Your Invited

Here is a flier I posted awhile back that I made. Time has flown and it is already here. This conference is going to awesome! Friday night starting out with Merced Choir and Saturday with Holy Hands of Tuare and freeWAY Quartet. Bro Ken Gurly is the main speaker this year. Friday night starting at 7:30 and Saturday starting at 3:00. Both services are at Calvary Evangelism Center in Sacramento.

My Favorite Place

I think that everyone has a favorite place somewhere. A place where you can go and just relax and let all the stress and worries just run off your mind and conscience. Leaving the cell phone, and distractions behind, every night I (try) go jogging in the park behind our house. Right in the middle of the track where I run, there are three huge baseball fields and a dog park engulfed all the way around by huge oak trees. Its great because there is hardly anybody ever out there. I think that frequently every person needs a time when they can just get with themselves and God and just forget about what surrounds you and what is worrying your mind. You can only take so much of life before you get "Burnt Out". But if you let times of refreshing come and let God renew your confidence and spirit, we can go so much further. It is physically impossible to please people 100% of the time so guess what....I stopped trying. Its just added stress that adds onto the load. I am finding out that when I can learn to value my time and Gods time enough, and take him with me to my favorite place, life becomes alot easier.

"He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake."

Here are some Pictures of "My Favorite Place". Just thought I would share.

Things To Do On A Blind Date

-At dinner, guard your plate with fork and steak knife, so as to give the impression that you'll stab anyone, including the waiter, who reaches for it. -Collect the salt shakers from all of the tables in the restaurant, and balance them in a tower on your table. -Wipe your nose on your date's sleeve. Twice. -Make funny faces at other patrons, then sneer at their reactions. -Repeat every third third word you say say. -Give your claim to fame as being voted 'Most Festerous' for your high school yearbook. -Read a newspaper or book during the meal. Ignore your date. -Stare at your date's neck, and grind your teeth audibly. -Twitch spastically. If asked about it, pretend you don't know what they are talking about. Stand up every five minutes, circle your table with your arms outstretched, and make airplane sounds. -Order a bucket of lard. -Ask for crayons to color the placemat. This works very well in fancier venues that use linen tablecloths. -Pull out a harmonica and play blues songs when your date begins talking about himself/herself. -Sacrifice french fries to the great deity, Pomme. -When ordering, inquire whether the restaurant has any live food. -Without asking, eat off of your date's plate. Eat more from their plate than they do. -Drool. -Chew with your mouth open, talk with your mouth full and spray crumbs. If a crumb lands anywhere near your date, pick up the crumb, put it in your mouth and say, "I'm all about conservation." -Eat everything on your plate within 30 seconds of it being placed in front of you. -Excuse yourself to use the restroom. Go back to the head waiter/hostess and ask for another table in a different part of the restaurant. Order another meal. When your date finally finds you, ask him/her "What took you so long in the bathroom?!" -Recite graphic limericks to the people at the table next to you. -Ask the people at the neighboring table for food from their plates. -Beg your date to tattoo your name on their forearm. Keep bringing the subject up periodically throughout the meal. -Ask your date how much money they have with them. -Order for your date. Order something nasty. -Refuse to communicate in anything but mime for the entire evening. -Upon entering the restaurant, ask for a seat away from the windows, where you have a good view of all exits and where you can keep your back to the wall. Act nervous. -Lick your plate. Offer to lick your date's. -Hum. Loudly. In monotone. -Fill your pockets with sugar packets as well as salt and pepper shakers, silverware, floral arrangements... i.e., anything that isn't bolted down. -Hold a debate. Take both sides. -Auction your date off for silverware. -Slide under the table. Take your plate with you. -Order a baked potato. When the waiter brings your food, hide the potato, wait a few minutes and ask the waiter for the potato you 'never got'. When the waiter returns with another potato, have the first one back on your plate. Watch the waiter's face. -Order beef tongue. Make crude comparisons or comments. -Discuss boils and lesions, as if from personal experience. -Speak in Pig Latin throughout the meal. -Take a break and go into the restroom. When you return to the table, throw a spare pair of underwear on the back of one of the chairs. Tell your date, with a straight face, "They need to air out." -If they are paying, order the most expensive thing on the menu. Take one bite, pretend like the food is disgusting, belch and say "Boy, did you get ripped off!" -Bring 20 or so candles into the restaurant. During the meal, get up and arrange them around the table in a circle. Chant. -Save the bones from your meal and explain that you're taking them home to your invalid, senile old mother because it's a lot cheaper than actually feeding her. -Order your food by colors and textures. Sculpt. -Insist that the waiter cut your food into little pieces. In a similar manner, insist that he take a bite of everything to make sure no one has poisoned your food. -Accuse your date of espionage. Pretend like you have a secret microphone hidden on your body and you are talking to the CIA. -Don't use any verbs during the entire meal. -Bring a bucket along. Explain that you frequently get ill.

Who God Uses

The next time you feel like God can't use you, just remember... Noah was a drunk Abraham was too old Isaac was a daydreamer Jacob was a liar Leah was ugly Joseph was abused and arrogent Moses had a stuttering problem Gideon was afraid Samson had long hair and was a womanizer Rahab was a prostitute Jeremiah and Timothy were too young David had an affair and was a murderer Elijah was suicidal Isaiah preached naked Jonah ran from God Naomi was a widow Job went bankrupt John the Baptist ate bugs Peter denied Christ The Disciples fell asleep while praying Martha worried about everything The Samaritan woman was divorced, more than once Zaccheus was too small Paul was too religious Timothy had an ulcer... ANDLazarus was dead! - Author unknown

Teaching Math

Being a teacher has its perks. Today is an example. The seventh grade class I teach is hilarious. Out of the 3 grades that I teach, 7th is probably the funniest one. I am finding the humor of kids(not that I am that old myself) is so innocent. They will laugh at anything. We were reading today and all of a sudden one of their stomachs just made this loud noise. The class burst into laughter as the one child, whose stomach sounded like a volcano, laughed along. I am thankful because these kids I teach are so real. They arent trying to be like the cool kids, or trying to fit in by doing popular things, but each one of the classmates dont pressure each other to try to act like someone other than themselves. They just teach you to lighten up and have fun. One thing I am finding out, is you need to ednjoy the time you have when you are a kid, because it gets busier as you get older. Granted there are times when you have to lay down the law so to speak, but most of the time, all the kids are very well behaved. Believe it or not, I have learned alot from them. Treat everbody the same no matter if they dont fit in, or if they are a little bit different. Listen to someone when they have something to say and you actually learn. These kids may be learning from me, but I am certainly learning from them! I laughed at this video when I saw it. Hopefully I dont ever get into this kind of math!

FAC Youth Calender

Here is a calender/logo thing I designed for our youth. Still working on it though. Our youth is doing awesome!!

New Radio Release

The Gaither Vocal Band has released their new song to radio entitled "When I Cry". This is probably one of the best recorded songs I have ever heard. Their new album is entitled "Lovin Life" and is probably the smoothest album I have heard from them in a long time. Listen to "When I Cry" and tell me what you think. It has been released by the Rick Hendrix Company. Click here to listen!