Author: David

That’s really all I have to say today.  God’s grace amazes me!  😀

Today me and the guys are in Ternopil!  😀  That is the next town over where George and Jonny Markey are missionaries with their families.  Joshua Pratt (the worship leader of our church and our pastor’s son) is recording a new album, and I get to play electric guitar for it!  Please pray for us as we are producing this album and just getting ready to glorify God through music.  We also have an audition with the band we’re forming on Saturday with a venue.  I’ll update you guys later if we can upload the songs to iTunes or something so that you guys can listen.

I know it is really old news for other churches, but I’m really excited about this!  I just burned the first three CD’s that folks ordered at church!  Think about this – there are people that want to, outside of the walls of the church, listen to the Word of God being preached.  In fact, they want to share it with other people!  The order I just filled was placed by a guy that wanted to share these sermons with friends of his and ordered three copies of the same sermon!

It’s easy to think that technology only makes a church “cooler” or “more current”, but the whole purpose of our lives is to share Jesus’ truth with others, and when technology helps us to do that, it’s such a beautiful thing!

We even now have a podcast up (which you guys can listen to, because it’s in both English and Ukrainian – click here if you want to!).  People all over Ukraine are now listening to the Word of God preached over the internet!  Please be praying for us as we keep seeking new ways to leverage technology for the Word of God and His Kingdom!

Hey, guys!  I’m pretty excited about some new projects that our church is starting on right now.  We just got a camera to work with for the church, and I’m really fired up to start shooting, cutting, and producing videos for the different ministries here.  Please be praying for me – I have a LOT to learn.  One of the main things we need right now is new equipment – we need a LOT more lighting at the church, and I’m looking at different software packages for editing and stuff.  The lighting there at the church for anything is AWFULLLL!!!!  (Yes, the quadruple-L was totally intentional.)

This is acutally something I’ve been thinking of for a while, and one of the reasons that I made the Lion Kink Chronicles with the youth group – I wanted to learn the basics of how to move with a camera, how to plot a storyline, and how to cut and do post-production.  Here’s the first episode:

Thanks a lot for your prayers, views and support!

I just got done reading an AMAZING, three-chapter, 99 cent book, and it really opened my eyes to some scriptural principles that I knew, but wasn’t putting into practice in my life.  I really wanted to recommend it to you guys.  It’s called the Freedom of Self-Forgetfulness.  It’s a book by Timothy Keller.  Like I said, it’s all of three chapters and a preface with some questions at the end, and it’s only 99 for Kindle (you can get the program free on www.amazon.com).  Mike Pratt, my pastor, recommended it to me, and, seriously, you guys gotta check it out.  It’s based on 1 Corinthians 4:1-5, which talks about how Paul’s whole identity is in Jesus Christ.  I don’t want to spoil the rest, but, if you have 30 minutes to read a great book, you won’t be disappointed!