Thursday, October 30, 2008

Green After All






Turns out I'm green after all.

Check how big your foot print is here.

4.55! Who wants some!?!

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Missions Training, Part 1



Recently our team was approached by Halbert Institute for Missions at ACU, the organization training our team, about us planning and hosting an upcoming event. Each semester Halbert sponsors an event like this to inform the ACU community about the organization and missions opportunities.

Here are some pics from the Missional Learning Party that we threw. These are shot by DPS.

Fellowship



Game Time



Discussion



This was a great opportunity for us to get some practical experience organizing and implementing a plan. It definitely served as a good preface for our weekend training retreat just a week later (Which we'll get to in the next post).

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Rosa






Today at work I received a letter from Rosa who is serving a life sentence in prison. She has been in prison for more than ten years. She hasn’t seen or heard from her husband in nearly eight years; her mother for five years; her daughters and brother the whole time she’s been there.

Rosa wanted to know whether to quit writing them.

She went on to tell me that the sentence she is serving is unjust since she was erroneously convicted of the crime that brought her there. As I wrote Rosa back I wondered whether I had any wisdom or encouragement to share. I continued either way. Just before slipping the letter into the envelope I realized that maybe it didn’t matter what I wrote but that I was writing.

Near my signature I jotted, “Write to me. I’ll write back.”

I pray that she finds hope in Jesus and finds the strength to press on.