gotta get back into the groove… March 31, 2007
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I’m back, I’m better, I’m catching up.
Lotsa stuff swirling around- so I’m trying to catch my breath.
One cool thing: Patrick Crawford has a blog now! Check it- he may even keep posting if enough of us chuckleheads start reading it. Good stuff so far.
BTW- Morrissey is coming to town, Adrienne and I are going with Grant and Rocki! There goes our dating budget.
I’m back… March 17, 2007
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**quick note- I’m avoiding people right now until my immune system bounces back and I get some more energy**
Hey guys- I hope you have been able to keep abreast of our trip on John and Jordan’s blogs.
I got a little sick when I was over there. I was so fatigued I was sleeping day and night- with about 1 or two hours of energy. I started getting really sick on Sunday while I was preaching at Narin’s church. John says I looked ready to keel over during the second service. I eventually went to the SOS clinic (closest thing to a western hospital). They gave me 4 bags of saline and gave me a blood test. My white blood cel count was at 2,000 (should be bw 7,000 and 10,000). The next day my white blood cel count was down to 1,600. The doc reccommended I wait another two weeks before flying back- but I wanted to get home quickly to my family (and western medicine). According to JMC this little Drama was my intitiation into doing work in Cambodia 
Meeting the kids in our orphanage and catching more vision was definitly worth all the other drama.
The flight was amazingly without drama (thanks to the prayers of all the kids in our orphanage) Jordan’s a great guy to travel with. Special thanks to Tim and Beth Koruna for making some special arrangments for us during our LA layover, and for helping Adrienne with the logistics of pickin me up.
Spent the morning at an OSU health clinic for sme blood work- praying that my blood is one the way back to normall.
I have so much blogs bouncing around in my head about the trip that I hope make it out one of these days.
Too Much To write… (no spell check- in a hurry) March 6, 2007
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Yesterday was a day where I was able to linger on the two extremes of the human story.
Spending several hours at Tual Sleng, the elementary school turned concentration camp. Lingering over the countless pictures of people waiting to be tortured and executed by the Khmer Rouge. I spent about twenty minutes in a room with cases of human skulls, where you could see the evidence of blunt head trauma or gunshot wounds. I walked into the cells were the prisioners were kept- looked at the leg irons that gnawed through skin and ligament to bone as prisoners were strapped to beds and electrocuted. All of this in the name of NO God. People talk of the attrocities committed in the name of religion, but perhaps they should linger on the atrocities committed in the name of no religion other than the religion on self.
Contrast that with hours of hugging and singing, wrestling and playing with the children who live in our orphan home. Guys this place is a patch of heaven. IN a place where so much darkness abounds (human trafficing, child sex slaves, government corruption, etc) in this small house the kingdom of Jesus Christ reigns supreme. These kids are treated as God intended. Every day they learn of the Love of Jesus at school, over home cooked meals, games, in \the new families they have found. On the way to the orphanage we see children picking through dumpsters for scraps of food. When I look at the smiling healthy faces of our children, It is hard to grasp that they used to be the ones looking for food in the garbage!
I spent a lot of time talking with Narun, the director of our orphanage- dreaming of opportunities for our Church to start another one.
Satan has tried to destroy this country- but we are seeing evidences of Jesus taking it back. We will just need anothe 40 people to sacrifice 40.00 a month in order to start another orphanage. My dream is to bring my whole family out here. I’m sure the kids would love to stay with the kids at our orphan house.
We spent the day driving to Siem Riep. On the way we passed a 4 square Gospel Orphanage. We stopped, met the directors and were able to pray with them and leave them with a financial blessing.
I have so much more to right- but I know JMC is probably doing a much better job at it two internet kiosks over.
Please Pray for me as I prepare for sharing an evangelistic talk on Saturday, and for my preaching at Narin Chey’s church two times on Sunday!
Off to Cambodia!! March 2, 2007
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I’ve been crazy the past week getting ready for my Flight to Cambodia. John has a blog that he keeps updated- I hope to follow his example- but probably won’t.
I look forward to meeting the children and staff of our orphanage for the first time.
I look forward to getting back to my ALPHA roots by preaching at a restaurant (an perhaps a church or two)
I look forward to seeing the beginning of Asia’s Hope’s (And Central Vineyard’s) first foray into the wacky world of micro-enterprise development (in the form of Coffee Shops around Cambodia, the family business for the fatherless!
I also look forward to hanging with John, Allison, and my cousin Jordan.
Pray for us!
Prayer Vigil has started February 24, 2007
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at 7:05 pm we started an hour of worship led by MPG and crew. about 30 of us gathered.
I have come to believe in prayer as a place- in that, when we pray, we stand before Jesus in heaven, but on earth at the same time. When we come together in prayer I believe we experience more of the “already” and less of the “not yet” of the kingdom of God. Heaven is relocated in our midst.
People will be coming and going for the next 23 hours. Join us.
The vigil is being held at Element Design Group across from Rag-O-Rama, just above the Bagel shop (SE corner of Longview and High St.
Perhaps I’ll Post a few updates…
Sneak Preaching Previews February 11, 2007
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Finishing Matthew 22 over the next three weeks. Jesus has just finished Tearing up the Temple Establishment, administered the coup de grace thru storytelling, and now the Pharisees and friends come back to have a final go at discrediting Jesus.
working titles:
Two Fisted Tales Of Entrapment:
Jesus vs. Pharisees (3 rounds)
this week: Death or Taxes
next week: Doctrinal Debates
week after next: Lawyers vs. Lovers
In March while I’m in Cambodia Ram Sridharan and Sheila (Dr.) Livingston will be taking the preaching gig.
My Friends at Vineyard Central February 7, 2007
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Vineyard Central is a Vineyard Church (or rather confederacy of house churches) in Cincy Ohio. Two leaders in that community, Dave Nixon and Kevin Rains, have had a real impact on my personal desire to embrace spiritual disciplines as the means of becoming more like Christ. Both Dave and Kevin- along with their families have embraced the vow of stability as a means of serving God for the long haul and not burning out. They’ve got a new thing going on that really intrigues me. Check it out at www.sustainablefaith.com.
My cold medication is wearing off- so I need to take another hit. So that’s all for now
