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| Dudes,
PTL! My friend David has now been clean for what? Like 4 or 5 days it seems! It's so exciting! He came to church yesterday, and I sat next to him and I heard him mutter the sinner's prayer. It was so gangster. He's been talking with me about how to pray and stuff. He'd never even been to church before! So wedesday some of us from the church are going out to Camp Sebago, and we are taking about 6 hours of prayer during the night for them, and David's coming with us, and he's gonna freakin' learn how to pray!!! It's so exciting. I'm getting much closer with people here in Westbrook. I feel like i'm getting closer to the oldest boy in the family that i stay with, but farther away from the youngest. To put it simply there have been a few kids that have acted very disrespectfully to adults here, and I just don't put up with it. Especially because the adults they are disrespectful to are either very soft-spoken and love them too much to say anything, or they are mentally challenged, and so I tell them what is up basically. One I expected to listen and understand has done anything but, but the one I expected not to, I think is actually listening and has at least a little understanding. It's very sad, their hearts are so hard for 13 year olds :( So if you guys could pray for the kids here at Westbrook that would be great.
Coming up!!! I'm actually going to blog on something you can be fed from! Next blog is on 'Good Works" DON'T MISS IT!
i'm out like a fat kid playing dodgeball
joe the west | | |
| Wow, we (capt. Frank and I) just got done helping our friend David go to detox. It took 5 hours to finally convince him to go! The poor guy has horrible circumstances, and i'm pretty sure that if we didn't get him in there, he would have killed himself very soon. But praise the Lord! We took him out for chinese food, and then showed him where the detox was (he was coming down off of heroin and alcohol today) and he decided to finally go in. He even left there at one point and went back out to the van, but the holy spirit through me was able to convince him to come back in and get checked out by a doctor.
Hopefully this will be the catalyst in David's coming to Christ. We plan on visiting him and supporting him through detox, and also admitting him to the ARC here.
BTI is next week. We should be praying that people have open hearts and ears and eyes, and also for the leaders and fellow laborers back in the DTES.
joe the west | | |
| Dude that's the funniest thing i've heard in a while, Kir likes to give me a hard time because i'm American. And she's right, we do in fact shoot people, what can I say?
Dudes i'm going to the b-b-beach today, and i have to read Light Belongs in the Darkness by the 25th! I left my Be a Hero in Boston, and it hasn't come in the mail yet!
So I had this dream last night (and i don't remember a lot of it) that I found my bible (you know, the cool one i got before I left, and then left it at Camp Arnold?) in a bucket of water, and it was soaked to the bone (except bibles don't have bones) and i found it! and i picked it up! and it dried off and then that's it!? So i don't know if it has any significance or what, if someone wants to interpret, please feel welcome to do so.
Oh by the way-- NEW SWITCHFOOT ALBUM COMING OUT TOWARDS THE END OF THE YEAR!!!! freakin' right it is, i can't wait to get it! ok, talk to you gospel gangsters later
joe the west
p.s. someone might be getting another sweet high collar soon!!! | | |
| what a weird name for a women's home, eh? That's the building i stayed in this weekend when i went to NEW YORK CITY!!! (wooohoooo) in the middle of MANHATTAN!!! it was so stinkin' cool. The roof had a garden on the top and i had the sweetest view of the empire state building. Commissioning was in New Jersey so Frank and I took the subway a couple times and took the tunnel over in the van. So, things i concluded from this commissioning-
1. i don't want to be ordained when i am commissioned. We are already anointed as Holy Priests. There is no human ritual or practice that give me a better title.
2. dude, i have to wear a high collar to my commissioning. they're so gangster. I've talked to brigadiers, majors, colonels, and i haven't met anyone who gives two craps whether we wear them or not.
3. The salvation army is turning into the catholic church! we cast out the "sacraments" and replaced them with our own. You can't even sing in the chorus unless you have your "special robes", not only that, but i was reminded once again, the freaking ridiculous amount of money we spend on band and songsters (not to mention holding our meeting at the freakin' sheraton and the expo center, booth would roll over in his grave). IT IS SICK. Nobody needs a freakin' extra tunic just to play in the band, just get different epplets dudes.
4. If they won't sell it to you at trade, have your corps officer buy it for you! lol this lady wouldn't sell me officers s's, so i got someone to buy them for me!
On a serious note, c'mon guys, let's think about all the things we spend extra money on during these type of events(oh and how we love to justify them), the hotels, the food(you know you like eating Chili's courtesy of Uncle Willy), the uniforms(sick), the gas money, etc. -- now take all of this time and money into perspective, and think about how many hours you could have been evanglelizing, and how many people you could have saved from starvation and disease.
so! anyways i'm out. things are going well. I feel a little under-productive though. It's a lot more slow paced here. I don't like how slow it is. So i'm trying to stay on top of things, please pray for me that I do!
joe | | |
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