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Come experience Urban Hymnal 3 is this Saturday. I’ve been told it’s post-modern worship music and apparently it’s a free/donation based concert. We’re making it a Ventus worship night field trip.

If anyone is in or around the area, you should join us! If you’re going – shoot me an email and you can join the bunch (sdelony@yd.org).

Here’s the details:

November 1st, 2008 – Kane Hall @ the University of Washington

Check it out here: Urban Hynmal.org

Here’s a Free Mp3: Psalm 13

Okay here’s my pitch.

I will buy one of you a free, round-trip ticket from your place of origin to Seattle and back.

The catch? You have to be willing raise money to play in a fundraising golf tournament where you play 100 holes of golf in day (6am -6pm)!

Here’s what you have to do. You go around getting people to pledge for you to golf per hole (at church, work, neighbors, etc.). You are not collecting money, just getting pledges (and addresses from pledges – our ministry will bill them once you complete the tourney). The minimum goal would be to get $25 per hold raised or $2500 total. That’s the minimum. If you raise more there are prizes – from a new set of clubs to a trip for two to Mexico.

The cause? You’re raising money to support the work of a missionary (me) who works with at-risk, rural, unchurched teens.

It’s a fun day of golfing. You get pampered plenty. Get a free trip to the Pacific Northwest. And it goes to a good cause. So, what more could you ask for?

Any one interested, email me and I can give you more info. The tournament is Monday August 25th. And like I said before, I’m willing to pay for your plane ticket…

sdelony@yd.org

This morning I woke up to Aida yelling, “It’s a blistered!” Then James came in our room and was telling me it snowed. I shook it off thinking that they must have been mistaken. Last night, I arrived home after a weekend youth retreat in the snow. There was no snow in sight. I brought with me a cooler full of snow for the kids to play with. They played on the porch and tossed the snow around. So when I heard that it was snowing, I shrugged it off.

Then I got up, opened the blinds and saw our backyard with 4 inches of snow covering the ground. Evidently, I can’t escape the snow…

Here are some pictures from this morning.

“Starbucks, the company that popularized the $4 cup of coffee, is testing a $1 cup and free refills of some of its offerings.” (MSN)

Can it be true? The words “value” and “Starbucks” can now be used together? I’m sorry Virgil, you preterist, but this has got to be end times stuff, up there with the mark of the beast. Someone call Tim LaHaye.

Kevin Bussey starts a new job at a new church and Starbucks goes cheap. This is the winter of Bussey man. You are blessed.

School was out Monday, so we took a group of kids to Seattle. It’s amazing the amount of fun you can have by investing a day with kids doing absolutely nothing. No program. No agenda. Just a van full of kids and a couple of hours. It’s that simple.

Life’s always an adventure. And going to see Rob Bell last night was no exception.

I had three people riding with me to go to the Moore theater in Seattle last night when we had a bit of car trouble on the way down. Well, it’ wasn’t exactly car trouble, we ran out of gas. That was my first inkling that the gas gauge on our ministry van was broken.  We left plenty early and everything was going great. No traffic. Great conversations. It couldn’t get any better till the car lost all power going 70 down the highway.

We pull over, call AAA and they inform us it could take up to 45 min for them to come help us. Rob Bell is slated to go on at 7:30 and it’s about 6:40 at this time. So we wait and wait, watching the clock. We all took turns urinating outside the van in the medium of the highway. It was good bonding time to say the least.

I’m checking my watch and getting more and more frustrated so I decide start to walking towards a gas station. About ten minutes into my hike, I get a call that AAA has arrived. So I run back to the van (it’s 7:30 by this time) and drive frantically to find a gas station. You’d think that was a easy task being so close to Seattle, but it wasn’t. We drive through all these random neighborhoods looking (because there are no gas stations on the outskirts of Seattle). Finally we find one and gas up.

Driving late to the Moore theater, we face the next hurdle: finding parking in Seattle. By the time we park, I’m pretty spent and it’s almost 8pm. We rush into the theater and it looks like they’ve already let the cowds out. So I go over to an attendant and ask her what’s going on. She informs me that they printed the start time on the tickets wrong and that Rob is really slated to start at 8pm.

You have no idea the mix of relief, joy and amazement that washed over me. So we go looking for our tickets and they’re on the front row. Again, amazing. And as soon as we sit down the music plans and Rob enters. I couldn’t have scripted this any better. God was so good to us.

All I can say about “The God’s Aren’t Angry” tours is that I great time. I really enjoyed myself. Rob has an an amazing ability to connect things that are already know and bring them together into a whole new perspective. The bulk of the lecture was about how God enjoys revolutionizing our perspective of reality.  I won’t say much more because a few of you who have tickets have asked me to to spoil it. My only advice: don’t take notes. Don’t even try. Rob talks too fast, covers too much ground (in 1.5 hours) and you’re better suited just enjoying it and soaking it in. I’ll be processing it for the next couple of days. I had a great time and just love Rob Bell’s heart and passion.

My opinion: it’s well worth your time and money (and a raping by tickemaster).

For tickets go here… 

To hear more from Rob go here…