Posts under ‘Life Updates’

A couple weeks ago, we at New Life Church wrapped up our Leadership Training program for the summer of 2010. I was so invested in the day-to-day life transformation, that I felt no great desire to take chunks of time away from it to blog. We had open mic testimonies at our closing ceremonies, and [...]

First, I should start by acknowledging that I did, in fact, notice that it’s been two months since I last blogged. Hopefully that shouldn’t happen again for a little while, but no guarantees. In case you didn’t know, I was busy getting a job, an apartment, and a wife. I’m not going to write much [...]

I just wanted to give you all a quick update. My wedding website is now live! On it, you’ll (eventually) be able to read about how Jessie Aja and I came to want to marry one another, details about the ceremony and reception, bios of our wedding party, and information regarding where we’re registered, and [...]

Hey friends. You may have noticed I haven’t blogged for about two weeks now. It’s not because I don’t like you. It’s because I was busy in the lab, hashing out the ultimate plot to propose marriage to the woman of my dreams. And, as you likely inferred from the title of the post, it [...]

Emotionally, I feel like a high school girl right now. What I mean by that is my emotions have been swinging between two extremes these last couple of weeks. For those of you who don’t know, just a couple weeks ago I began raising financial support full-time to be a missionary at New Life Church at the University [...]

I recently had my first-ever podcast interview. It was a lot of fun to sit down and have a conversation with my friend, Pastor Nar, and now to let you all in on it. I met Pastor Nar on twitter, because he was part of a conversation that seemed interesting to me. This group was calling [...]

Since I’m not yet a pastor (or even close to being one, really), I haven’t ever truly preached in a church. But this summer I was allowed to do a training session at New Life on how to lead a dynamic small group meeting. It was the first time I ever got to teach from a [...]

Tomorrow I finally leave my beloved Ann Arbor and return to Chicago to begin raising my financial support to go on staff with New Life Church. It’s a pretty mixed bag of emotions, to be honest. On the one hand, I’m full of excitement and anticipation to see who God will bring into my life [...]

I just got back from a men’s healing weekend retreat known as Edge Venture. Spending a weekend with men in that rare place where men feel truly free to express themselves and the pain they’ve experienced and still feel enslaved to is always a refreshing experience for me. The men in attendance outed some of their deepest shame [...]