The Final Piece To The Puzzle

Well, i took a uhaul of all my furniture from Carlsbad to my new home in Tigard, so I would say it is pretty official that I am serious about my move and this new stage in life. I realized that I didn't take any pictures of my uhaul excursion, so i typed in uhaul into Google Images and...well... this is the image that popped up. I am not going to lie, that would probably ruin your trip. My question is, at the low speed that they were able to go up that hill, how did they manage to flip their entire vehicle? I don't know the end to that story but lets just imagine that they are all fine. My Uhaul was actually a large 24 foot truck, and I truly felt like a trucker. The only bad part about this truck (ok, there were multiple but this one sticks out) was that the horn sounded like it belonged on a Vespa scooter or something, I didn't feel very manly when some kids drove by on the left side, gave me the ubiquitous horn fist pump and alas a girly squeal came from the hood. I guess you could have bigger problems, like 7.15 miles per gallon (Ouch). The trip overall was very smooth. My buddy Jake came on this roadtrip with me which was great because I needed to do it in one day straight to make sure I was back for church on sunday. We left at 7am on Saturday with a cooler full of sandwiches, drinks, oh and the pivotal Red Bull. We only made three stops, each to full up and to use the Bano as my south of the board friends like to call it. 18 hours later we arrived in Tigard, slightly exhausted, and crashed to wake up a few hours later for church.

Through this excursion we were able to fill our house with furniture and finally settle in, feel like we are at home and most importantly, finally have kitchen items so that we could once again EAT! Ok, picture break. Here are a few pictures from around here, been on a flower stint lately.

Overall, i just continue to rejoice in God's goodness. He has never let me down nor failed me. Life is definitely good here and I am still learning what means to daily live out life sold out for the Lord. I am starting to read through this book by this old author named Andrew Murray called "Absolute Surrender". I think we can all agree, understanding the concept of Absolute Surrender is very difficult but if we truly grasped it, allowed God to will it in our lives, the things that would come out of it would be amazing!

God is continuing to grow the church and allowing us to just seek Him and grow together. Our new building has been great and we are just week by week seeking how to best honor the Lord as a body, united in Christ. All very exciting.

I know I haven't been updating my Prayer request box but here are a few things I could use prayer for:
1) Right now work isn't really providing financially, so I am seeking spiritual wisdom on what the Lord wants me to do job wise and figure out how I can best serve the Lord and provide financially
2) Pray for Colossae, that we will continue to follow the Lord's guidance
3) Pray against complacency and being caught up in day to day life rather than focusing on what God has called us to
4) Pray for the people of Tigard, that God would give our church a draw to unbelievers that is not of us but truly from God


Thanks for all who are supporting me, my family and friends are such a blessing to my life and I just want You all to realize how important You are to me and how much of a part of this You all are with me. I love you all!

Ok, so I have been slow at blogging....

Ok so a lot is going on in my life right now and I probably won't do more than touch the surface of it right now but at least you get to look at some pictures. Well from the pictures on my last blog you can see I moved into my new house. It has been great! Though it is costly to be moving into a new place and all, i love it and I love the autonomy it gives me. Both of my roomates are here now and we love the house, though they bottom floor is still void of furniture! Thank goodness I am bringing furniture up in another week! Ok, below is a picture of the Portland Red Bull Flugtag. If you have never seen a commercial or anything it is basically an event where people make flying machines out of cardboard and try to fly them off that big dock as far as they can into the water. I think you can tell from the picture so needless to say it was ridiculously packed! There was a sea of people and this picture doesn't even capture the bridge or the overflow section all down the riverfront!
Ok in this picture you can take a look at a sequence shot of one of the Flying air craft!
So, i have been checking out new areas of portland and one thing I am realizing is that there are so many beautiful parks around portland! You can just go to all these state parks for free and hang out which is amazing. Below are a couple pictures from the rose gardens. I know my dad would love it there, especially since they place is all about flowers!

Ok, in this last picture is a Colossae Church service in our new building "The Inflatable Kingdom". As you look at it you are probably like, what is so inflatable about this place. Well 10 minutes after service was over the entire room was consumed by 4 gigantic bounce houses and inflatable game rooms. The first service there was awesome and though there were minor kinks, which you could expect anytime you move into a new building, the service was great. We had close to 50 people and more kids than we know what to do with =). God has been blessing us and I think we are at a pivotal stage in the church in drawing those who don't know the Lord to church. Overall it has been a great time and I am stoked about it. There is probably so much more that I could say but alas, i must digress. Enjoy this blog