’s dad calls them, “Yard ornaments.”
Notice our tongues.
We painted bibs, onesies and burp cloths instead of playing lame games.
Guess which one’s mine. (The one involving a pillow.)
It was great to see an old friend. Emily is moving back to the Hawaiin army base as soon as her baby girl is born.
View all the photos here!
Love,
Ashley
Ashley and I went to Target to pick out some gifts for Emily’s baby shower tomorrow.
We wrapped the presents at Ash’s house and watched late night comedy.
Love,
Ashley
I drove down to school to help take pictures for the International Festival.
Click here to see all the pictures I took. (This will take you to our Collegian blog that I update as well.)
The Collegian team also grilled hot dogs and gave them to students who took our survey.
We passed our 96 dogs!
Zoe and I picked our canidates for the new Collegian staff positions.
Climbed St. Mountain.
Daddy leaves for Costa Rica at 4:30! Please be praying for him.
Love,
Ashley
I got to school early this morning so I could have a chance to interview Mrs. Bonet.
This is how it went.
April 8, 2010 at 4:28 PM
Ashley Cummins
Op Ed
The Atlanta Center for Civic Engagement and Service-Learning center was empty when I walked in; even though it’s open Monday-Friday 8:30-4:30.
“Knock, knock!” I yelled.
“Back here!” called a female voice from the back.
I walked through the newly furnished room with 4 computer stations and the best service learning books money can buy, lining the shelves and into Mrs. Bonet’s office.
“I’m here to find out if I can get an internship in the field I’m interested in: Journalism.” I explain to her.
Mrs. Bonet, the service learning Coordinator, is very polite and asks for my contact information. She responds, ” we are still in the development stages of the program. I’ll reply back to you when we have options.”
“Quite a few students are interested… faculty and staff from other campuses have stopped by to say hi.” Mrs. Bonet goes on to tell me.
Mrs. Bonet is the professional administrative to the staff and wasn’t able to answer my questions thoroughly. She advised that I get in contact with Deborah Gonzales, the associate vice president.
I left feeling disappointed. I got little information about any opportunities involved in Journalism and even though the Center, which hovers over the cafeteria filled with students, is still empty.
You can tell that this Center, which was opened 2 months ago, is still in the beginning stages.
I hope to report back soon with more information on how GPC students can get hands on experience in their field of study at this new center.
For more information about the Civic Engagement Center click here.
Went to CPR class. We learned how to splint peoples’ extremities.
Home to work on news biz and Bible Lessons.
Love,
Ashley
Geo quiz this morning. I made a 91. I missed one question. Boo.
We’re studied more about, “poor little deformed rocks,” as my professor puts it.
We’re learning the origin of Hinduism in Religons. We also got our exams back. I made an 88. I swear I can’t make an A in that class.
I picked up 3 family sized bags of chicken nuggets for the kids today.
It took about 20 minutes to heat up all 105 of them.
Josh, Mo and Jesse played with the kids while I got the food ready.
We gathered the kids togehter on the dusty pollinated lawn and I told them the story about Jesus feeding the 5000 people. Then we prayed together before I passed the nuggets.
Afterward, we played red rover.
Love,
Ashley
In CPR class we’re learning how to care for burns. Today we practiced wrapping eachother up in gauze.
Headed over to Kensington. I’d gotten some long sheets of scrap paper from the newspaper office so we enjoyed painting on that which lead to painting on our faces.
With our war paint on it was time to battle! We all grabbed the water balloons and started hurtling them at eachother.
On the way home I got a call from Mr. David, the newspaper advisor, “Hey Ashley, I don’t want to keep you in suspense for long. You got the editor-in-chief job!”
Woohoo! Please be praying for me as I take on this new endevour.
Love,
Ashley
Rocks and religion today.
Walter Crawford came by the Collegian office. I took some photos of him for his articles.
Miles and I ate El Torero. Guess who we ran into? Ian, Ruthie and Lisa North!
Mo biked to Kensington so I picked her up and we headed to visit with the kids. They’re on spring break so we prayed over radishes and drew with sidewalk chalk.
Some of the older girls are having problems getting along. Please be praying for them. I hate having to break up fights.
Spring is here!
Love,
Ashley
Happy Easter!
Miles and I meet up with the family at Fuddrucker’s. 
Izzy and Roxy showed up, too!
Love,
Ashley
I studied Spanish out in the sun today before heading to the staff meeting.
I always like to meet the other writers.
Hilary asks me, “What are you doing in an hour? Want to go pillow fight?”
“Of course I do!”
We stopped by target to buy some feather pillows.
Hilary took the shots.
At least 100 people were at the park venting their feathered down anger.
Ashley and I spent the night together.
Love,
Ashley
Dad and I did some visualization of success before I went in for my interview today. I’m applying for the editor-in-chief and opinion’s editor position. I feel really confident about it.
In ther interview I was giving 5 minutes to present my ideas and then they read scenarios from a script.
“If you were editor-in-chief and you were called by the president of the school saying one of your reporters printed a slanted article about him. What would you do?”
We’ll see if I got it within the week.
Jesse and I climbed the mountain and ate at Uncle Dave’s with Ashley and Lee.
After wards we went to Ashley’s bonfire and made smores.
Love,
Ashley
Miles and I climbed the mountain this morning before I had to go to school.
In CPR we’re learning about Soft Tissue Injuries. We talked about burns. I could really relate to that with my Dad getting burned.
Met up with Jesse and Dad. We went into Chamblee to help the kids with their homework.
I had a lot of fun working with the girls. Barbara was SO smart! She’s in 1st grade and was reading so well.
She asked me, “What’s another name for brain?”
I started thinking. She put her head in her hands and said,” Oh yeah! Cerebrum! I was thinking with my cerebrum.”
All I was thinking was yeah, faster than me.
Dad did a huge candy toss with the kids. I was right there with them.
Ate Wendy’s with the boys. Dad helped me come up with some ideas for my newspaper interview tomorrow. I’m applying for the editor-in-chief postion so I have to get interviewed by the dean.
Working on some homework.
Love,
Ashley
After working with the kids, Hannah, Miles and I drove up to meet with Josh to support some of our friends who were getting baptized.
The guys played a crazy ninja game before starting the worship.
About 6 people got baptized in the freezing water.
Love,
Ashley
Hannah’s back in town for Spring Break. She and Josh came and helped out at Kensington today. It’s already hot.
Josh is good about talking to the boys about their problems.
Later Hannah and I went to the Hindu temple after work.
Love,
Ashley
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Ashley Ann Kendall 