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Monday, September 20, 2004
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Well, today I crawled out of bed just after 7:00 in order to prepare for my day. I then had to call and wake up my freind charlie that I was going to bring to church with me today. I also had to stop and pick up Brittany on the way to church. Our worship team practice has cut back a little and we don't need to be there until 8:30 from now on. That helps out a little with the morning drowsyness (only a little though). But anyway.. I was able to round up both Charlie and Brittany and get to church in time for practice. Now things during practice were pretty hectic for me. The pastor decided to use all different songs then what he had scheduled in the calender for this morning. That meant the Powerpoint I already had prepared was obsolete and I had to basicly re-make it from scratch during practice. With God's help I managed to pull it off successfully. Unfortunatly because I had to build the slides while they were practicing I was never able to run through the words and see if they would all match up with how they would sing it. So once the service actually started we just had to wing it. I am in the process of training Heather how to run the powerpoint so once I got it all setup for her (supposedly) I decided to let her drive this morning. I sat right next to her the whole time though just incase she got into a jam. We had a few things we had to watch carefully and jump back and forth on but she did a great job for what was there. We had quite a few audio technical difficulties this morning too. The Devil just didn't want something to happen this morning I guess. But despite the minor failings... the devil lost and the worship service was pretty good. The sermon was great this morning as well. He talked about how to Live in the Word. The main point was being not only hearers of the word but doers as well. After the service I hung around for awhile and talked.. but since I had given Charlie a ride he also needed a ride back to campus afterwards. I wasn't able to stay as long as I normally would so I could get him back when he needed to. But its probalby a good thing I left when I did so I could start some homework this afternoon. Last night I had also worked on somebody's comptuer for them and I had to meet up with them in order to return it to them. It was one of those things that they needed done ASAP (I was up till 3am last night fixing it). But it was well worth it, they were very very greatful that I could help them. They even paid me quite generously for it all. So anyway after getting some homework reading done and the comptuer taken care of, around 3:00 I had to swing by and pick up Brittany from work. I was a little early getting there though so I just sat outside her work and read a book until she got off. I then took her home and I hung out at her place for about an hour just relaxing and playing with Jake and reading a little bit. I had to leave around 4:00 though to meet up with Jonathan. We had plans to just hang out and talk for a few hours this afternoon. We ended up going to a park and sitting in the grass just talking and sharing with each other. While we were there an older man walked by us. He was walking with a limp and apparently he had just had knee surgery and was out and about excerising his leg. He told us that he had locked himself out of his house and didn't have his wallet with him and wondered if we could spare a few bucks. But rather then give him money we stood up and asked if we could just pray for his knee and asked if He knew who Jesus was. He did seem to sound as if he was a Christian and had all the right answers, but really its hard to know sometimes. But we prayed over him and for healing of his leg and he did look encouraged as he limped away from us. I'm not sure where his heart really was but either way I know the Lord will work in his heart today. So anyway after he had left us Jonathan and I just finished our talk out there and then we returned back to his house. He was planning on having a group of friends over tonight to just hang out and have some relax time. So we quickly ran by the store and picked up some Ice Cream and Rootbeer and started calling some people to see who needed rides and stuff. I went to go Pick up Brittany again and bring her back to his house and then a few others showed up on thier own. I also made a run to campus and picked up Missy at her dorm and brought her back to the house as well. We also went and picked up two large $5 pizza's from Little Cesars and just chilled at his house the rest of the night. By the time everybody had gotten there, nine people had shown up. It was a pretty fun evening. We played Guestures for a bit and then a few of us played scrabble. But mostly we just talked with each other for most of the night. I enjoyed myself there. We all kind of headed back around 10:00ish. Upon returning to campus I had to do some more homework and take care of a few other items on my to-do list. But I think I've accomplished all I can tonight without falling over and sleeping where I land.. so I think with that I"m going to call it a day.
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posted by Jeremy Dillinger @ 1:50 AM
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