Hello friends below you should find our update letter for October 2012.
Archive for the ‘Fun’ Category
October Update 2012
Posted 20 Oct 2012 — by nick
Category Friends, Fun, GCM, Illini Life, Jesus, Ministry, Photos, Running, Scripture, Spirituality
Category Friends, Fun, GCM, Illini Life, Jesus, Ministry, Photos, Running, Scripture, Spirituality
July Update 2012
Posted 02 Jul 2012 — by nick
Category Family, Friends, Fun, GCM, Illini Life, Jesus, Ministry, Photos, Running, Spirituality
Category Family, Friends, Fun, GCM, Illini Life, Jesus, Ministry, Photos, Running, Spirituality
Hello friends below you should find our update letter for July 2012.
May 2012 Update
Posted 11 May 2012 — by nick
Category Family, Fun, GCM, Illini Life, Jesus, Ministry, Photos, Spirituality
Category Family, Fun, GCM, Illini Life, Jesus, Ministry, Photos, Spirituality
Hello friends below you should find our update letter for May 2012. Make sure you check out the second page, a review of the past two months in pictures.
March 2012 Update
Posted 10 Mar 2012 — by nick
Category Friends, Fun, GCM, Illini Life, Jesus, Ministry, Photos, Running, Scripture, Spirituality
Category Friends, Fun, GCM, Illini Life, Jesus, Ministry, Photos, Running, Scripture, Spirituality
Hello friends below you should find our update letter for March 2012.
October 2011 Update
Posted 06 Oct 2011 — by nick
Category Friends, Fun, GCM, Illini Life, Jesus, Ministry, Photos, Spirituality
Category Friends, Fun, GCM, Illini Life, Jesus, Ministry, Photos, Spirituality
Hello friends below you should find our update letter for October 2011.
May 2011 Update
Posted 09 May 2011 — by nick
Category Creation, Friends, Fun, GCM, Illini Life, Jesus, Ministry, Photos, Spirituality
Category Creation, Friends, Fun, GCM, Illini Life, Jesus, Ministry, Photos, Spirituality
Hello friends below you should find our update letter for May 2011.
The Hobbit: Start of Production
Posted 15 Apr 2011 — by nick
Category Fun, Movies, Spirituality
Category Fun, Movies, Spirituality
Some of you know I’m a huge nerd at heart. Tolkien’s epic stories of hobbits, magic and wizards were books I read early in my teenage youth and returned to several times. That was when it was still in the fantasy/nerdy genre. Along came Peter Jackson who brought to life the stories on the screen – introducing a whole new generation to them, distilling the stories for mainstream consumption.
These stories are deeply shaping and inspiring. Tolkien, at times, very thinly veils his faith in the stories. There are tales of sin enslaving creatures (Gollum), the shared burden carrying of community (the fellowship), the guiding priestly figure of Gandalf, etc.
My heart warmed and excitement jumped as I saw this video post today. Video production of The Hobbit has begun. Hooray!
April 2011 Update
Posted 08 Apr 2011 — by nick
Category Friends, Fun, GCM, Illini Life, Jesus, Ministry, Photos, Running, Scripture, Spirituality
Category Friends, Fun, GCM, Illini Life, Jesus, Ministry, Photos, Running, Scripture, Spirituality
Hello friends below you should find our update letter for April 2011.
Beautiful Things
Posted 24 Mar 2011 — by nick
Category Fun, Illini Life, Ministry, music, Spirituality, Videos
Category Fun, Illini Life, Ministry, music, Spirituality, Videos
Recently I was introduced to the song “Beautiful Things” by Gungor. It was in a worship set when I was back home with Illini Life Christian Fellowship at University of Illinois. Since then I’ve heard it in several other churches as I’ve met with folks around the Chicagoland area.
It’s catchy and I love to simplicity of the chorus
You make beautiful things,
You make beautiful things out of dust.
You make beautiful things,
You make beautiful things out of us.
On Mission in Haiti and Memphis
Posted 21 Mar 2011 — by nick
Category Friends, Fun, GCM, Illini Life, Jesus, Ministry, Photos, Social Justice, Spirituality, Technology
Category Friends, Fun, GCM, Illini Life, Jesus, Ministry, Photos, Social Justice, Spirituality, Technology
As some of you may have noticed in our last update letter Illini Life sent off two different missions teams over Spring Break this week. Amy is currently in Memphis, TN with a team of 30 Students and 5 Adult leaders serving and sharing in the community there with SOS. They arrived on-sight Sunday afternoon.
Another small group of 15 headed to Haiti around 2:00AM CST today. They’re working with Mountain Top Ministries just outside Port-a-Prince. One of my ministry passions is helping engineering students find places to serve in the church and use their gifts. This trip allows quite a few of them to do just that. The 15 are divided into 3 groups:
- One group will be helping to set up a school’s computer lab & provide training for the equipment.
- One group will be working alongside a Haitian construction team to build a hospital.
- One group will be partnering with a team from UIC-Chicago to run a medical clinic.
We’re excited to be providing 15 laptops and wireless internet in the computer lab. You can have a look at some pictures a few of my friends took as they prepared the computers for travel and lab installation. If you’d like to follow along with the Haiti trip subscribe to the trip blog.
