Life again

So my internship is officially a week done, I've been here for ten days, and my life hasn't stopped yet. It's weird knowing that I'm already done with 1/10 of my internship in weeks and 1/7 of my internship in days. (I'm here for 10 weeks, one is done- I'm here for 70 days, 10 are gone. Stay with me) However, life is going by so great and fast so that is really a blessing. I've met some incredible people along the way as well and everyone here is very warm and welcoming. It seems like everyone who works here has worked in three to four jobs prior just in the church. Whether they were on the communications team, the kids ministry, the accounting team, the head leadership team- everyone moves always. It's a cool environment the accepts change but primarily promotes it so that people find where they are most effective. I like that.

My weeks here are crazy. I have Monday's off. My Tuesdays are split between writing for the drama ministry, the thrift store that Heartland owns, and the PM creative writing group (PM is the 20-something ministry). Wednesdays are heartland kids and then back to the drama team. Thursdays are office days where I can just work and vary my time between the thrift store and the facility team and the Jr. High and Sr. High ministries. Fridays are more flexible. Saturdays I work at the thrift store again doing all sort of things while also working within other programming teams. Also, there are three services going on Saturday. Sunday equals four more services excluding one more at night for just the PM group. Between all of this, I also have two mission trips to possibly go on, communication meetings with a group led by the lead pastor here, a baptism for about 500 hundred people, and Sharefest- a two week long renovation of three schools. It should be a very busy summer. Not to mention I also am playing Ultimate Frisbee in Madison, WI near one of the other sites that Heartland owns. (did I mention this is a big church?) Summer = Crazy = I wouldn't have it any other way. That is the transitive property by the way. a = b= c which equals a= c.

On other news. Life for me is also great. I'm not sure if Heartland is going to really answer my questions of whether or not ministry is something that I want to be involved in but I know it's going to give me a great summer at the very, very least. I want some of my questions to be met head on but with a church like this, it runs so corporately sometimes that it's hard to incorporate an intern at random places. When I stop feeling like a fly on the wall, then maybe I will start feel more like mis preguntas will be more graspable (is that word?) but until then, I'm just going to keep moving onward and full of jubilee.(... fellow...s.)

Be well all of you.

So it begins

This is my first time blogging. As you can imagine, I am fairly excited. What could I say that might be read upon this interweb that might someday make a profound impact on some young child's heart? Might it be a steam of tangents that accidentally form something of great worth? Might it be something small to me but great to others? Might it be malarky? We'll see. We shall see.

The real reason I'm starting this now and hope to keep it going is to keep my life posted for the next ten weeks while I am here in Rockford, IL doing an intership with Heartland Community Church. It's a church of 8,000 people. It's kind of ridiculous how big it is but it doesn't have the same big feeling that most mega churches have. HCC has seven services in two different venues. That's right, they have two churches, two sanctuaries, seven services between the two of them. They tape all of the services and the first one is always live. Then, they take the DVD they used to tape the service, shoot it over to the other venue and play the sermon over video for a different congregation. Sometimes the sermon is live- sometimes taped. It's like a guessing game except there aren't funny people like Anita or Robert... well I suppose there proboably are those people but I just haven't met them yet (for all of you that missed that allusion to the popular guessing game, "Guess Who," that's what that was).

Anywho, I'm sitting in my host family's house in my bed right now. They too are nice people. It's just weird getting used to so many new things all the while not knowing where you fit in within any of it quite yet. This summer will be a growing experience to say the least. Not to mention, Mel and I are apart for a while and the time only grows longer. We'll be okay though so don't you worry-warts worry about it! You are all great. I'm going to go to bed. I love you all. There will be more interesting posts in the future- I promise.