SmGs

I have become convinced that God is forcing me to start a small group up here.

The thought came and quickly left when it was time for new small groups at home, and then developed when i was home for thanksgiving when a good friend practically commanded me to start a group up here to keep myself tip top as well as have a deeper fellowship with guys up here. Next, it seems like God has been putting people in front of me, people that I’ve prayed with and had a real brotherhood with.

Next, I brought it up with on eof the guys, and he was talking about how much he wished we went into the streets and just preached, or on a smaller scale serve. Then I was talking to someone else and he was telling me how he couldn’t trust some people at all, that people are backstabbers. Both those problems are effectively addressed by having a small group. If you dont believe me check out this link.

But anyways, I always thought that getting the message was hard, doing it was easy. But now that Im at doing it, I need prayers. Already, i know God has been pushing in a lot of little weird (take too long to explain) things like times, situations, and willingness. I know it will continue until He sees us growing and getting stronger, in which case bigger weights are needed to keep getting stronger, but for now, I need some help getting the 5 lb dumbells off the ground. Request – Prayer

Radio Station Cont

K, so initialy, we were broadcasting an Internet Radio Station using a great program called Sam Broadcaster.  Sam was probably the easiest complete solution for internet broadcasting, as it was literally installed, setup, and broadcasting in 20 mins.  We had some reliability issues however, and in addition, it wasnt very expandable.

Plan B, after contacting WGTS 91.9, we learned of a company called Prophet Nexgen, who seem to be a professional grade company in all aspect of radio broadcasting.  Downloaded a trial of PSI101, there basic broadcasting solution, but ran into difficulties.  This was not quite as easy or intuitive as SAM, which led me to start reading the extensive help file.  Unfortunatly, the help file doesnt go into any detail about setup for Internet Broadcast.  Any links and prayers are apprieciated, and Ill keep posting as developments occur.

Glory to God 2

Despite the name, this event happened before the other Glory to God post, i just remembered it.

Africa 2006.  Drove 12 hours with 26 people in a cramped bus trying to get into Congo from the Zambian border. Long story short, didnt happen.  So at 8 pm, we are 12 hours from home (so to speak)  and the car breaks down, twice.  Already, we were told that had the bus broken down in Congo, we would all be killed in a cruel and unusual way.  So time passes, we end up on the side of the road with the leaders trying to find a place for us to sleep the night.  Mind you its like 10 pm in a less densely populated area, not to mention the saftey factor.

Gods Solution:  3 Rooms, and exactly 22 matresses in an oasis in the desert – probably most beatiful place in Zambia.  Lets break that down.  3 rooms, one for Bishop Paul, one for Abouna Elisha and Tasoni Manal, and one for Abouna Anthony. So lets see, 26 minus 4, carry the 1, wait, that equals 22! Once again, this is where you can start laughing at the way God works.  The following morning, we woke up to the most bueatiful sunrise, 3 hours to spend time with God in quiet time, and a meal prepared for us.  One more time – most places in Zambia dont have running water.  I know there was more thats escaping me now, but you do the math.

Glory to God

God has a hysterical way of making things work. I remember many times where I look around at what God is doing, and just laughing for an extended period of time. Today one happened that made me chuckle a bit. Well, at school right now was comfortably in bed at 3:20 am, then a firealarm goes off. Needless to say, I was mad. I dont know the temperature where you are, but in New Jersey, its gotta be below freezing. So instead of sitting outside, i decide to go to the next (heated!) building over. After laying on the couch for five minutes in a vain effort to get back to that comfortable sleeping state, i get up and out of the lounge to find a friend of mine. This friend is not Christian yet, but he told me that he is reading C.S Lewis’s Mere Christianity, and he had a question. So here we are sitting at 3:35 am, and for some reason im not tired anymore. Before he asked the question, i said a quick internal “arrow prayer”, and we went on to talk about his question.

When I got back to my dorm, I smirked at God. You now the 3 am part and that we happened to be in the same place, but beyond that, over summer we worked together and probably had one or two conversations small conversations (not arguements!) about God. Why he asked me, only God knows, but i have a prayer request: add a quick line about those strugling to find Christ. And GTG Forever Amen. (Revolution – GTG from “got to go” to “Glory to God”)

P.S. Also, God was trying to reinforce the quiet time for yesterday – “Early will I seek you” Psalm 63