Our goal with this new site is to provide you guys a new tool to stay contected with the latest information, give you helpful links to find information and other needs on the web, and to help others get to know us a little better. In this site, you will find pictures of our different trips and event, email links to me, and monthly event lists. We are also working on features such as daily bible studies and ways to keep my database updated with current info on our group. So, take some time to view everything on the site. Send me feedback on what you think. I do want to take a moment to give praise were it is due. John Keese volunteered his time to create this site and continues to update it. I just like to say… John, you rock my face off!!!! You are awesome! Your legacy continues.
~Andy
By the time you read this I'll already be in Lubbock as I begin my AIM adventure —a new chapter of my life. On Wednesday I talked about what the Italians call le grinta ~ the determination to do something great. and how as disciples of Christ we should feel such a drive that makes us want to go out into the world and achieve greatness. A greatness not for ourselves but for Jesus to show the glory of God. When we have this le grinta and decide to live our lives as servants of God we begin to follow the foot steps of the early Christians. The first person that comes to my mind is Timothy.
We first hear of Timothy when Paul visits Lystra: He came to Derbe and then to Lystra, where a disciple named Timothy lived, whose mother was a Jewess and a believer, but whose father was a Greek. The brothers at Lystra and Iconium spoke well of him. Paul wanted to take him along on the journey, so he circumcised him because of the Jews who lived in that area, for they all knew that his father was a Greek. (Acts 16 1-3) Wow! Was that a lot information on Timothy or what? These three verses don't give the usual introduction we're used to seeing in the Bible. What did he do for a living, what were his parents names and what was his place in the church, what works had he been doing as a Christian? No, all we know is that he was young, a son of a Greek and that he was well spoken of. But why? Why doesn't Luke give us more detail about his past? Because it doesn't matter. Everything else in his life had just been leading up until that point when he decided go along with Paul. Timothy had now just begun, all the big events in his life lie ahead of him. It was time for him to go and grow .
And so it is for me. My intro is over, its time for chapter one, time for me to begin —Its time for me to go and grow.
Thanks for everything, lots of love.
—Your brother Gare