New news....

Just so you know: Invisible Chidlren is coming to campus on April 19th at 9:00pm in Hughes. We are still working the details as to whether we can get the film-makers to attend and speak. That would be sweet. In either case, please come out an be changed. This is a moving film that is a nightmare o us, but a waking state to thousands of children in Uganda and around the world.

So with the uncertainty involved in the Congo/AO! situations, I have learned one really important thing. One opportunity gives the mandate to pour everything out into the other. Regardless of where I am led, I need to have a passion as if I was supposed to do the other. Funny thought, huh? I just had the thought, maybe a realization, I so often fall into a passivity when i think I know where I am supposed to go. It is as if I need something to doubt in my life so that I can cling to God instead of my plans (Descartes anyone?). Have you ever wondered if you knew exactly what you were supposed to do with your life (in the datails) if you would be able to be as effective as you would taking one step at a time? It's just something to think about...

One who breaks open the way will go up before them;
they will break through the gate and go out.
Their king will pass through before them,
the LORD at their head."

"But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith. I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.

Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus."