Flight from Atlanta to Minneapolis has been delayed by almost 30-minutes...arhg...

STP 2011 Weeks 1 & 2 on Vimeo

This video is obviously out of order, but I never posted it the first time. So, here is a quick look at the first two weeks of random footage at Project!

STP 2011 Weeks 1 & 2 on Vimeo

‘It is the most important thing. Period.’ | Summer Training Project

Here is a quick blog post that Emma wrote that week on the STP blog about one of Matt Reagan's talks. The talk itself was super helpful, very convicting about how much more I need to simply trust and rejoice in the good news that Christ has "rescued me from the domain of darkness and transferred me [us] to the kingdom of his beloved Son".

‘It is the most important thing. Period.’ | Summer Training Project

Highlights of Week 3 and 4 on Vimeo

Thanks to a most talented video guy on project, here is a tast of the last couple of weeks. It looks way cooler than perhaps it actually gives information about the last couple of weeks...but here you go, here is the hotel and area around the hotel and stuff. Cool stuff...plus, you can totally hear my voice playing the game right at the beginning of it.

Highlights of Week 3 and 4 on Vimeo

Doing bible study training this morning and about to go to a staff social time...good stuff

Low Country Boil

In a couple of hours, I will be enjoying some Southern food, beef, potatoes, corn, shrimp and all sorts of stuff all thrown into a pot and cooked. Tonight is the weekly social at the Project, and tonight is called "Low Country Boil"...should be fun.

Things have been super challenging and super great in SC.

I've been really convicted on several various things, including a big conviction on how much I put my identity in ministry and the "success" I have in ministry. This has been an idol of mine, and the Lord has been progressively displaying this to me, rebuking me kindly in my idolatry, rather than trusting in the gospel. Or as Paul said, "He HAS delivered from the domain of darkness, and HAS transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son[!]." Wow! This is the gospel, if we are in Christ, this IS NOW a reality, and we should "sing with thankfulness in our heart to God" over this truth, and it has been happening more in my life lately.

So, a week from today I will be back up North, spending a couple of days in St. Cloud with my mom and brother and sister in law, which should be really fun. Then I'll be back in Brookings sometime around the 5th of July, ready to push forward towards some Fall planning for Equip, and hopefully spending a ton of time travelling and meeting with friends and people that I hope will be excited to join my partner team as I raise financial support. Please keep this in your prayers for my sake, as I am hoping to raise $1,100 of monthly support yet this summer (well, actually about $900 more).

(the picture is just another pic of the CO staff training times each morning...we are studying John Frame, it is super great, makes me want to read a lot more John Frame)

Doctrine of the Word of God

These few days, we the staff (CO staff and myself) are studying the book, "The Doctrine of the Word of God", by John Frame. It has been really good so far, I'm realizing how much more I want to read Frame! He has been really helpful in understanding a few things like God's word communicated through words and the significance of that.

Anyways, sitting in this for the morning all morning today, then am hoping to get a bunch of fundraising calls done tonight and finish a few things that are in the shoot for getting ready for Fall.