After the Celtics defeated the Pistons last night, the stage was officially set for a rematch of a classic battle between the Lakers and Celtics in the finals. Even though I'm not a big time basketball fan, it's nice to see this matchup. Of course, it helps that my LA team is in the finals. Can't wait to see this series unfold...
....Go Lakers!!
Saturday, May 31, 2008
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Weekend Wrap-up
Super busy weekend, but it was all good...
Friday - Drove 2 hours to the Santa Barbara area to speak to a youth/young adult group. They were camping out for the weekend at a campsite right off the Pacific. It was sweet! The weather wasn't typical for this time of year in SoCal, but it was cool to crowd around the campfire. I had a blast at their camp, meeting cool people and sharing from the Word.
Saturday - Headed out to Redlands to the SB/Riverside counties' Fiesta de Area (a convention of churches) where I got to share with the teens and also got to play in the worship band. I don't play as much as I used to anymore, and I had a great time worshipping through music. It was a great worshipful experience overall. Also got to see and catch up with several friends.
Sunday - Had a great turnout today...about 30-40% more than usual...on Memorial Day weekend! Worship was awesome, and we had a guest speaker share with us today. Fidencio Burgueño used to be my overseer (supervisor) before he moved on to be the Director of Hispanic Ministries in the COG. It was nice to hear him speak from his heart on coming together as a church. His four points were
1. Be united
2. Speak the same language
3. Do the work
4. Be persistent
In addition to being the overseer, he and several others began the church 12 years ago. So, this was his home church while he and his family lived in California.
Later on in the afternoon, I hung out with some friends from Vegas, Lizette and Junior, and got to meet their beautiful daughter, Abigail, and hold her for a bit. It was nice to catch up and just hang out. Definitely need to do this more often. Great way to cap off the weekend!
Friday - Drove 2 hours to the Santa Barbara area to speak to a youth/young adult group. They were camping out for the weekend at a campsite right off the Pacific. It was sweet! The weather wasn't typical for this time of year in SoCal, but it was cool to crowd around the campfire. I had a blast at their camp, meeting cool people and sharing from the Word.
Saturday - Headed out to Redlands to the SB/Riverside counties' Fiesta de Area (a convention of churches) where I got to share with the teens and also got to play in the worship band. I don't play as much as I used to anymore, and I had a great time worshipping through music. It was a great worshipful experience overall. Also got to see and catch up with several friends.
Sunday - Had a great turnout today...about 30-40% more than usual...on Memorial Day weekend! Worship was awesome, and we had a guest speaker share with us today. Fidencio Burgueño used to be my overseer (supervisor) before he moved on to be the Director of Hispanic Ministries in the COG. It was nice to hear him speak from his heart on coming together as a church. His four points were
1. Be united
2. Speak the same language
3. Do the work
4. Be persistent
In addition to being the overseer, he and several others began the church 12 years ago. So, this was his home church while he and his family lived in California.
Later on in the afternoon, I hung out with some friends from Vegas, Lizette and Junior, and got to meet their beautiful daughter, Abigail, and hold her for a bit. It was nice to catch up and just hang out. Definitely need to do this more often. Great way to cap off the weekend!
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Fueling up
The first weekend of May a group of us pastors headed to Tucson, AZ to visit New Life Church to observe and become students of the work being done there. We got a behind-the-scenes look at the church as well as being able to hear from some of the church leaders and the pastor's, Sam Santana, story of transitioning a traditional church to something more contemporary.
Additionally, it was nice to see how he's doing bilingual ministry...definitely can learn from that. Overall, it was a pretty enriching experience, and most of us returned pretty fueled about pastoring.
Additionally, it was nice to see how he's doing bilingual ministry...definitely can learn from that. Overall, it was a pretty enriching experience, and most of us returned pretty fueled about pastoring.
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