pardoned.net

I’m trying to think of what I would like to do with this site. Recently I have been too busy with classes at Wheaton College and ministry obligations to spend my time typing up old sermons or filling up the internet with my wisdom.

Recently I’ve been offered an internship with my denomination to start a campus group to encourage undergraduates to get involved in missions here in Chicago and abroad. I’m also serving as an intern at an East Asian Baptist church and teaching an English language Sunday School class, and for the summer I am teaching at another East Asian church’s youth ministry. A lot of doors have been opening up for me to do cross-cultural ministry, I might even be preaching at an Eastern-European church some time soon. Maybe I should consider changing this into more of a site about the teaching that I do -not that I am particularly wise or talented and speaking.

Right now I’m listening to the Brave Saint Saturn Anti-Meridian album which I just got in the mail today! I’m thoroughly enjoying it! I also just had tacos with my good friend John and he totally helped me with my Contextualizating homework, thanks John!

Tomorrow is my first day of classes at Wheaton College where I’ll be pursuing a graduate degree in Intercultural Studies. I had an orientation at the college this past Friday, and spent most of today going over a check list of things that I needed to do to tie up loose ends.

So far the jury is out as to what I feel about the college. The buildings are nice, and people seem to be genuinely kind. I really hope that I will be able to get closer to Jesus here.

It is hard to believe that things have changed so much in the last year. ‘Change’ was a word associated with politics as much as it was a reality concerning the economy.

In the past year a lot of things have changed in my life. In January I was still working for Crista Ministries, I was serving as a Perspectives task force member, I went to Missions Fest Vancouver with Colin Wilson. Since then I have moved on from Crista, been accepted to graduate school at Wheaton College and served as a short-term missionary in Japan.

I spent New Years with my church in Seattle and was able to reflect on the past year -I have truly received so much grace and a deepened knowledge of God’s love. There are so many things to say, but I can’t find any words for them.

I have made the decision to fast from the internet for the foreseeable future here in Tokyo. I have so much to do, and the internet is a huge distraction! Sorry, no more M’Cheyne sermons for a while, not that anyone was reading them besides me.