Hey guys! How are you all doing? Things are going all right with me, and I am now starting to get back into the schedule of Masters, after a nice Thanksgiving break.
To be honest though, I was really pretty lonely during Thanksgiving. It was the first real holiday I have spent away from my family like that, and it was different for me. I mostly just hung out with people and did some scripture homework. After we finished eating our Thanksgiving meal at 2 or so, I went to Chase's room and played a new Game called Rockband....which is actually one of the most fun games I have played. Imagine Guitar Hero, with a Drum set, Bass, and a Singer. Then you have Rockband. It was awesome! plus you can make the characters in the game look like you, so that was exciting. We ended up playing it till 2 in the morning.
Hmm...not too much on my mind as of late...although God has really been convicting me of a big problem in a Christian's life...Religion vs. Relationship. How we as Christians start to become like the Pharisees and concentrate so completely on appearing pure and holy and following the rules that they miss the whole inward part of being a Christian! They lose sight of what it is that makes a Christians life meaningful, and become blind to their own self-centered nature!
Besides that, I have been really struggling with inward patience for some people. You know how some people just rub you the wrong way? I am facing that here, and I need to have God's patience and love for these people, because I am struggling to be continually patient and kind with them. So if you guys could pray for me in this, I would really appreciate it!
Tim
Monday, November 26, 2007
Thursday, November 22, 2007
Hey peeps! Just wanted to stop on here and say Happy Thanksgiving! I hope that you all have a wonderful day and weekend! dont gain too much weight!
Well I have been pretty busy, but I really appreciate all of the prayers that I have been recieving...they really mean so much to me! I appreciate it!
Talk to you guys all later!
Well I have been pretty busy, but I really appreciate all of the prayers that I have been recieving...they really mean so much to me! I appreciate it!
Talk to you guys all later!
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
In case you were wondering...
Yep, I'm still alive! Just been pretty busy as of late, so I haven't been able to update very often. Well, life has been going pretty well as of late...and I am finally getting used to life around here. I've finished adapting to living with y roomies, and they are all great guys. We can talk about the most mundane things, of get completely spiritual and talk on the things of God.
I've been asked by several people what my schedule is like here in Master's, so I thought I would give you a little idea of what like is like for me.
Tuesday through Friday
7:30 Wake up!
9:00 Arrive at the Angelus Temple (the DC church) for prayer.
10:00 Prayer ends, and a MC student will give a devotion.
10:30 Devotion ends, AB (Aaron Bradley our leader) comes up and talks for a bit.
11:00 We break for Scripture study time.
11:45 Scripture time ends and we go to lunch.
1:00 Lunch ends, and we meet in the lounge for the afternoons schedule to be told.
Now at this point, it becomes varied, and some people will be doing different things, and you really never really know what you will be up to. The only set things are Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday, where we do our current Tracks. My first track is the Creative Communications track, in which I will be doing different more artistic or creative approaches to the services that we will do.
On Saturdays, We will wake up around the same time, but will go to the Gym at (:15 to meet for prayer there, then we head out on what is called Adopt-A-Block. Its where we go out to a neighborhood of LA and start getting to know the people of the area and make relationships with them, and build the churches reputation as those who will go out to the communities and help people. My Adopt-A-Block site is at 25th and Trinity, an area of LA mostly populated by Hispanic people. We will go out to the houses and ask people if they need any help doing anything, like taking out their trash or cooking them meals or doing their laundry...whatever we can do to help and build a trust with them. after we finish at around 1 in the afternoon, we are free until the night when we will go out on buses to our sites and pick up the people to take them to SNR, or Saturday Night Redefined. We will have the service at 7, but we go out to pick up the people at around 6:15 or so. It ends at around (:30, and we are done for the night.
Sundays, we wake up at around 7 and get to the church and pick up people from the sites once again for Sunday service. Others of us are asked to help out at the church and be there at 8:45 to be able to serve in any way, as door greeters, or ushers, or even bathroom attendants ( ladies only, thank God. Could you imagine a male bathroom attendant?) The service starts at 10, and ends around 11:30. after this, we usually have the rest of the day off, but we will sometimes have random things that we will be asked to do.
Mondays are our day off. Thank God.
Anyhow, that is a glimpse of the weekly schedule that I run into here at Master's Commission. Hope that clears up what its like! Talk to you guys later!
I've been asked by several people what my schedule is like here in Master's, so I thought I would give you a little idea of what like is like for me.
Tuesday through Friday
7:30 Wake up!
9:00 Arrive at the Angelus Temple (the DC church) for prayer.
10:00 Prayer ends, and a MC student will give a devotion.
10:30 Devotion ends, AB (Aaron Bradley our leader) comes up and talks for a bit.
11:00 We break for Scripture study time.
11:45 Scripture time ends and we go to lunch.
1:00 Lunch ends, and we meet in the lounge for the afternoons schedule to be told.
Now at this point, it becomes varied, and some people will be doing different things, and you really never really know what you will be up to. The only set things are Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday, where we do our current Tracks. My first track is the Creative Communications track, in which I will be doing different more artistic or creative approaches to the services that we will do.
On Saturdays, We will wake up around the same time, but will go to the Gym at (:15 to meet for prayer there, then we head out on what is called Adopt-A-Block. Its where we go out to a neighborhood of LA and start getting to know the people of the area and make relationships with them, and build the churches reputation as those who will go out to the communities and help people. My Adopt-A-Block site is at 25th and Trinity, an area of LA mostly populated by Hispanic people. We will go out to the houses and ask people if they need any help doing anything, like taking out their trash or cooking them meals or doing their laundry...whatever we can do to help and build a trust with them. after we finish at around 1 in the afternoon, we are free until the night when we will go out on buses to our sites and pick up the people to take them to SNR, or Saturday Night Redefined. We will have the service at 7, but we go out to pick up the people at around 6:15 or so. It ends at around (:30, and we are done for the night.
Sundays, we wake up at around 7 and get to the church and pick up people from the sites once again for Sunday service. Others of us are asked to help out at the church and be there at 8:45 to be able to serve in any way, as door greeters, or ushers, or even bathroom attendants ( ladies only, thank God. Could you imagine a male bathroom attendant?) The service starts at 10, and ends around 11:30. after this, we usually have the rest of the day off, but we will sometimes have random things that we will be asked to do.
Mondays are our day off. Thank God.
Anyhow, that is a glimpse of the weekly schedule that I run into here at Master's Commission. Hope that clears up what its like! Talk to you guys later!
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