lifeasmission

It has been so long since I have had a chance to update the old blog-a-roo. Fall quarter is quickly coming to an end. Between now and Dec. 9 I will write over 60 pages worth of papers and will take 3 final exams! It’s gonna be quite a few weeks. But, it has been a very good quarter. I have loved my classes, managed to get by without a job thanks to some gracious friends and extra tight spending, and have had the chance to meet a bunch of new people. My flag football team is seeded third for our playoffs next week. We are really hoping to win it all this year.

A bit of big news (to me anyway) is that some friends and I started talking a few weeks ago and decided that based on our dissatisfaction with churches in the area and given some needs we perceived within the Fuller community, we were going to “start our own church.” I out that in quotes for 2 reasons. First, becasue no one ever starts a church. The church is the people of God, hence, one can be a part of the church, and the church may grow, but God and God alone is responsible for the creation (both originally and in process) of His people. Second, becasue what we aim to do and be about will look different than what most people think of when they hear the word church. We have talked a lot about what it means to do life together. We are doscovering what it means to encourage one another, sharpena nd correct one another, serve together, sacrifice together, worship together, and so forth. We meet together at least once a week to have a meal together, pray, sing, study and what not. Then, we do thing together throughout the week, all the while looking for others who might be blessed by joining us once, twice, or permanently. We really don’t know what all God might have in store, but we’re excited to figure it out together.

A friend and I were studying together at Starbucks last night. As they were closing they asked if we would like the left over sandwiches. There were like 15 and they were just going to throw them away. We decided to bag them up and try to visit some of the homeless people in our area. Oddly enough, we only found one man in a nearby park. His name was David and we got to talk with him for a while and hear his story. He was a really great guy who had fallen on hard times and had run out of family and friends to depend on. He had been on the streets for 2 years and was just hoping to make it 4 more so that he could start collecting his pension. My friend and I got to pray with him that God would sustain his health and that he might be able to find some work in the mean time. We left him a few of the sandwiches and took the rest to a local homeless shelter for them to distribute.

My buddy Ken came in town last week for a few days to hang out and see the sites. We got to tour Hollywood, Beverly Hills, we saw UCLA and made it out to Santa Monica Pier. He had never been out here before, so he consumated the trip with a romp in the Pacific. Had a really great time talking and hanging out. We got to hit up a concert at Fuller’s bookstore and even hung at an 80′s party for a while.

Guess that’s about it. Catch you on the other side of the craziness I am about undergo.

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