Hello all
So the last couple of weeks have been a great and interesting experience. I have gotten to see a bunch of great things and have been through some trials. Ultimately, my partner, Todd, has had to go home. Its just me now here at Pali View and God has some really great things in store for the youth group here! Im going to move on past all the drama and junk of the last week and weekend and not its time to get down to business! we got some fun events and great opportunities to witness inthe upcomming weeks and God has it ALL under control!
I taught the Youth sunday school this morning from James 5 and in the preperation and teaching today I was reminded of how importnat prayer is. Pray in the good, pray in the bad, and when you can't pray, get people to pray for you! This is one of those times when I need people praying for me. I ask that you pray for growth in the youth group, saved lives, patience, knowledge, wisdom, endurance, excitement, safety, energy, opportunity, and cohesiveness. In particularly invoke the Holy Spirit in these prayers too.
Otherwise, I am doing great and am thankful for my situation. I love you all my friends and family and love to hear from ya!
-Dan
Hello all!
I promise im still alive! This is the first time ive been able to get on in about a week so now that I have internet again, ill be posting a good amount on my blog about the last 2 weeks! Then ill be on track and I will have everything up to date! Check back here soon in the next few days and there should be something!
~Dan
I promise im still alive! This is the first time ive been able to get on in about a week so now that I have internet again, ill be posting a good amount on my blog about the last 2 weeks! Then ill be on track and I will have everything up to date! Check back here soon in the next few days and there should be something!
~Dan
Hellooooooooo!
Every once in a while im sure you, just like I, have a "A Ha!" moment when you read one of those kinds of verses that seems so common. Well I just had one recently. In all this excitement and preparation like reading and researching. At Echo on Thursday Proverbs 3: 5-6.
All in all, God is good, and God is good all the time! Exault the Lord, Exault the Lors, there is no shame, Exault the Lord!
~Dan
Every once in a while im sure you, just like I, have a "A Ha!" moment when you read one of those kinds of verses that seems so common. Well I just had one recently. In all this excitement and preparation like reading and researching. At Echo on Thursday Proverbs 3: 5-6.
So I had my "A Ha" moment, to say the least. Tonight I God enlightened me as to why He made it impact my spirit. When it impacted me, I knew that I was to back off on the intensive learning of Hawai'i . As of tonight, I see what He ment. I got to watch some cool stuff about Hawai'i and or related to it. I learned more and enjoyed it more.5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart
6 in all your ways acknowledge him,
and lean not on your own understanding;
and he will make your paths straight.
All in all, God is good, and God is good all the time! Exault the Lord, Exault the Lors, there is no shame, Exault the Lord!
~Dan
Greetings to all my fellow missionaries from Send Me Now, Family, Friends, and random readers!
So today is the first official day of summer (mainly because this would normally be a school day and I would be half asleep in science :) ) Speaking of school, I am proud to be able to say God has blessed me with 3 A's and 2 B's! I can officially apply to the Cole's College of Business at KSU! Woot! What a blessing indeed! In retrospect, I am now more than halfway through college and boy has it flown by! God has definitely been good in soooo many ways! Hes blessed me with great and supportive family and friends, really good opportunities to study the Word and develop understanding, and really good examples of how He is faithful.
May is upon us and this is my month of super preparation. I have a couple of goals: learn how to skateboard (for easy transition into surfing), get to know Hawai'i better, and return blessings to those how have blessed me this year. So far, I had my first lesson on skating and got some wounds, but atleast im riding it now... in a straight line...
Currently, I have been able to take all this free time provided by summer to do a lot of reading and studying. I have been working on learning a lot about Hawai'i too! I started reading this book called "Culture Shock!: Hawai'i". I have als been studying the Hawai'ian slang language known as "Pidgn". In my search for a good list of Pidgn vocab, I came across a good website for a underwater recreational company in Hawai'i called "Shaka Divers". Do you know what the Humu Humu Nuku Nuku Apua'a is?
Many of you have asked about what I am going to do on the trip. My Answer for you is thus far, I still know very little. The stuff I do know is that I will be helping with the music portion of VBS at Pali View. Otherwise I believe I should be investing a lot of time in the youth there, spending time with them and doing the whole "Iron sharpening Iron" dealeo.
To all of you on your summer mission trips currently, I am praying for you and that God protects and dumbfounds you with His glory and faithfulness!
~D-Rice
So today is the first official day of summer (mainly because this would normally be a school day and I would be half asleep in science :) ) Speaking of school, I am proud to be able to say God has blessed me with 3 A's and 2 B's! I can officially apply to the Cole's College of Business at KSU! Woot! What a blessing indeed! In retrospect, I am now more than halfway through college and boy has it flown by! God has definitely been good in soooo many ways! Hes blessed me with great and supportive family and friends, really good opportunities to study the Word and develop understanding, and really good examples of how He is faithful.
May is upon us and this is my month of super preparation. I have a couple of goals: learn how to skateboard (for easy transition into surfing), get to know Hawai'i better, and return blessings to those how have blessed me this year. So far, I had my first lesson on skating and got some wounds, but atleast im riding it now... in a straight line...
Currently, I have been able to take all this free time provided by summer to do a lot of reading and studying. I have been working on learning a lot about Hawai'i too! I started reading this book called "Culture Shock!: Hawai'i". I have als been studying the Hawai'ian slang language known as "Pidgn". In my search for a good list of Pidgn vocab, I came across a good website for a underwater recreational company in Hawai'i called "Shaka Divers". Do you know what the Humu Humu Nuku Nuku Apua'a is?
Many of you have asked about what I am going to do on the trip. My Answer for you is thus far, I still know very little. The stuff I do know is that I will be helping with the music portion of VBS at Pali View. Otherwise I believe I should be investing a lot of time in the youth there, spending time with them and doing the whole "Iron sharpening Iron" dealeo.
To all of you on your summer mission trips currently, I am praying for you and that God protects and dumbfounds you with His glory and faithfulness!
~D-Rice
Hey everyone!
I will be leaving in less than a month now! yay!
I keep being reminded of Gods faithfulness in all of this. How He convicted me last summer, got me through the application process and trials, and how He has prepared my heart and my summer!
Sola Deo Gloria!
~Dan
I will be leaving in less than a month now! yay!
I keep being reminded of Gods faithfulness in all of this. How He convicted me last summer, got me through the application process and trials, and how He has prepared my heart and my summer!
Sola Deo Gloria!
~Dan
I read this verse this morning:
"Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might." - Ecclesiastes 9:10 (NIV)
This is one of those those types of creeds that I strive for. Not because I am trying to be the best for my own sake, but because it brings glory to the name of God. Its a form of worship, showing God that He is so worth the effort to do the best possible job in order to give credit to the One whom we owe all aspects of life to. I really hope to apply this on my trip to Hawaii. The weekend is finally here where I get to get the low-down on whats I will be doing on the trip! I will update again sometime next week and let everyone know whats up!
Sola Deo Gloria!
~D-Rice
"Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might." - Ecclesiastes 9:10 (NIV)
This is one of those those types of creeds that I strive for. Not because I am trying to be the best for my own sake, but because it brings glory to the name of God. Its a form of worship, showing God that He is so worth the effort to do the best possible job in order to give credit to the One whom we owe all aspects of life to. I really hope to apply this on my trip to Hawaii. The weekend is finally here where I get to get the low-down on whats I will be doing on the trip! I will update again sometime next week and let everyone know whats up!
Sola Deo Gloria!
~D-Rice
Allllllrighty, its time for an update!
As far as summer missions related stuff goes, I have gotten my plane ticket info and finally some information about orientation! So I officially leave on June 02 at 10:15 AM Atlanta time and arrive after a non-stop flight to Honolulu at 1:30 PM Hawaii time. Do not be deceived, the trip is longer than 3 hours. Its actually 9 hours! Woot! We are scheduled to com back on July 28 leaving Honolulu at 3:15 PM Hawaii time and arrive in Atlanta at 5:35 AM. Please ask for blessing on who ever has to pick me up at that ridiculous hour :-P
Orientation weekend looks like it is going to be pretty cool. The Good news is that the commissioning service on Saturday starts at 2:30, which means I will be able to get out of there in time to make it to my initiation into Delta Sigma Pi at 6PM! God is sooooo good! That weekend is going to be good no doubt! I will get to have some uality time with my missions partner as well as our other brothers and sisters going out on the field this summer.
In other news, there have been a lot of realy cool things that keep reaffirming that I am supposed to go on this trip. I really think one of the coolest things God does is that he sets up little reminders and check points right under your nose and you don't know their significance until later. Let me start from one of the cooler instances. One of the first "check point" that God presented me has to do with a shower curtain. Back in the 6th gradeish time period of my life, we spruced up my bathroom. My mom made me a shower curtain and said it could be any design I chose. I had chosen a beach island pattern with a special resort and palms and kyak like boats in the water. Just recently my mom told me that when she was making the curtain with a friend that her friend pointed out tht it was actually supposed to be Daimond head beach, at the bottom of Oahu!
How cool is that???
Another has been developing for a couple of years. In preparation for this trip, my mom has gotten some really good reading material on Hawaii and its culture. She has been reading through them and told me the ther night that if I recive a red envelope sometime near my birthday, that I should accept it. Apparently red is the lucky color in Hawaii, which makes sense given that Hawaii is heavlily influanced by asain cultures and red is a luck color there too. This struck me as quite interesting because I grew up really liking the color blue, but since about my sienor year of high school, my taste has changed to red. Its funny because after that point I became particularly fond of red. When I got a new car, it had red interior lighting.
When I got my phone for this round of contract, I decided to go with the red color, where as I would have normally gone with generic black or metal.
Another cool, and probly the more ironic was the color of "send me now" cause braclet I chose at Confluence... you guessed it, its red.
So those are a few of the things that are just getting me soooo pumped about this trip and How God is in every thread of it!
In closing, I like to leave you with a provocitive thought. Last Sunday I heard some really encouraging words. During our college bible study, the college minister talked about this guy named C. T. Studd. This guy was an excellent Cricket player in his prime, but he is better known for the mission work he did setting up opium recovery clinics in asia and ending his missionary carrer in a culture of cannabalism where he was able to share God with these natives and evetually God turned the culture around to using Studd and his family. In this study the minister brought up one of C.T. Studd's quotes-
"Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell, I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of hell."
This has really been on my mind all week and speaks to me so greatly. Although I may not be going to Hawaii to meet a physical need like poverty, I am going to a spiritual battle field. Please pray for me and my partner Todd as we prepare our hearts, as we get our information at orientation weekend, and for the hearts that the Holy Spirit is plowing as we speak in Hawaii and all that Todd and I encounter.
~D-Rice
As far as summer missions related stuff goes, I have gotten my plane ticket info and finally some information about orientation! So I officially leave on June 02 at 10:15 AM Atlanta time and arrive after a non-stop flight to Honolulu at 1:30 PM Hawaii time. Do not be deceived, the trip is longer than 3 hours. Its actually 9 hours! Woot! We are scheduled to com back on July 28 leaving Honolulu at 3:15 PM Hawaii time and arrive in Atlanta at 5:35 AM. Please ask for blessing on who ever has to pick me up at that ridiculous hour :-P
Orientation weekend looks like it is going to be pretty cool. The Good news is that the commissioning service on Saturday starts at 2:30, which means I will be able to get out of there in time to make it to my initiation into Delta Sigma Pi at 6PM! God is sooooo good! That weekend is going to be good no doubt! I will get to have some uality time with my missions partner as well as our other brothers and sisters going out on the field this summer.
In other news, there have been a lot of realy cool things that keep reaffirming that I am supposed to go on this trip. I really think one of the coolest things God does is that he sets up little reminders and check points right under your nose and you don't know their significance until later. Let me start from one of the cooler instances. One of the first "check point" that God presented me has to do with a shower curtain. Back in the 6th gradeish time period of my life, we spruced up my bathroom. My mom made me a shower curtain and said it could be any design I chose. I had chosen a beach island pattern with a special resort and palms and kyak like boats in the water. Just recently my mom told me that when she was making the curtain with a friend that her friend pointed out tht it was actually supposed to be Daimond head beach, at the bottom of Oahu!
How cool is that???Another has been developing for a couple of years. In preparation for this trip, my mom has gotten some really good reading material on Hawaii and its culture. She has been reading through them and told me the ther night that if I recive a red envelope sometime near my birthday, that I should accept it. Apparently red is the lucky color in Hawaii, which makes sense given that Hawaii is heavlily influanced by asain cultures and red is a luck color there too. This struck me as quite interesting because I grew up really liking the color blue, but since about my sienor year of high school, my taste has changed to red. Its funny because after that point I became particularly fond of red. When I got a new car, it had red interior lighting.
When I got my phone for this round of contract, I decided to go with the red color, where as I would have normally gone with generic black or metal.
Another cool, and probly the more ironic was the color of "send me now" cause braclet I chose at Confluence... you guessed it, its red.
So those are a few of the things that are just getting me soooo pumped about this trip and How God is in every thread of it!In closing, I like to leave you with a provocitive thought. Last Sunday I heard some really encouraging words. During our college bible study, the college minister talked about this guy named C. T. Studd. This guy was an excellent Cricket player in his prime, but he is better known for the mission work he did setting up opium recovery clinics in asia and ending his missionary carrer in a culture of cannabalism where he was able to share God with these natives and evetually God turned the culture around to using Studd and his family. In this study the minister brought up one of C.T. Studd's quotes-
"Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell, I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of hell."
This has really been on my mind all week and speaks to me so greatly. Although I may not be going to Hawaii to meet a physical need like poverty, I am going to a spiritual battle field. Please pray for me and my partner Todd as we prepare our hearts, as we get our information at orientation weekend, and for the hearts that the Holy Spirit is plowing as we speak in Hawaii and all that Todd and I encounter.
~D-Rice