Still Alive!

So, I said you all could leave comments and realized I had disabled it. My Bad... it is now enabled so send your prayer requests or any comments. They will be able to be seen by the whole computer world just to let ya know.

The days keep coming, nights turn to days, moments lead to another, and it's awesome. This trip has opened my eyes so much to so many different aspects of "life." That is the best I can do explaining what's going on but maybe I will find something better someday.

The last post is still so relevant to now because so many things are being reveiled. Let me tell you all about what it's like out here. If you have looked at revolutionhawaii.com you may have read a post similar to this but here it goes:

Mon-Sat
6:20 wake up (a bit early, yah)
6:30-7:10ish work out ie: run, swim, pull ups, sit ups... *We will be doing the Aloha Marathon in Februay, happy day)
7:30-8:30ish S.O.A.P.s *(we are reading through the bible in a year and there is a schedule that goes with this. S: scripture O: observation A: application P: prayer we have some fun discussions during this time too)
8:30-9:30 FOOOOOD bkfast
9:30-10:15ish Prayer as a group *(We pray a lot here and have seen so many answers to prayer. There really is power in prayer. send any requests...)
10:30-12:00ish discuss book (each week we read a book and discuss the ideas in it every day. Some cool discussions here. We are currently reading : The Irresistable Revolution By Shane Claiborn This is such a good book and inspiring. It will definitely make you question and analyze things in your own life. Not or the feint in heart j/k...but seriously)
12:00-9:00 volunteer/outreach. (we go to our volunteer sites and build relationships.)

Now there are some variations to this on friday and saturday:

during the volunteer/ outreach time on friday we do clean up instead. We do keep things very clean (or as clean as possible) here. On saturday during that time we have door to door times. This is very crazy and that's were the story in the last post came from. Some cool friendships have already started to be built from this.

We also go to 2 bible studies during the week one on tuesday nights at 6 pm at Capt. Navaros crib and the other on friday night at 6 pm with the ATS group at the Kauluwela church. This an awesome group of people who are recovering from drugs and alcohol. They are an amazing group and God is working in that ministry.

On sundays we go to the church in our communities, have the afternoon off and then go to UpprRoom ( a young adult type of bible study/ meeting/ hangout time) at around 5:30.

Mondays are our Sabbath so we sit and do nothing...Hmmmm well some of us do. This is our day to do what ever we want. Explore the islland...I of course like to surf (I only get to go once MaYbE twice a week which is a big change from surfing almost every morning and afternoon but it is still fun.)

So that is what it is like here in the revolution OOOHHH I forgot something:

On saturday nights we have team dinner, so we all sit together, eat, and chat. By the way UFC is my new favorite thing in the world besides surfing. Nov. 14th will be a good one.... After the dinner we go to China Town and hangout with the houseless people, drug addicts, drug dealers, and prostitutes. We bring some food and hang out, talk story, and pray. God is really working out there it is amazing.

OK so that is what we do here, things sometimes change and there is still so much more we do that I will tell you all in a later post but this is the jist (i like that word, but I don't think the spelling is correct...happy day) of the missions trip.

On another note I am doing well, making it day by day. I really do appreciate all the prayer from you all on the mainland and around the world (Shout out to the Homies across the pond-land-pond in England Woot Woot) . It's cool to see that people are looking at this thing ( if you havn't looked at the map on the right of this blog it shows the red dots where people are checking this out from. Cool, huh?).

I have some prayer requests that are pretty important. My Great-Uncle is not doing well healthwise and my whole family is very concered. Also pray that the team out here can continue in this ministry keeping our eyes on God. Pray we don't lose focus out here (Hawaii can be a pretty distracting place if you make it so, but what floors me is how people are distracted to the point of passing by the homeless and drug dealings and don't even "see it"...). Also pray that God can continue humbling me and His wisdom.

Thank you all for lasting through this Post But until another day.

Aloha


Quick surf report:

Today surf at bowls was ok. There were some fun corners but the swell is hitting up north at about 4-5 foot set occasionals. I hear the surf in San Diego and So cal is doing well...Shoots We'll get it here in about November so hopfully it gets better. Peace