If you happened to be here last night, you probably witnessed an awesome worship night with Hillsong United.

Without going into too much details of last night, I strongly encourage everyone to listen for yourself. Check out www.hillsongunited.com and YouTube/HillsongUnited.

Enjoy these pics on Flickr.

Thank you for all of your prayers and friendships and to that, Happy Thanksgiving everyone.

“⁶Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.” — Philippians 4:6

Rain!!! It's coming down hard!

Things I liked from last night in no particular order:

1. the strong voice of the guys worshiping backed by the soft lilts of the girls
2. laughters intermingled with seriousness
3. sharing and insights
4. a can of refreshing milk pearl tea

Go rent and watch "An Inconvenient Truth". Why? Because Al Gore just won the Nobel Peace Prize.

Peace out!

My Kidzone class learned about Heroes this Sunday—heroes give God the credit. We asked them to make "trading cards" of their heroes. These colorful trading cards were cartoony, some with your "normal" super-powered heroes, others not what you expected. Kids are pretty imaginative. Here are some samples of what they drew.

Isabella: Ice, the super horse with frosted power, in bright neon blue
Auriel: Lion (which represent God although she was too embarrassed to admit it was any good so she crumbled it up)
Susannah: Jesus with lava coming out of his finger as his power
Daniel: Moses with superspeed
Caleb: Cow, because he gives us milk, cheese, and meat
Keila: Jesus with shining love power
Jessica: Jesus with smiling power

The last two are pretty cool power, if you think about it. Imaging SUPERJESUS in this scene

Generic Villain: "Blah blah blah monologue about total world domination blah blah blah"
SUPERJESUS: turns the other cheek and unexpectedly a RADIANT LIGHT of GOD'S INFINITE LOVE AND MERCY hits Generic Villain in the stomach
Generic Villain: (throwing up a couple demons) "My LORD and my God!"
SUPERJESUS: "He's yo Daddy."

[Generic Villain walks offscreen RADIATING BEAMS OF HAPPINESS AND PEACE FROM HIS FACE!!!!]

My first missions presentation tonight at FCC. I'm a bit anxious as I don't like speaking in front of crowds, but hopefully God will give me strength as He always does in these circumstances.

Shouldn't be that hard because these are people I know from church.

It should be exciting! And wait til you taste Kenyan tea.

LBNL (last but not least), pray for me for tonight. Asante sana Go Team Kenya! (a cheer?)

(From left: Paul, Mike, Kevin, Terrence, Sean)

Here we go. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord.

Our team were commissioned yesterday. We even got to go up to the city to see where Gina goes to church and got commissioned there. Everyone at GrX-SF were really friendly, and pastor Ali's sermon was very good.

Here we go Team Kenya!!!

My friend Heather is doing a Hike for Discovery. She is normally very reserve and not at all a marketing/promo type but it is pretty obvious she has a lot of passion for this cause. I know from talking to her that she cares a lot about the subject of cancer, and leukemia in particular.

In a nutshell, the Hike for Discovery is to raise research and awareness for the LLS (Leukemia and Lymphoma Society). The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society uses the funds raised to cure Leukemia, Lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease and Myeloma. The Society also gives help and support to over 712,000 Americans battling these blood cancers.

Part of why she is so compelled to do this is that her grandmother was recently diagnosed with leukemia. I can imagine also how cancer will affect beyond her grandmother as I witnessed first hand those effects on my mom when she fought and loss to brain cancer.

So if you ever wanted to have a positive impact on the fight for cancer, take this time to donate to Heather's Hike for Discovery. Click http://www.active.com/donate/hfdsvmb/hfdHBedy to donate NOW!

There's also the chance that your company will match each contribution. Finding the cure is worth asking your HR department the question! Remember all your donations are tax-deductible :)

For more info please contact Heather at lazzeedazees@yahoo.com. Oh and please help spread the word about Heather's Hike for Discovery.

Thanks!

It's nearly a month until Team Kenya 2007 heads out for our short-term missions and as I thought I would quickly remind readers of my blog to keep us in your prayers.

I also wanted to share our team photo taken during our missions orientation and to let you know I updated my "Take Flight Kenya" missions blog. You can find the updates here: http://www.mhlstudio.com/kenyamissions/

I am thrilled and excited, somewhat perplexed and in awe, to be able to go to Africa and perhaps be shaped by what God has in store for me. Feel free to ask me if you have any questions about the missions and what we are trying to accomplish. Thanks!