Celebration!

Hi Admin team!
Most of you know this by now but I just wanted to share with you all that I GOT INTO USC! SUMMER 2013 HERE WE COME! I wish I could tell you more how I'm feeling but its all just laughter and tears.  Anyway, I just wanted to say thanks for all the love, prayer, and support.  It was so fun to celebrate with my family last night but I also feel beyond grateful that I got to celebrate with my family yesterday as well via phone calls and texts.  Love you all!

Em

CH. 2

I really love this chapter. In our journey together, God has completely transformed  my perception of our relationship and my identity through teaching me about the Holy Spirit. so when I read a chapter like this my mind spins a little because I get excited.
A passage that really stuck out to me was Thomas Smail' s imagery regarding the the filling of the Holy Spirit.
Like dew, when the Holy Spirit falls on us, we are left wet, fresh and sweet.

Wet: The evidence of His presence is still on us, its a sensation we can feel and that others can see

Fresh: His Spirit continually refreshes us and make us new again
           
Sweet: When we are filled with the Spirit, we carry the aroma of Christ, the scent of life that attracts others to truth and grace.

The reality is that the Spirit LIVES IN US....IN US! And not only that, but it is "His great passion to give His very Self to the world" - that is just too cool.
But then of course there is the temptation in this world to have control over everything. The fear that DJ describes in this chapter - the one that leads us to hold the Spirit at arms length, and to "domesticate the cloud and fire"- really resinates with me and the journey I have been on with Jesus. This whole chapter is an amazing reminder of the way He transformed my heart and life last summer. At the end of week zero I pulled Em aside and asked her what intimacy with Christ looks like. And after that conversation, one that challenged me to be honest, vulnerable, authentic (those things were not my favorite at the time), I decided to try something new and speak candidly to God, about my fears, struggles, confusion, and hopes. And that authenticity helped me to encounter my reality, that the Holy Spirit dwells in me! So I read this chapter and I keep thinking, yes..yes..yes. etc, this is the Jesus who taught me grace, and truth, and trust, and love, and forgiveness. This is the Jesus who consistently pours into me and shapes my heart. This baptism isn't a one time thing, oh man I love that because not only does it remind me of my continuing relationship with Jesus, but it reminds me of his grace, and the beauty of salvation.
      So when i allow the mysterious and untamed Spirit to confront, guide, teach, and comfort me - I am becoming more the woman that God created me to be. And I can't help but be wet, fresh, and sweet, as if dew is softly falling on me and permeating me.

It still blows my mind how the idea of God's grace goes against the grain of modern society and thought and personally sometimes the way i operate. It is so lopsided to think that WE are the ones who sin on a daily basis but Jesus sent from God is our answer. My performance mentality always yields itself to "what can i do to fix this; or what can i bring to the table that will offset this negative?" Yet God knows that nothing i bring is sufficient enough so he provides what the Israelites were required to bring for so many years, an unblemished lamb.

I got triggered onto this when reading the excerpt "John is asserting that the new relationship of God and humanity in Christ is based upon the fulfilment of promises contained in Genesis 22:8. That God would provide the lamb which would make atonement for universal sin. Jesus is the Lamb" (20).

So yeah God, i'll take all of your love and i'll take your forgiveness. OH and i'll take your son Jesus as my perfect sacrifice because what i was doing isnt good enough to begin with. What a rip off! What a blow to my pride. After acknowledging this on a daily, moment by moment basis, i have hope for change like Johnson talks about in his last paragraphs of the first chapter

Sin is the universal addiction to self that develops when individuals put themselves in the centre of their personal world..... Dear God, may your freedom be your kingdom come and will done in and through this vessel of wrath (Steve Mann.) If I am in Christ, I am a new creation. Let your new creation in and through me inspire goseplized re-creation in family, friends, neighbors, and co-workers. Crucify walls of self-absorption. Burn your heart into this empty temple and be this frail flesh's glory within. My only free choice is your choice. Please, in spite of me, let your will be done.

Dear John...

Dear John,

You had a BIG job!  Were you nervous?  Did you bite your nails?  Did you get on your camel and do donuts in the marketplace?  I can't imagine the responsibility of being the first person to introduce Jesus to the world. Gulp.  I have to think that you also felt incredibly privileged and honored to have been picked for this part.  I think I would have.  Why me? 

I am so glad that God led you into the wilderness to prepare you and talk to you before you introduced Jesus.  I think God does that with us.  Before we make decisions, life changes, when we need wisdom, or when God needs to get through our thick heads, He isolates us and gets us right where He wants us to be...dependent, vulnerable, alone, clear.  I bet you had a very intimate time with God out there.  I wish I could have been there eavesdropping on your process.  I am so glad our Sonshine staff are spending time with God because a life change is upon us this summer.  Lord, get us right where You want us. 

This whole bit about introducing Jesus to the world has got me thinking as to how I introduce Jesus to my coworkers, students, family, friends, and strangers.  Do I say "Look!  The Lamb of God!  every day to them?  How will our Sonshine drivers and Barneys introduce Christ to their campers?  You did a great job, John.  You knew that it wasn't about you.  You always pointed to Him. "Behold!"

I am so glad that you said that Jesus takes away the sin of the world.  The whole world! Yes, Jesus switched the whole of the human race back into a right relationship with God.  This guy, Oswold Chambers once wrote, "The Cross did not happen to Jesus:  He came on purpose for it.  He is the lamb slain from the foundation of the world....The Incarnation was for the purpose of Redemption.  God became incarnate for the purpose of putting away sin; not for the purpose of self-realization." 
He did this for everyone.

One last thought.  Because the lamb takes away sin, Darrell Johnson writes, "It is possible to change."  Oh, that is good news!!  How often we hear that people cannot change, people don't change, people are incapable of change.  Yes, we have deeply rooted habits that have strongholds on us, but we do not have to yield to sin anymore. The sins do not need to stay.  "This is hope," says Darrell.  Wow!  Tell this to an addict who has given up because addiction has devoured his/her life.  Tell this to the alcoholic whose family has left because of the stronghold. Tell this to the camper who is so "bad" in their own mind they feel unworthy of being cared for our loved.  Tell this to ourselves who have a hard time forgiving ourselves and face our own sin daily and want to give up.  It is no longer our battle.  We can yield to His victory. 

John, thanks for pointing not only the religious leaders of that time to Jesus, but us, the staff of Sonshine, to Him.  You set a really good example for us. 

Partners in Christ,
Nina

This is hope. We can change.

1        " Because of this it is possible to change. The power of the great infection has been overcome. The stronghold of the addiction has been broken. We do not have to be what we have become in the grips of sin. The deeply-rooted patterns of sin can be uprooted. We can change…..This is not perfectionism. This is hope. We can change. Sometimes it feels like an uphill battle. But the good news is  it is no longer our battle.  We are changed by the power of his victory. Our part? Yield to His victory."

So this last summer was super awesome and freeing as I came to terms with the fact that I have…potholes. There was so so so much freedom and grace in meeting those identity issues/insecurities/struggles etc. face to face and embracing them.  BUT since summer has ended I’ve been faced with a question. Now what? I know I have potholes and I know God is taking care of them and that I can live in the beautiful grace of Jesus in my brokenness…but does that mean I stay the way I am-broken?

            This part of the chapter massively encouraged me in that change is possible! I have potholes, but I get to partner with Christ in filling those in. He didn’t die so that I can live in/operate simply aware of my brokenness. Where is the good news in that? I get both! He gives me the opportunity to intimately understand those potholes and deficits in my life and then he offers me the chance of a lifetime- working with him to restore His image in me! And this isn’t (as DJ notes) striving for perfection. It is an incredible hope that I don’t have to be what I’ve become in the grips of sin and that Christ wants to change me, is going to change me, and is going to let me be a part of the process even though what I have to contribute is miniscule compared to what he is doing. Jesus takes me with him in the uphill battle and lets me take shots at the enemy, and even when I miss he always defeats them.

Note to fellow bloggers: If you don't agree with this/ have a different perspective/ have words of wisdom about how to live in this tension I really want to hear your take so please comment/discuss.

Behold! Look!

I was especially moved by this passage...

"That is John's characteristic posture.  He points away from himself to Jesus.  It is the characteristic posture of all christians witnessing and preaching: Behold! Look!"

what a beautiful picture of what it looks like to point others to Christ ... literally! "he points away from himself to Jesus".  We talk about this as a part of Sonshine culture all the time; we talk about dying to ourselves so that Christ may be known, lowering ourselves and letting him be exalted, not drawing attention to ourselves but to Jesus.  Reading this I am challenged to let every part of my being point away from me and towards Jesus. After all, this is what I was made for! I am an image bearer! If I am reflecting myself and pointing to myself I am being misused.  I am not fulfilling my created purpose.  What a waste of something that was fearfully and wonderfully created! Creation is misused, unused, warped, and limited when it is not totally and completely reflecting Creator.

When I am with campers, staff, family, does every piece of me and every action point towards Jesus: behold! look! or is there a piece of me that is still pointing to myself for recognition/love/approval?

John 12 verses 20-22 says, "Now there were some Greeks among those who went up to worship at the feast. They came to Phillip who was from Bethsaida in Galilee with a request. 'Sir' they said, 'we would like to see Jesus.' Phillip went to tell Andrew, Andrew in turn told Jesus"

that request is almost haunting to me, "Sir, we would like to see Jesus" because when I really listen to campers, staff, family; I hear it.  "Sir - Ma'am - Emily - we would like to see Jesus".  I don't often hear these actual words, but I see/hear/experience the longing that results from a desperate need for relationship with Jesus.  So whatever the symptom is - the cause is always the same "we would like to see Jesus".  So what a cheap imitation if I point them to myself!!!!!! It sounds ridiculous, but how often do I do it?!

ok, so what does it look like to point to Jesus? I don't know if these Greeks ever actually got to see Jesus because my version of the passage only says that Andrew told Jesus about them, but if they did get brought in to see Jesus, what did they see? Death. Wait, what? If in this moment Andrew and Phillip brought the Greeks to see Jesus, this is what they saw and heard...

"Jesus replied, 'the hour has come for the son of man to be glorified. I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. but if it dies, it produces many seeds. The man who loves his life will lose it, while the man who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.  who serves me must follow me; and where I am my servant also will be. My father will honor the one who serves me.  Now, my heart is troubled, and what shall I say? Father save me from this hour, no. It was for this very reason I cam to this hour. Father, glorify your name!'" - John 12:23-28

This is the Jesus they were introduced to! This is who I was created to point to. And so how do I do it? What do I show campers, staff, family when they ask to see Jesus? I show them death! Crucifixion is not the end of life but the beginning - not just for me, but for those who are being introduced to the lamb that infuses human life with the very life of God.

Shasta Lamb Park & Westgate Lambding

Wednesday nights over the levy and Thursday nights overlooking the lake always seem to feature brokenness and restoration.  Christ tears apart the fragmentedness of hearts, yet passionately mends them all together within a few hours of love, support, prayer, worship, and beauty.  I am reminded that the sacrifical lamb wasn't easily, or painlessly, executed, but died an excrucriatlingly uncomfortable death fraught with asphyxiation and toppled with loneliness.  Campers, staff, families become enveloped with this picture and come face-to-face with the face of Jesus and are introduced/reminded of the torture he endured.  But, within the same hour, just as Christ was relieved from the sting of death, we see the celebratory tears of victory, acceptedness, and belief fill our eyes.  During that Response Time, or by the end of the week, we see ourselves and others "Yield[ing] to His victory" with honesty, coming clean, coming as they are, and throwing themselves on Jesus (23). 

Chapter One reminded me of the amazing humility of Christ-particulary, the following quote.  "Sin is the universal addiction to self that develops when individuals put themselves in the centre of their personal world in a way that leads to abuse of others and self" (15).  Teaching has provided me with the opportunity to be the most non-humble and impatient person I have ever known.  I have seen myself act and say things to the students I teach, coworkers, or my roommates that fail to reflect the humility of Christ, but instead reflect the "importance" of myself.  DJ reminds us that Christ could have alleviated himself from the situation He was in, but in humility remained silent, allowed himself to be lashed, verbally and physically, without retaliation, and forced no judgment or requirement of acceptance from anyone He encountered.

As a teacher but more importantly a follower, I am reminded to 1) count others better than myself, 2) draw all attention away from me and give it all to Christ, and 3) do everything without complaining or arguing.  But, then again, as a Sonshine staff, I am called to do 1,2, and 3.  As a follower, I am called to 1, 2, and 3.  It seems that in everything I do, or we do, we are called to act in humility of Spirit, remembering Christ as that sacrificial lamb who was given up at the altar as he conquered and broke the back of evil, suffered, delivered us from slavery, made the way for the Kingdom by bearing the world's infection into the wilderness, sealed the everlasting covenant, and fulfills all the promises we read about in the OT.  What am I doing to sacrifice, conquer in the name of Christ, suffer, deliver others from slavery by sharing the Good News of Jesus Christ, showing others the loving heart of Christ that bears and infects himself with our infections, acting in response to the covenant, and fulfilling the decrees of the Sermon on the Mount-loving God and loving others? 

I need to give it all up to Christ, metaphorically and literally, while sacrificing my comfort and well-being for the comfort, well-being, and service of the students I teach, the people I work with, the rest of the Admin, Driver, Trainee, and Barnabas teams. I guess that looks like everything the world would expect it to NOT look like... unconditional, sacrifical love that is only capable of doing such things in the name of Jesus Christ.  I want others to follow me as I follow Christ, learn from me as I learn from Christ, and recognize the love in me as I am daily encapsulated by the love of Christ.

 

Who is Jesus? What is His Gospel?

A few summer's ago, Reid presented the staff with four questions:

1. Who is Jesus?

2. What is His Gospel?

3. What has He done?

4. What is He doing?

What powerful, focusing, centering questions.  I believe there are answers to all four questions in this Chapter.  More than the answers though, I want to focus on the questions.

"The most important discipline of discipleship is to keep asking the question 'Who is Jesus?'" (p.12)

Who is Jesus?

At the end of tough conversation with a close friend a few weeks ago, we came to the conclusion that I need to re-learn the Gospel.  At first this kind of threw me for a loop.  "I've been doing this 'discipleship' thing for a while, I think I understand the Gospel," I thought.  But after talking through it a little more, it makes total sense!

A few years ago, I learned what the Gospel is to a 21 year old who thought he had life "figured out".  Enter Sonshine.

Then, I learned what the Gospel is to a 22 year old and recent graduate who isn't jumping straight into a career after college.  Go to Colorado. Africa.  Lodi.  Israel.

Soon after, I learn what the Gospel is to a 23 year old discovering the depths of self-giving, sacrificial servant love.  The Cross.

But now, as a 24 year old, in a small town, fighting temptation, mentoring students, experiencing burnout, building robots, connecting, feeling lonely, doing engineering work, etc..., how can I not ask that same question?  Does His Gospel not speak to me now just as powerfully as it did in 2010.  Surely it speaks with just as much power!

For a long time, I stopped asking the questions  "Who is Jesus?" and "What is His Gospel?".  "And as a result I [we] miss the joy of the Gospel." (p.15)

So who is Jesus and what is His Gospel?

For starters, He is "the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world"!

To me, He is "the One who doubled down on rejection to carry off to oblivion all the rejection inflicted by me and rejection experienced by me!"

But beyond the answers will always lie the question.  So who is He?

-Mike

Got Junk...

He'll take it!

As the lamb Jesus sure takes on a lot.  Sometimes I think, "He's the lamb, He doesn't need to be bothered by my junk (as if I'm hiding it)." He already knows it... ANDY! He as the lamb paid for, atoned, and paid in FULL my (our) sin.  In His weakness there is strength.  That lamb must have a STRONG back for my sin alone...

• He is the conquering lamb, who breaks the back of evil.

• He is the suffering lamb, who exchanges places with sinful humanity. 

• He is the Passover lamb, who delivers us from slavery and death.

• He is the scapegoat, who bears the world's infection into the wilderness, inaugurating the eradication of sin making way for the Kingdom.

• He is the lamb provided to Abraham, whose blood seals the new and everlasting covenant between God and humanity.

• He is the one great final sacrifice, who fulfills all that is foreshadowed in all the sacrifices.  

 ... He can cry out, "It is finished!" (John 19:30) It is something final, something ultimate and cosmic. Look! Finished!  (DJ. 21)

I know it's already been stated but...
1. It is safe to be in the presence of Jesus.
2. It is possible to change. ("perfection"-redefined) (DJ. 22)

Got Junk... He'll take it!

"Look! Look! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!" (John 1:29)

Lamb Slap!

Ok - Katy's post spoke to much of what I wanted to write....well played Conlin!  You win..this time.

I also wanted to comment on pg 21.  "Jesus- the Lamb of God - fulfills something of all the "lambs" we considered. 

Conquering lamb, suffering lamb, Passover lamb, scapegoat, lamb provided to Abraham, the one great final sacrifice.

Only God could give John the words and only God can fill all of those meanings in one meaning....in one person! JESUS!!!  I am taken back by God and how complete and at the same time how mysterious He is. 

Redefining Perfect

"This [change] is not perfectionism. This is hope. We can change. Sometimes it feels like an uphill battle. But the good news is it is no longer our battle. The Lamb of God takes it up in His battle. We are changed by the power of His victory. Our part? Yield to His victory. Be honest, come clean, come as we are and throw ourselves on Jesus." (pg 23)

This definition of perfect is something that I find so much comfort in. It is nothing of the world. Admitting your mistakes is not perfect in the world's eyes, showing that you're weak is not perfect in the world's eyes. But that's exactly why it's so comforting, because God is not of this world. His love is not of this world. His perfection is not what the world sees as perfect (I mean...they thought they were going to see a lion, not a slaughtered lamb!).

All my life I've tried to be perfect by the world's standards. In everything. It wasn't until mid-way through last summer that I realized I didn't have to be perfect. That people would still love me if I wasn't perfect. That God loves me despite all the things I do (or don't do). And when I realized that, I was encouraged to be honest, come clean, go as I was and throw myself on Jesus.

But it doesn't stop there. I know that still small voice that says "be honest, come clean, come as you are, throw yourself on Me, I love you," calls to me everyday. Not just out on the water. Not just in the midst of a driver summer, but each and every day. Yesterday, today and tomorrow.

So here I am, being honest, coming clean, and coming as I am to you guys as a team: that realization, that I don't have to be perfect, is a daily struggle. Sometimes (more often than not) I still feel like I have to be "perfect" in order to be loved. By you guys, by my friends, by my parents, by God, by anyone. But... I know that God cares more about, and people are more impacted by, character and maturity than skills and abilities. And I know that God's definition of perfect is nothing like the one I have in my head or will ever read in a dictionary. And I rest knowing that when I throw myself on Him, he holds me and says "I love you like you could never imagine."

It is safe in the presence of Jesus

DJ's conception of sin really struck me. It is a self-centeredness and need for control that affects every relationship and emasculates the one with God. This is a place from which sin emanates; a state of mind in which we do not want the grace of our creator because we want to be our own god. And instead of confronting this "addiction" or "infection", we remain in denial. I relate to the addiction to control and self-centeredness. After all, if I continue to believe I am in control, I can build my walls higher, alienating myself, and then I will finally be safe.  But the reality is, all I am doing is locking myself into a dark room where my only company is the manufactured "Anneliese", not made by God, but pieced together by me, not made in love but made in fear.

So in this chapter, the real Anneliese, the daughter who strives to be authentic with Jesus, who sees hope and is beautifully crushed by grace....she is comforted by these words "It is safe in the presence of  Jesus", and "there is no need to hide." I am a new creation, the holy spirit dwells in me, I am a partaker in the divine nature. I do not have to choose alienation and denial over relationship and truth.

As Jesus comforts me, the wall around me disintegrates and I allow myself to feel the light that shines on me. I want to celebrate in His victory, I want to embrace my identity rooted in Him, I want to experience the joy of the Gospel!!!!

My mom and I used to always watch Grey's Anatomy together when it first came out.  In the first season there's this scene where the main character Meredith kinda loses it.  Back story: Meredith falls in love with a guy who is divorced but then his ex wife comes back into the picture and he is torn between staying with Meredith or trying to make it work with his wife. Anyway, all episode Meredith decides she doesn't care and is just going to let Mcdreamy pick who he picks and she is going to be independent and strong and not be phased by his decision. Eventually, when she runs into him in a stairwell she breaks down and blurts out, "pick me, choose me, LOVE me!" 

The moment this scene ended my mom turned to me and said, "Never be that girl".

Don't ever be the girl who is desperate for love, who needs to be loved, who has to ask the guy to love her.  Don't ever be the girl who lets her emotions make her vulnerable.

I play this game with God a lot.  I feel like I'm in competition with the world to be loved by God. In comparison to everyone around me if I'm not pretty enough, skinny enough, smart enough, athletic enough, accomplished enough, why would God love me? why would he pick me? And so I try not to be that girl. I act like I don't really care if God picks me, I don't really need him to love me. I'm strong and independent. I don't dare ask him to love me.

But my heart was made for this.  It was made to be loved with a love that makes fire seem dim, with a passion that makes lions seem tame, and with a ferocity that could - and did - turn the world from dark to light.

I try and pretend like I don't really care, that I am strong, but when I have tried and failed to earn His love, eventually I find my self asking God, "pick me, choose me, LOVE me!" 

And He says,  silly girl, I did, I have, I do. Before you ever asked and before you ever deserved it.

I write this because I think that if I earn love before Admin retreat then I won't be needy and desperate for love and you won't all have to see me wimpy and vulnerable. So I guess this is my accountability that when you all see me this weekend and I try and perform my shiny tap dance number of why I deserve to be loved you will all be like "no, no... we read the post. you're that girl"

I'm that girl. Desperate, needy, weak, vulnerable.
but that girl is loved loved loved. With fire, passion, ferocity.

Mother Teresa

Hello Friends!
    I'm super stoked to see all of you this upcoming weekend and am even more excited for the arrival of summer. I've been reading this book called No Greater Love by Mother Teresa and its pretty much rockin my world- naturally I wanted to share how awesome it is with people who I know will appreciate it. A lot of the stuff reminds me of this past summer along with great reminders for this upcoming summer. So here are some of her thoughts even though they aren't from the book Who Is Jesus? they are totally all about Him.

"My secret is very simple: I pray. Through prayer I become one in love with Christ. I realize that praying to Him is loving Him. In reality, there is only one true prayer, only one substantial prayer: Christ Himself. There is only one voice that rises above the face of the earth: the voice of Christ. Perfect prayer does not consist of many words, but in the fervor of the desire which raises the heart to Jesus... Let us remember, if we want to be able to love, we must be able to pray!"

"You learn humility only by accepting humiliations. The greatest humiliation is to know that you are nothing. This you come to know when you face God in prayer. Often a deep and fervent look at Christ is the best prayer: I look at Him and He looks at me. When you come face to face with God, you cannot but know that you are nothing, that you have nothing. It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself."

"So pray lovingly like children, with an earnest desire to love much and to make loved the one that is not love." (Willie Juan anyone?!)

"Don't allow yourself to be disheartened by any failure as long as you have done your best. Neither glory in your success, but refer to God in deep thankfulness. If you are discouraged, it is a sign of pride because it shows you trust in your own powers."

Cool Story and an incredible message:

Some years have gone by but I will never forget a young French girl who came to Calcutta. She looked so worried. She wen to work in the home for dying destitutes. Then, after ten days, she came to see me. She hugged me and said. "I've found Jesus!" I asked where she found Jesus. "In the home for dying destitutes," she answered. "And what did you do after you found Him?" (Mother Teresa) "I went to confession and Holy Communion for the first time in fifteen years." Then I said again, "What else did you do?" "I sent my parents a telegram saying that I found Jesus!" She went home radiating joy, because her heart was filled with joy. Why? Because she had lost the innocence of her youth and had gotten it back again.

Gosh!!! Is that not beautiful or what? And I just love that question- What did you do once you found him? She went to be with Jesus and then she shared the good news! And then the beauty of the childlike love and joy in Christ. There's so much from Grace and Truth along with Willie Juan that is so awesome. Anyways, this is what's been encouraging me and challenging me lately and I'm loving it! So, if you read this novel that I've just typed up then I hope it's encouraging to you too.

Living in Lodi

 Living in Lodi sure has its perks.  Frigid mornings, the smell of General Mills smellifying the surrounding landscape with aromas of cake mix and cereal, and beautiful sunsets as I head home from work. Driving up from so-cal was so special to me, I'll for sure miss it.  So excited I won't be able to drive anybody up  :)  JK God used so many of those drives to challenge me and draw me closer to Him.  I'm excited to see, feel, taste, smell and hear what He is going to do in this next season!

Excited to blog with you all and experience it ALL together.

Blessings & see you all real soon!

Andy

ADMIN TEAM 2013 ASSEMBLE!!!!!!!!!

Hello planet Earth.....and hello Admin 2013.  Here is our Admin blog for the new year.  All of us have been apart of this format over the past few years at Sonshine so no directions are necessary.  My hope is that all of us would participate at least once a week with a post, a comment, a prayer, an encouragement!  We have 9 weeks to journey together.  We will start the week of January 21 with Chapter 1.  Each week we will tackle 1 chapter.  I am excited as always to see Jesus in and through you all. 

Reid