To the water...

It has been quite the week here. Lives have surely been changed. It is crazy some of the transformations, whether attitudes or full on excitement for life. 

The picture below is the line we had for baptisms. There is one missing. We dunked 18 of our lovely students. Wow! It was pretty awesome.

That is about it. Words can not express all that happened, but there are only three weeks left until we head out. Off to Bangkok we go!

Thank you all.

i know the sun must set to rise.

As we gear up for the last four weeks until eight teams head out for eight different countries all over the World, there is an atmosphere of excitement and enthusiasm.

We all want to make a difference, to find out the niche in this world where we can actually change it.

How can we use who we are, the person God put together, to serve, to share, and to love others (specifically rock climbers and travelers) for two months?

How do we stay relevant, while standing on the Rock? How do we change a generation focused on self? How do we use our seemingly random passions to make a dent in people's lives?

I suppose life is a journey of figuring out how to do all that, but I will find all the boldness in me to accomplish it. The end.

I just got Psychotic Intertia-ed

The crew that's going to Thailand

Hello loved ones,

I am unsure on whether anyone reads this thing anymore (Parentals do not count, they get me face to face every week thanks to Skype). Much has happened this week. We had a lively speaker who shook up our ideas and even theology a bit.
I highly recommend clicking on the link below to hear what we hear (and you can see the pdf). Start with Identity-Session 2-The Importance...and move on.
http://www.patrickdodson.net/Podcast/Podcast.html

Now, I will tell you, he says things in an extreme way to poke you, to get you to think and talk to God about what you really believe.

Also, Psychotic Intertia is the book by Patrick Dodson. It rocked me. Find it on Amazon

“I do not feel obliged to 

believe that the same God who 

has endowed us with senses, 

reason, and intellect has 

intended us to forgo their use 

and by some other means to 

give us knowledge which we 

can attain by them.” Galileo