I’ll say this for the last time: by now you all know I am deploying to Baghdad, Iraq on November 1.
That having been said, a co-worker of mine has sent me some information I need about deploying. Basically it sounds like I will be going on video shoots and editing news stories Monday-Friday, coming back to the shop Saturday and getting Sunday off to go to church. I’ll be traveling everywhere in the country too — traveling in convoys, sleeping in tents, etc. It’s gonna be busy, rough, and interesting. I just want to keep my time occupied the entire six months I am there, then come home 20 pounds lighter and a bit more muscular.
Time for a perspective on all of this. I have to realize I’m only doing what thousands of people ahead of me are doing, and there are those out there who have things much worse. When I start fussing about how I have to go, I just imagine some poor Army dude who is spending a year over there defusing bombs, with his family back home hoping and praying every day that he is safe. After I think about that, I shut up and realize how well I have it, even if I do have to put myself in harm’s way for six months.
So I mentioned in my previous post that we had Life Group last night at Cameron and Stephanie’s house. Life Group, for those that don’t know, is basically like a Bible study, group discussion, and support group all rolled into a tortilla and served golden brown. It’s church in a way because everyone there participates in worship, listens to someone bring forth a good Bible message and prays for one another at the end — but it’s got a good comfortable environment of meeting in someone’s home where people can relax, participate in a group discussion throughout the lesson, and be comfortable and share things they might not otherwise want to say in church itself. It’s a brilliant idea, and I predicted last night that Life Groups would expand and become Lakeside Church’s biggest ministry. Not the biggest ministry outside the church, but the biggest ministry of the church itself.
It’s amazing as well because I have always heard it preached that a truly effective church will do most of its ministry outside the church’s four walls. How true. It’s how it all happened in Acts.
I think Life Groups are going to be a huge help to me, because in turn I actually plan on taking what I learn here and using it while overseas…I might have to host something of a Life Group if anyone over there is interested. I’ll have to keep praying, it’s gonna be awesome. I know there are some people over there who attend chapel and are tired of hearing the Bible watered down. Who says we can’t dig deeper into the Word even while deployed in a combat zone?
In other news, my fantasy football team got whacked yesterday. It was something like 100-47. Half my guys had a bye week so I had to replace them with crappy people. It sucks, I’m 1-3. Seahawks lost, too.
That’s it for now.
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