http://reflections.voxtropolis.com Embracing the journey Thu, 10 Aug 2006 12:03:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The market was the first stop of the day.  Everyone stayed on the bus except a few of us as the missionaries who are helping us/we are helping said this was not the safest market around BUT they have the best selection and price on fruit.  Everything looked great.  Baskets ... http://reflections.voxtropolis.com/2006/08/07/nicaragua-day-2/ July 23, 2006 12:45 AM came early having just gone to bed at 10:30 that night. A quick shower, loaded up the suitcase then my wife and my son jumped in the car with me and we headed to the church.  You see, the plan was to leave the church at ... http://reflections.voxtropolis.com/2006/08/04/nicaragua-day-1/ So we were sitting in staff meeting and the subject of benevolence came up. That led to a conversation about a couple people who would like to give their time to do financial counseling to people who continually call the church asking for monetary help. This isn’t a ... http://reflections.voxtropolis.com/2006/07/12/get-beyond-helping-and-begin-joining/ We spent the weekend at the Ronald McDonald House this past weekend. I really do enjoy giving our time for this place. My family (my wife, two kids and I) volunteer as weekend managers 5 or 6 times a year. It’s so wonderful to be able to help people. ... http://reflections.voxtropolis.com/2006/07/11/i-feel-sick-daddy/ I found this while browsing blogs at Jacobs Well . It was posted by Jeremy Bauer on his blog. I'm not sure how old or new this video is... but it was new to me and I thought it was kinda funny... soooooo here it is. EDIT: ooops I forgot ... http://reflections.voxtropolis.com/2006/07/06/bush-sings-sunday-bloody-sunday/ Last Wednesday we had about 500 people show up for our midweek service. Of course, we had it at Lake Tobesofkee! It was great. We had music, volleyball, frisbee, beach football, food, swimming, a ski show, boat rides, jet skiis and lots of fun. The best part ... http://reflections.voxtropolis.com/2006/07/05/baptisms-at-the-lake/ Last night I’m sitting in a coffee shop with several friends from church. Actually we go there most Wednesday nights. One of the girls from the college group asks me the name of that book I was talking about a couple weeks ago. I remembered it was ... http://reflections.voxtropolis.com/2006/06/22/its-lonely-out-here-on-the-edge/ June 6, 2006 Possibly the only time in my life it will happen... its everywhere... MySpace, MSN, Yahoo, Fox News... and I'm thinking... ummm yeah?  So what. http://reflections.voxtropolis.com/2006/06/06/666/ My sons girl friends father has leukemia and is headed to Emory in Atlanta, GA for a bone marrow transplant around the end of June. Once the procedure is complete he will need to live within 15 miles from Emory for 3 or 4 months. I know from when we ... http://reflections.voxtropolis.com/2006/05/31/leukemia-victim-needs-help-in-atl/ Wow has it really  been almost a month since I've posted last?? Yep, I just haven’t had time for blogging lately.  I haven't even been reading them. Well, last night we moved our college service to a downtown park just outside one of the colleges here.  We had some things get in ... http://reflections.voxtropolis.com/2006/05/19/pray-for-a-guy-named-larry/