Service Adventure - J O H N S T O W N

Because I am asked, "So what do you actually do..?" so often by family and friends, I've decided to publish a rough schedule of what I do these days. I wanted it to be interesting though and decided to format it like a Choose Your Own Adventure book. If you haven't read these books (you're missing out), they're written to allow the reader to choose the direction of the plot. After every couple of pages you're offered a choice which directs you to a different section of the book. After I finish one adventure, I always go back and try to figure out how to get to all of the other endings. I've written my daily occupations sort of in the same way. You get some choice in what I do, you are me. I hope you enjoy your adventure in the life of this Service Adventurer! First off, what day is it? Mon, Tues, Thur, Fri (1) Wed (15) Sat (35) Sun (38) (1) Your alarm goes off at 6:40. It's not even light outside... Choose: Snooze for 5 mins (2)  or...

Our pastor was absent last Sunday so Service Adventure got volunteered to take over the sermon time. We took the two weeks prior discussing how to use the time. We all had ideas though as the weekend neared, the fragmentary plans broke down to just me speaking. I thought surely I would be able to compose something worth saying to the congregation, but put it off more and more until it came down to the final evening. I hadn't meditated on a scripture and was in no way confident enough to spend hours delving into commentaries on just anything. Any thoughts that I would consider blogging about seemed too selfish to speak about or too underdeveloped. It frustrated me so much that I couldn't think of something worthy to say, and in fact, often I feel like I have so little to say, I'm so young, so naive, why do people ask me what I think? Secretly I wanted God to fill my mouth with his words that would be profound, eloquent but simple. But he didn't. Maybe it was because I ha...