First Wednesday ROCKS!

I just came back from the very first 'First Wednesday' at church and I must say that IT ROCKS! I like everything that they did including the song selections, the drama, the videos and the communion. I was a little late so I just stood all the way at the back of the auditorium and just felt the whole experience from there. It was an amazing feeling! Now I can't wait for the Journey Bible Studies to begin. I will be attending Dr. Bob Laurent's class "The Radical Jesus" this whole of September and "Reasons for God" by Rob Wegner and Chad Meister the whole of October.

Not much happening...

... around here lately. Summer vacation's almost over for the students and most of them are not ready to go back yet, but oh well, such is life.

Updates...

... or let me just say NO updates. TGIF! Lately, not much really is happening around here though. I stayed inside the house today as it is VERY HOT outside. Evan came over and we just played Rock Band. Besides that, nothing... nada... zilch...

Tomorrow, me and a couple of friends might watch Isaac play music at a coffee shop. I don't know where yet as I am still awaiting for his reply to my email. It'll be cool to see Isaac play before he leaves for college on August 10th.

UPDATE: I just got a hold of some pics of Rock Band 2. I am so excited about this game that I really don't care about the also upcoming Guitar Hero World Tour. Here's a list of the 84 tracks that will come with the game when it comes out, all of which are master recordings. I am looking forward to playing Pearl Jam, more Red Hot Chili Peppers, more Bon Jovi, Linkin Park and Duran Duran (my childhood favorite band). I totally think that RB2 will kick major butt against GHWT! Just look at the instruments that comes with RB2...

The box art for Rock Band 2

more crisper graphics

the shweeet drum set (and it's wireless now!)

the new RB2 guitar, shweeter!

Announcement

This goes to all Chicag08 leaders, students and their friends. We are going to do a prayer circle on Thursday, July 31st at 6:15PM (just before New Community) by the pond behind the church for the Mexic08 team. We'll pray together and head to worship afterwards.

The Shack

I will finally get to read the book "The Shack" by William P. Young. I've heard so many good reviews about this book from friends and our church so I am excited to get the chance to read it. I am not really an avid book reader but every once in a while, some books do interest me. The last one I actually read was "The Da Vinci Code" from Dan Brown, which I liked very much.

Thanks to Kathy Trusty for reminding me about this book and lending me her copy.

Hang-out time pt.2

Today,... Grant, Josh, Lucas, Evan, Austin FW is hanging out with me and will be playing flag football tomorrow afternoon. I'm excited! I will pick up a bunch of kids to go with us... mostly from my flag football team.

Hang-out time pt.1

Me and some students will hang-out this afternoon around 1 PM and maybe go swimming and play some basketball and video games. Afterwards, we are going to see the new movie The Dark Knight (which I am really looking forward to) at around 4 PM. Then off to church for the New Community service hopefully before 7 PM. That will be my day for today. Good plan I believe.

UPDATE: It turned out better than I expected. I had fun today hanging out with the students (Nick, Corey, Nathan, Neil, Jake & Chris) and Isaac (one of the cool leaders at our mission trip). I was tired when the day ended after going to the movies, swimming, church service and playing.