Mexican Coke!....and Jesus!

Hello everyone!

This is my first post that contains real content, so I hope you are as excited as I am...or, maybe not. Nevertheless, this post is a little past due, so I shall dive right in.

Like I said I am using my internship as a volunteer opportunity, more so because I am not being paid for my labor... so feel that using the internship for class is good compensation! The internship started September 1st for me, and since then I have been to a church planting convention in Columbus, OH; preached/taught for one of our Wednesday night high school groups (I have done this before, but this one and a few others will be classified under the internship); and I have helped coordinate a 'retreat' for the students, where I taught another mini class.

Although these are a few large scale events, most of what I have done so far is administrative work: a lot of entering student's info into our system, contacting them to let them know of our upcoming events, managing our website and Facebook, stocking our student cafe (which has really improved my business skills; who knew Mexican Coke had such a high demand among sugar craving high schoolers!), and other odds and ends dealing with paperwork and other slave labor activities...

I'm also getting some great opportunities to travel: I am hopefully going to go on another mission trip to Mazatlan, Mexico this December/January, so I am very excited for that! I haven't been there since the summer of 2009, when I was an intern there from the beginning of June to the 3rd of July. As I said I went to Columbus, OH, earlier last month, and am also getting the chance to go to conferences in Greenlake, WI and Iowa. I'll let you all know how those go, not too sure what to expect yet.

But that's a basic overview of what my internship/volunteer work looks like, and I will be breaking it down into more detail as the semester goes on. I also plan to keep this blog past the ending of class, which is why I titled it more personally. If I'm putting time into it now I may as well stick to it.

So to end this day's post, I will add a quote:

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." - Rev. John Watson (Ian Maclaren)


P.S. - The sermon I gave for the Wednesday night was on identity as a community, and the retreat class was on the identity of man, and how it isn't our actions or works but our heart that make us men. Just FYI in case you were interested.

Have a good one guys!