My Worship Revolution

About a month back or so, Rachel’s old friend and college roommate, Leah Vis, came out to our place to take some maternity photos of Rachel.  Today we met up with her and her husband Rob at their pad in Riverside to get the pics.  She did an amazing job!!  Check out the photo album link on the side bar to see em all, and here are a couple to show off.

Thanks a ton Leah!  If you need any pictures taken you should check her out!!
 

ME

MOM

AUNT LINDA

UNCLE JOHN

So last week I learned a few tricks for if you ever want any footage from YouTube or Google Video to have as your own.  Check out these websites:

To download the video, videodl.org.
If you’re on a Mac use iSquint to convert the format to whatever you want.

So next time any of you pastor’s want to use a video you probably shouldn’t anyway, you didn’t hear this from me. 

That’s what I’ve been doing a whole lot of the past several days.  Throw in a few rounds of golf, some basketball, and lots of food and there you have the first leg of our vacation.

It’s been nice to just kinda kick back and get some rest.  We have, however, been in a 2 bedroom condo with 12 of us.  Me, Rachel, my mom, sister, brother-in-law, aunt, uncle, cousin, his wife, their 5 year old son, other cousin, and his 11 year old daughter.  I don’t come from the ginormous family deal, so that is pretty much the entire crew, and we are LOUD!…and all have pretty strong personalities, so there’s never a dull moment!  Unfortunately I didn’t think of getting a picture of everyone together until half of them had already left.  Oh well.

So now we’re up in Big Bear for some alone and relaxation time.  What’s in store for leg 2 of the vacation?  Lots of movies, reading, and of course some homework (unfortunately).  After getting to the cabin today, we stopped by the grocery store for food, and then stocked up at the local Blockbuster.  here is our current rental list to get through:

Just finished Hoodwinked.  1 down, 5 to go!  Who knows, if we get through them all, maybe we’ll even have time to grab a few more. 

Looking forward to more relaxing and enjoying my wife’s company.  Pretty slow wireless connection I’m picking up at the cabin here.  Good thing actually.  It will keep me away from here til I get home, which would be good. 

OK friends, so I’m way late on this, but it still very desrving of a post.  Big congrats to Beth and Mike Hutton who welcomed Jackson James to their family on July 25th.  (I told you I was way behind!)

Get ready, cause I think this is the beginning of a long string of these sort of congrats, including my own son and my nephew.  Here’s some great pics Beth sent out, too.

Congrats guys!

Or do you know anyone who does?

With a baby on the way it’s time to do some downgrades to free up some funds.  And one of the painful ones is the loss of my truck.  It hurts, but I know that it must be done.  So if you know of anyone who wants a good truck, send em my way.

You can check out the ad here.

This past Sunday I had the privelege of sharing from Mark 9:33-37 where Jesus says if anyone wants to be first, he must make himself last and servant to all.  Check out the words of Jesus from The Message:

"So you want first place? Then take the last place. Be the servant of all."

As we were in our celebration planning, we began to think, "What would that look like if Jesus were on a reality show today?"  Check out the video to see what we came up with.

It’s felt like a pretty brutal week.  Video to edit.  Message to prepare.  Two weeks of services to dial in.  I think I’m finally there!

Tomorrow after church Rachel and I take off for a week of vacation.  We’ll be with my family at our timeshare in Escondido til thursday morning when we head up to her parents cabin in Big Bear for some alone time.  Next Sunday will my first one away since New Years day, so I’m kinda looking forward to the morning (and week!) off.

Web access will be sparse, so I’ll have a lot of catching up to do when I get back.  See y’all later!

Last night was date #2 of our 4X4 group.  This was mine and Rachel’s date to plan, so we decided on a little family fun at Boomer’s in Fountain Valley.  Unfortunately Richie and Selena couldn’t make it, so there were only 3 couples.  We started with a little miniature golf competition…every couple for themselves.  Below is a picture of the trophy that my wife made for the winning couple as well as a shot of Lori and Alvin who beat Bart and and Lindsey by 1 stroke. 

Afterward we went over to Tommy’s for some amazing chiliburgers and ended up back over at Boomer’s so the guys could drive the golf carts.  All around a fun night.

I guess this is kinda like my first real Vlog.  A Sunday morning in the life of the Pastor of Celebration Arts.  The main idea here was to film our Sunday morning setup that we do every Sunday morning.  It’s amazing to see how it all comes together.

I ended up taping this on one of "those mornings" if you know what I mean, but luckily you can’t really tell there were some issues in high speed.  So check out what goes into making "church" happen every week at Revolution…