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Tonight is our first informational meeting about this year’s Mission trip to Moscow, Russia. I’m really hoping a lot of people will come tonight. I’m hoping that some of the old team will return and that we can get some newcomers to join us. The trip looks like it will be the first of October. This won’t leave too much time for fundraising. Please go ahead and start praying that we will find the funds to continue spreading the news of Jesus Christ to those that have never heard it.

I know for those that have never been on a Mission trip that it is hard to get excited about it. My only wish is that I could let you all feel the awesomeness I feel when I know that I’m exactly where God wants me to be and helping to spread word of Him.

If you ever want to know anything about it let me know…or you can look back to last year’s trip and the journal I posted. It was sometime in April 2005

Thanks guys for all you do!

Some of you are aware of this but I possibly face a big decision in the next week or so.  I can’t say what yet because some of the people may read this blog but please pray for me that God’s will is done and that I will be willing to do what He wants me to do.  Don’t worry it’s nothing bad.  I’ll tell you as soon as I can.  Thanks guys.

This past Sunday Crestview had a very special church guest. It was a puppy (or very small dog). When Justin and I arrived at church we saw this tiny dog walking in the parking lot. When the pastor’s granddaughter arrived she just had to catch the dog and help it. Not wanting her to go outside and get hurt I followed her in the church. We finally found the dog sitting at one of the doors shivering. Against my better judgement I listened to the girl’s pleas and picked the dog up (luckily it wasn’t too dirty). She went and got her mom who is a nurse and the poor dog was all bones and cold and scared. They fed it a donut for lack of anything else to feed it. It ate that thing like there was no tomorrow. Then another church member saw it and went home for some dog food. Another member got a towel from her car to wrap it in. Many others gathered as well trying to figure out what to do to help the poor dog. I ended up holding the dog through Sunday School while they awaited someone to call to possibly take the dog. Finally the dog calmed down during Sunday School and fell asleep in my lap. Then I had to turn her over to another member so I could scrub up and take my jacket off and help in the nursery. By the time I was done someone had taken it home with them. I was so happy that the dog would no longer be out in the cold.

Since I was in the nursery I wasn’t able to attend the service but Justin said that Pastor Stan used the dog as an example for the kids during Children’s time explaining to them that, as we, the church worked together to help the dog, God wants us all to work together as a team to help others. I thought it was a really awesome day at church and a really good lesson learned.

Justin and I were out eating the other day and we saw that one of the girls that was clearing off tables had a dollar sticking out of her back pocket.  Before we could tell her, it apparently had fallen on the ground and a customer diagonally behind me picked it up.  She and the guy she was with were bickering about whether or not to keep it and in the end she decided to keep it.  Then Justin couldn’t help but notice a friend of hers walking up to talk to her with a shirt that said “Jesus” on the front.  I must say that it was quite ironic/funny.  I just think it’s so sad how the world is today.  It was just $1.00 and this lady didn’t feel the need to give it back to its rightful owner.  I don’t know how she can sleep at night doing things like that.  I guess that is the worst part of all.  God tells us not to steal.  He wants us to be honest and loving and to treat others as we would wish to be treated.  I just really pray that woman will change her ways. 

This morning Justin and I had planned to sleep a little bit later than we do during the week. This was the first Saturday we’ve really had a chance to in a long time. What do you know at 7:12am we were awakened by the sounds of Java whining to go out. We tried to ignore it for awhile in hopes that Java would give up and lay back down. Well that didn’t happen so I turned on my side of our new heated mattress pad and got up to take Java out. Once she did her business, I decided to try to put her back in her cage because she used to do that on weekends awhile back and would go back to sleep for an hour. Of course that didn’t happen. She continued to whine and wimper. Then on top of that, the boys were having gym class across our headboard and on the windowsill. Justin got up and let Java out of her cage but shut our bedroom door. It seemed to work for awhile but then the boys decided they wanted to break into Justin’s dresser drawers to throw his clothes on the floor. Then they went to the door and tried scratching at the door to get it open. Needless to say, we both finally gave up and got out of bed.

On another note, Congratulations to Heather and her Redskins tonight. Even though it wasn’t a good offensive game for them, they still pulled a 17-10 win over the Buccaneers. The Tarheels won over NC State this afternoon too. We didn’t get to watch much of it though. Now we are watching the Jacksonville/New England game. I’m so excited for the Carolina/NY game tomorrow. It should be a good one.

Starting Monday I have to work two weeks of 8:30am-8:00pm at the Bookstore. We get out at 4:30pm on Fridays but still, it’s going to be a long few weeks. I’m not looking forward to it. We’ve already lost our GA (she graduated in December) and we hardly have any help (surprise surprise). Wish me luck and I apologize if I disappear again during these two weeks. Who knows, maybe I’ll actually have some more time to blog at work after things slow down after 6:30ish.

Have a great week everyone.