David Crowder

Yes....word is out! David Crowder and Co. are back in the studio recording for their upcoming cd. No word on when it's due out yet, but I can't wait! I'd suggest maybe keeping an eye on his blog or the dcb website...recording times are always particularly amusing becuase of the ever-so-immanent blog world. haha.

so check out his blog here and the official website here.

This next month has the potential to be a lot of different things for me. For those of you who don't know yet, the youth sunday services are taking a 6 week break this spring for a few logisitcal reasons. April 8th is easter, so we will not have service that week, then the following four are the "pure sex" series in the big-service. Specifically, we really want to encourage everyone to go be a part of that service and engage in the important messages taht are being taught those weeks. That series actually concludes with guest speaker Mike Foster from XXXchurch. Then the following week is mothers day--i'd say that's a notable day to stress being with your family. So that's that. For 6 weeks i will not be leading worship in the student ministries. However, I'm hoping that this may be an opportunity for my involvement in the downstairs services to increase this month as well as simply just being a part of services. In addition to those, I will basically be living on my own for the next month. I am house-sitting for a week, home for 3 days, house-sitting somewhere else for another week, home for a week (with grandparents in town), then they (including my parents) leave for 10 days. I think it will be nice, but strange to be home but not really "home" for a whole month.

The one thing that is quickly approaching is April 1st. No, not in the sense that it's april fools day--but that Shane Claiborne is going to be in the area. First at First Christain on Sunday then Malone for Chapel on Monday. I will definitly be making the first hike over to the new "Johnson Center" for the year since I haven't had to attend chapel all year. As with Rob Bell's new book Sex God (which is phenomenal, by the way), Shane Claiborne's book (Irresistable Revolution) is the other one that i read over the first part of spring break. He really challenged a lot of contemporary thinking and i loved it. Do I 100% agree with everything he said? Well probably not....but i sure do respect what he has to say. he's got some great insight and vision for some of the things that are really starting to hit home for me. One of which is some of the financial (and dare I say hypocricial?) choices of the Church today.

Well, I must return to the ethics paper. Talk to you all later.