garage sale tomorrow, 7.1.06

8.30AM

Tiffany Chung’s House
10108 Spicewood Mesa
Austin, Texas 78759

We are selling: clothes, books, jewelry, etc. See what you can find! =)))

ALL proceeds go towards the Austin Children’s Shelter

-Michelle and Tiffany

josh and mark are very lonely.

want to eat lunch with them to make them less lonely?

just give them a ring or a note on email (josh [at] austinchinesechurch.org) about when you’d like to come on by, and spend some quality josh + mark and you time.

lunch for los lonely boys is usually around 12 noon, so you guys give them a heads up and go eat out or bring your own lunch into the office. they’d love to have you. i know i would.

contact:
josh - josh[at]austinchinesechurch.org

the ensenada missions team blog is now up, so click on over to read up on them.

http://missions.acclighthouse.org/ensenada06 or click on the missions tab up top.

pray for them before and during the trip (and even after, too) so that they might feel God’s love. they’re gonna need it if they want to spread it around.

Found this today while surfing the web. I was gonna wait till later to post this, but felt really strongly to do it now. It follows this I think: “The second most direct way God will reach people besides actually coming to them, will be through us.”

I think this story displays the message of love and rescue and grace that Jesus came to our broken world for. Caution, it hits a somewhat intense topic. Read on.
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TO WRITE LOVE ON HER ARMS.
by jamie tworkowski

Pedro the Lion is loud in the speakers, and the city waits just outside our open windows. She sits and sings, legs crossed in the passenger seat, her pretty voice hiding in the volume. Music is a safe place and Pedro is her favorite. It hits me that she won’t see this skyline for several weeks, and we will be without her. I lean forward, knowing this will be written, and I ask what she’d say if her story had an audience. She smiles. “Tell them to look up. Tell them to remember the stars.”

I would rather write her a song, because songs don’t wait to resolve, and because songs mean so much to her. Stories wait for endings, but songs are brave things bold enough to sing when all they know is darkness. These words, like most words, will be written next to midnight, between hurricane and harbor, as both claim to save her.

read the rest…

i hope you are enjoying the new site. you should definitely move your mouse a little to the right and a little down and click on the register button. it’d be nice to see some articles that are worth reading instead of the normal stuff you see on everyday blogs.

i just put up some links on the sidebar that i thought you might want to check out, and i put up relevant magazine on there, and since i already had it open, i figured i might read a thing or two.

here’s the thing or two that i read: a beginner’s guide to church survival. the article is just about not really liking church (churches can be bad, it’s sad, but true) and how certain people can make us do things that even before we didn’t want to do even if we had no reason to not want to do them (run on sentence?). there are people that come to lighthouse for one time and never come back again.

read the rest…