Countdown

Photo by Dane Gustafson

As I mentioned in “It’s Cold”, life has been pretty humdrum for me. Without having work, it’s difficult to stay busy. And if it weren’t for God it would be impossible for me to hold onto my sanity. I mentioned that it’s really hard looking out at the endless wasteland of my life, nothing in sight for my future. Well I guess that’s not entirely true. The one thing I have to hold onto is going back to Keynote.

I’m planning on doing an internship in Indiana for a year with the organization I spent the summer with. So I’m not completely hopeless, but I do have something to look forward to. It doesn’t start until November however. In the meantime it’s just filled with a lot of waiting. Just a seemingly endless countdown.

That Countdown reached another milestone today; the application is sent in. Hopefully this will make my waiting period easier because I should be able to start support raising soon. I’m not saying it will be easy, but I’d much rather have something hard to do than nothing to do at all.

Also a week ago I got some other very exciting news. Here’s some set-up.  Recently a man named John has started coming to my church. He has a history with gangs, but God worked in his life in major ways and John got saved. Now John is a minister, and has a heart for reaching New England for Christ. In particular he ministers to people of the inner-city projects like he was. Now that’s great news in and of itself; God changing lives and reaching out. But that’s not the good news I got last week.

The good news that I got that I’m referring to is that he has asked me to lead worship at the new church he is starting up. Ever since meeting John it has been a huge boost to my morale and excitement because he has a conviction very similar to mine; spreading the gospel in New England. I’m really looking forward to working with him and this new experience. It’s going to be interesting leading worship, it’s going to be mostly inner-city people, many of whom have never even been to church before. Please be praying for us all as we prepare and work everything out and praise God for all the work He has already begun.

I’m looking forward to posting more about both Keynote and the new church.

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