There is only one event that can get my up this early in the morning – CATALYST! Even at c3 there is no need to be up at such an early hour because you are only fighting 4,000 people for seats instead of 12,000. None the less – I have a sneaky suspicion that my mind is about to be blown. Check my twitter for updates throughout the day.
Taking Time Away…
In 3 hours I will be heading out to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina for ECU CRU’s Fall Conference. Worship is being led by the amazing band who I have talked about before 10th Ave North. There two latest singles off there new album “Love is Here” and “By Your Side” have been lighting up the charts lately. Its going to be pretty cool to spend the weekend with them and over 120 other ECU students.
I was looking forward to finally visiting the Hard Rock Theme Park -but- they just filled for chapter 11 bankruptcy and are closed until 2009. I saw them building it last year and was pumped about getting to go to it this year. They built it on the former Fantasy Harbour so that is cursed land anyway. Nothing can stay open on it for more than a year.
Anyway… I am going to miss Discovery this Sunday. We are kicking off a new series called “Y DO” – its going to be pretty sweet! This sunday I am going to be checking out Port City Community Church. This will be the first time I will have gotten to see their new building. I’m pretty pumped about it.
The other day…
I was over at Claude’s and I found his old yearbooks. I knew Claude was old… but he has been around a long time. Enjoy his yearbook photos.
Then I started going through all my yearbooks… wow how the time has flown.
Just what I needed!
This week has been a hard week. One of the hardest in a while… I think David Crowder of the David Crowder Band felt that I was having a bad week so he recently did this at UBE.
I literally cried tonight after watching this video. Jesus will always be my friend…
Goodnight!
I wish when I was a kid…
I wish when I was a kid that my church’s organist would have broke out in this!
True Life: I’m a resident director…
My life is a crazy life… part of what makes it so crazy is the fact that I am a resident director for a student apartment complex. I do enjoy my job of managing Campus Tower’s seven community assistants, but there are so pretty crazy things that come along the way.
In the past week I have had two memorable experiences. Last Thursday I was sitting in my room when I heard a large boom coming from the hallway on my floor. It was 2am and I was getting ready to make a round at 2:30am but expereince let me know exactly what that cracking boom was. I knew it was either somebody kicking out the glass in the elevator lobby or somebody taking out the light sconces. I ran out into the hallway to try to get a look at the guy, but found something totally different. Yes – the metal reinforced glass was smashed, but I saw ALOT of blood. I don’t mean a little blood. I mean it looked like something out of a Saw gore movie. I saw the large trail of blood led to the elevator. I used a Discovery Church pen to press the elevator button, because it (and the wall) were pretty covered. The elevator door immediately opened to reveal a severely injured drunk male. He had punched out the glass with his bare fist! He was mumbling something about how he was mad at his girlfriend, but I didn’t really care considering how much blood he had lost in less then a minute. So I went in to crisis mode and made sure the poor kid was off to the hospital… well after much debate with his drunk female friends who had come to “comfort” him. They were so out of it that they thought he was fine. Anyway after surgery to repair tendons and arteries and remove glass… he should be ok after some physical therapy. I’m just glad I was there considering his lady friends though he was ok.
Here is a pic of the glass after cleanup.
Well the adventure continues…
Tonight I got a call letting me know that it was raining down in the Campus Towers office. I thought it was our new sprinkler system malfunctioning, but it turns out to be an overzealous washing machine in the laundry room (directly overhead the office). Fortunately – it leaked in the one semi empty place in the office and missed any electronic equipment of files. It was the nastiest feeling in the world taking out those tiles!
Here are a couple of pics…
All in all I am very fortunate to work for CT. It is an amazing property that is student focused. It is the closest and best place to stay at ECU. Crazy stuff just happens sometimes!
USA Today…
USA Today had a big article today about how many churches are declining in number. They showed stats on how many church’s numbers are down more in 2008 then they were in 2007… I think I have found the answer why.
That video is from 2007
Words can not describe the emotion inside me right now… 🙂
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Sunday Night Wrap-Up!
Awesome day at discovery today!
-I rocked the Purple EC shirt today in celebration of last night
-Really like the set! Tom did a great job setting up last night!
-Jason really brought it during the message today.
-Good crowd today… didn’t see many chairs left on the racks
-I see multiple services on the horizon!
-I love the energy during worship lately.
-The ECU students at DC are freakin’ amazing!
-Meeting tomorrow with some of the graphic people at D.C. – should be pretty cool!
-I am thinking about creating a 5 ’til video to show in the lobby and worship center before the service
-It might get more butts in the seats when the service starts!
-I wish I had tomorrow off – I need sleep!
-I was up way to late wrapping up some video work for the new con-nEk-ted outlet studies.
-Enjoyed small group tonight! – Had a awesome meal… Love those guys
-We discussed how some people think Job is an “algorithm”… you had to be there!
-I have sent the Rennies to Florida as hurricane hunters! Get back safe guys!
-Really encouraged and challenged by Chris Elrod lately. He was the first to break the news of the Lakeland Revival catastrophe to me…
-So awesome there is a strong church plant in that area that is hurting so bad!
-I did not think twitter would affect how much I blog, but it really has!
-I’m going to go to bed early tonight… yes I really am!
-Watching a MSNBC special on “boosting” (shop lifting) – Its bringing back bad memories of my days in retail!
–Randy really knocked it out of the park with worship today!
-It was sooo awesome – The new series con-nEk-ted is about friends and friendships. Today’s focus was on how Jesus is our friend. I had to get Randy’s main song about this online to share with the world. I like Randy’s new threads… they are pretty fly!
#14 – Can you believe it!
Awesome day yesterday. I did not think that last weekend could be topped. The energy and awesomeness in Charlotte was amazing, but yesterday took everything to a whole notha’ level! I am amazed at all the media coverage that we are getting… its pretty cool. Just check out the front page of espn.com’s college football tab.
Here is a pic from the game…
Thank you to all the people who came out to DC set up last night after the game!
The Rest – Week 3 – Jason Ebeling
The Rest – Week 3 – Jason Ebeling from Discovery Church on Vimeo.
Part three of the series “The Rest” – it’s a look at the “forgotten” commandment which talks about the Sabbath and taking a rest.
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