Sorry I havnt updated since I've been home :) for anyone still reading! I'm still alive :D been a loooong week or so. Whew.

Im on my first flight Home!! I think I'll write a "I'm home update" and then a final re-cap in the final days upcoming along with a future plans update :)

INTRO IS OFFICIALLY OVER!! I'm flying homme tommorow :)

WOOHOOO CALIFORNIA

This morning we had teaching on Adoption.. It was very well, and quite invigorating. I wanna adopt all kinds of babies RIGHT NOW. Haha. S'pose I'll wait ;)

I just had dinner with my new friend Arne, a native born from Slovenia! Good english, and good heart! And great chicken.. Haha :-)

IHOP Awakening has the siqqest techno beats sometimes.

Had my first meeting with Team Japan tonight!! T'was AWESOME! :) Love my team! Can't even describe how different I feel compared to when I arrived! (:

Day off = homework day

So far the chapters "Longing for Fascination" and "The Longing to Make a Deep and Lasting Impact" connect with my heart the most. I'll try and write bout it :)

PS - The Lord is very very undescribably good to me! Got all my rent for this last month just in time :D TESTIMONY

One week til my last day!! :O

CRAZY!! Well, I've got Children to watch this morning and then prayer room today, no clue whats after yet :) blessings

Doing Cameras fo the Impact World Tour tonight!!! Its awesome :) ttyl life!

T is for Team, & F is for Fascinate

So last night I did my first 3 hour shift (with an hour of training beforehand) of live Video Camera work for the International House of Prayer!! I was in control of Camera #4 between 9PM and Midnight, and a lot of my shots went live for the entire world to see, and I definitely caught several of my good friends dancing their hearts out before the Lord.

Sooo much fun :) .. its awesome being apart of a team, learning experience, having a specific role, working with the other cam-operators and the producer who controls which feed to send live. Its so awesome when you hear "Cam 4, going live.." in your headset and you pan-pull across a group of singers with pressure perfect hand motion on a joystiq, and then when its all done, you fling it to the next shot to find, not even breaking a sweat, working to make the shots varied.

Lemme give you a little breakdown of what i do as Cam-Op @ the Awakening Services;

I use a remote control joystiq device to move my camera (#4) around the audotorium (about 100 yards away from the media trailer). The Joystiq has manual focus options, so theres that to keep track of as well as panning, zooming and composing your shots. Thankfully there are 4 memo buttons on the joystiq as well that you can save predetermined Camera compostions and Focus settings to, so that as you view the overall gallery of shots being fed from the operators to the producer, you can press one button and race the viewfinder back to a position that isnt being filmed in the scene.

Its mega-awesome-fun, especially when the team pulls off sweet shots, transitions and amazing moments live, set to music and on cue with speakers and crowd reactions. Its also a lot of fun when we have a static camera filming to kind of roam around and find fun filler shots of the crowd, or just notice people doing interesting or wierd things, hah. For example we noticed a guy filming on his iPhone a lot and sent security to have a word with him because thats a rule is no video taping (pictures aloud, but no flash).

- On another note I was just in the prayer room reading some homework and got particularily struck by a passage of the book, which i would like to share with you:

"The beauty of the Lord has been ordained as the occupation of god's people... We have earthly promises and mandates to be fufilled in our lifetimes. Some of us will pastor congregations, some will feed and minister to the poor, others will serve as conduits of funds to further God's purposes. While these are God-ordained assignments for the life, none of these assignments will last forever. In those roles there is a God-given measure of satisfaction, but at some point those assignments will be complete. As immortal souls operating in a mortal world, we must look for something eternal to fascinate our hearts that are designed to live forever. And we must cultivate it now."

~The Seven longings of the Human Heart,
-Mike Bickle


We must set our overall gaze on the beauty of the Lord :)

I just did my first night of Video Camera work for IHOP. It was really fun, especially doing Live work that thousands are watching!! :D

Testimony and Friends

So my eyes got 95% healed while getting soaking prayer in the healing section of the Global Prayer Room!!! Testimony of Jesus right there!!

Also last night I got to send off my new and great friend Larissa :) shes from Bethel but now lives in Texas.

If you could pray for sleep, that would be great i missed a few classes :/