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| Brett, Kelly, Yolanda, Alexis, and I are all getting ready to go on a road trip out to California. We are going to Pasadena for a conference at Mosaic. Mosaic is a church that has learned to embrace the culture they live in and use it to minister to and reach the people in their community.
Origins, the name of the conference we are going to, is a leadership development experience designed to equip church and para-church leaders for mission in our diverse, pluralistic, urban, and multicultural 21st century context.
I'm sure that I speak for all of us when I say that I'm super excited to be going to Cali. I've never been and I hope it will be an experience that I will never forget. Apparently Pasadena is rather close to Venice Beach too, so you know what that means? (they aren't very far apart!) No, it means we are definitely hit'n it up. I think I'm gonna have to go to Muscle Beach and show some of the guys up with the Fe (iron).
We don't really know what we are going to be doing on the way back yet. We might go to Vegas, the Grand Canyon, I don't know maybe even Mexico(jj). Wherever our wheels us. Which by the way I need to give a shout out to Ashley William for. She is pretty much the coolest person in the world because she is letting us take her car. I know what you are thinking, five of you in a five passenger car going to California, you've got to be joking. Well we're not, we're just crazy.
Anyway, I'll keep everyone posted on how the trip went when it happens. If I can ask just one thing from all who read this it is that you would be prayer. Prayer for safety, for the knowledge gained from the conference, and just for an all around good time. | | |
| Last night Jerry and I went to see United 93. A movie about one of the planes that was hijacked on September 11, 2001 but the passengers fought back. Man, what a movie. It was a very hard movie to watch because of all the emotions it brought back. While I was watching I kept thinking to myself I can't believe this really happened. It seemed just like a movie that Hollywood would have scripted but no, it was reality.
After the movie was over I was telling Jerry how it was weird to watch a movie about something that happened like that in my life time. So often I'll watch movies about different wars or events that have had such an impact on history, I just think to myself what a good movie and don't really think about the people who were effected by those events. But to watch a movie about something that has effected me in my lifetime was kind of weird.
I still can clearly remember my sister waking me up to tell me about what had just happened. We went down stairs to see the first tower burning then all of the sudden the second plane hit the other tower. We both were just sitting there wondering what the heck just happened. MAN!
I'll Never forget!
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| I'm speaking this week at RealLife about Nehemiah. All week I've been praying about and researching for my message. I hope that today I can either completely get it put together or at least most of it. I'm not nervous about speaking in front of people but when there is an important message that I need or want to get across I do get a little nervous, just that my words come out clear and that it is what needs to be said. So if you read this entry please be praying for me this week and that God can use me to get his message across about the things that we can learn from the story of Nehemiah. I'm really excited to see how things come together. | | |
| In church on Sunday Rod was talking about the importance of faith. He said so often we want God to reveal himself to us and then we will believe him. But each time when he reveals himself to us we still don't listen and want him to show himself to us in an even bigger way.
Why? If we just look around, everyday God reveals himself to us in so many ways. Whether it be the sun in the sky, the grass on the ground, the love someone shows us, or the magnificence of a storm. If you have the Holy Spirit within you He reveals himself in so many other ways too but we are constantly ignoring them or we just don't even see or hear them. God, I just hope that my faith will increase evermore. You have showed yourself to me in so many ways but now I just want to continue to spread that faith, be it ever so small.
When I was thinking of God showing himself to me it brought me back to the summer before my sophomore year of high school. I was at Bates Creek Camp, a camp I went to every summer with my church youth group, when God showed himself to me a most amazing way. I will never forget that day and that moment. It was a Wednesday afternoon during the large group session. We were meeting in the outside tabernacle. It was pouring rain out but that didn't stop anyone from engaging in the session. The Holy spirit was really moving through people that afternoon and it was just an amazing time of worship. At the close of the session the speaker began to pray. While doing so suddenly the rain started to let up and it got really quite since the rain was no longer pounding the tin roof of the tabernacle. After the prayer I looked to the left and I saw the most amazing and bright rainbow I have ever seen. It was so bright it looked like God had just finished painting it and left the excess paint on it to make it even brighter. Everyone there had this look of awe on their face. It was so amazing that I started to laugh because I had never seen anything like it. | | |
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