Trunk or Treat

Our church, Wakarusa Missionary, hosted a Trunk or Treat event this afternoon. We decorated a trunk with Rocki. At our Webkinz themed trunk, the trunk-or-treaters spun our homemade Wheel of Wow to discover how many pieces of candy they received.

Bay Forrest

Today when I was running, I listened to a Hoops Addict podcast of an interview with Bay Forrest. Bay is a former NBA player. He is going to be speaking at my home church, Wakarusa Missionary, this Sunday, September 14.

If it sounds interesting you might want to download the podcast. The Hoops Addict preview is below.

"I recently had the pleasure of chatting with former NBA player Bay Forrest. While that name may not be familiar to a lot of basketball fans this interview is worth listening to because he had a lot of interesting stories about his basketball career such as turning down UCLA and North Carolina to play for a small Christian college with his brothers and being the first player to turn down a NBA contract to play amateur ball for a year.

• Why he choose Grand Canyon College over big-name schools like UCLA, Duke and North Carolina
  
• Being a three time All-American at Grand Canyon College
  
• What is was like to play win a National Championship with his younger and older brother at Grand Canyon
  
• Why he turned down a contract worth $625,000 by the Kansas City Kings following his junior season
  
• Why he decided to turn down the Seattle Supersonics after they drafted him following his senior season with the #19th overall pick
  
• Being the first player in the history of the NBA to turn down a contract to play with an amateur team.
  
• His experiences playing for Athletes in Action
  
• His experiences playing for the Phoenix Suns
  
• The work he is doing with Focus Ministries"
  

The Mega-Church Didn't Work

My sister, Meagan, and her husband, Chris, just published a post on "why the mega-church didn't work for them."

I had been curious about why they left, so I found the post very interesting.

Today at Church

At church Pastor Paul is doing a series entitled PEAK:

• Prayer
• Evangelism
• Abiding in the Word
• Koinonia (Fellowship)

This week's Bible reading was 1 John, chapter 4. Concerning verses 1-3,

1 My dear friends, don't believe everything you hear. Carefully weigh and examine what people tell you. Not everyone who talks about God comes from God. There are a lot of lying preachers loose in the world. 2-3 Here's how you test for the genuine Spirit of God. Everyone who confesses openly his faith in Jesus Christ—the Son of God, who came as an actual flesh-and-blood person—comes from God and belongs to God. And everyone who refuses to confess faith in Jesus has nothing in common with God. This is the spirit of antichrist that you heard was coming. Well, here it is, sooner than we thought! (The Message)

Pastor Paul gave some examples of where the spirit of the antichrist is apparent. One of the examples concerns Oprah's new book club selection (and its corresponding events,) A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose. During the church service we watched part of a YouTube video about the book and Oprah's club. Here is the video:

Wakarusa Missionary Church Children's Resale

I had a great time working at the resale this morning.

There were a LOT of people there. It was very well organized. People were extremely cooperative and patient in an environment that was busy and definitely required some waiting.

Children's Resale Pictures