hello 06

hey everybody.. like Beebs said, i think we haven't done that great of a job keeping in touch with one another.. :(
so we made this blog in order to fix that! i was thinking of sending out a mass e-mail, but i thought that would probably get really messy.. so we made this blog.. :)

i sent you all an invitation to be authors on this thing so please respond and if you don't have a gmail account, i think you're going to have to register.. if you already have a gmail account, all you have to do is accept the request and sign in with your own gmail username and password.. and voila! you can post on our blog!

please let me know if there's anybody i missed.. i sent out an e-mail to everybody i could find on facebook, and i'm sure that i missed a couple of people here and there..


now, for an update on what i've been upto since we all graduated.. i'll try to keep it simple and write about the big things in my life upto this point..


i flew right out to orange county to attend talbot school of theology and to serve as the jr. high pastor at fullerton presbyterian church.. i've been serving at the church for almost 3 years (i started in may 2006 right after we graduated!) and i've been in school since the fall 2006 semester.. i didn't really get much of a break from school.. i'm hoping to graduate by may 2010 and after that i don't know where God will lead.. i ultimately want to go abroad and serve as a missionary, but i don't know for sure where or in what capacity.. i may even stay in the US depending on where God calls me and what He places on my heart..

i've come to learn that the people are what really make the place special.. i'm thankful for the nice weather and the good food and all the fun stuff there is to do here in california, but more than anything, i love the students that i'm serving, the friends and staff i get to serve with, and the EM members of our church.. i've made a couple of friends at school too.. that's pretty much my life - school and church..

it's been such a blessing having Chris Ko here in LA.. we get together (usually only when we have visitors from out of town) and we share.. we vent about what frustrates us about the culture here, the struggles we have serving at church, and the difficulties we have living as faithful witnesses of Christ on a day-to-day basis.. we feel that though outwardly everything is just so nice out here, there are so many distractions that lead us to live scatter-brained lives and it's so easy to blindly chase after the American dream..

wow.. this is getting long.. that's all i had to say.. ministry and school have all been a great learning experience.. i love the fact that there are so many latinos here.. i love it.. i miss black people though.. haha

hope to hear from you guys! post, post, post!!! :)