by jay on February 15, 2011
Our most recent newsletter will be on its way to you all this week. I’ll be sharing a bit of vision for what exactly my job is down here in Orlando.
In the mean time I wanted to update you on two things that we had asked for prayer about since the beginning of the year:
- We did purchase a car – a 2005 Impala. It ended up being a little more than we were planning, but that extra $1,000 bought us 20,000 (fewer) miles on the odometer and we were still able to pay cash.
- The Westboro Baptist Church’s protest at American University ended up pretty much being a non-event. They showed up and were largely ignored by the students and general community – they ended up spending a few hours out in the freezing rain an shouting at no one.
Thank you for your prayers.
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by jay on January 10, 2011
I just got an email from American University’s chaplains’ board, and I’ve been hearing rumblings from our student-friends at AU about something going on this week on campus. On Friday, January 14 the hate-filled Westboro “Baptist” “Church” will be protesting at AU (the quotes are intentional, they are in no way really Christians and I don’t want to insult any of you who are Baptist).
I can’t figure out the specific reason why they’ve chosen AU, but my concern is not that, but the students there. Wherever Fred Phelps and his “church” (which is made up almost entirely of his offspring and their spouses), it only stirs up hatred – first theirs toward everyone else, then the hatred of everyone around them toward them and as a fallout can intensify their audience’s distrust of faith, religion and God. Please join with us this Friday to pray that students would walk away from the protest, counter protest and whatever else and would seek Truth. Pray that through this students would seek to know a God who cares about them, but cares also about dealing with their sin. Also, pray that WBC would be ignored on the whole and that even they would come to know our God of justice, grace, mercy and love.
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