One Month Down!

Well I'm calling this year of the beard, and I haven't really shown the beard progress. Maybe I'll start updating once a week, maybe just keep it at once a month. Who knows!

Anyways.

So I've been here a month already and things are great. With it still being the summer, time with students is limited, but the few times I've been able to be with them has been good.

Of course we had camp for an entire week, but I already talked about that.
A little over a week later we did something Greg calls "The Experiment" where we meet on a Sunday night for food, fellowship, worship and a message, then the city puts on a movie in the park. Two weeks ago it was E.T. and this past week was Space Jam, but since it was the 4th we didn't do it.
Last week I went over to some guys' house for a fire, and we sat around the fire telling different stories.
This past weekend we had the 4th of July, and I had a crazy busy weekend. Friday I cleaned a bit, and my parents came out to bring me a bead and some other supplies like a can opener, that way I didn't have to open cans with a knife and hammer anymore. They also brought me a microwave that doesn't sound like it's going to blow up when I use it, which is awesome, and my griddle which I'm pretty sure I stole from my Uncle Donnie at Christmas a few years ago during a White Elephant exchange. So now I can somewhat cook.

Thanks mom and dad for coming out even though it was short!

This past weekend I also got a fridge! $40 on Craig's list (I love that sight). It's a bit...ghetto... but it runs and keeps things cold. At least I think it will, I don't have anything in it yet because I'm conserving money. And I got a good bit of food stocked up at the moment anyways that doesn't need refrigerated. The reason I call my fridge ghetto though is because it was sitting out on a back porch for 2 years unplugged. They took it apart and were hosing it down when I came to get it, and we lost a piece that I didn't realize was missing until I got back here. I spent 2 days cleaning it, it had mold all over everything. But once it was mostly clean (good enough) I was putting it together, and noticed that the thing between the two doors that's a part of the hing was missing. So I tore up a pen and shoved that in there. It works, but it's ghetto/redneck (Thanks Kentucky).

Yesterday we got to meet with the campus minister of WVU about possibly teaming up and having him join our CSF group. We then found out that he is a part of another CSF group in West Virginia, but he would like to come up for retreats and whatever else we may get into.

After that meeting, Greg and I talked with Buzz, and I think I'm going to be planning an ICOM trip for the entire CSF organization seeing as how it's in Columbus this year, meaning I have to find places for us to stay and shower and everything else. This will be interesting, but it'll be good and cool to show people where I'm from.

Other than that stuff not much has gone on. As stated earlier there isn't much to do yet. I'm putting together idea's for things I'd like to do, but I don't know if they'll work or not or whether I'll be able to do them at all. But I do have some Bible studies rolling around in my head that I'm starting to look into such as The Art of Losing Yourself based on Matthew 16.25 and also working in Biblical illiteracy. I may have talked about this already, I'm not sure, but those are what I would like to do, but we'll see what happens.

Well it's back to homework for me now.

Stay the course, worship God, and keep me and CSF in your prayers.

God bless, and peace out!

The Power of God is Amazing

I just now realized I haven't posted in a while. My bad.

Well it's Tuesday July 1st, and I'm currently living in a house all by myself like a big boy!

The past few weeks I was staying at my aunt's house on the west side, but Saturday I moved across town to a parsonage that a church had which isn't being used. Big thanks to First Christian Church of Turtle Creek! I even got some furniture now too, all for free thanks to Craig's list. I got a super nice couch with a pull out mattress under it, and an alright chair, but they serve their purposes. Some things that are lacking though are a fridge and stove, but I'm making due.

Enough about that though, let's get real.

It's still summer time, meaning that students aren't in class yet, so there isn't a lot to do out here but plan right now. Greg and I have been talking a lot about idea's for Bible Studies for the students when they get back, and we got some good idea's going.

One thing that I'm thinking about is two Bible studies for the campus ministry, one big generic one, getting into the word, but something for people in all different stages of their faith. Then I would really like to do another study for those who are committed, the leaders in the group, to help them grow so that they can help others. The Bible study that I would really like to do for that would be Words of the Bible which would focus on figuring out the meaning of the big words we find in scripture with the harder definitions. For example, explain righteousness. What is it? What does it do? What does it mean in the context of Matthew 6.33? 2 Corinthians 5.21?

Not that easy, and a dictionary won't really help all that much. You'll get what the world think the word means, but what about what God intends for the word to mean?

Anyway, I think that would be highly beneficial for the students we'll have.

Another Bible study that I'm interested in doing for the students we'll have is The Art of Losing Yourself based off of Matthew 16.25, and also I would take a good bit out of the end of Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis for that as well.

The title of this post is used because it is by the grace of God that I am able to be here to do these things, to make these plans, to live where I am and to have what I do. I'm thankful for what he has done in my life, and am thankful for all those who support me in this adventure God has set me on.

As always, keep me in your prayers, and though I have no idea who reads this, I will keep you in mine.

Peace out yo.