So my internship is over. I didn't really update the blog very much, but hopefully you got a copy of the prayer letter I sent out half way through the summer. I'll be sending another one out here soon, so if you didn't get a copy of the last one and would like a copy of the next one, make sure to let me know your address (either postal or e-mail).
This blog is going to be used a little differently from this point on. I already have a blog that I've kept somewhat updated with photos for a little while now (here). My goal was to leave my personal life mostly out of my posts. I just wanted a medium where I could show off the work I was doing with my photography and have a place where people could comment on it. This blog is going to be the opposite. Well... not completely opposite, but this will mostly be stuff going on in my life. I might have some photos that wind up on here, but for the most part, they'll stay on the other one. I enjoy cooking... a lot, so some of that will probably wind up on here. I've tried to do a baking blog before, but that fell through after two posts. I always get impatient when food is done and don't want to take the time to photograph it before I start eating or while I'm cooking.
Sunday, August 1, 2010
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
The past couple weeks
So I haven't had much time to put to words what's been happening here at LT. Well, that's partially true. It's been a lack of internet that's really held me back. I've been filling up my time with people instead of being confined to a computer screen. It's a lot easier than trying to search for the couple places around here that I'm able to get somewhat reliable internet.
These past couple weeks have been heavy on introspection. We've been asked to examine ourselves in a couple different areas. The first question we were to ask was, "What are you afraid of, and why?" At first this seems like an easy question to answer. Most people put a ton of thought into this and had a decent list of things. When asked why, people tended to see trends in their fears.
The next week, we talked about relationships. Not just romantic relationships, but relations with people. I helped Sarah Swann give a talk about emotional boundaries. Other talks included physical boundaries and personal purity (masturbation and pornography). We split everyone into three groups (two guy's groups and a girl's group). Everyone went to each talk for about 20 minutes and each talk was led out by a guy and a girl (like me and Sarah).
Basically everyone is now emotionally drained from talking about themselves and is ready to go do something. This is where this coming week comes into play. We're going to be talking about evangelism. I'm not exactly sure what we'll be doing, but it should be good for the students. I can honestly say that I'm really excited. It's kind of weird for me to admit that, because in the past, I've shied away from (kind of hated) evangelism. It made me uncomfortable and I didn't like that it was what I was supposed to do. It turns out that I'm not really gifted at it.
This past week however, I went out with two of the students to smoke cigars and walk around. We met this guy, Chris, who is 19. He's in the army and has been to Afghanistan once, for a year (he went when he was 17), and is going back next June for another year. He came up to us and started talking to us (he was drunk) and told us about how he's been to jail, joined the army, and wants to help "at risk" youth at a camp while he's waiting to be redeployed. Our conversation got cut short when a cop car drove by, and he took off running.
We then met Rocky and Jay. Rocky plays violin in her boyfriends band and Jay wants to be an actor. They offered us Salvia (which, just for the record, we didn't accept). Jordan initiated the conversation with them, and we stood in the street talking to them for about an hour. They told us their stories and opened up to us even though we just met them. Jay invited us to stop by anytime we wanted, since we met them right outside of his house.
Hopefully Jordan, Ben, and I are going to make going out to meet people a regular thing we do. My hope is that we'll team up on Thursday to go meet people. I just realized that some of you might not know why Thursday would be when we team up. Here's the schedule that LT follows.
Monday & Tuesday = Main Sessions. We have worship and a message/teaching at 7pm each of these days.
Thursday = project day. We go out and do something with what we learned about on Monday/Tuesday. Sometimes we do more teaching stuff on this day too. Neil also decided that we're going to do an hour of prayer every week on this day.
I'll try to update this more often, so that the posts aren't so long.
Please be praying for Chris, Rocky, and Jay. It would be awesome to see them get connected to some of the students/leaders here at LT.
These past couple weeks have been heavy on introspection. We've been asked to examine ourselves in a couple different areas. The first question we were to ask was, "What are you afraid of, and why?" At first this seems like an easy question to answer. Most people put a ton of thought into this and had a decent list of things. When asked why, people tended to see trends in their fears.
The next week, we talked about relationships. Not just romantic relationships, but relations with people. I helped Sarah Swann give a talk about emotional boundaries. Other talks included physical boundaries and personal purity (masturbation and pornography). We split everyone into three groups (two guy's groups and a girl's group). Everyone went to each talk for about 20 minutes and each talk was led out by a guy and a girl (like me and Sarah).
Basically everyone is now emotionally drained from talking about themselves and is ready to go do something. This is where this coming week comes into play. We're going to be talking about evangelism. I'm not exactly sure what we'll be doing, but it should be good for the students. I can honestly say that I'm really excited. It's kind of weird for me to admit that, because in the past, I've shied away from (kind of hated) evangelism. It made me uncomfortable and I didn't like that it was what I was supposed to do. It turns out that I'm not really gifted at it.
This past week however, I went out with two of the students to smoke cigars and walk around. We met this guy, Chris, who is 19. He's in the army and has been to Afghanistan once, for a year (he went when he was 17), and is going back next June for another year. He came up to us and started talking to us (he was drunk) and told us about how he's been to jail, joined the army, and wants to help "at risk" youth at a camp while he's waiting to be redeployed. Our conversation got cut short when a cop car drove by, and he took off running.
We then met Rocky and Jay. Rocky plays violin in her boyfriends band and Jay wants to be an actor. They offered us Salvia (which, just for the record, we didn't accept). Jordan initiated the conversation with them, and we stood in the street talking to them for about an hour. They told us their stories and opened up to us even though we just met them. Jay invited us to stop by anytime we wanted, since we met them right outside of his house.
Hopefully Jordan, Ben, and I are going to make going out to meet people a regular thing we do. My hope is that we'll team up on Thursday to go meet people. I just realized that some of you might not know why Thursday would be when we team up. Here's the schedule that LT follows.
Monday & Tuesday = Main Sessions. We have worship and a message/teaching at 7pm each of these days.
Thursday = project day. We go out and do something with what we learned about on Monday/Tuesday. Sometimes we do more teaching stuff on this day too. Neil also decided that we're going to do an hour of prayer every week on this day.
I'll try to update this more often, so that the posts aren't so long.
Please be praying for Chris, Rocky, and Jay. It would be awesome to see them get connected to some of the students/leaders here at LT.
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Setting up
We made it!
I've decided to keep a blog about this summer and what God's doing in the lives of both the participants and myself. Hopefully this is interesting to some people. My plan is to update it about every week, but we'll see how that goes.
We've taken the last couple days to help get things ready before everyone else gets here. There are some pretty cool things that are planned. Some boarder on a fine line of funny and creepy. The rest go ahead and blow right past the line into creepy.
We're waiting on one of the condos to open up, but that should happen tomorrow morning. The rest of them are set up and ready for people to get here (more or less).
We got up this morning to spend some time with God. It was really good to take the time to pray about the summer. I'm really excited to see how people are going to be changed over these 10 weeks, and to see how people will step up and start leading more things.
I'll have more later, but everything is kind of still starting right now.
I've decided to keep a blog about this summer and what God's doing in the lives of both the participants and myself. Hopefully this is interesting to some people. My plan is to update it about every week, but we'll see how that goes.
We've taken the last couple days to help get things ready before everyone else gets here. There are some pretty cool things that are planned. Some boarder on a fine line of funny and creepy. The rest go ahead and blow right past the line into creepy.
We're waiting on one of the condos to open up, but that should happen tomorrow morning. The rest of them are set up and ready for people to get here (more or less).
We got up this morning to spend some time with God. It was really good to take the time to pray about the summer. I'm really excited to see how people are going to be changed over these 10 weeks, and to see how people will step up and start leading more things.
I'll have more later, but everything is kind of still starting right now.
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