Sorry for the extended delay from writing. Of course, nobody reads this, so nobody was terribly inconvenienced. As you’ve noticed the site has moved to a more logical http://www.happyhiatt.com, so try to update your bookmarks accordingly. Like I’ve been saying forever, a redesign is in the works. While I was away, I had a failed attempt to upgrade to a newer version of WordPress that didn’t turn out so hot…and it took a while to fix. Whoopsie.
Y’all come back now, ya hear?
Today: Crieve Hall. 8:15 AM. South Nashville church of Christ: 11 AM. Bethany Health care: 2 pm. Charlotte Avenue: 6 pm.
It’s been good…but it’s been long! Camp reunion TNT is this week..I’m pumped….and an entirely too short Freed Visit Sunday is coming up! :)
Hope everything is going well for yall. Just wanted to keep you updated on a few things.
Tonight: “Overcoming Criticism” for the CH teen class. Tomorrow night: “Obstacles and Hurdles in our Race” at the Lebanon Road camp at Valley View in Gallatin. Friday: intern devo, TBA. Saturday: Romans 12:1-2 in “Purer In Heart, Oh God” for the 6th Avenue Church of Christ Youth Rally in Jasper, Alabama. Sunday morning: “Wake Up” at Crieve Hall, a yet-to-be-determined YAC class topic of my choice, and a PM Invitation asking, “Do You Know My Jesus?”
Also in the near future: school! Yay! And the camp reunion TNT. The video is already lookin’ pretty stinkin’ funny, if I don’t say so myself. Also expect the email devotional list to be restarted in the next week or so. I’m excited!
Camp has started! Yay! I’m at home to go preach at Charlotte Avenue tonight…but I’ll return to the sweltering heat, oppresive humidity, and mutant man-eating moths soon enough. The theme is “American Idols” and you’re smart enough to figure out where that’s going.
Have a great week!
Here’s why I’m proud to be part of the South: The Redneck Ole’ympic Games.
Yeee-haw!
Well, it is good to be home again. I got back last night from southern Louisiana, working in a town called Montegut and sleeping in Houma. It was a pretty good VBS campaign. I had a good time and think we did pretty good work. The trip was a bit weird for me, coming off the three weeks in New Zealand. I was in a different position thatn I was used to, teaching an adult class, but really it was good. Attendance saw a steady increase every night [from 90 to 134] and there was a baptism on Wednesday. No complaints there! So remember Alicia (sp?).
Now that I’m back at home for a while, life gets to sort of settle down. I get to teach the YAC class in the morning, and the youth singing is this Thursday night. I keep forgetting that Monday is the 4th, too. I suppose something fun should happen.
Take it easy!
Matthew
A few hours later, we’re home. Our flights all went well until [surprise!] America West had problems coming from Phoenix to Memphis. Evidently, our plane was overweight and because of weather conditions or something like that, could not hold enough fuel to get us all the way from Phoenix to Memphis. So, a refueling stop in Kansas was added. When we landed in Kansas, something happened to the nose gear…and the plane needed repairs. And since the gates were all full of parked planes at nearly 11 pm, they gave us stairs…and we had to walk out onto the tarmac and into the terminal and wait for a half hour for repairs before arriving in Memphis a little after 1:15 this morning.
All things considered, the trip really did go well. We all made it back…no plane crashes or any nasty little tricks like that…and we get to sleep in our own beds. Now if somebody could just do something about the heat out here…
It is Tuesday night, and we’re packing up to leave tomorrow morning. The last two days were not our most productive ever. I had something akin to the flu on Sunday and Monday, and missed the morning’s work. Today, it rained very hard, and we got a very few doors knocked between showers, and half of a suburb letterboxed during the rainstorm. That probably wasn’t smart, but we’re on our way home.
See you in a couple of days!
Group picture from Paratutu our first Saturday here.
Thursday and Friday were two more days of doorknocking and letterboxing. On Thursday, Angie and I had our study with a lady named Robin. The study went well and there is a return appointment set up with her for the locals to take care of.
Friday was a bit slower of a day. The group I was with had no positive responses, basically. The best conversation that I had all day was with a Jehovah’s Witness who shared some great revelations with me, including, but not limited to:
on the day of Christ’s appearing, He will be invisible. I asked, “So you’re telling me that He won’t appear on the day of His appearing?”
I asked why she uses the JW New World Translation. She explained to me that the god of the present age infiltrated the other translations. So I asked why I shouldn’t believe the same thing happened to hers. She explained that God has (and this is a direct quote) special slaves whom He tells His word to that make sure their translation is accurate. Interesting, since the NWT has not been around for their entire history. Sometime, read what they’ve done with John 8 and Christ’s claim of being “I am” over the years.
Our afternoon Bible study cancelled on us to finish off the day. So, we’re all glad that Saturday is here and we have a day to regroup before going out for our last two days of doorknocking. We’ve put out nearly 20,000 free book offers and 4,000 Gospel Minutes articles now, along with various other studies. Every day when we check the mail we have several of those book offers returned, so it has been neat to watch that work.
For the day off: dinner with our host family and maybe horseback riding or dam dropping.