I am here in the coolest place I have ever been to in Montana, ok it is the only place I hae been to in Montana. I have been fishing, camping, 4Xing, boating, horseback riding etc... I even had my bachelor party the other night! Tonight we are going to have a steak fry after about an hour ride and then go skeet shooting. Yes I will be shooting a gun.
The place is really nice and all the staff is super cool. It is also really good to get to know the senior football guys better.
We are having a blast and I can't wait to show you all the pictures.
I will not be going to Fresno next week so I will be around.
Wednesday, June 21, 2006
Friday, June 16, 2006
Sorry about the drought.
It is funny how the weather in WA will change on a whim. Not 45 minutes ago I was completely soaked to the bone just walking from my truck to my room. This wasn't the normal, "Oh, it's raining" rain. This was the, "Quick, lock the doors, batten down the hatches and hide the children, the end of the world has come!!!" rain. And now it is sunny and everything seems right with the world.
I went and saw The DaVinci Code last night and I have mixed feelings about it. I finished reading the book yesterday afternoon and I wanted to see the movie. I knew it had gotten some bad reviews and stuff like that, but it was still a pretty worthless movie. The only redeeming quality was that it did not glorify the act of sex like the book did. As a story, I have read better in a Tom Clancy novel. I did really like the artwork presented in the book and how Dan Brown talked about it, but he was super quick to jump to conclusions about what the symbology actually meant. It reminded me a lot of the PLU religion department. The movie altered the book a bit, but they did a fairly good job of staying true.
I have a super busy life coming up... I am going to hang out with Marc Wymore from Puyallup Foursquare and then hopefully visit my sister Laura and my nieces and nephew. At 7 pm I have a graduation party for Diabdra Brewer at her house. Tomorrow I work from 4 am to noon and then I need to get on the Island so I can go to my sister Deborah's graduation and the BBQ afterwards. On Sunday, I am on the worship team and after church I will drive to Flathead Lake, Montana. I will probably be driving by myself, so pray for me on this trip.
I will be spending about 5 days there at Flathead Lake lodge with some friends. None of these guys I am hanging out with for the week are saved and most of them are very happy to live debaucherous lifestyles. Please pray that I will be able to model the LOVE of Jesus to them and just walk my walk without feeling the need to preach at them.
Hopefully, I will be able to go to Fresno, CA and hang out with Chad and Michelle Johnson. Chad is taking a group from his youth department down to the Dream Center and hopefully God will provide a way for me to join him on this trip. If any of you guys feel lead to give me extra air miles or money for this trip, I would greatly appreciate it.
I will get back from Cali (hopefully I go in the first place) around the 2nd or 3rd of July and I will be hosting a BBQ for the 4th at my mom's house on Vashon. I will probably stay around the Island for a little while, because I don't get to hang out with my family all that much.
On the 7th of July, I will be heading out to Aberdeen to staff the Go Camp out there. I am really looking forward to this opportunity to be with my friends out there and be a part of what God is doing out in the Grays Harbor area. I have had this blocked out in my schedule since last year's Go Camp. I just love being in Aberdeen, I love what God is doing and the people are fantastic. They literally have to rely on the Holy Spirit so much out there that it is cool to see. Doug and Jake are doing an awesome thing with what the Lord has given them, I am happy to just be a part of it.
After Go Camp ends, the 16th of July, Campus Safety will start again. I am still trying to go to Ketchikan sometime in the beginning of August, but again the Lord needs to provide. Football will start August 19th (the day after my birthday) and then school shortly after.
I love being busy!
(Anne, you should be happy because you usually know my schedule better than I know it myself.)
This might be a long post...
I am almost ready to buy my Taylor... YEEEESSSS!!!!! I applied for a loan with my truck as collateral and I got approved, I just need a co-signer still. It was weird to hear that I needed a co-signer, I guess I don't have as much credit as I thought I did. I have good credit, on the high side of good, but I don't have a lot of it yet. I am trying to get my dad to co-sign for me and hopefully he will. This loan will allow me to get out from under some killer credit card debt and hopefully get me a killer Taylor guitar.
It would be so nice to have that guitar because it would allow me to play as often as I wanted and not have to deal with the not as nice acoustic I have now. I also put up for auction on ebay some of my old gear that I bought but don't ever use. It would be cool to see that stuff take off and sell for a decent price. I will use the money I earn from that to pay off the truck loan I will get and that should help out a lot.
I went to Aberdeen on Wednesday and that was a ton of fun. I got there early and talked to Doug about some stuff and we just chatted which was cool. We talked a bit about the Go Camp, that is obviously on his mind a lot right now and we talked about some cool ideas they have that I will get to be a part of. Jake had asked me to come down and play guitar for them and to share a little something. When we started talking about what I was going to share about a week ago, I had 15 minutes. On Wednesday as Jake and I were driving all over Aberdeen looking for Alpha-Bits cereal, Jake told me that I had 10 minutes. Right before he called me up to speak he told me I had 5 minutes. That was fun, a real quick and fast presentation of the fact that God likes us! He doesn't condemn us and that He is looking to forgive us. It was really cool and very fruitful. Afterwards we played a lot of cool games, most of which involved stuff outdoors, goofing off and getting dirty. After everyone had kinda left, Oliver asked us to pray for him. We did and it was really cool. We don't do that enough at PSCC, pray for each other. I think I will just start asking people to pray for me about everyting. This doesn't need to clog the altar, but just grabbing some people after service and having them pray for you is powerful!!!
I should go, I am starting this crazy adventure by meeting with Marc in less than an hour.
Oh, yeah I need to pack and find plane tickets and make this happen!!!
Love to you all
I went and saw The DaVinci Code last night and I have mixed feelings about it. I finished reading the book yesterday afternoon and I wanted to see the movie. I knew it had gotten some bad reviews and stuff like that, but it was still a pretty worthless movie. The only redeeming quality was that it did not glorify the act of sex like the book did. As a story, I have read better in a Tom Clancy novel. I did really like the artwork presented in the book and how Dan Brown talked about it, but he was super quick to jump to conclusions about what the symbology actually meant. It reminded me a lot of the PLU religion department. The movie altered the book a bit, but they did a fairly good job of staying true.
I have a super busy life coming up... I am going to hang out with Marc Wymore from Puyallup Foursquare and then hopefully visit my sister Laura and my nieces and nephew. At 7 pm I have a graduation party for Diabdra Brewer at her house. Tomorrow I work from 4 am to noon and then I need to get on the Island so I can go to my sister Deborah's graduation and the BBQ afterwards. On Sunday, I am on the worship team and after church I will drive to Flathead Lake, Montana. I will probably be driving by myself, so pray for me on this trip.
I will be spending about 5 days there at Flathead Lake lodge with some friends. None of these guys I am hanging out with for the week are saved and most of them are very happy to live debaucherous lifestyles. Please pray that I will be able to model the LOVE of Jesus to them and just walk my walk without feeling the need to preach at them.
Hopefully, I will be able to go to Fresno, CA and hang out with Chad and Michelle Johnson. Chad is taking a group from his youth department down to the Dream Center and hopefully God will provide a way for me to join him on this trip. If any of you guys feel lead to give me extra air miles or money for this trip, I would greatly appreciate it.
I will get back from Cali (hopefully I go in the first place) around the 2nd or 3rd of July and I will be hosting a BBQ for the 4th at my mom's house on Vashon. I will probably stay around the Island for a little while, because I don't get to hang out with my family all that much.
On the 7th of July, I will be heading out to Aberdeen to staff the Go Camp out there. I am really looking forward to this opportunity to be with my friends out there and be a part of what God is doing out in the Grays Harbor area. I have had this blocked out in my schedule since last year's Go Camp. I just love being in Aberdeen, I love what God is doing and the people are fantastic. They literally have to rely on the Holy Spirit so much out there that it is cool to see. Doug and Jake are doing an awesome thing with what the Lord has given them, I am happy to just be a part of it.
After Go Camp ends, the 16th of July, Campus Safety will start again. I am still trying to go to Ketchikan sometime in the beginning of August, but again the Lord needs to provide. Football will start August 19th (the day after my birthday) and then school shortly after.
I love being busy!
(Anne, you should be happy because you usually know my schedule better than I know it myself.)
This might be a long post...
I am almost ready to buy my Taylor... YEEEESSSS!!!!! I applied for a loan with my truck as collateral and I got approved, I just need a co-signer still. It was weird to hear that I needed a co-signer, I guess I don't have as much credit as I thought I did. I have good credit, on the high side of good, but I don't have a lot of it yet. I am trying to get my dad to co-sign for me and hopefully he will. This loan will allow me to get out from under some killer credit card debt and hopefully get me a killer Taylor guitar.
It would be so nice to have that guitar because it would allow me to play as often as I wanted and not have to deal with the not as nice acoustic I have now. I also put up for auction on ebay some of my old gear that I bought but don't ever use. It would be cool to see that stuff take off and sell for a decent price. I will use the money I earn from that to pay off the truck loan I will get and that should help out a lot.
I went to Aberdeen on Wednesday and that was a ton of fun. I got there early and talked to Doug about some stuff and we just chatted which was cool. We talked a bit about the Go Camp, that is obviously on his mind a lot right now and we talked about some cool ideas they have that I will get to be a part of. Jake had asked me to come down and play guitar for them and to share a little something. When we started talking about what I was going to share about a week ago, I had 15 minutes. On Wednesday as Jake and I were driving all over Aberdeen looking for Alpha-Bits cereal, Jake told me that I had 10 minutes. Right before he called me up to speak he told me I had 5 minutes. That was fun, a real quick and fast presentation of the fact that God likes us! He doesn't condemn us and that He is looking to forgive us. It was really cool and very fruitful. Afterwards we played a lot of cool games, most of which involved stuff outdoors, goofing off and getting dirty. After everyone had kinda left, Oliver asked us to pray for him. We did and it was really cool. We don't do that enough at PSCC, pray for each other. I think I will just start asking people to pray for me about everyting. This doesn't need to clog the altar, but just grabbing some people after service and having them pray for you is powerful!!!
I should go, I am starting this crazy adventure by meeting with Marc in less than an hour.
Oh, yeah I need to pack and find plane tickets and make this happen!!!
Love to you all
Tuesday, June 06, 2006
Random thoughts from a random mind
I love talking about the Lord!!! I have had so much opportunity to speak life into people and they may not even know it! I worked with my friend Tabitha today and we talked about so many things, like her Lutheran background and why she thinks the Lutheran church will die off. She told me a story about a time when their pastor preached on the steps of the altar and away from the pulpit and how people left the church because they were so outraged. She also informed me that they still think that drums are sacreligious to have in worship!!! I asked her if I could come down and lead worship at her church and she said no! She is so primed to go off the deep end in her relationship with Jesus, I can't wait.
I was talking to Kelsey Dawson yesterday and she told me this amazing story. She told me about this church in Seattle where this guy was spending time in the prayer room after service. This guy go tso full of the Lord that he could not stop speaking in tounges. He left the prayer room, still speaking in tongues, and found the gal he was courting. He walks up to her and just can't stop speaking in tongues. All of a sudden she yells out, "YES!". He had walked up to her and proposed in tongues and she through an interpretation had understood it! That is how I want to propose!
So we have a lot of work to do on campus... There was a conference this weekend with a woman named Amma. Long story short, there is a lot of demonic debris on campus and we need to begin to pray. I will explain more about Amma in a post soon.
Oh, Lord that the heavens would stay open and that your Spirit would continue to empower us, your people, to boldly proclaim who You are. You are the God of truth, forgiveness and healing. Only You can save our campus.
I was talking to Kelsey Dawson yesterday and she told me this amazing story. She told me about this church in Seattle where this guy was spending time in the prayer room after service. This guy go tso full of the Lord that he could not stop speaking in tounges. He left the prayer room, still speaking in tongues, and found the gal he was courting. He walks up to her and just can't stop speaking in tongues. All of a sudden she yells out, "YES!". He had walked up to her and proposed in tongues and she through an interpretation had understood it! That is how I want to propose!
So we have a lot of work to do on campus... There was a conference this weekend with a woman named Amma. Long story short, there is a lot of demonic debris on campus and we need to begin to pray. I will explain more about Amma in a post soon.
Oh, Lord that the heavens would stay open and that your Spirit would continue to empower us, your people, to boldly proclaim who You are. You are the God of truth, forgiveness and healing. Only You can save our campus.
Saturday, June 03, 2006
Open Heaven
I have been working on the Ignite newsletter for about a week, trying to get everything together and printed properly and stuff like that, so I have been at the church a lot lately (I feel like an Intern again). We finally got the newsletter mailed today (138 of 180 so we got most of it done) and I am happy about that.
I have been talking about the Lord so much, I am almost sick of it. I talk with almost everyone at work about stsuff pertaining to Jesus and I don't even start the conversation most times. I am meeting lots of people who are hungry to go deep in Jesus, but they don't know how or what that looks like!
Last night I went and helped my Dad pack up some of his stuff so that he could move to the Tri-Cities. We got to talking about some of his pet subjects, like scalar magenetic weapons that can create and modify weather. He seems to think that there are some many different things out there to destroy our country and that he needs to lead people to the "truth". I told him that I know 2 things and beyond that I don't need to know much more; Jesus loves me and I love Him. What else is there? Yeah I know I need to be prepared and to make myself ready for the times ahead of the church, but I know that Jesus is in control and I look to Matthew where it talks about worry. I can't add a single second to my life by worrying, so why even try it?
There has been this group on campus this weekend known as Amma. They are a Hindu cult and they pay a lot of money to stay on campus! I was talking to Kaj about them and he commented, "They will let the Amma people on campus but not a pentocostal!" How true. PLU seems to be trying to lose the image of a Christian university. I know that it isn't a Christian school, but it seems to be more concerned with being accepting then on pretending to be a Christian institution anymore.
I think that it is ironic that Valson Abraham is at PSCC this weekend, the same weekend the Amma group is on campus at PLU. How perfect that the man who has helped plant 3,000 churches in India can be ministering to us college age students tonight while the demonically possessed "mother" who Amma's worship is hurting people on our campus.
I do feel like there is an open heaven over PSCC and that it is extending into my life as well. I am excited about this new season and I hope that it is a long one!
Anyways, I am really tired, because I am sitting here writing and not moving anymore (I worked from 4-12 earlier today).
I have been talking about the Lord so much, I am almost sick of it. I talk with almost everyone at work about stsuff pertaining to Jesus and I don't even start the conversation most times. I am meeting lots of people who are hungry to go deep in Jesus, but they don't know how or what that looks like!
Last night I went and helped my Dad pack up some of his stuff so that he could move to the Tri-Cities. We got to talking about some of his pet subjects, like scalar magenetic weapons that can create and modify weather. He seems to think that there are some many different things out there to destroy our country and that he needs to lead people to the "truth". I told him that I know 2 things and beyond that I don't need to know much more; Jesus loves me and I love Him. What else is there? Yeah I know I need to be prepared and to make myself ready for the times ahead of the church, but I know that Jesus is in control and I look to Matthew where it talks about worry. I can't add a single second to my life by worrying, so why even try it?
There has been this group on campus this weekend known as Amma. They are a Hindu cult and they pay a lot of money to stay on campus! I was talking to Kaj about them and he commented, "They will let the Amma people on campus but not a pentocostal!" How true. PLU seems to be trying to lose the image of a Christian university. I know that it isn't a Christian school, but it seems to be more concerned with being accepting then on pretending to be a Christian institution anymore.
I think that it is ironic that Valson Abraham is at PSCC this weekend, the same weekend the Amma group is on campus at PLU. How perfect that the man who has helped plant 3,000 churches in India can be ministering to us college age students tonight while the demonically possessed "mother" who Amma's worship is hurting people on our campus.
I do feel like there is an open heaven over PSCC and that it is extending into my life as well. I am excited about this new season and I hope that it is a long one!
Anyways, I am really tired, because I am sitting here writing and not moving anymore (I worked from 4-12 earlier today).
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