The World According To Chris Brewer

Yesterday morning, right before I left Springfield, Missouri, I met with Pastor John Pace of Crimson House Ministries. From previous blog posts you know full well that CH is the church I will be attending and helping out in media ministries, come November. Pastor and I talked about his vision for a publishing ministry while we chowed down on breakfast at the Village Inn on Campbell Ave. It was neat…Pastor Pace has to be one of the biggest visionaries I know (not just in the COGOP, but in general), and his plan for the publishing ministry at CH really shows it. In short, the publishing ministry is going to entail video, audio and even a church magazine. It’s gonna be great to be a part of it.

Sadly, after that was over, it was time to leave Springfield and say goodbye to it until November. I knew I couldn’t make the trip back to Newport News in one day, so I pulled into a rest area in Kentucky and caught some ZZZ’s (hey, it was cheaper than a hotel). The weather through most of Missouri was nice, but Illinois and Indiana had some spots of rain, and just east of Louisville it rained pretty hard. After that the weather was nice, and it was easy going from there on out. Well, okay, it wasn’t so easy because I had a splitting headache that God decided not to heal and Mountain Dew did. I ended up pulling into the parking lot next to my dorm at 3:45 AM.

So I go back to work tomorrow…the next time I go on vacation is 17 days in July to go see Aftan (and a bunch of other friends in Oregon). I can’t wait for that.

Good Lord, I miss Springfield already. Granted, I was only there for ten days, but it’s a nice little city that feels more like a big town. I am so glad to be able to move there in November…speaking of which, I have about (give or take) 116 work days left and 183 days until I move to Missouri. Gee, 183 days…that’s two days longer than my deployment was. If I could survive 6 months in Iraq, definitely the next six months around here cannot be bad AT ALL. Considering I have my friends, my church, my car, things to do…yeah, it’s not gonna be bad.

Anyway, I gotta run to church. Remember, when you have a headache and God decides not to heal you, do one of two things, or both if you can: (1) sleep, or (2) grab a Mountain Dew.

God bless.