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Wednesday in The Hat

Posted on May 30, 2008 | Filed Under What I'm learning

Well, today was a pretty crazy day here in The Hat. Basically, we went to work with some friends of ours at 10:00AM. We did one thing about 10:30 and then we basically sat around and waited until about 4:00PM. Then from about 4-5:30 we worked like crazy. We start again tomorrow morning at 8AM.

We did meet some cool new people today and got to see a lot of our friends that we’ve had here for years. It was really awesome to get to spend the day with Don and all of those guys. They are super people and we are blessed to be around them.

Tomorrow should be a much more busy day so I’ll have something exciting to talk about. What I’m really doing now is blogging at 1:00AM because I can’t go to sleep. I’m off to go try that again.

Tomorrow…,

The Canadian Adventure

Posted on May 28, 2008 | Filed Under What I'm learning

The adventure begins. We are off to Medicine Hat, Alberta, to help with the Spectrum Festival with our good friends Don and Sheila Chartrand. We’ll be staying with Glen and Debi Stodolka, two more of the best friends in the world. We’ll also be working with Jason and Leigh Wilks who have moved to the Hat to start a church. For those of you that don’t know, we’ve be coming here for 4-5 years now with the goal of planting a church one day. Well, that day is here. I’m fired up about being able to introduce all my friends to my newest friends, Jason and Leigh. It’s gonna be great to see all that God has planned for the future. And, we get to eat a lot at the Festival.

Day 1 Travel:
Well, I’ll be trying to update the page while I’m in Canada to let you know what’s going on. I have to say, yesterday was not the best day of travel that I’ve ever experienced. We were delayed for a couple of hours in Dallas for weather and it made for a pretty long day. However, it could get worse. Once we hit customs it really took a downward turn. They actually forced us to send one of our people back home. That would be why I’m up typing at 5:30AM. We just had to take him back to the airport and send him back to Rome. I must say I’m having a little trouble understanding God’s big plan in all of this. However, I got an email from Jason Wilks this morning that was very encouraging. He reminded me that what satan meant for evil, God can use for good. Then, God reminded me of the statement that we make at West Rome and XL all the time now. God has a plan for you that is better than your plan for you. You know, that means for your DAY too. Not just your life. That means, that if I’m gonna make that statement so often, I better decide to believe it. The truth is that God does have a plan for my guy that is better than what we had planned. Maybe someone on the plane today needed a testimony and this was the only guy they would ever listen to. Maybe I’ll never get to find out what the reason was, but I better trust that God has a plan, or stop making that statement. Boy, sometimes it hurts to learn stuff, again.

So, there’s the first days story for you. Now, once everyone else wakes up, we’ll be heading on down to The Hat. Pray for us. We soooo need it.

More to come, (I’m sure…)

Jarrod

Birthday Surprise: A “Must Blog”

Posted on May 18, 2008 | Filed Under Family, XL

Wow, what a night it has been. As you can tell, I haven’t been blogging all that much lately, but my surprise birthday celebration tonight at XL pretty much requires a blog. It was awesome! It was a total surprise and we had a blast. Tiffany, Gina, Craig, and Jonathan worked really hard to put the party together. Zack and Bob from the Sonic brought me 41 (one to grow on) cheeseburgers. My nephew, Ryan, worked hard to put together a video of my family. Shelly, my sister in law, did the video of my brother and their boys. And, then James Wisener, Courtney Cash, and Sparky came to town for the special night. And, of course, Big Daddy came and spoke a little and THE MICK pretty much ran the whole party. He’s the man!! I truly appreciated everything that everyone said. It was really cool to be a part of it.
So after all that, we got to eat some really cool cakes made by Randy and Erica Todd. Erica is starting her own business and she ROCKS!!! You really need to call her if you need a cake for anything at all. I’ve had a number of them and she ain’t messed it up yet. I know there were probably a ton of other people involved in setting up cake and cleaning all of that up. Thank you so much!
For all the other random gifts and encouraging cards and all that, THANK YOU ALL!! I am blessed to have so many good friends and such a cool ministry to be a part of. I can’t even start to thank God for all that He has blessed Tiffany and me with since we came to Rome. We’re just fired up about being here and being a part of what He has planned. I REALLY look forward to seeing what He has planned for the next 40 years.

So, thanks again to everyone involved and everything you did. You are all awesome and I appreciate all of your effort. Let’s do this again in 10 years!

Peace,

Be Prayin’

Posted on May 1, 2008 | Filed Under West Rome, What I'm learning, XL

Hey everybody,
God is just doing some crazy huge things right now. Just keep on praying. We have a great Staff Planning time scheduled for next week and a huge day coming up Sunday. God is showing off His power and I am looking forward to seeing what he has planned next.