Dear Diary...

And here I am, a week later. My life refuses to be majorly impacted by my new-found journal.

But I have decided that this may be a useful tool for communicating to everyone while I am overseas. And who knows, it might prove valuable later on.

The exciting news is that my Passport arrived on Tuesday, and so one of my two Worriables is taken care of. The second thing was the phone call announcing my acceptance into the School of Worship in America. Number 2 scratched off the list.

It would have been less than ideal to have been rejected, seeing as the trip was planned, my flight booked, and all monies paid. So that's good news.

What amazes me about this whole thing is how my church decided to pay the School of Worship registration for me. I was really blown away by that. It means a whole lot to me that my fellow churchies would want to sow into what I'm doing, and support me like that. I'm very excited.
It also adds responsibility to this trip, and what I'm doing. What I learn, and what I gain from my experience, affects the people around me, and the team at Living Streams. So it encourages me to make the most of my time there, and learn whatever God has for me to learn.

I heard it quite succinctly from Bill Johnson, the Pastor at Bethel Church, in Redding, California. He said that if you are a leader, you have to 'watch what you eat'. He went on to say that 'What we feed on, feeds them.' If that makes sense to you. What we take in, will flow down to people under us. Or the people around us, if we are not leaders in some way. But it was very applicable to me - I am leading a group of people. I may not be their pastor as such. But I am responsible to make sure that I am picking up things that will be good for them, too. And not the opposite.

So - that wasn't so difficult to write, after all. This Blog may just be the thing to get some of my more abstract thought processes on paper. Who knows, it might even get kind of addictive...

Talk to you later,


Joel
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