Hey guys!
Real quick, just wanted to give e'ryone an update on the cash situation!
Our whole team is covered for the deposit! God is so good! He came through and provided money for several people so now we can all get our plane tickets and be locked in for outreach! He is so good!
Thank you all for your prayers and your support! Huge things happening here! Woot!
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Quick Request!
Hey guys!
Quick Prayer Request!
I need to have about $350 come in by tomorrow for support...If you could keep it in your prayers that God would reveal how he's going to come through with that I'd really appreciate it! I know he will provide, I'm just trying to be patient on how he's going to do it!
Thank you guys! If you can help with this i'd really appreciate it!
If you want to send some you can go to:
https://apply.uofn.edu/OnlineAppDocs/OnlinePayment.cfm
And put this information in box by box:
Morrison
Joshua
joshmmorrison@yahoo.com
jan 25 1991
DTS community transformation
Sep 2011
Then check the box that says "Student Outreach"
Thanks guys! If you could please send me a facebook message or email telling me if you send some i'd appreciate it because they don't notify me.
Much love guys!
Josh
Quick Prayer Request!
I need to have about $350 come in by tomorrow for support...If you could keep it in your prayers that God would reveal how he's going to come through with that I'd really appreciate it! I know he will provide, I'm just trying to be patient on how he's going to do it!
Thank you guys! If you can help with this i'd really appreciate it!
If you want to send some you can go to:
https://apply.uofn.edu/OnlineAppDocs/OnlinePayment.cfm
And put this information in box by box:
Morrison
Joshua
joshmmorrison@yahoo.com
jan 25 1991
DTS community transformation
Sep 2011
Then check the box that says "Student Outreach"
Thanks guys! If you could please send me a facebook message or email telling me if you send some i'd appreciate it because they don't notify me.
Much love guys!
Josh
Monday, October 24, 2011
Two updates in two days? Yup!
Hey Guys!
You get another update in as many days! Sweet huh??
Today was absolutely crazy. We had a new speaker come in again this week and totally blew off any restraints and limitations I had on another area of my faith.
This speaker is talking about prophecy and prophetic visions. It's a crazy concept that I never even gave the slightest amount of credit to in our day and age. I totally looked at that as something that happened a long time ago and was seriously a bunch of bull crap today. Sorry for being so blunt, but that's where I was at and what my mindset was going into the lecture today.
Man, did he blow my mind on this one.
He started talking about people having the gift of prophecy and I definitely sat there with 100% doubt in my mind. I kept thinking "wow, this is going to be one of those topics where it's pushed on me and if I don't believe it then I'm wrong." I know that wasn't the right mindset to have going into it because it really is a biblical concept, but that's where I was at.
He asked people to raise their hands if they've ever seen visions from God. About half of the class raised their hands and half didn't (i'm a math genius, huh?). We then went outside and got into two lines. One line was people that thought they might have the gift of prophecy and the other was people who didn't. I went into the ones that didn't. He then told us to pair up with someone of the opposite group and we'd learn about it and practice it. I grouped up with someone and figured we'd try it. I still had complete doubt that this was going to work. I figured it would just be stuff that was so general that anyone could somehow apply it to their lives and make it seem like it was real. I really wasn't excited about going into this day.
What he had us do was have the one who didn't have the gift of prophecy pray that God would reveal things about themselves to the ones who say that they do have the gift. In disbelief, i went along with the exercise and figured it'd just be over soon. My partner then sat in silence for about 30 seconds and then just started unloading stuff on me. It was absolutely insane. Everything that I have been struggling with while being here, including all of the stuff that i have told absolutely no one was brought up. It wasn't like general stuff either...it was super specific and strait to the point about what I was dealing with. It seriously blew my mind. There was absolutely no way that he could have known any of that stuff and because there were only two of us there was no way it could have been a trick of any kind. It's so crazy!
We then switched and he had me try it. I definitely do not have that gift, haha, and i'm okay with that. That's one part that I really liked too; they didn't stress that everyone must have it. Each one of us is given certain gifts that we can use for the glory of God.
Absolutely insane stuff going on guys. I can't stress enough how freaking real God is. This whole thing is absolutely blowing my mind about who I thought God was before. It's absolutely blowing my mind on the little box that I had God in. He's so freaking real and personal and it's so awesome to think about. Seriously, this is legit stuff. Crazy.
I also have a few prayer requests for you all!
-team unity: we have a solid team, but just be praying that we could grow even closer together because we are going to be a family for the time we're there.
-Our fears: Please pray that there would be peace in us as we go over there. Strait up walking into a broken nation so we're a little nervous, but like i said we know God has our backs!
-The hearts of the people to be prepared ahead of time. There is a lot of "christianity" over there, but by that it means animism mixed with christianity. so prayers that their hearts would be open to the message that we bring!
-finances: several of us on the team still need quite a bit of money for outreach. we're doing everything we can, and we know that God has it for us he's just trying to figure out which pocket it's in right now, it's just waiting for it to come in.
-Supplies: We have several things that we need to get before going over there. Shots, water purification supplies, etc. So if you could pray for provision that'd be awesome!
-And above all else: That God's will be done while we're there. It's crazy and exciting, but we don't want it to just be an exciting trip that we go on. We want to have God use us to forever change eternity because someone (or many people) come to the lord!
You get another update in as many days! Sweet huh??
Today was absolutely crazy. We had a new speaker come in again this week and totally blew off any restraints and limitations I had on another area of my faith.
This speaker is talking about prophecy and prophetic visions. It's a crazy concept that I never even gave the slightest amount of credit to in our day and age. I totally looked at that as something that happened a long time ago and was seriously a bunch of bull crap today. Sorry for being so blunt, but that's where I was at and what my mindset was going into the lecture today.
Man, did he blow my mind on this one.
He started talking about people having the gift of prophecy and I definitely sat there with 100% doubt in my mind. I kept thinking "wow, this is going to be one of those topics where it's pushed on me and if I don't believe it then I'm wrong." I know that wasn't the right mindset to have going into it because it really is a biblical concept, but that's where I was at.
He asked people to raise their hands if they've ever seen visions from God. About half of the class raised their hands and half didn't (i'm a math genius, huh?). We then went outside and got into two lines. One line was people that thought they might have the gift of prophecy and the other was people who didn't. I went into the ones that didn't. He then told us to pair up with someone of the opposite group and we'd learn about it and practice it. I grouped up with someone and figured we'd try it. I still had complete doubt that this was going to work. I figured it would just be stuff that was so general that anyone could somehow apply it to their lives and make it seem like it was real. I really wasn't excited about going into this day.
What he had us do was have the one who didn't have the gift of prophecy pray that God would reveal things about themselves to the ones who say that they do have the gift. In disbelief, i went along with the exercise and figured it'd just be over soon. My partner then sat in silence for about 30 seconds and then just started unloading stuff on me. It was absolutely insane. Everything that I have been struggling with while being here, including all of the stuff that i have told absolutely no one was brought up. It wasn't like general stuff either...it was super specific and strait to the point about what I was dealing with. It seriously blew my mind. There was absolutely no way that he could have known any of that stuff and because there were only two of us there was no way it could have been a trick of any kind. It's so crazy!
We then switched and he had me try it. I definitely do not have that gift, haha, and i'm okay with that. That's one part that I really liked too; they didn't stress that everyone must have it. Each one of us is given certain gifts that we can use for the glory of God.
Absolutely insane stuff going on guys. I can't stress enough how freaking real God is. This whole thing is absolutely blowing my mind about who I thought God was before. It's absolutely blowing my mind on the little box that I had God in. He's so freaking real and personal and it's so awesome to think about. Seriously, this is legit stuff. Crazy.
I also have a few prayer requests for you all!
-team unity: we have a solid team, but just be praying that we could grow even closer together because we are going to be a family for the time we're there.
-Our fears: Please pray that there would be peace in us as we go over there. Strait up walking into a broken nation so we're a little nervous, but like i said we know God has our backs!
-The hearts of the people to be prepared ahead of time. There is a lot of "christianity" over there, but by that it means animism mixed with christianity. so prayers that their hearts would be open to the message that we bring!
-finances: several of us on the team still need quite a bit of money for outreach. we're doing everything we can, and we know that God has it for us he's just trying to figure out which pocket it's in right now, it's just waiting for it to come in.
-Supplies: We have several things that we need to get before going over there. Shots, water purification supplies, etc. So if you could pray for provision that'd be awesome!
-And above all else: That God's will be done while we're there. It's crazy and exciting, but we don't want it to just be an exciting trip that we go on. We want to have God use us to forever change eternity because someone (or many people) come to the lord!
Oh Snap.
Okay guys, I want start out by apologizing for a couple of things:
1. I am sorry it's been so long since my last post. Things have been chaos here.
2. I am sorry that this is about to be a long post! Please read it though, it's worth your time!
Okay, here we go!
This has been absolutely crazy. God is so freaking good. I'm going to try to explain everything to you but you're probably going to think that I've gone insane. No, rest assured, I haven't. I'm gonna try to describe everything as best as possible haha
God is so good. That's the huge thing that I'm learning. He is so great compared to what I've always thought he was. He is so much more powerful and mighty than I ever envisioned him being. He is so much more loving than I ever could have imagined. He is so much more real and present than I have ever known. It's crazy. What's even crazier is that he cares about us personally. He really knows and cares about us in a way that we can't even grasp. He loves and cares about us in a way that words can't even describe. This has been totally revealed to me in a way that I've never even hoped for!
The way that the teaching goes is that every week we have a new speaker come in and teach on a specific topic. We had an amazing speaker come in this week and teach on absolutely nothing that he had originally planned on. This week has really shown us the power of the Holy Spirit and how much we can follow its leading in our everyday lives. The stuff is so basic it's ridiculous. I say that meaning it's crazy how numb I've personally gotten to all of the basic things about Jesus and what he taught. One of the huge things that stood out to me was that one of the days during lecture we talked about John 15.
1. I am sorry it's been so long since my last post. Things have been chaos here.
2. I am sorry that this is about to be a long post! Please read it though, it's worth your time!
Okay, here we go!
This has been absolutely crazy. God is so freaking good. I'm going to try to explain everything to you but you're probably going to think that I've gone insane. No, rest assured, I haven't. I'm gonna try to describe everything as best as possible haha
God is so good. That's the huge thing that I'm learning. He is so great compared to what I've always thought he was. He is so much more powerful and mighty than I ever envisioned him being. He is so much more loving than I ever could have imagined. He is so much more real and present than I have ever known. It's crazy. What's even crazier is that he cares about us personally. He really knows and cares about us in a way that we can't even grasp. He loves and cares about us in a way that words can't even describe. This has been totally revealed to me in a way that I've never even hoped for!
The way that the teaching goes is that every week we have a new speaker come in and teach on a specific topic. We had an amazing speaker come in this week and teach on absolutely nothing that he had originally planned on. This week has really shown us the power of the Holy Spirit and how much we can follow its leading in our everyday lives. The stuff is so basic it's ridiculous. I say that meaning it's crazy how numb I've personally gotten to all of the basic things about Jesus and what he taught. One of the huge things that stood out to me was that one of the days during lecture we talked about John 15.
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
(John 15:1-5 ESV)
(John 15:1-5 ESV)
I've always been terrified of this passage. I read it as saying that if we don't bear fruit he's going to cut us off from him. The speaker this week totally dug into this and showed us what it's really saying. It's not that we will be cut off from him, it's that he loves us so much that he wants us to grow. If there's any area of our life that isn't producing fruit he will prune it so that it will grow back even better than before. It's so crazy to think about that he cares about us in that way. The other part of this verse that has stuck out to me is how much emphasis it puts on "abiding in him." That's one thing that I've always struggled with and it's becoming really obvious to me. I've struggled with staying rooted in Christ. It's been kind of a lukewarm sort of thing and it's so awesome to be working through that.
Crazyness happened the other day. I don't even know what we were originally talking about in class and then it all broke out into crazyness. They asked people to share what God is doing in their life and one girl stood up and said that God's really breaking off religion in her life. That set off people like crazy breaking it off. By this i mean the whole idea that Christianity is a religious set of rules and actions. and by this I mean that it's one of those lifestyles where you obey certain routines and adhere to a set of guidelines. It's so much deeper than that. I realized how much of this was really polluting my own life.
I've gotten so freaking wrapped up in all of the details of church. I got wrapped up in how worship sounds. That was huge for me; I put way too much bank into worship. It's not about everyone playing the right chords. It's not about playing it a certain way. It's not about the style of worship. Having all of those preferences for worship really puts God under my own control. It's me trying to say what worshipping God should look like. It's me trying to tell everyone how it should be. i didn't realize how much control I was trying to have over worship. It's not about me, it's about Him. It doesn't matter if I don't like the song that they're playing. That's so freaking selfish of me to try to make excuses for not worshipping because I don't like the set list. That's one thing I've really realized in being here; I've been a control freak in this area. What's crazy is that they haven't even talked about this topic, so it's crazy how much of my own life God is pointing out needs improvement.
Continuing where I left off of the person saying that she was breaking off religion in her own life...That led to so many people just declaring things that they were going to change in their lives. It also turned into people declaring things to God about all kinds of stuff. They opened the mic up to anyone and everyone to talk. It was strait up glory fire right there. I don't even know what glory fire means, but it is really the only way I can put into words what happened. It was absolutely insane. This then turned into an epic dance party. Let me tell you, I have never enjoyed dancing in my life, yet this was awesome. They cranked the tunes and it was just a strait up celebration dance party. So awesome.
The big thing that hit me when people were declaring everything was that I felt like I legitimately had a strait up conversation with the Lord. I don't think I've ever felt this before, so hear me out on this. It was crazy and absolutely blew my mind. they were singing worship and I just felt this tugging on my heart that was saying "You don't even know how much I love you..." and I was just praying like "okay...what do you mean?" totally confused and not sure what was going on. The next thing I know I felt like He was asking me "do you want me to break your heart for what breaks mine?" I was like "oh yeah! I sing hosanna all the time! (the lyrics from one part are 'break my heart for what breaks yours...') and then instantly I just felt like my heart was broken. (Side note: I don't usually cry. I haven't cried in a long time. It's just something that I don't do very often. Not out of pride, i just don't tend to do it.) The next thing I know I am just overwhelmed with tears. Thoughts of family members that don't know Jesus popped into my head and I just wept for them. Then after I regained composure a friend who isn't a christian would pop into my head and I would break down all over again. I was honestly freaking out. I had no idea what was going on or why the heck I was crying. The next feeling I got was like in my heart I was being told "See? Do you see how heartbroken you are for them? That's just a glimpse at how heartbroken I am that they don't know me. That's how much I love them, and how much I love you."
This wasn't like a "I heard God's audible voice" or a "he spoke to me with a loud thunderous voice" sort of thing. I'm not going crazy, it was simply a feeling that was laid on my heart. That's how freaking real he is! It's not like he's some guy that is off there that rules everything. I know that's so elementary and something that we've all heard a million times, but it's freaking real. It's freaking real! The God of the universe personally cares about me. He personally cares about you. He personally wants to talk to us on a one on one basis. It's crazy. I'm really learning how much he actually loves me. God is so good!!!
After that dance party, the class felt like the Holy Spirit was leading them to go down to the pier and do baptisms. It is really crazy to think that the Holy Spirit personally wants to lead us like it does. It's true. Call me crazy, that's fine, but it is a real thing and it speaks into our lives like crazy. We went down and like 60 people ended up getting baptized! One person who wasn't even with our group came to accept Jesus and get baptized! It was a crazy time of celebration! God is so good!
He's real guys...He really is. I can't stretch that enough. It's not just this idea or ideal way of living. The God of the universe freaking loves me and you on such an intimate individual basis that we can't even begin to grasp it!
The craziest part of the teachings is, like i said, how simple it is. We are learning so much from simply talking about Jesus. That's where I had been struggling for so long...I tried to get away from talking about Jesus. Crazy things happen when he's the focus of our discussion and conversation. So good!
Another thing that God is really teaching me is what he's given me in regards to gifts. The more I'm growing in him the happier of a person I'm becoming. Not that I used to be a total d-bag or anything (well, you tell me, i don't think i was haha) but it's crazy how when you learn what it means to be loved by God you also learn how to love others like never before. He's really teaching me what it means to speak life into people and not speak hatred or death. I've really been making it a point to be super encouraging to everyone. This isn't because I want to be 'that guy' that's encouraging people, it's just that God's really filling me up to be able to pour out into people. So good! I'm also learning how to really live out love for people. It's so crazy what God can do when you just love him and let him love others through you. I love it!
There's so many more stories of things that have happened, but my battery is about to die so I can't type them all out right now. But I really want to talk to each and every one of you personally about what's going on in my life! I try to explain through these updates but there's so much more to it than that! Please drop me an email and I would love to explain more! I would also love to skype you too! Shoot me an email saying when works best for you and I can see what I can do. Weekends are pretty free for me (for the most part) and around 6pm (san jose time) on in the evenings.
I love you all so freaking much. I can't wait to share even more of the glory that God is pouring down in this place. The world is going to be freaking different because of this class and I can't wait to see what happens!
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Hey Guys,
What a freaking week since the last update. God has moved in such amazing ways it is blowing my mind. I never expected it to be this life changing, let alone a week and a half into schooling. Here's what's going on:
Over the first week of schooling we talked about hearing the voice of God. I honestly admit that I was super hesitant going into this. That concept was always one that seemed so distant to me. I always knew when God was leading me in a certain direction, but the whole idea of being able to hear him talking to you in the moment was so far out that I looked at it as something that super extreme (and sometimes weird) people lived out. Oh how real it became this past week. We talked about it in classes and then they said "okay we're going to practice it now" and revealed the locations for outreach (the second half of the program somewhere in the world). They told us to have a name of a place in before we left that morning (it was right at the end of the class). At first I was super overwhelmed by the idea. It seemed like other people were getting total revelations and I had hit a brick wall. When I looked over the list, one location stood out especially to me. I didn't know why because honestly I didn't even know where in the world it was, so it wasn't like it was a place that I really wanted to go. I ended up over thinking it and putting Japan down as the location I "felt" that God was telling me to go. Immediately after leaving the classroom I felt my heart sink. I knew something wasn't right. The location that i had originally gotten an impression about (which, unfortunately, must go nameless) was burned into my mind. It was then that I realized that God was definitely trying to tell me something. I prayed about it for an hour or so and then went back to the school leader and told him what was going on. They ended up changing my pick to that one and all was good. (I will tell more about where i'm going in a little bit)
Worship has been mind blowing. I've always grown up in a structured worship setting. The process of having a 5 song set, playing the chorus chords for an intro, then the verse, then chorus, verse 2, chorus twice, bridge, chorus twice, done was so burned into my memory that I didn't realize how limiting it is. Up here they will play a song for like 10 minutes, then change to another song, then sometimes even come back to the first one. It is crazy. God has completely blown up the little box that I've had him in regarding worship. Although I've always known that it is about so much more than how it's done, He has really taught me that I was skimping out on worshipping big time. It has been awesome to throw everything aside and simply sing out to God and not worry about how bad I sing or what the people around me think. Loving it.
A big story that I want to share happened last week. We were doing a 2 hour session in the prayer room just worshipping and interceding in prayer for people. I felt super distant and like God wasn't even there. That lasted for about an hour and I didn't get it. It was really depressing and I hated the feeling. I tried to just keep pushing through it even though I didn't feel him there. About halfway through I felt like God was speaking strait to me (not like an audible voice, but like an impression he had given) "Do you like how that feels?" and I was like "NO!" (not outloud, haha). I then felt like He said "well, that's how you've been and how our relationship has been for a long time now." Instantly I felt this filling up like I've never experienced before. If that is how my life was living towards the Lord before then I never want to go back to that. It is so lonely and so depressing that I never want to be in that place again. It was so awesome to experience Him in that way and it was yet another reminder of how real and personal he is. I love it!
Work duty has been AWESOME! I didn't think I would ever say that I really enjoyed getting up at 4am to go wash dishes was enjoyable, but it has truly been a blast. Such an awesome team working in the kitchen and it's so much fun. Absolutely loving it.
And now about Outreach...Here we go. I love how I joked with so many people about how I wouldn't tell you where I was going and then said "yeah right, that won't happen." Guess what? It happened. haha. What I will say is that I will be going to Africa. I'm so freaking stoked! It's going to be a wild, crazy adventure and I can't wait to see what happens. I would love to share specifics with you wan though! Please hit me up on skype! (Joshmmorrison <---there's 2 M's, don't miss that or else you'll get the wrong josh morrison). I can also email you personally if you want to know. My email is on the home page of the blog. It's super exciting and I can't wait to see all that happens!
Yup, that was pretty long. There are so many other little stories that I would love to tell you all about. I simply don't have the time to type out a 600 page novel about it! Please hit me up on skype so I can talk with each of you about how awesome this experience is! Most days I have evenings free (which means from about 7pm west coast time on) as well as most weekends. Would love to talk to you guys.
Stay classy!
What a freaking week since the last update. God has moved in such amazing ways it is blowing my mind. I never expected it to be this life changing, let alone a week and a half into schooling. Here's what's going on:
Over the first week of schooling we talked about hearing the voice of God. I honestly admit that I was super hesitant going into this. That concept was always one that seemed so distant to me. I always knew when God was leading me in a certain direction, but the whole idea of being able to hear him talking to you in the moment was so far out that I looked at it as something that super extreme (and sometimes weird) people lived out. Oh how real it became this past week. We talked about it in classes and then they said "okay we're going to practice it now" and revealed the locations for outreach (the second half of the program somewhere in the world). They told us to have a name of a place in before we left that morning (it was right at the end of the class). At first I was super overwhelmed by the idea. It seemed like other people were getting total revelations and I had hit a brick wall. When I looked over the list, one location stood out especially to me. I didn't know why because honestly I didn't even know where in the world it was, so it wasn't like it was a place that I really wanted to go. I ended up over thinking it and putting Japan down as the location I "felt" that God was telling me to go. Immediately after leaving the classroom I felt my heart sink. I knew something wasn't right. The location that i had originally gotten an impression about (which, unfortunately, must go nameless) was burned into my mind. It was then that I realized that God was definitely trying to tell me something. I prayed about it for an hour or so and then went back to the school leader and told him what was going on. They ended up changing my pick to that one and all was good. (I will tell more about where i'm going in a little bit)
Worship has been mind blowing. I've always grown up in a structured worship setting. The process of having a 5 song set, playing the chorus chords for an intro, then the verse, then chorus, verse 2, chorus twice, bridge, chorus twice, done was so burned into my memory that I didn't realize how limiting it is. Up here they will play a song for like 10 minutes, then change to another song, then sometimes even come back to the first one. It is crazy. God has completely blown up the little box that I've had him in regarding worship. Although I've always known that it is about so much more than how it's done, He has really taught me that I was skimping out on worshipping big time. It has been awesome to throw everything aside and simply sing out to God and not worry about how bad I sing or what the people around me think. Loving it.
A big story that I want to share happened last week. We were doing a 2 hour session in the prayer room just worshipping and interceding in prayer for people. I felt super distant and like God wasn't even there. That lasted for about an hour and I didn't get it. It was really depressing and I hated the feeling. I tried to just keep pushing through it even though I didn't feel him there. About halfway through I felt like God was speaking strait to me (not like an audible voice, but like an impression he had given) "Do you like how that feels?" and I was like "NO!" (not outloud, haha). I then felt like He said "well, that's how you've been and how our relationship has been for a long time now." Instantly I felt this filling up like I've never experienced before. If that is how my life was living towards the Lord before then I never want to go back to that. It is so lonely and so depressing that I never want to be in that place again. It was so awesome to experience Him in that way and it was yet another reminder of how real and personal he is. I love it!
Work duty has been AWESOME! I didn't think I would ever say that I really enjoyed getting up at 4am to go wash dishes was enjoyable, but it has truly been a blast. Such an awesome team working in the kitchen and it's so much fun. Absolutely loving it.
And now about Outreach...Here we go. I love how I joked with so many people about how I wouldn't tell you where I was going and then said "yeah right, that won't happen." Guess what? It happened. haha. What I will say is that I will be going to Africa. I'm so freaking stoked! It's going to be a wild, crazy adventure and I can't wait to see what happens. I would love to share specifics with you wan though! Please hit me up on skype! (Joshmmorrison <---there's 2 M's, don't miss that or else you'll get the wrong josh morrison). I can also email you personally if you want to know. My email is on the home page of the blog. It's super exciting and I can't wait to see all that happens!
Yup, that was pretty long. There are so many other little stories that I would love to tell you all about. I simply don't have the time to type out a 600 page novel about it! Please hit me up on skype so I can talk with each of you about how awesome this experience is! Most days I have evenings free (which means from about 7pm west coast time on) as well as most weekends. Would love to talk to you guys.
Stay classy!
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
First Day of Classes!
Hey Guys,
I wanted to shoot everyone a quick update about how it's going so far over here!
We just had out first day of classes. I'm already loving it here! Everyone's been super chill so far and it's fun getting to know them all!
We had this past weekend off before classes started, so we were able to get used to the Kona area and hit up the beach a few times. I think we've been to the beach about 5 times already haha (It's NOT going to keep up at that rate, I promise).
I'm still trying to wrap my head around the fact that God has called me here. I've been so flippin blessed over these past months leading up to this that it's awesome to see how far I've come even since I applied. God's already done some crazy amazing things in my own life as well as the other people in our school. I can't wait to see what happens from here out.
Part of attending this schooling is that everyone has a work duty on the campus. We pretty much keep the campus running and doing everything that's needed. They do that so the price of the schooling can be kept really low. We received our jobs today and I am luck enough to have morning kitchen crew! That means we have to be out at the kitchen at 5:15 am every weekday morning. It's gonna be crazy early, but I have a lot of friends in it so it's going to be awesome to be able to grow closer to them even though it's ridiculously early. I'm also glad that having that job means that I get the rest of the day off (after classes of course) so once my classes are over it's just over.
The amount of worship time we have here is awesome. Each class starts with a session, then we dig into what we're learning and then end it with more. It's not like worship back home either: It's not scripted. No set song list and they don't stick to it, it's free reign. They'll start singing a song and then the songs will end up being like 15 minutes long because everyone is just praying and worshiping authentically.
One thing I love about hawaii: That you can hitch hike anywhere and everywhere. We just got back from walmart, which we hitchhiked to. So awesome haha.
One final note: Definitely rockin the hipster glasses. Diggin it. Like a boss.
I wanted to shoot everyone a quick update about how it's going so far over here!
We just had out first day of classes. I'm already loving it here! Everyone's been super chill so far and it's fun getting to know them all!
We had this past weekend off before classes started, so we were able to get used to the Kona area and hit up the beach a few times. I think we've been to the beach about 5 times already haha (It's NOT going to keep up at that rate, I promise).
I'm still trying to wrap my head around the fact that God has called me here. I've been so flippin blessed over these past months leading up to this that it's awesome to see how far I've come even since I applied. God's already done some crazy amazing things in my own life as well as the other people in our school. I can't wait to see what happens from here out.
Part of attending this schooling is that everyone has a work duty on the campus. We pretty much keep the campus running and doing everything that's needed. They do that so the price of the schooling can be kept really low. We received our jobs today and I am luck enough to have morning kitchen crew! That means we have to be out at the kitchen at 5:15 am every weekday morning. It's gonna be crazy early, but I have a lot of friends in it so it's going to be awesome to be able to grow closer to them even though it's ridiculously early. I'm also glad that having that job means that I get the rest of the day off (after classes of course) so once my classes are over it's just over.
The amount of worship time we have here is awesome. Each class starts with a session, then we dig into what we're learning and then end it with more. It's not like worship back home either: It's not scripted. No set song list and they don't stick to it, it's free reign. They'll start singing a song and then the songs will end up being like 15 minutes long because everyone is just praying and worshiping authentically.
One thing I love about hawaii: That you can hitch hike anywhere and everywhere. We just got back from walmart, which we hitchhiked to. So awesome haha.
One final note: Definitely rockin the hipster glasses. Diggin it. Like a boss.
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