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Name: Kevin
Country: United States
State: Georgia
Metro: Augusta
Birthday: 6/22/1986
Gender: Male
Interests: Definately my biggest intrest and life goal is to get to Heaven and help as many people get there as I possibly can, but other than growing closer to God, I love ballroom dancing, soccer, biking, swimming, scuba diving, band (percussion and trombone, but mainly percussion) and the Georgia Bulldogs ("Gooooooooo Dawgs! Sick 'Em! HuHuHu...)
Expertise: I don't think I am really an expert at anything, because in everything I do, there is a lot of room for improvement.
Occupation: Student
Message: message me
Member Since:
3/11/2006
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| So I haven't written anything in a while. Sorry! I'll need to do more since I'm going to Greece next semester and fill everyone in on what's going on. I am sad because I'm going to miss a lot of people who I have gotten close to (like the girl in the picture with me for my profile picture. She's kind of special to me!), but I do know that I'm going to get to know tons of new people and get to do many great things. I just keep getting more excited and more anxious for the trip. I know that God will take care of everything, because I think He has promised me a lot and I don't think He's the kind of god who falls back on His promises. I think I will be a different and hopefully better person when I come back. I'm sure my eyes will be opened to a lot of things and I hope that I will get to use what I learn in my life. Sure, it will be hard being away from the people I love, but I've discovered that life is all about delayed gratification. God wants us to be patient so He can give us what He wants to give us on His time. He wants us to be happy and take care of us, so we should let Him. I am blessed. God is the best God in the whole universe. Especially since He created it! Anyway, I'm just happy. I hope you are too! I'll try to start writing more again. "The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit."
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| This past weekend was the World Mission Workshop. It was pretty good. There were some things said and done that I disagreed with, but I knew that was going to happen even before I went. I did however, hear many good points and I learned a lot about other religions such as Buddhism, Islam, Judaism, Animism. I also learned even more on love and showing love to people who the church as a whole today would stay away from. I even learned more (or should I say, go more confused about) Modernism and Post-Modernism. Those two things are really hard to understand, but I think they can be best described as Spirit and Truth in which I believe there is a paradox there in which we have to have both. The theme of the workshop was "Crossing Over: Bridging All Barriers". It was a very good theme. Probably my favorite thing at the workshop was a video called "The Least of These" which is about a guy who walks into a dinner at two o'clock at night because he has a problem and can't sleep, so he goes to this dinner. When he gets there, he notices that everyone else there has a problem too. A little later three prostitutes walk in. They are regulars, like everyone else in the dinner with the exception of him. Everyone finds out that one of the prostitutes has a birthday the next day and that she has never had a birthday party. When they leave he asks if they could throw her a party and he would pay for everything. The next day they throw the party for her and she is shocked. They end up finding out that the guy who wanted to throw the party was religious and they think that is why he did it, just to try and convert everyone. They want to know what kind of church he belongs to and he answers "The kind that throws birthday parties for whores at two o'clock in the morning". They think it's impossible, but they do admit that if there were one, then they would want to be a part of it. I don't know. I thought it was a good illustration of how we should be. Not many people in the church today would be like that. Most people would actually stay away from them, becaue she was a whore. This weekend just made me look forward to being done with nursing school and PA school even more so I can go help those in need of hearing the Gospel of Christ and so I can help them with there everyday physical needs at the same time. I love the fact that I will be able to help them with both. I got help with my lesson for Pineview too and I really hope that I can help them see that mission work is not just an action, but a mindset. I am also hoping to help my home congregation with this problem as well. Telling others is our mission and for those who really understand God, see the need to spread the joy of the Gospel to everyone. I hope I can be an influence to all these people and that my life in itself is a "mission" for God. I hope you guys have had a blessed day and continue to do so as well. "The grace of the Lord Jesus be with you. My love be with youall in Christ Jesus. Amen." - 1 Corinthians 16:23-24 | | |
| Throughout this life-changing summer, the most common theme that has come up in my life is that "In my weakness God shows His strength". I will not go into detail about all of my weaknesses I have seen in myself this summer, but I will say this, that when you really and truly humble yourself, God will reveal to you more than you ever thought possible. I am glad that the theme of Camp Wyldewood this summer was "Humble Yourself" because that is exactly what I needed the most this summer. I needed to humble myself.
Going to Guyana taught me more lessons about mission work and about people in general. I cannot begin to tell you how much I love mission work and how much it means to me. This trip was extremely difficult and very rough. I think part is due to the villager's attitudes and part due to my attitude. Even through it all though, the gospel was taught and people answered the call that Christ wants everyone to answer, the call to follow Him. Here are some pictures from the trip and maybe you will see what I cannot explain to you in words.
I think the greatest blessing God has given me this summer has been my friends. I could not ask for better friends. I love you guys so much. I hope everyone's summer was as wonderful as mine and may God continue to bless you with all the blessings He has to offer you.
With All My Love, In Him Always,
Kevin | | |
| I have decided that I'm neither good at writing entries on a regular basis nor am I good at fully expressing myself on in the entries. I would much rather talk to someone in person about my problems and struggles, because usually I don't have time to write things out due to the fact that I'm a perfectionist when it comes to my writings and it's not what helps me the most anyway. My brain just doesn't work that way. I love being with people and being alone usually has negative affects on me. I mean, sometimes I need my alone time, but the majority of the time I want to be with people. When it comes to writing, the only things I think I am good at at all are writing papers and romantic, googly stuff. I like writing those things at least. But regardless, I will try anyway.
There are mainly two things that I have been struggling with a lot lately and I will probably continue to struggle with them for a good while too. I am much to scared to write them out to where the whole world can see, but they are both things that seem to have completely consumed my thoughts and a lot of my energy. I do not think I have tried completely trusting God yet though. I think the fact that it worries me so much is evidence of that. There are so many times when I feel like there is no one in the whole world who I can go to or would even want to hear my problems and struggles and those are the times when I am most grateful that I can go to the creator of the world instead of trying to rely on the creation He made. I feel like I am going through struggles all the time, which I think I do, but that also means I am growing and that is something I never want to stop doing. I have so many questions and I can only find the answers through prayer and study. I hope that God will be with you no matter where you are in life and no matter what struggle(s) you are going through. And I hope that His timing is for our answers, peace and comfort to come as quickly as possible.
I Love You Guys, In Him Always,
Kevin | | |
| Before I wrote this entry, I wrote another one, but the first one would not download to the internet. I am thankful for that though, because all it really was, was me complaining about my day. It has been a hard day and it's had it's moments, but that does not make it okay for me to complain just because I had a bad day. I think the real reason today was bad though was because lately, I have not done anything for mine and God's relationship. I have not been a very good Christian lately. If I was truly focusing on God and trusting Him, the problems I had today would not have seemed so big. James 4 talks about our passions being at war within ourselves and that is what is the cause of fights and quarrels amongst the brothers and sisters in the Church or even people in general. I took it to a personal level and thought of the passions within me and the war going on in my head everyday and lately I have been letting my selfish desires overcome my desire for God. I have a lot to learn. Have a great day! God Loves You!
With love, In Him,
Kevin | | |
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