Engaged

Yes, if you haven't yet heard, I'm engaged.. =) It happened last weekend on June 20th. Down in Charlotte N.C. At the prayer garden/memorial at the Billy Graham museum/library.. A quaint little outdoor woodsy type place..(You have to ask her about the story of the "background" to this memory, it has to do with the Susannah Spurgeon biography that she's reading.) We walked down a trail and sat on a bench, ( pretty cool bench made out of logs of wood cut in half. I'm considering getting one for my backyard one day.). So , you are probably asking, "what in the world is up with that picture?" Well, since you asked, I will tell you. This is a pic I took of Lisette and I during our first night of wedding planning. =) the glasses falling off my head were the result of her punching me cause of something i disagreed with. LOL!... No, but seriously. The Lord has been gracious to us. It seems as if we got a lot accomplished this first night. He is sooooo merciful to us. We pray that He would be glorified in all that goes on in and through the planning of this wedding as we seek to honor Him in our marriage. Your prayers are much appreciated. So .. stay tuned for more updates and stories on how things are going. (I will probably need an ice pack for my eye. =) LOL.. just joking.. She is sitting behind me as I write this laughing at me. =) I could enjoy that laugh for the rest of my life. Thank You Lord. =) night all. Lord bless<><

It has been a little while since the last post. Okay.. I admit i haven't got the hang of this thing yet.. or maybe i've been busy. =) You will notice a pic of my sweet precious daughter and I in front of a Charleston South Carolina map. We visited and went to the isle of Palms with the family. The beach was beautiful, the hotel was very nice, and the golf was great (Charleston National country club).

It was very nice to get away for a little vacation, but since i've been back its back to business, work, church, and leadership meetings. It was a good time of getting refreshed. Did some reading and got a little more familiar with my new ESV bible that my lovely beautiful girlfriend purchased for me. :) I also have been reading several new books that I just got that i'm enjoying very much. "confessions of a reformission rev." by mark driscoll and "Total Church" by Steve Timmis/Tim Chester. Along with my 2nd time around reading "knowing God" by j.i. packer. I'm soo excited at all the cool things the Lord has been doing lately in my life. I've been helping out the Pastor's son with preparation for finishing bible college and going to the mission field. Sad to say that he just recently got injured and thus had to postpone all the speaking engagements he had begun to schedule for the summer to speak about the vision the Lord has given him for missions.

I've been reading and studying lately about missions and how sometimes the church has it misunderstood in the sense that the stereotype is to soley go to a foreign land. Which leads to the neglecting of the "love thy neighbor" command. We are all called as christians to be missionaries in the environment, culture, and community that the Lord has placed us in. We shouldn't "soley" go to the ends of the earth while forgetting about our jerusalem and judea. So its been a very interesting study. Well at this point i'm looking to sign off and pick up a book. =) Looking forward to next week.. Taking my daughter down to visit with the grandparents for a week. Should be such a blessing. Grace and Peace.... Thy will be done O' Lord!

homework.. spiritual leadership

Tonight proved to be a very studious time. Plans got changed and pushed to tomorrow and therefore i took advantage of a free night to catch up on some reading, homework, listening to sermons, and praying. Oh I even found time to design a cover for a brothers new worship cd coming out soon. Will keep ya posted on that. So.. the homework.. interesting enough my lady-friend has been listening to a sermon series on prayer and has been sharing with me some of the cool truths that the Lord has been revealing to her. So I figured since I have plenty of listening time in my travels for work that i would download the same series and check it out. 'Lo and behold I was extremely blessed. Then turned to my homework and guess what the chapter I was to read was about...? You got it.. prayer! Crazy right.. not really, if you believe in the sovereignty of God. =) So needless to say, I was really ministered to as i looked up scripture after scripture reference in my ESV bible on prayer.
I will share very briefly considering the hour that i'm blogging.. one, maybe two references.. The first is Luke 6:12, which speaks of Jesus going away to pray all night before choosing the twelve apostles the next morning. O' how we need to seek the Father in prayer for our decisions. The next is found in Hebrews 5:7. This speaks of Jesus while in the flesh found the need to offer up prayers and supplications with loud cries and tears. Hmm.. how often do we do that. Lord teach us to pray. Thank You Jesus for Your example. I love You, my Saviour! Well, thats all for now folks.. i'm off to bed.. resting in the Lord for He is faithful.

4th of July Block Party..

Yeah i'm blogging.. =) Here is the poster for the Block Party Outreach at the church.. more info at www.cckearny.org

Working the sound board during worship rehearsal.. The Lord is soo faithful.. Just uploaded new web banner for our 4th of July Block Party/Outreach.. you can check it out and get more info at http://www.cckearny.org/

Greetings blogspot world

Okay, I gave in and started a blog! I figured with what I believe is a new season in my life that God is showing me, i would share it. So, stay tuned.. =) oh and the music note pic.. its because i'm about to head out to the church for worship practice..

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