Name: Alexa Nicole Weber

Hobbies and Interests:
Besides working as a professional web designer (SaySoSites), I am a Contemporary Christian Music enthusiast and maintain the definitive web site for my role-models, Point of Grace. I also enjoy graphics arts/design, drawing and sketching, non-fiction writing, especially Christian articles, gymnastics, being an encourager/counselor to my friends, and just soaking up the little things that life is made of

Church Attending:
Christ Community Evangelical Free in Natrona Heights
Pastor’s Name: Jeff Youell
Phone: (724) 226-8082

Favorite Scripture and Why: Philipians 3:12-15
So many times I find myself looking back over all the times I fail at being mature in Christ and become discouraged or looking back and seeing how “good” I’ve been doing and become proud. This scripture reminds me to stop looking back and dwelling in the past, but to start pressing on towards what is ahead. No matter how weary I may be, I’ve got to press on and on with my eyes fixed on the goal. Let us run with perserverance.

School Attending: Homeschool
School Activities: College-level Intro to Psychology course at Transylvania Bible School, Young Life, Girl Scouts (9th year), Written and Illustrated By... competion (4th year), Holocaust Seminar/Art Competition (2nd year), American High School Math Exam, Alle-Kiski Science Show (3rd year), Telecommunity (SIGGRAPH students group), Duquesne University Multicultural Computer Academy, PA Homeschooler’s Writing Club (4th year), I am currently preparing for a Teen Mania mission trip I am taking this summer to the Dominican Republic.

Favorite Musical Artist: Carolyn Arends because her lyrics are so down-to-earth and real; it really speaks to me in the everyday troubles and triumphs of life. “I’m not afraid to live this life, you see it’s not like you’re rolling dice, it’s in the hands of God.”

Community Service Projects You’ve Participated In:
Goodwill clothing drive, creating favors residents of a local Hospice Care center, writing and directing the church’s Christmas and Easter plays, sending postcards for the American Cancer Society, organizing and directing Kiski Valley PCA’s sponsorship of a child through Compassion International

Career or Domestic Ambition:
I would love to work as an art director or in some other field of Christian music graphics design/video production, as a Christian counselor, or wherever God has in mind for me.

Favorite Family Activity and Why:
Going to Christian concerts with my entire family, including my little sister Samantha. It is so much fun just to be there all together worshipping God, watching my sis dancing and going nuts, meeting the artists, and talking about the concert all the way home.
As a Christian teen, what is one thing you’d change about today’s youths and why?
“Hope and love make life worth living, lack thereof makes a man grow old.” Without hope, what is there to live for? Without hope, life is meaningless. Without hope, there is no future. Today hosts a generation without purpose, without anything to hope in. Today hosts a generation that has strayed from God. After all, without God, there is nothing to hope for, no reason to live. There is a void in every person that can only be filled with God. Teens today are constantly searching for something to fill that void, but often look in all the wrong places, trying to fill it with drugs, alcohol, or "love" at any cost. The truth is that these things only sink them deeper into hopelessness and despair which often leads to tragic suicide and violent behavior. If I could change one thing about today's youths, it would be that they would find hope. Even if it is simply a hope that comes from knowing that there IS something REAL that can fill that void, and that they might someday, somehow, find it.

What’s been a significant moment in your personal walk with Christ?
God isn’t looking for “dead” Christians. He is looking for Christians who are passionate and serious, those with FIRE in their eyes. When I returned from Teen Mania’s “Acquire the Fire” (ATF) youth conference, my eyes were opened to realize what it means to be MATURE in Christ. A lot of times I have been a dedicated but “passive” Christian, simply “letting go and letting God.” It is true that salvation is all God’s work and that I can not earn it or deserve it, but I now know that MATURITY is something I’ve got to work for and perservere at. I’m not perfect, but by relying on God’s strength I want to start fighting in a way to win the prize. Fighting against temptation in my life, fighting against my selfish will, fighting to “take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.” (Phil. 3:12) I now want to be “infatuated with God” and to live every little aspect of my life for Him. ATF challenged me to dedicate myself more completely to striving towards perfection til the day that He returns.