i saw this on flickr and thought it was hillarious. the life of a storm trooper is simply not easy. this is the stuff that they never show on star wars.
just plain funny
i saw this on flickr and thought it was hillarious. the life of a storm trooper is simply not easy.
blue & gold banquet
tonight was the annual pack 205 “blue & gold” banquet. this picture pretty much sums up my feelings of the event.
it’s a boy! or two!
pam and i have two new children – sort of. for quite some time we’ve been dealing with the question of what biblical hospitality is. part of the answer for us has been a need to bring people into our family who are not entirely like us ethnically, socially, educationally, and all those other “lys”. because of this pam made contact with with l.s.u. to see if there were any international students that were wanting an “adopted” american family. that’s how we have our new kids. pam and i are now the proud adopted parents of a 27 and 24 year old bouncing baby indians. they are sam (27) and bajjee (24).
they came over for supper tonight and we spent the evening talking and learning about each other. i don’t know many indians so i didn’t have muh past cultural experience to work with. before tonight all i knew of indian culture was what i had read (which i didn’t think was much but was apparently enough). now after spending an evening with two indians i feel that i am an expert on indian culture.
so here are my hard and fast rules for those wanting to understand indian culture:
- indians hate carrots – i’m not sure why (probably a civil war or something fought over them) but every indian i have ever known hates carrots.
- indians love blackberry cobbler – the indians i have known have really liked cobbler VERY much.
- indians can tolerate chicken divan – every indian i have ever known has considered chicken divan worth eating but if they had a choice they would choose buffalo wings.
- indians naturally cause children to kick into “show off” gear – i’m not sure why but my kids respond to indians by trying to impress them by doing any magic tricks, random drumming on a djembe, or even doing the worm.
okay actually the evening was a lot of fun and it taught me that i basically know nothing about indian culture. of course, i’m still convinced that indians hate carrots. that just seems obvious to me.
it’s PUBLISHED
the leader’s material for our discipleNOW has finally been published. we finished it today. i also finished the student material and we started publishing it. it would like to see an adobe acrobat version of the material CLICK HERE. there is still plenty that needs to be done on the Dnow but life is much better now that i know the leaders will soon have their material.
today’s post #2
now i have something to say but i’m simply too tired to say it (it’s 10:56 p.m. no matter what the blog post time says). i guess this is equivalent to having nothing to say.
finished – sort of
I FINISHED IT! well kind of. i’ve been struggling with the dnow material for about a month now. mainly it was because i just couldn’t figure out where it was supposed to go. i’m in one of those times right now that when i pray begging GOD for guidance HE just responds with a chuckle and says “nope! I’m not gonna tell you right now.” it sure does make for a struggle writing stuff when GOD decides to do that. the good side is that for some reason those times always help my relationship with HIM. the other part of the writing struggle has been tons of distractions but truthfully i live for distractions and usually consider the distractions some of the best ministry opportunities so i can’t really complain.
anyway, i have finally gotten all four studies and general themes into a word document. now i have to proof them and get them in the desktop publisher with all those nice graphics and images. that’s the easy part though.
HURRAY!
today’s post
i have nothing to say.
event blog
march 11-13 we will have our annual discipleNOW. for those who don’t know what a dnow is it’s basically a small group retreat in people’s homes with large group worship added each night. our have traditionally been wonderful because it’s a good way for allot of people to connect intimately with others (on of the former participants reads this blog and he can correct me if i’m wrong). this year i decided to see if the world of blogging could help us with the dnow (i decided this a little late but hopefully it will still work). we’ve set up a blog for all of our leaders to be involved with. this way we can get ideas and such out to them but they can also comment on and improve upon those ideas. everyone seems excited about it. now we just have to see if it’s worth the effort. if it works i’ll probably start doing one for each of the larger things we do during the year.
here’s the blog if you want to follow it’s progress towards being effective or being a waste of time.
psalm 23
this door is in nicaragua. i fell in love with it during my first visit to the country. the reason for my love for the door is the irony of the door. nicaragua is the second poorest country in the western hemisphere and driambe is one of the poorer cities within nicaragua. if you saw it you would know it instantly.
there is extreme want within the city. i don’t mean a want or desire for things but rather a desire for the necessities of life. the people of the city need food, water, shelter, clothing, etc. most important many people within the nation need hope. hope is the biggest thing necessary for life.
that’s why the picture blows me away. in the midst of a situation that many would proclaim hopeless the owner of this door has decided to proclaim “the LORD is my SHEPHERD i shall not be in want.”
that’s impressive faith. that faith that will make a difference and probably already has.