Saturday, March 25, 2006

Sprirtual Retreat #1

So it’s Spring Break time…time to head to the beach to get a tan, or to the mountains to go skiing. Well, ok so we went to the mountains but not to go skiing…we went to get closer to God. Well…I wonder what it really felt for Moses when God came close to him in person…But I do know what it feels like when God shows up in the Spiritual. He definitely showed up on this trip!!!
First of all, it was amazing that we were able to leave on Sunday at all. Had we planned to leave a few hours later or had a snow moved in a little bit before it did, we would have been stuck. We passed a couple of accidents and many cars in the ditch on the way to the mountains.
We made the five hour trip stretch into about eight or so hours. A couple of pit stops and slow going for weather and we were finally there.
When we got to the cabin, we couldn’t get up the driveway with the vehicles up the driveway so we had to walk up and down the driveway in about seven inches of snow to unload. That was fun let me tell you, then after that I got the Suburban stuck in the ditch…and Mike (the other sponsor who drove) had to get it out.
After unloading and getting back up to the cabin finally, we decided to do our first lesson. Steve Cummings, the guy who owns the cabin, ok let me rephrase this, it is a two hundred thousand-dollar house, spoke the first night. Steve shared his life story of how he had ended up in the military as a chaplain. He was stationed at Fort Bragg, NC (yeah Baby!!). Since almost everyone in Fort Bragg is a paratrooper, e decided to go to jump school and become a paratrooper. He told us how God had kept him safe one night when they jumped and weren’t over the drop zone, but rather a NC forest. God had kept al of the guys safe, this is when he gave everything over to HIM!!
Steve left that night challenging the kids to search for God while we were on the Retreat, to know Him, and that not everything would be perfect but that God will never leave them…

Wednesday, March 08, 2006

Extreme Makeover Home Edition!!

Ok...so I have a few things to talk about and only a little time on the computer this morning.Today I just want to inform you about something that I think is really awesome. This week on Extreme Makeover Home Edition, there is going to be a Pastor’s family, the White family, on the show. They live close to Bartlesville, Oklahoma, which happens to be where Oklahoma Wesleyan University is.
So let me just tell you a little bit about what I know of the upcoming show. The Pastor, I believe his name is John had a heart attack last year. The family was living in the parsonage, the churches house, and had to move. They had 10 children and 5 of them still live at home.
The contractor contacted President Piper from Oklahoma Wesleyan to see if they would help the family and the building of the home. He said yes and the whole campus and community jumped on board. Oklahoma Wesleyan had groups out at the site around the clock doing whatever they could do to help.
If you want more information on the build or the perspective of how the University saw things, you can go to their website www.okwu.edu to check it out.Remember…the show will air this Sunday night and it will be a 2 hour special…Do you think ABC can edit God out of a 2 hour show that focuses on a Pastor and his family??