East Students: Let’s hear your comments…

On our first East Students 2010 Wednesday night, we talked about an intriguing passage of Scripture.

For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. -Matthew 16:25

Here’s the deal: Based on what we talked about last night, what you know about how to read the Bible, and what you have experienced in your life – what do we think about this verse? There is one meaning to the passage but many implications and applications. Let’s hear what you have to say.

Videos from Men’s Breakfast

We had an incredible time this morning at our Highview Men’s Breakfast. We heard the wisdom of Kevin Ezell, Randy Record, and W.A. Criswell. Below are the videos we showed to help reinforce the points:

I’m Proud of Our Young Men

We have some of the finest young men in the country at Highview East Campus. The young men are a part of East Students, our student ministry, and are making an impact on the gridiron at Christian Academy of Louisville. They were recently featured by our local news station as the “Team of the Week.”

They play their last regular season game tomorrow night. If they win, they will have had the best record in the history of Centurion football. All 40+ of us at our student Prayer and Fasting Retreat will be lifting up the young men of CAL to the Lord.

Go Centurions.

Click the image below to see their video:

Social Media Revolution

The way we interact will never be the same. Social media is changing the way we connect with one another. Let’s harness ways to use new media for the Kingdom.

The job is not done in the world that Christ gave us…

Here is the video we played this morning at 1125. Give it all, students. Christ is worth it and the world NEEDS the gospel – Acts 3

I’m going home…

Our team has reached the end of the 3 weeks. We are thrilled with the progress we made. The whole group preached to nearly 500,000 people with over 400,000 professing faith in Christ. Our Highview student missionaries here are forever changed by the work done in and through them. We will post more pictures soon when we I’m on a fast non-Filipino internet connection.

Please also be in prayer for Pastor Jimmy Lim who serves as Bob Tebow’s coordinator on the Philippines side. He suffered brain hemorrhaging today and his recovery is uncertain.

We love you all and look forward to being home and sharing stories.

The Team

End of the Weekend

I already miss the 2 week crew. They should be in the air or landing soon in Detroit. I also miss my family dearly but they are doing great. We have appreciated all the support and help from our church family.

It’s great to get rest on the weekends. Saturday we went to the market and then headed to the Vigan zoo. Filipinos apparently do zoos a little differently than in the States. You can walk right up to the tiger cages and even pet most of the animals in the zoo. We chose not to be mauled and stayed away from the tiger cages. The zoo also had a photo shoot with an orangutan and a tiger. We are all pretty sure the tiger was highly drugged during the picture taking. Nonetheless, it made for some great pictures with the team of tiger handlers standing by. Hilarious and a little scary at the same time. We also were able to hold a boa constrictor, hug the orangutan, and get up close with a huge lizard.

Today (our Sunday), we went to the beach located 10 minutes from our hotel. The sand is black and the water looks a little like Gulf Shores, Al. The waves were huge and we had a fun time swimming. Tonight we had a ton of pizza and almost all the students are in bed now at 9:10pm. We have about 100 schools to cover here in Vigan and then we will finish off Wednesday and Thursday in Candon City. We will leave Friday afternoon around 3pm for Manilla to catch our early Saturday morning flight.

A few more pictures have been added to the picture page here.

Turning the corner

We just said goodbye to the 2 week Philippines crew. While I know many friends and family members are looking forward to seeing the students, it was hard for me to say goodbye to them. I was full of pride and joy when I was able to hear them preach the gospel, get up early without complaint, and truly see them enter into a new season of life. There is something about thinking about the gospel everyday and communicating the message of Jesus over and over again. We preached to 10’s of thousands of people. We had numerous hilarious experiences (which I’m sure you’ll hear all about), and we wrote a chapter in our lives that is permanent. As you see your loved one come through the airport, be proud of them. Understand that they had an experience like none other, and know that as their student pastor I could not be more proud of them.

Vigen

Trip is going great. We are now in the Vigen area of Llocus Norte. We visited every public school in Laoag City over the past two weeks. We have been to over 600 schools! I’ll have some numbers of students we have preached to very soon. Pray for us as yesterday was a tiring travel day and we are up at 430am today.

We miss everyone!

We Love Filipinos

We had another great day. Our students are getting more and more confident in their preaching and we are continually amazed at what God is doing.

I wanted to share with you something that the Filipinos shared with me. I can’t believe all the way over here there are still amazing CARDS fans.