The Wall part 2

Apparently the wall separating my cubicle from the rest of the team was more than just an inconvenience to me. When I arrived this morning the wall had been taken down and one of my coworkers had swapped desks with the new guy just so we could have the wall removed again.

YAAAAAY!!!!!

The walls go up.

A year ago we took down the cubicle wall separating my desk from the rest of my team so I could have easier communication with them. It was wonderful and made my cubicle feel so much larger.

Well we just had a new guy join our team. I came in this morning to discover he had replaced the wall. Its a sad day. All that great communication and openness destroyed for the sake of pinning up a piece of paper.

Whew what a weekend!

Weddings and birthday parties, Seeing Old friends and Making New ones, Playing Frisbee and watching movies. I feel like I did almost everything there is to do in Florida. I even tried Fondue for the first time MMMMMmmmmm good!

I think work might be a nice break from my busy weekend!!

A first.

I just saw my first NASA rocket launch. To bad it wasnt a shuttle launch.

One of the benefits of where Campus Crusades HQ is located is that we can see rockets launched from Cape Canaveral from here.

The world is flat?

I dont really have much to say today. So Im just going to do a shameless plug for a book Ive been reading called 'the world is flat' by Thomas Friedman. While not a Christian book it offers a very insiteful look at what is going on in the world today. The focus is global economic/business/technology/politics. And while that sounds super boring I found that it really isnt. Friedman is a journalist so his book reads like a series of newspaper articles. Tons and tons of interviews from all sorts of global leaders. Read it.

Pictures from EJ 05

EJ 05

Experience Jesus 2005. Thats the name of this year's San Diego Christmas Conference. Which is where I am at the moment. Im having a blast hanging out with college students and talking to them about opportunities to come work at Headquarters in Orlando.

The job is a lot harder than I thought but its still a lot of fun. Pray that God calls students from all the different Christmas conferences around the country to work with us in Orlando.

Tucson

So I made the journey to Tucson today. God is quite awesome I must say.

Today I arrived at the airport and got my tickets and went to my plane and right before they start boarding the plane I realize "wait a second this seat is in FIRST CLASS". I definately did NOT buy first class tickets but somehow I got bumped up. Yep that was my first time riding in first class. REAL food on a domestic flight is a first. Haha it was like a little Christmas present from God. I finally had time to work on my Christmas cards on the flight too. bonus!

Then I got to Tucson and saw my parents new house. one word: AWESOME!!!! The pictures that ive been seeing totally do not do it justice. Its actually quite big and bright and airy on the inside. I think it has a very asian feel but everyone else here seems to disagree. oh well.

Tomorrow I start my Christmas shopping. aaaaaaaaahhh.

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!! (I might post again before Christmas but I make no promises)

*ill*

Being sick is No fun! (you can pray I get better.)

On a more happy note: I only have 2 more work days (Friday and Monday) before I fly to Arizona for Christmas! Yay!

Narnia

Christmas Parties Galore. That sums up my weekend. But I also saw the Narnia movie.

I really like the Narnia movie. What I have always found interesting about that story is that C S Lewis was writing it as an allegory of the gospel. So its appropriate to look for parallels in it to the bible and christianity. And CSLewis was such a deep thinker that all kinds of neat things come out when you think about how the story plays out.

For instance when Lucy first enters Narnia it is this huge mysterious exciting place. She is filled with wonder. It strikes me that it is the same as someone discovering for the first time that there really is a supernatural - God exists in this universe of ours. The world theyve been living in becomes - different. Some how more Grand just by that knowledge.

Others like Edmund discover this same wider universe but they happen upon its sinister side instead of the good.

Either way you must soon discover that a war is going on.

Almost every scene in the movie portray's some piece of the gospel. If you've seen the movie what was your favorite scene was and what do you think its deeper meaning was???

The grass may be greener here...

But I've been looking at the pictures of snow on my friends blog and I have to say I'm pretty jealous. It certainly looks pretty and fun!! Some day I'd like to live somewhere that it snows.

Lake Hart Christmas Decorations!

I love this season! And now LakeHart is all decorated nicely! Here are a few pictures for your viewing pleasure:

more preview weekend pictures!

Here is a picture of the whole group that came in November as well as another picture of my particular group.

Congrats Steve and Cheryl

My roommate Steve got married yesterday. It was a really nice wedding and reception.

in slightly older news Thanksgiving was fun. I went to Georgia. It was wonderfully cold and we got to ride 4 wheel ATV's.

sorry I'm being so brief but I just wanted to get something posted in my spare moment before I dive back in to work.

God Bless!

Best preview weekend ever!

This weekend was awesome! Here is a picture of some of the people in my group when we went to DownTown disney. I had a lot of fun getting to know these students and I really hope they all join staff. By the end of the weekend alot of them said they are planning to join staff or do an internship. They were 100% more excited about working for Campus Crusade than the group last year! God is really doing some cool things in their lives.

Preview weekend '05 - take 2

(I was just going to say preview weekend 05 but then i remembered that the last one happend at the begining of this year so this is really the second preview weekend of the year.)

All that to say that it is once again Lake Hart Preview Weekend time. Once again I get to host students coming to check out Lake Hart. Im pretty excited about it. I love interacting with college students and I also know how desparately we need more programmers here.

Please please please pray that God would lead some of these students to come work in our office when they graduate. We need more laborers pretty bad in order to expand our capacity to support a growing world wide organization.

Hopefully I will get some pictures from preview weekend to post on here next week.

Have a great weekend!!

suggestions box.

I've been trying to think of something to Blog about today but nothing is coming to me. So I have decided to ask you, my wonderful readership what you would like me to write about in the future.

Suggestions anyone??

Persecution

I just thought I would post about something thats on my heart right now. In the last 2 days I've heard about the persecuted church from various places and it burdens my heart to pray. Please pray for our family throughout the world who are being beat, imprisioned, tortured and killed just because they love DAD.

This coming Sunday is the International day of prayer for the persecuted church. I dont know who gets to appoint that day but I still want to honor it and I challenge you to do the same. Who knows how long our religious freedom here in America will last, we should join with our persecuted family to encourage them and pray for them while we still are free.

Fall Festival

Last night was CrossPointe Church's Fall Festival. There was great food and it was a fun time. But the neatest part of it was that they did a baptism and 20 people got baptised!! It was really cool. This church is growing so fast.

God is truely adding to our numbers [weekly] those who are being saved. Praise God that he still makes his love and grace available to people today! It is good to see His mercies new (Fresh!) every day!

Its a delight to serve God!

Newsletters

Today is Newsletter day. Thats the day when I realize the end of the month is almost here and the newsletter I wrote last week STILL needs to be put in envelopes and mailed out.

Lord willing I will have it done by the end of the day.