A VERY excit­ing time!!!  My cookie was again swal­lowed (note to self — increase time­out on that one) so a larger, bet­ter worded post has been lost in the void, so here is an abridged version!

A whole heap of peo­ple became Chris­t­ian and a whole heap more were encour­aged by that and by each other!  Wow!  No mat­ter how long I try to write, I can’t cap­ture how amaz­ing this is on paper!  My favorite pas­sage that we stud­ied over the last four days is this:

Philip­pi­ans 3:7 – 11

But what­ever was to my profit I now con­sider loss for the sake of Christ.  What is more, I con­sider every­thing a loss com­pared to the sur­pass­ing great­ness of know­ing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things.  I con­sider them rub­bish, that I may gain Christ  and be found in him, not hav­ing a right­eous­ness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ – the right­eous­ness that comes from God and is by faith.  I want to know Christ and the power of his res­ur­rec­tion and the fel­low­ship of shar­ing in his suf­fer­ings, becom­ing like him in his death, and so, some­how, to attain to the res­ur­rec­tion from the dead.

It’s kinda chunky, but hey — so incred­i­bly cool!

It was absolutely great, you could see God at work in the lives of peo­ple there so clearly — Ash­ley Kur­rle being one amaz­ing exam­ple which I know of, as well as oth­ers in other year groups.  Thanks SACS min­istry team!  God is using you to change lives!

I’m ram­bling a lit­tle — I’d bet­ter stop, or I’ll loose more cook­ies, and then prob­lems hap­pen!  Haha.  What else?  Ben’s 17th birth­day was yes­ter­day!  Happy Birth­day Ben!!!  Soo… I guess that means Nikky Web­ster is also sev­en­teen, as of a few months ago? ;)

J.