Thursday, October 30, 2008
Well hi there! The third blog cometh!
So, I believe it is now week 5 of me here in Boston and so much is going on! Here is a little re-cap of the last couple weeks:
I have started going to a church now that is held in a bar in Fenway called Church (lol) and it rocks. It is a branch off of a church called Abundant Grace church and man, do I love it! It is the most welcoming and home-like church I have ever gone to and stresses so much the importance of community! I love it.
What's going on with work you ask? Well, we are still going through applications for upcoming Discipleship Training School students and that..well...could be going better. We have a lot of girls applied, and accepted and coming...but not enough guys...to be exact only like 4 dudes have applied...and that is definitely not enough. We want 20 students and if we accepted everyone we have applied now we would have 16 girls and 4 guys. Not cool. So, pray that more guys apply for our school! we need them!
We have had three pretty freakin sweet creative outreaches now too! What a creative outreach is, is when we grab a guitar and an amp and mic and our prayer station, and also a booth called Questions, and we go out and start telling people 'bout Jesus! it's pretty sweet! here is a nice little video of us!
Annnnd other than that, personally things are going wonderfully! This last weekend i went to Florida with my family to lead worship at Brooksville Baptist church and also, for my Dad to candidate there and get voted on being the new Worship Ministry Pastor there...and he was voted a yes! So, my family will be moving back to Florida to brooksville, where my grandparents live and will be the new Worship Pastor there! i guess you could call that news.... :). I am very excited for them!
Financially right now I am still, well, waiting for the Lord to provide! My goal is about 600-800 dollars a month, i have to have at least 400 a month for staff fees and i ask you, who are reading this, to join me in this journey! I need to live and for my ministry to continue, like i said below in my other blog, i need the body of christ to help me! So please, pray and see if it's the God's will for ya to support me whether it be 5 bucks a month or 100 (or more!) and i thank you for your prayers as well and God Bless ya!
So, I believe it is now week 5 of me here in Boston and so much is going on! Here is a little re-cap of the last couple weeks:
I have started going to a church now that is held in a bar in Fenway called Church (lol) and it rocks. It is a branch off of a church called Abundant Grace church and man, do I love it! It is the most welcoming and home-like church I have ever gone to and stresses so much the importance of community! I love it.
What's going on with work you ask? Well, we are still going through applications for upcoming Discipleship Training School students and that..well...could be going better. We have a lot of girls applied, and accepted and coming...but not enough guys...to be exact only like 4 dudes have applied...and that is definitely not enough. We want 20 students and if we accepted everyone we have applied now we would have 16 girls and 4 guys. Not cool. So, pray that more guys apply for our school! we need them!
We have had three pretty freakin sweet creative outreaches now too! What a creative outreach is, is when we grab a guitar and an amp and mic and our prayer station, and also a booth called Questions, and we go out and start telling people 'bout Jesus! it's pretty sweet! here is a nice little video of us!
Annnnd other than that, personally things are going wonderfully! This last weekend i went to Florida with my family to lead worship at Brooksville Baptist church and also, for my Dad to candidate there and get voted on being the new Worship Ministry Pastor there...and he was voted a yes! So, my family will be moving back to Florida to brooksville, where my grandparents live and will be the new Worship Pastor there! i guess you could call that news.... :). I am very excited for them!
Financially right now I am still, well, waiting for the Lord to provide! My goal is about 600-800 dollars a month, i have to have at least 400 a month for staff fees and i ask you, who are reading this, to join me in this journey! I need to live and for my ministry to continue, like i said below in my other blog, i need the body of christ to help me! So please, pray and see if it's the God's will for ya to support me whether it be 5 bucks a month or 100 (or more!) and i thank you for your prayers as well and God Bless ya!
Friday, October 10, 2008
Hi there! Well, this is officially the first blog on here so, welcome to my blog! I'm using this blog to keep whoever is interested in my life updated so they know what's going on!
So, I am back in Boston and couldn't be more happier! The first week I was back our whole team left for a weekend retreat at Lake Champlain and it was amazing!!! God's beauty never ceases to amaze me! So on the retreat we developed and prepared ourselves for the fall and got our heads around what was going to need to happen. Officially our fall started this past week (Oct. 6-11) and our days look super busy and super fun! Basically how a typical work-day for me looks is our team meets at 9 in the morning for group devotions and after that we go and do the scheduled event for the day. Each day is designed for a specific grouping or subject as follows:
Mondays- Creative Development Days
Tuesdays- Team Days
Wednesdays- Discipleship Training School development Days
Thursdays- Creative Development Days
Fridays- Fundraising Days
This next DTS will be a DTS of 20 students and will be 7 months long starting on January 14th and ending sometime in July. We are currently working on writing a Production to perform wherever we go which is very exciting! I, along with my friend John, get to work on the music side of things, which I love doing and also are coming up with new, fun ways to share the gospel on the street other than our usual hip-hop dance and drama. Some of these ideas include writing our own songs and performing at venues in the Boston area, having staged combat on the streets to gather crowds, and playing music on the street!
Right now, we are currently praying and searching for a place to host these 20 students, hopefully a permanent base, and we trust in God that He will provide that for us and actually some things have already happened to put that into motion so you can praise God for that!
Personally right now I am doing wonderfully! I have a free membership at a gym and have started working out 5 or 6 days of the week and that is awesome! Painful but awesome! Hopefully now I will be almost as big as Hastings lol! I am reading two books right now, Next Generation, and Heart of the Artist. Both are very good and God is using them to teach me and challenge me and, man, I love it!
My move here to Boston really, I believe, is the biggest step of faith I have taken in my young life. In this step of faith God has taught me so many things already, one of which, is why He created the Body of Christ. We, every one of us, all have our own ministry, whether that is in missions, or in the office at Microsoft, or at a telemarketing company or as the Head of a company, and God calls us to share His love and the gospel with everyone we meet! An amazing attribute that the body of Christ has is it's dire need for other members of the Body to communicate and help out other members of the body and work together to build the Kingdom of God. For example, I, don't work in an office and I don't go to school but what I do is I proclaim the name of Jesus on the street and teach others how to do that in a creative and discipling way. People that work in an office and make money and share Christ at the workplace and don't proclaim His name on the street aren't bad people at all, we just have different callings on our lives and God does want people that don't get the chance to go on the street and proclaim His name, or go to other countries and do the same, to experience what that is like through the people that do that in the Body! That is why I want to partner with people that have the money I don't because I want them to know what is going on in my life and I want them to have the opportunity to help build the Kingdom by supporting me in my ministry! And because frankly, I would have no ministry at all if it weren't for the Body of Christ and the people that have already helped me so I ask you to consider supporting me monthly and really seek the Lord about it! I look so forward to see God work in all of our lives separately and collectively as the Body is supposed to be!
God Bless ya and I will update this thing weekly!!
Aaron Reeves
So, I am back in Boston and couldn't be more happier! The first week I was back our whole team left for a weekend retreat at Lake Champlain and it was amazing!!! God's beauty never ceases to amaze me! So on the retreat we developed and prepared ourselves for the fall and got our heads around what was going to need to happen. Officially our fall started this past week (Oct. 6-11) and our days look super busy and super fun! Basically how a typical work-day for me looks is our team meets at 9 in the morning for group devotions and after that we go and do the scheduled event for the day. Each day is designed for a specific grouping or subject as follows:
Mondays- Creative Development Days
Tuesdays- Team Days
Wednesdays- Discipleship Training School development Days
Thursdays- Creative Development Days
Fridays- Fundraising Days
This next DTS will be a DTS of 20 students and will be 7 months long starting on January 14th and ending sometime in July. We are currently working on writing a Production to perform wherever we go which is very exciting! I, along with my friend John, get to work on the music side of things, which I love doing and also are coming up with new, fun ways to share the gospel on the street other than our usual hip-hop dance and drama. Some of these ideas include writing our own songs and performing at venues in the Boston area, having staged combat on the streets to gather crowds, and playing music on the street!
Right now, we are currently praying and searching for a place to host these 20 students, hopefully a permanent base, and we trust in God that He will provide that for us and actually some things have already happened to put that into motion so you can praise God for that!
Personally right now I am doing wonderfully! I have a free membership at a gym and have started working out 5 or 6 days of the week and that is awesome! Painful but awesome! Hopefully now I will be almost as big as Hastings lol! I am reading two books right now, Next Generation, and Heart of the Artist. Both are very good and God is using them to teach me and challenge me and, man, I love it!
My move here to Boston really, I believe, is the biggest step of faith I have taken in my young life. In this step of faith God has taught me so many things already, one of which, is why He created the Body of Christ. We, every one of us, all have our own ministry, whether that is in missions, or in the office at Microsoft, or at a telemarketing company or as the Head of a company, and God calls us to share His love and the gospel with everyone we meet! An amazing attribute that the body of Christ has is it's dire need for other members of the Body to communicate and help out other members of the body and work together to build the Kingdom of God. For example, I, don't work in an office and I don't go to school but what I do is I proclaim the name of Jesus on the street and teach others how to do that in a creative and discipling way. People that work in an office and make money and share Christ at the workplace and don't proclaim His name on the street aren't bad people at all, we just have different callings on our lives and God does want people that don't get the chance to go on the street and proclaim His name, or go to other countries and do the same, to experience what that is like through the people that do that in the Body! That is why I want to partner with people that have the money I don't because I want them to know what is going on in my life and I want them to have the opportunity to help build the Kingdom by supporting me in my ministry! And because frankly, I would have no ministry at all if it weren't for the Body of Christ and the people that have already helped me so I ask you to consider supporting me monthly and really seek the Lord about it! I look so forward to see God work in all of our lives separately and collectively as the Body is supposed to be!
God Bless ya and I will update this thing weekly!!
Aaron Reeves
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