Spring Break begins!

Spring Break has begun!

Danielle works registration

Weeks ago, we had planned on starting our spring break conferences in the beginning of March, but after a few groups expressed interest in coming down a week earlier, we decided that we would be able to handle it. Plus, it's almost like a pre-production run. We can fine tune what the rest of the weeks will look like having worked through this week.

So on Sunday, students came in from Michigan and Ohio (which i'm finding is just an insane rivalry). Fortunately, since i came from a school with a undeveloped football program, i never took part in rivalries like that.

Now that i'm a few days into the week, i'm surprised at how much work is preparation, and now that everything is rolling, our jobs are a little bit easier. We just let the machine we started run its course.

Prepping for the meeting

i'm hoping to do a video slideshow and some t-shirts with the students this week and i hope they turn out! i hope the students have fun too. i really want them to have a good experience. If you think of it, i would love prayer for creative ideas to make MCing the meetings fun for the students, and for the competence to pull off my ideas!

On the subject of spritual warfare

i tend to downplay talk of spiritual warfare because i think that often it's used as an excuse for poor choices. Recently, i think i've been experiencing it.

There's something about New Orleans that just depresses people. i dont know how to describe the feeling. i'm sure there's lot of reasons someone can feel blue. Being unsatisfied and feeling broken is common human experience, but in New Orleans somehow it seems different. i have never seen a place suck more out of people than here. Even one of my friends who doesnt have a Christian background like mine says he feels the weight of this city. He said that no where else has he seen around him a such an affinity for fetishism, voodoo, and darker sides of humanity.

Where else is drinking so glamorized? The roads are terrible, politicians corrupt, and there doesnt seem to be any respite. New Orleans has glamorized their particular brand of warped hedonism.

i cant complain too much because the culture is rubbing off on me and i'm soaking up a lot of the attitude that i'm in.

It's so strange, but i can think of no other explanation for why things are the way they are here than a spiritual one.

If you think of it, please pray for me and for the city of New Orleans. It's beautiful and charming, but just like any place where a broken set of people is involved, it has a dark underside...

looking at the world through dust colored glasses

looking at the world through dust colored glasses
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