Life Update

Life moves on, another semester has begun for me. School has definitely been a really great experience for me. Getting out on my own, sorta… having to be responsible for myself…. sorta, and failing all my classes, WHAT? no, I haven’t failed all my classes. But seriously, this has been a good school year; I’ve made a bunch of really good friends and had, and hopefully will have, a bunch of fun.
It’s supposed to snow like 20 inches tomorrow, 2/5/10, I really hope so.
I’ve desperatly been trying to make a good website for the past few months, but every time i design one and put it up, the next day I hate it! It’s hard ya know… click to see the fail-site.

Yeah.. thats it for me for now.

…Wait. I have to tell everyone something… never-mind.

Crap

I don’t know if anyone else has thought about this but yesterday I went to walmart to buy a bowl. I know this sounds stupid, but I feel this is very significant to me. For one, I have never had a reason to buy a bowl before. If I ever needed a bowl I would just go get one from my house, or if my house needed one it would have been provided by my mom.
All this to say I bought a bowl, and I feel it is ummm…. significant. to me at least.

College/Church planting

Yay, i’m at college…

From what I hear, this time of my life is meant to find one’s self; to explore the boundaries of one’s life and determine where you want to go… or even, at the most extreme cases… learn crap.
But for now, I cannot say that I have done any of this yet, nor will i for sure. But! I have done a lot of thinking… mostly of Connecticut, and Catalyst, and stuff related. And here is what i have been thinking…

So down here in Virginia things are a bit different than in Connecticut… Most everyone is nicer… More people are Christians…annnnd there are a billion more churches. Now all you hear down south for church planting is usually aimed from the state of Maryland and south of there…. and while i hear this all i cant stop thinking of how absolutely, ridiculously brave Mike is.. like seriously… Mike could have easily stayed down here, and either, one, stayed with TRBC with the youth group, two, gone off somewhere else down south staying in the youth ministry, or three, started his own church, getting a zillion more people to come to his church… duh, he’s mike….than up in Ct. This blows my mind. Mike could have taken the easy way out and gone to every other churched place and started another mega church, but no.. Mike knew that he needed to stay in Connecticut and start the most amazing church there… because we all know that Ct needs God’s Word.

So I was thinking all this and was sorta talking about it to some friends at this restaurant.. The next day, in Evangelism class, some guy talks about how not everyone needs to go into a paid ministry position; instead we need people going into all everyday jobs to spread their faith. Then my teacher goes on to talk about church planting and why older churches don’t grow very much, and while listening to this I felt very proud knowing that I was involved with the greatest church plant ever created in the, probably, most unchurched state ever.

This saturday before the launch was probably the most, while being at college, that i wanted to go home. So I could have been there, so i could have seen what is the beginning of something awesome. But I’m proud that I got to be a part of most of it at least.

Not that all places don’t need churches, or that the people who choose down south are any less.. But in my concern, People down here have it, at least i feel, a little bit easier. Go Catalyst!!!Mike, you’re awesome and I love you all, and I really wish I could be there!

Update

I think someone is playing a joke on me. A few days after my last post, I noticed my views per day went progresivly down. So I go to google and see if my picture is still up there, and its gone…. I did say before that it was stupid that I was getting that many views from that dumb picture, but now that it’s gone I’m sad. Well thats all i got for now….

Wait.. I was gonna post something about this but wordpress beat me to it. I joined this site called www.socialvibe.com a couple of weeks ago. When you sign up you pick a charity and sponsor, then you put a code they give you on any social website you use in order to raise money for that charity you chose. Basicly it is an ad for the sponsor you chose, and when you get views on your site those views turn into points which turns into money for the charity you chose. It’s pretty cool.