I am very happy to say that the Apple course that I have been working on the past couple of months has payed off. The first class we had was last week and the instructor said that it was a smooth course, he loved teaching it, and the students enjoyed it. Plus, the pass rates for the students were outstanding. Go APPLE!!! He is now teaching a second class this week!!! Yeah!!!!
If you are interested in attending the Apple ACSP course, go the www.trainingcamp.com
I finished reading my Bible today. The whole thing!!!! I have so many mixed emotions about everything that I have read. I feel forgiven, blessed, confused, happy, sad….all these emotions. What I feel the most after reading my Bible is that there is more, a lot more, that I have to do. I don’t feel like I am doing enough. I feel like God want me to do more….I just don’t know what though. There are many lives that need to come to Jesus, and I know I, we, have a huge part in that.
Even though I have finished reading the Bible, now it is time to start studying the Bible. I want to know more. I want to understand everything, or at least try to.
God Bless Your Day, cause I know He has Blessed mine!!!
Here is a video we did for church a couple of Sundays ago. Let me tell you, it was extreamly hard sitting there with a straight face. With Cole doing his lines…it was crazy! I think I should win a “straight face” award or something.
Wow, it has already been 10 years that Melanie and I have been married. Totally AWESOME!!! I thought I would attempt to write a poem for her. Check it out at Word Junkies.
When I was 9 when I moved in with my real dad, Randy Barnes, and his wife, Carol Barnes…my step-mother. You know, I really don’t like using that “tag” step-mother, because she did raise me, even though she was not my biological mother, she played the part and she played that part very well. You see, I came to them from a very, I mean very abusive step-father. So mom and dad went from raising a daughter that was about to start 1st grade to immediately having a 9 year old, not even a month later 10 year old son. One thing that stuck out was mom and dad’s love for God. I am not going to say that it was a “Cinderella Story” for me, because it wasn’t. It was TOUGH for me.
Now that I am older, and a father, I look back at the whole situation. I put myself into Carol’s shoes and thought of every thing that she went through. I was not her son, I was my dad’s son that was coming from an abusive home. Wow! That must have been an extremely hard decision for them to make, for her to make. That was a life changing event in their lives. Not only was it tough for me, it was extremely tough for them as well. Probably harder on them then it was me. I was by all means not the perfect kid…come on, I had learned some very bad survival skills from my abusive ways. But, you know what, I would not change the events that happened. Could it have been better, sure, but God had a plan for all of us. I could not imagine how my life would have turned out if it wasn’t for Carol. She taught me some very good life lessons that I use, some everyday.
Carol, Mother, Mom, Friend….I thank you and Love you more than you will ever know!!! Happy Mother’s Day!!!
P.S. Thank you for not being the “evil step-mother”.
In the past week there have been numerous emails about the computer network infrastructure at the seminary in DR Congo. I have been banging it around in my head about taking my Apple MacBook Pro. The only problem with this is it cost me a lot of money and it would be horrible if anything happened to it, like it getting taken away from me by the border patrol in DR Congo…YIKES!!! So what I am looking for is an older Apple laptop. My budget is $300 - $400. I need a laptop so I can do my mission work. So I am asking that if anyone has an old Apple laptop or know of someone that has one, please let me know. I am also thinking about just leaving the laptop there so they can get the full experience of how AWESOME Apple is, or I just might keep it for future mission trips. Not sure yet, still praying for the whole thing.
God Bless Your Day
There are little things that our kids do that just make us so proud! The other day Aaron comes up to me and he has 3 pennies in his little hand. He tells me that his G.G. Pa gave those pennies to him. He wanted me to have them so I could take them on the mission trip to Africa and give the pennies to the African people. How awesome is that! God is great!!!!!
So, the family and I are in Hobbs, NM visiting family on my side. It has been awhile since I have seen my Grandma and Grandpa, this would be the kids great grand parents. The wind has been blowing something awful here. I took some pictures of it all, the “haze” is actually dust and sand in the air. Let me tell you, Melanie and I both REALLY miss home right now because of the dust. We forgot how the “West Texas” dust is. Poor Melanie’s allergies are just really getting to her. However, it is so wonderful to see the family again. The kids are having such a great time hanging out with their cousin Emily. Emily is my sisters daughter. Anyways, here are the pictures.
I do a little web development on the side. I really like Word Press and am getting involved with Joomla. So, Katie and I got together and she wanted me to help her with her website. Go check it out, oh, and all I did was the back end work, Kaite did the rest…she is AWESOME!
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