Well, life keeps going on. Several random notes of interest:

Pillar‘s new album came out today and due to some strange fluke (a.k.a. stumbling into Best Buy to buy an ethernet chord) I bought it. Seriously awesome lyrics people. They’re honest and passionate about what’s going on in their own lives and about truth. The music itself rocks hard and sounds awesome. I own all their major releases and I’d say this is the best one yet for sure.

Jake hooked me (our team, I suppose) up with his iMac for the remainder of the Jax STP. That means I ought to be posting more often.

Well, that’ll be it for today. Happy birthday to Mandy tomorrow! Yay, 17!

Categories: Life
Tags: Jacksonville FL, Navigators, summer

About 15 or so people here still don’t have jobs. A lot of them will be going to a temp agency later today that seems hopeful. If that works out, with God’s blessing, many of them could end up with positions for the remainder of our time here. Please pray that it will go well. That meeting is at 1PM EDT.

I had a job interview today at a website company. It went well and I hope it will end up leading to employment, but it’s too soon to know for sure. The interview went well but now I’m waiting to hear back from them once they’ve made their decision. I’ve got other options the next few days including a temp agency hiring banquet servers and an interview at Denny’s on Wednesday. Please pray that I’ll get the job with the website company. It seems to be something I might enjoy and it it works out well I may even stay in Jacksonville after the program ends for the short term. Not sure about that, but…

My first full week in Florida has flown by already. I wouldn’t say I’ve learned a lot of knew things yet, but I’ve definitely had a lot of opportunity to be more disciplined and more time to spend on Bible studying. It’s also been great to start bonding with the other guys on my team — Jacob E., our team leader, along with Tom P. and Austin.

I went to the beach with people twice Friday and once Saturday. The “beach evangelism” on Saturday was an interesting experience. In the hour and a half we were there we had opportunity to talk to four different guys. Two didn’t want to talk, one kid we got to share the gospel with briefly before he had to leave, and a fourth guy was already a Christian. Lots of the other teams that went out had mixed results as well. Overall though, I think God did work on the beach that day and hopefully (and in some cases apparently) people’s eternal destination changed. Pray that the evangelism will keep going well. We’ve got many Saturdays left in the program and it can be intimidating at times. Jacob E approached some big dudes and we talked briefly with them, but we didn’t share the gospel in part due to fear of their gigantic size. Other barriers present themselves sometimes so pray that God breaks those down and gives opportunities to share the truth about him with whoever needs to hear it.

That’ll be all for now. Latez!

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Tags: Jacksonville FL, Navigators, summer

I figure I’ll throw up a prayer request today. Right now, I’m still unemployed, which is to be expected since I’ve only been here a few days. I’m going to start turning in some applications and doing some more job hunting today and the rest of the week, so please pray that God will bless those efforts and help me to find a job. I did some fundraising to help out with some of the costs this summer and God’s really supplied in that way, but I’ll need a job down here to be able to pay the housing costs.

Besides myself, there’s probably another 15 or 20 STPers looking for jobs, so pray for them as well. Job hunting is a difficult thing and there’s definitely some people frustrated and a bit burnt out by the whole thing. I’m not yet, but I’ve been at it for a week less than most of them.

Thanks for your prayers.

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Tags: Jacksonville FL, Navigators, summer

I made it down to Jacksonville safely yesterday night after two days of driving for about 12 hours each. Needless to say, it wore me out, but I’m glad it’s done now. Spent today getting settled into my room (we actually have two per team and there’s four of us on the team, but we all sleep in the same room), looking around a bit for a job, and we also had Nav Nite (Jax Edition) tonight.

Anyway, I gotta finish up quick, but I’ll try to post more when I can. I’ve got a few pictures and more stuff to say.

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Tags: Jacksonville FL, Navigators, summer

I’ll be on my way down to Florida tomorrow (Saturday, June 5). I’ll stop in Tennessee on Saturday and stay with J Webb. After that, I’ll probably head down the rest of the way, supposedly a 12 hour drive, on Sunday. I may take some naps at rest areas to break up the monotony of the drive, but if all goes well I’ll make it to Florida sometime really late on Sunday or maybe Monday morning. Please pray that I’ll have a safe drive and God will begin preparing my heart to learn lots of cool stuff this summer. Also, pray that I’ll be able to catch up with what’s going on fast and be able to find a job quickly once I get there.

Thanks! Gotta finish studying now for my last test in college EVER! Woot!

Categories: Life
Tags: Jacksonville FL, Navigators, summer