ephesiansfiveoneandtwo

7/7/11

camps, round two

we head out to our second group of camps tomorrow. my (stateside) home church and my (latvian) home church are teamed up in a camp this week, so im especially excited for that! please pray expectantly that we would see God do amazing things in the camps this week;

rīta zvaigzne church (fusion camp)
matejs baptist church (fusion camp)
tukums baptist church (english camp)

kuldīga camp (cont.)

we had a great (and somewhat strange) week of camp! thank you for praying with us. i believe God did something cool in our midst. here are a few of the pictures...

6/28/11

kuldīga camp

well, we are done with our second day of camp. this camp has a great "vibe" to it. real neat students and team. praying for God to do big things!

6/24/11

heading out to our first camp right now

please join us and pray that God would work mightily in our three camps this week;

kuldīga baptist church (english camp)
seminary church (fusion camp)
liepa united methodist church (english camp)

6/10/11

where will morning star's camp be this year?

right here.

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Slampe, Zemgales vidusskola

6/6/11

youtube of the month: june

poetry in motion

a wake up call (or text)

we need your prayers!

i was reminded again today about the seriousness of the spiritual battle that we wake up into everyday (ephesians 6:12). i received a text from one of my team leaders this morning that their apartment had been broken into during the night and their computers and wallets had been stolen. stuff like this happens everyday all around the world, and most of the time we look at it as coincidence. but this morning i got the feeling that it was something else. computers can be replaced, but it just so happened that the stolen computers held most, if not all, of our summer ministry and national organizations materials on it. this also took place two days before the interns arrive for a summer of eight evangelistic camps. many people would shrug this off as coincidence, but after years of doing camps i have seen that it "coincidentally" happens way too often to be just that. it seems as if something like this happens every year right before our summer ministry begins. so please join us and pray that we would remain united and focused as a team and that we would continue to stand strong in the Lord (ephesians 6:10) this summer!

5/26/11

rīga lights

dope video! makes me proud to live in this city...

5/25/11

joe & anna b

click here to read more about anna's & my engagement!

5/6/11

osama bin laden

i was shocked when i heard the news about osama in the stockholm skavsta airport. my initial response was relief that the search for him was finally over. then came the sobering reality that more than likely he was in hell at that very moment. there seemed to be some sense of "justice" in that, but not one that i did not deserve myself (ephesians 2:1-5 comes to mind). while waiting for my flight back to rīga, i was reminded of the finality of death and that it is a place of tremendous eternal suffering. that is hard to wish on anyone.

francis chan shared his thoughts on the killing...

as followers of Jesus, where is our compassion? mercy? love?

**disclaimer** i realize this is a extremely sensitive subject and that i am certainly not the person to make theological statements on this topic. just wanted to share my initial thoughts.