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| New BFFs, Josh and Joyce |
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| Watching "Dancing with the Stars" together. |
Monday, March 21, 2011
Worship
This evening, we were joined by Matthew & Laura, part of Sara and Paul's family. They live in Nashville and joined us to lead worship this evening.
Matthew led us in a few songs and Jeff Curtis shared with us about the importance of our relationship with God and how that should be reflected in our relationships with others.
Then Matthew spoke about a ministry of his church called "IG BOK."
It stands for "It's Gonna Be OK." It's a ministry born in here in Nashville. From their website: "God’s “o.k.” doesn’t mean that the cancer will be healed, the relationship fully restored, the physical pain or emotional ache will go away in this life. It means that because He has entered and overcome our brokenness…we can live this life with real hope — a hope that knows one day everything will be set right forever in the life to come." (Click here to read all about it.)
We ended the evening singing this song "God of This City" by Chris Tomlin. It's a great song, so I thought I'd share it with you here!
You can also check out a different, official version by Tomlin here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d61LamkXfwk
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| That's Matthew and Laura on the right. |
Then Matthew spoke about a ministry of his church called "IG BOK."
It stands for "It's Gonna Be OK." It's a ministry born in here in Nashville. From their website: "God’s “o.k.” doesn’t mean that the cancer will be healed, the relationship fully restored, the physical pain or emotional ache will go away in this life. It means that because He has entered and overcome our brokenness…we can live this life with real hope — a hope that knows one day everything will be set right forever in the life to come." (Click here to read all about it.)
We ended the evening singing this song "God of This City" by Chris Tomlin. It's a great song, so I thought I'd share it with you here!
You can also check out a different, official version by Tomlin here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d61LamkXfwk
Hi-Hooooooooooooooo!
Hi-ho, hi-ho, it's off to work we go --went!
Today was our first day at our work sites! And judging from the lines to the showers, there was a lot of good, hard work done today!
My group went to a house where we did touch up painting along the baseboards, cleaned up the patio, scraped paint off the fireplace, and washed all the windows. I personally spent 2 hours cleaning up paint off of door hinges.
Exciting, right? Nor really. But here's the thing ... one of the questions I asked in the daily devotional I wrote for the group on this trip was: "Did you learn anything about yourself today?" And I did! I learned that I CAN do detail, finish work!
Even though I chose this type of work, I wasn't exactly sure how well I was going to do. Generally speaking, I have an uber-amount of patience with people (handy, since I'm a pastor and all!) but not so much with inanimate objects. So I wondered how well I was going to do with the hinges. And it worked out just fine!
Here are some photos from our day:
On the job site:
From another job site:
And from ANOTHER job site:
Now, a little rest time before dinner at 6:00p!
Today was our first day at our work sites! And judging from the lines to the showers, there was a lot of good, hard work done today!
My group went to a house where we did touch up painting along the baseboards, cleaned up the patio, scraped paint off the fireplace, and washed all the windows. I personally spent 2 hours cleaning up paint off of door hinges.
Exciting, right? Nor really. But here's the thing ... one of the questions I asked in the daily devotional I wrote for the group on this trip was: "Did you learn anything about yourself today?" And I did! I learned that I CAN do detail, finish work!
Even though I chose this type of work, I wasn't exactly sure how well I was going to do. Generally speaking, I have an uber-amount of patience with people (handy, since I'm a pastor and all!) but not so much with inanimate objects. So I wondered how well I was going to do with the hinges. And it worked out just fine!
Here are some photos from our day:
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| Packing our bag lunches to eat at the work sites. |
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| Table full of lunches. |
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| Finishing breakfast and waiting for devotions. |
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| Paul Morrison leading the devotions. |
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| Listening to the job descriptions. |
On the job site:
From another job site:
And from ANOTHER job site:
Now, a little rest time before dinner at 6:00p!
More Pictures!
Thanks to Tracy Starkey, I have more photos to share with you!
Tracy was with the group who went to the Mammoth Cave National Park. So here are a few pics from their adventures.
And if you'd like to see more, you can take a peek at my Flikr photostream.
Tracy was with the group who went to the Mammoth Cave National Park. So here are a few pics from their adventures.
And if you'd like to see more, you can take a peek at my Flikr photostream.
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