Jon the Baptist.

Well Hello to all and to all a hello.

I’m now at Malibu doing an internship as a maintenance guy.  It has been so amazing so far.  A perfect transition from a brain packing full semester at school to a bunch of physical work for 8 – 10 hours a day.  It has given me great time to spend with God.  Being in a place to beautiful brings a great desire in my heart to go comtemplate things that are going on in my life.  God has been really gracious in bringing new life into my heart.  I can’t wait to serve more and I can’t wait to spend hours upon hours trying to make this camp function well and look nice.  Sure I have a big learning curve, but the people here are so amazing and are willing to teach me everything necessary to get me productive. 

I  can see how this time is a great time of reflection put in place by God.  After my semester in Jerusalem of studying Islam and Jewdaism and facts about the Bible, I find my faith trying to grasp onto something not so simple.  I caught myself in Jerusalem getting to more of a legalistic and life taking mindset.  Upon coming to Malibu God has irradicated that idea and set me straight.  My heart is in a place of simple desire to serve, and that is what I am doing. 

The community here is something I am most greatful for.  Out of all the place I have been now and all the things I have done, I can’t help but realize that a community living together with the mindset to serve is in fact that best place to be.  It is a community that has great joy and as well great struggle, but with a heart set on serving God’s people God takes care of those situations.  Struggles just become a greater means to show how much you love those around you.  When conflict arises between two it is simply another set in place event to prove to the other that you care more about them then about the conflict.  It is awesome.  We’ll see how things go as the summer progresses, it has only been 3 weeks…  So I’m sure harder times will come. But as is stands now the Lord is providing some amazing life memories for all the people here.

I havn’t taken any pictures yet so I don’t have any to put up… but I’m sure I’ll get on that soon enough.  I hope all is well for whoever is reading these.  And I thank-you to all who read these and are able to take part in what God is doing in my life.

Blessings