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Wednesday, 10 September 2008

  • Whats been going on in my life!


    Man it's been a long time since I wrote on this thing! How is everyone? Lots has gone on since we've last chatted.  To make a long story short, I was laid off from my job because money is scarce and the economy is not so good right now. It came as a shock to me because I didn't see that one coming. I was so excited about this upcoming year. I had a lot of plans and dreams, but you know how that goes. Whether this was mans screw up or Gods plan I don't know. Whatever it is, God will work out for good because I am called according to his purposes. I've taken a lot of time to really seek God and find out what he is telling me during this season of my life. Let me tell you its definetly one of the hardest I've been in. So many decisions cause worry and anxiety. It's enough to drive a man crazy. Lots of times I've felt alone, confused and stuck. I'm like Lord! I need you! I can't do this alone, I need you so much, please Lord, help me! I found my self crying this out at the altar at a conference I went to last week at IHOP in Kansas City. I love this place!! If you have never been you should go. I find such restoration and joy, my batteries become charged here. Not that its the place to get this done but such a place that is dedicated to 24/7 prayer and worship can only do such a thing. This ministry is amazing. I would love to work here one day or do an internship with them (both need to happen to work for them). I met with their marketing dept last week as well. We'll see what doors the Lord opens. God is going to show me so much in this season. It has been scary and dark but though I walk through the valley of the shadows of death I will fear no evil because my daddy is with me. As for right now I am here in TX still working from home and getting freelance design jobs from different people.  Why? Because as I told my last employer, I don't feel it's my time to leave here just yet and I enjoy the community and interns and the fact that I've never been around people MY age that were passionately pursuing Christ to make a difference in this world. The church I go to is so awesome, it's so relevant to my age group and there is freedom here. The Holy spirit moves in so many ways, and once again, its through a younger generation the Lord is preparing and rising up in these last days. I am passionate about this more than anything. It's not about having a nice paying job with a nice house with a nice wife and a picket fence and 2.5 children. There's so much more to our selfish desires and ideas of "success" or how we should "live". Lets live life the way God has called you and I to live it. The methods vary between individuals and their callings/purposes. I'd rather not be stuck in a bubble of mediocrity.  I want to see the world through his eyes, I won't be satisfied with anything ordinary. I've seen to much!


    SO keep me in your prayers and thoughts. I need to truly learn to trust in the Lord and not to lean on MY understanding.

    <3 george

Tuesday, 29 July 2008

  • My trip to italy...

    I have so much to share about my trip! IT was so good! I was pretty much gone a whole month from my normal life. Global Expeditions does a great job of equipping and training you before going out on the field. It was my second year as a TL. My coleader and I had a team of 20 missionaries, smaller than my team last year of 30 people. I grew very close to them throughout the weeks. We named our team "4winds" because Mary (my coleader) and I's vision was Ezekiel 37, the valley of dry bones. Our goals were to train our team to be God's mouth piece and to hear the voice of God. There was much transformation over the trip, we were just like these proud parents as we watched them blossom and grow and just shine for Jesus. It was indeed challenging and we had our tough times counseling issues you would not believe. Than again we tend 2 forget that teens actually struggle with these crazy things but most people don't take the time out to build relationships and deposit into people's lives. When you do this people are more apt to trust and reveal more about their lives and struggles. My heart broke for my team and I really challenged them to not be satisfied with anything ordinary (our theme song from deluge band). There is so much more, a deeper level and they shouldn't be satisfied with where they are at now, the sad thing is some of them were.

     

    Italy of course is a beautiful place full of culture and history like I have never experienced. MAN everyone needs 2 visit Italy at some point in their lives. We ministered in Bologna and all over Rome. Our free day we got to experience Venice (awesome city with water everywhere), The Vatican  (yes i know im not catholic but that place will blow you away) and the Sistine Chapel which is there as well as St. Peters Basilica (the biggest cathedral ever). This, supposedly, is where Peter is buried. His tomb is so beautiful. Bernini was the artist who carved and designed a lot of the things there. The Pantheon in rome, the different piazzas (plazas) like the spanish stairs, novona, popolo, just to name a few. We worked with Jesus Revolution and awesome ministry and they taught our missionaries two dances (that were so awesome). We used those as our ministry tools along with the Freedom Drama. The dances really are for people to stop and watch us as people usually peg christians as people who don't dance so this breaks down a lot of barriers (they dances to christian songs of course, one toby mac song and another spanish song). The Freedom drama is an awesome tool, "for those in bondange there is freedom". And lastly we'd give the Net (the gospel presentation and altar call). We had great ministry opportunities and divine appointments. My team alone had 14 salvations praise God and we planted many seeds. One thing i really learned and realized on this trip was that we are responsible more for preaching the gospel and letting people know who Jesus is and then THEY are responsible for making a decision as we fork the road for them. The Holy Spirit than does the work, he'll take over from there. GE prepared us really well this year with the good news/bad news way of evangelizing, it made it so easy and impactful. I've never felt so confident in evangelizing. This blog has been long. I'll share more stories the next one

    PS- u can see pics on my facebook.

Tuesday, 08 April 2008

  • I'm aliveeeee

    Hey everyone! I'm doing good here. I'm sorry I haven't posted. It's been uber busy ( i know what your thinking, but george-you always say that!). I've actually become a part of the Center for Creative Media in the past week. I was a part of marketing and we focus primarily on print pieces and web stuff, email blast, etc. CCM does a lot of video stuff and production with ATF tv, acting, editing, etc. Media means a lot of different things so it makes sense for us to join forces so that the right hand knows what the left is doing you know?

     So that meant marketing leaving the main building to move down to CCM. It has been a crazy transition but it will a good one nonetheless.  So this weekend was crazy. I hung out on campus friday night. It was wave A of the spring fasting LTE. Pastor Wally Magdangal came to speak to the interns fasting. He is an amazing guy who has shared his testimony ont he 700 club, TBN, and people in Asia, Europe, and the USA. He preaches about the persecuted church globally and is the founder of Christians in Crisis.  The servicve was awesome. He prayed for EACH intern that night, that's a LOT of interns! God moved greatly. Saturday I went to IKEA near Dallas! So much fun with my friends. We pretty much spent the whole day there. Sunday was great went to church, fellowshiped, went to another church that I love. The relationships you have there and the worship and message are pretty awesome. Anywho it was a good weekend....I'm really tired...and i gotta run. bye!

Monday, 07 April 2008

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    • Name: George
    • Country: United States
    • State: Illinois
    • Metro: Chicago
    • Birthday: 1/9/1983
    • Gender: Male
    • Member Since: 3/5/2004

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  • I am 24, My love my Savior is Jesus Christ. Im a college grad, and I work for Teen Mania Ministries. God is amazing!! 2007 will be an amazing year.

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