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Just got two phone calls from Bethel Seminary and I’ve been accepted!!

Now it is just a matter of figuring out the job situation for Jordan and I to learn if I’ll be starting January 7th, or not until March. As of now my guess is that I won’t be starting until march to give me some time to work, and decompress from the last 4.5 years of school before diving into another 3 for my masters.

This is really a great feeling. I’m continually getting more and more excited to start my courses at seminary and it’s so awesome to see God putting pieces in place for Jordan and I with the vision He has given us for church planting in France. Will post more as I learn about it.

Today Jordan and I picked up our cap and gowns from the book store (cost us $50+! but they seem nicer than the plastic high school ones) and got our graduation tickets from the service desk.

My list of tasks  to complete before the end of the term is shrinking as well, slowly but surely. From an original 20 items as of last Sunday down to 15 right now. This leaves me with

• Four Papers
• Two Quizzes
• Two Exams (only one finals week!)
• Some flash grammar tutorials
• Some web code
• one set of online discussion participation

Thats it!

My application is also now complete over at Bethel Seminary. I should be hearing back this week from the sounds of it so I’ll be sure to post up here when I hear back!!

God Bless,
~paul

So soon yet so far off. I long to be back in france to love, to preach and to lead a nation to know Christ. It sounds like foolishness, but then again everything in my life should be different. By all rights I shouldn’t be where I am, I shouldn’t be married, I shouldn’t be this blessed. I should be falling further down into the pit into which I was running full speed. The pit and snare that this world lusts after, the pit of wealth and notoriety.

Everything I was screamed success, I laughed and turned the other way. Now I live a life that is destined for failure except for one thing. Christ has already won my ever battle. My life works only because God works in it. The rest of my life the statistics and common sense will say I am a fool, but Christ will call me faithful. It’s been proclaimed before the heavens from the lips of prophets and for whatever reason it brings God pleasure to give me this faithfulness.

Now I sit here in waiting, as a horse before a race to anxious to be ready. Seeing the furlongs laid out before me, trapped behind the gate to ready not to move. How I wish I could be ready to go now, but there are things that must happen, people that must be raised up with us. Two can’t take a city, but maybe 130 can. I find such encouragement as I read through the Old Testament and see how God has used numbers far less than makes sense to capture and claim victory. He has done this so that man can’t stand there and say that we have done anything, and that He might get all the glory.

Woe to anyone who stops those to whom Christ has called to reclaim his lost. For this is the meaning of our existence. To seek and save the Lost, proclaiming Christ to the far corners of the world that ALL might get to know him. This is our lot, this is our time, and Christ is our Lord. The path is before us and we cannot falter now. Oh to get to live in a time such as this, to run the race now, to be found so deeply in His grace that nothing else matters. Even death can’t keep us, for we have tasted victory and know that is is ours in our hearts.

So maybe the title is a bit of an exaggeration but it seems as though over the last month a bunch of random little things have been mis-happing. Our DVD home theater system over heated one and now the Component video out doesn’t work, and we have to run a fan into the unit to keep it from over heating and stalling out while playing a DVD (thankfully the RCA video out still works).

Then today our printer just stopped working out of the blue. Tuesday night I printed over 30 sheets for an outreach on Wednesday and then today I go to print out two pictures for a friend and it breaks after the first one… I’m going to need to tear it open and hopefully find someway to fix it.

Yes the DVD player is over four years old, and it has held up in remarkable shape except for the recent failings, but it’s just frustrating because for Jordan and I we unwind to movies sometimes, and now we really can’t. To top it off we are on one of the most fixed budgets of our lives and aren’t sure when we’ll be able to replace these things.

Not really sure that posting this will do any good, but at least I’m blogging (wow it’s been over a month) and thats an improvement. Hopefully this weekend I’ll take some time to blog about this crazy week!

This year Jordan and I went to the Minnesota State Fair with some good friends (Kyah and Rob respectively) and had a blast. We also discovered that when you pair up with friend the amount of food you can consume and purchase as a group increases!! Below is the pictorial diary of our good eats (albeit a month after the fact).

So what all did we eat? In order from the top left; Pronto Pup, Deep Fried Snickers Bar, Gelato Ice Cream, Tom Thumb Mini Donuts, cinnamon and Sugar Lefsa, Pickle on a Stick, Spaghetti and Meatball on a Stick, Free Water!, Roasted Nuts, Salmon on a stick, Wild Game Bratwurst, Lemon aid, Shaved Hawaiian Ice, Cheese Curds, Cotton Candy, Roasted Corn on the Cob, 1919 Draft Root beer, Bucket of Sweet Martha’s Cookies, and All the Milk you can Drink for a dollar!!

Jealousy should have already set in.

It was a great day, we escaped just before the clouds opened up and it started to pour down the rain (we went on 8/28 for $8 at the gate!). To see more photos hit the link! Read the rest of this entry »

It’s weird to think that summer is almost done. I only have another eight days at Wireless Ronin before heading back to school. This is a weird feeling, realizing how close we are to being done with our studies (only this coming semester for both of us) and whatever else comes next.

We still don’t know what that is, but it’s been fun seeing how God has given us people to talk to and who have encouraged us to keep going in pursuing our options. The table is still full of options for us and as we learn more we’ll share that.

Right now our focus is on the next two transitions for us, the one back into this semester, and then the one into January. You’re prayers for our discernment are greatly appreciated!

Can’t wait to be back at school, and to see everyone again! Until then, embrace life.

We Arrived tonight in Menomonie for a weekend and it turns out that our fridge is broken (but the light still turns on…). As of now we don’t know to what extent it is, but we walked up the stairs to our place and were just taken back by the putrid smell from the kitchen. At the time neither of us knew what was going on, it smelt like we had only forgotten to take out the trash (x 1000).

So yea, the fridge is empty and cleaned from top to bottom, but it still smells horrible. There is baking soda just sitting on plates in both the fridge and freezer, and an email has been sent to our landlord. It has been quite the first year in this apartment as we have had three bats, and the need to get the whole place rewired so that the outlets work properly. We are blessed that our landlord is so willing to help out and put priority onto our problems.

This isn’t exactly the reason we came to Menomonie this weekend, but I’m glad we did. I can’t imagine how it would have smelt given another week or two. It was terrible the way it was this time. It has had to be a few days, as everything was melted or thawed out. No ice cubes, every frozen piece of meat, veggie, or sliced potato was a goner. We guess it was probably close to $200 of food. grrrrrrrr.

Another time