Last night Pastor Bubba and I had the privilege of baptizing five dudes from the College Ministry. After Pastor Bubba shared the gospel, each guy gave their testimony. It was powerful.

Each of their stories made me praise Jesus for His goodness. He drew each of the men to himself in different ways, but the amazing grace of the cross was so clear in each of their stories.

I have come to realize that being apart of someone’s baptism is probably the second best part of my job, just behind seeing people meet and be transformed by Jesus.

Thank you to all the volunteers that made the night come together in amazing fashion with good food and friends!

For more pics go to our Facebook Group.

Tonight, Chris, Steve, my brother-in-law, Mike, and I went to Status, a 20’s ministry in Orlando. It was super helpful for us to think about the Kingdom of God in the story of the transfiguration found in Matthew 17.
I should get a chance to meet with Status’ Pastor Josh Loveless sometime this week and it should be a great conversation. Our team had a lot to talk about after the service in how we show mercy in the College Ministry to serve the campus and connect with students. One opportunity to really focus on this is the San Francisco ‘08 trip coming up.
More tomorrow…

It’s kind of ironic that, as our team leaves to go to Orlando, it’s 172 thousand degrees in Seattle! I wish this trip were a couple months ago, during the misery of Seattle cold and dampness, but oh well.

As I write this from the plane, 

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