Christian Challenge at MSC

Newly made, with pics from this previous weekend –

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It’s pretty dang cool….

Facebook.  It really is an amazing thing.  I’m really not that into it, and yet I check it every day.  I don’t have that many friends on there (like 40 or so) but I love to see what they’re up to, what applications they’ve added, what events they’re attending, and what’s going up on their walls.  I can download music, and I can watch videos there.

 
But Facebook has much more possibility than this, especially within the context of Christian Challenge.  We have a Christian Challenge MSC group, and that’s a good start.  However, we have 7 members, and I know for sure we have 15 or so regulars to attend on Thursday nights, plus everyone else we have contact with during the week.  Even if we have a 15% luddite (non-technology, like Z) percentage, that’s still 20 people or so who know how to use a computer. 

Now, imagine if we all used this online application and were all friends.  It’d be an instant infusion into community.  We’d know each other’s birthdays (and if we forget, Facebook tells you), favorite things, and hometowns, as well as be able to keep in contact with each other via messages and walls.  We could give each other silly gifts for no reason at all.  It’d be a great community.

In reality, Facebook is a high-tech band-aid for a deeper problem college students have.  Since they can’t find community elsewhere, they find it online.  Even within our own group. we find difficulty in creating that community that draws people.  I know for a fact that Jesus didn’t have Facebook to help him.  But He
knew his friends, and they knew Him.  His followers lavished Him with
gift.  He lived in community.  

If Facebook is the tool we need to develop a community at ChallengeMSC, I say use it.  If anyone has a better idea that will work, I say use it. 

 I know there are some tea afficianados that read this, so here is the cream of the crop tea in the world – Monkey Picked Tea.  Hand picked by trained monkeys in a small village in a remote mountainous area of China, this tea is supposed to be some of the best (and most expensive) in the world.

 When I read this, I thought about Genesis 1:28-31 (click to read it).  God said for man to rule over the animals, and gave the plants to the animals.  So what do these people do?  Train the animals (which they have dominion over) to collect plants (which the animals have dominion over) and drink the results!  Shoot-dang! I love it when people around the world figure out what God gave us to do so long ago. 

It’s almost as cool as the Kopi Luwak coffee, though not as, um…. craptastic.

I don’t know how I pulled it off, but I thought this needed to be here too…  A flashback from yesteryear!

 Woot!…. woot indeed.

 
This article from the simple dollar blog gives a great example of why it’s cheaper to live w/out a meal plan.  If you can learn even the basics of cooking, you can easily save enough money in a year to pay for whatever sort of missions opportunity you’d ever want.

 Jesus spent more time talking about money than he did about most anything else.  If He was so concerned with it, why do we not take as much time taking care of our finances as we do our homework?