Recap of Trip

After several days on the road, fellowship with old and new friends, we are finally home. We had good size crowds for all the churches. Last night, we closed out at Ceder Ridge Christian Church where Chris Keith and Brryan Jackson both shared their testimonies. Chris (lost his whole family at age 5 and was shot in the head) brought his family with him to share the wonderful grace of God for his first time last night. He and Brryan both did a really good job.

As everyone was leaving, an older man and his daughter came up to me and Joe and began to share what God had done for them in the past weeks. It turns out that her dad left her family when she was three. At some point, he and his friend killed and then threw someone off a bridge. He spent several years in prison only to get out more recently for Battered Child Syndrome. Less than two weeks ago, he made a facebook, found his 1 out of 10 children and they met in Tulsa for the concert last night. He has been clean since 1993 he says. Just goes to show how powerful God really is.

After dinner with the minister at 11:30 last night, Brryan reminded my dad of how he need a post card for his collection. After three quick trips, a Target and a Walmart, we finally decided to skip it. In doing so, we got lost in Tulsa for 2 more hours. Once finally on the right highway, we stopped at a Flying J and found him a post card. We left Tulsa at 1:45.
Overall, its been a great trip. I look forward to seeing what God has in store for the future!

Day 3

Howdy...

Friday I got back from an incredible week of camp. Saturday morning, we leaft for Joplin Mo. I learned so much from Matt Miles in the creation truth ministry who tought on creation. For worship each night One Way Carravan lead us all in worship then Brian Mills closed out each night with awesome sermons. Overall, I was really refueled at this week of camp. I can't belive we are in the first offical week of summer! I miss camp...

Today we did worship at Carterville Christian Church. Two services this morning and a concert tonight. Its been a fun trip so far and we are not even half way done! Last night we ate at the Sigars house. Tonight Brryan did a great job at sharrng his testimony. He has come a long way already! We Leave tomorrow for Tulsa, OK. Prayers would be apreciated!

This is the church before the service started. Such an awesome building.

All of us afterward.

Goodbye

This is my gnome. Lexington is his name. He was born in Iceland on June 30th, 1854. He listens to Rap and Country. Thats pretty much it.




Going to camp tomorrow. Looks like bad weather but it should still be awesome!

Goodbye,
Zack

Musical Genious

This is an analogue electronic band called INVISIBLE. Its a little long but if you can, watch the whole thing. They literally made ALL of their instruments.

Yesterday, Joe Slavich, Caleb Chesnut and I went out into St Charles to film random people on the question "What is God to you?" for a video he is making for this Sunday morning. I was excited to do this because I had never interviewed people before. I also looked forward to seeing what people really believed and saw God as.


As we received many various answers, the hardest part of the whole trip was 1. finding people and 2. getting their answers because they "didn't have time" or want to be on camera. It amazes me how different of an answer we would get when we say we are with a church.



Going in to it, I didn't know what to expect. I figured people would turn us down. I also thought we would get answers like, "God is not real" and so on. People did turn us down but we received no bad answers. Majority of the answers were "God is my saviour" or "God is great."



Almost everyone we talked who took the time to talk to us, had something good to say and acted kind and friendly. It really puzzled me of how many people made such a big deal out of this little question as if they would be on National TV.



We came across one kid who didn't believe in God and his brother who said he was agnostic. A girl we talked to gave us the answer "God is who" leaving me speechless but then she explained she didn't believe in any religion and meant who is God I guess. It seemed like a lot of people would studder to answer and majority who did would throw in the awkward "I even go to church every Sunday and can't think of anything."



Everyone we talked to today gave us a little more specifics of their faith. Some gave more details than others. Majority of the people gave us Bible School answers probably because we said we were with a church. We considered not saying anything about church and Joe even considered saying we were with an atheist organization. Joe never got to that and somehow church always came up no matter what.


I saw the finished video and it looks really nice. I look forward to seeing what God can do with this video.