Thank You Ben
Midsouthcru.com looks like it did as the last day of Encounter09, with the post of “We’re On the News!” and with over ten blog posts proceeding. You might be asking yourself, Who put all that stuff together and does he really exist in real life?
The answer is, yes, he does really exist and he goes by, Ben Meredith. (Yeah, thats right the same guy that you saw on the big screen talking about Twitter and #CruTru09)
I applaud you Ben. Thank you for all that you did, to take this conference into the new century.
If the readers of this blog are wondering where is Ben off to next you can follow him and his family on their own personal blog http://benandjacq.tumblr.com/ as well as follow Ben on Twitter @ben_meredith.
He will be heading up the technology for Encounter for next year so this a great guy to keep your eye on over this next year.
I will continue to blog at my own personal blog http://patrickteasdale.wordpress.com/ as well as tweet @TeasdaleJr
Thank you for reading along and I’ll see you next year.
Excited to live out Jesus Christ
So, the past few days I have been mulling over how to wrap up this blog. To tell ya the truth I don’t want to. I want the experiences of Encounter to last a lifetime. But, then it hit me. They DO last a lifetime. The truth that was spoken this past week has always been apart of my life as well as yours.
I have begun to unpack the lessons that Dr. Mark Liederbach taught and God is revealing himself with every word, literally. Since, God is teaching me slowly, he is reminding me that I should only be anxious for the next lesson not the one a year from now. As much as I want to figure out what flight I should book for my Sweden STINT year, I submit that control to him.
I was sad to leave Encounter but I am now excited to live out Jesus Christ’s truth.
As your brother in Christ I encourage you to unpack the lessons that you have been taught, and pray for huge things for our huge God to show up.
(Begin now to pray for next year’s Encounter, for Christ to double the number of students from each campus and for Christ to reveal more of his glorious splendor.)
See you next year!
Legendary
At 1:05AM this morning a hodge-podge of students crammed themselves into elevators and road them down to the first floor. This doesn’t sound odd for Encounter, but when ya throw in techno music, strobe lights, and NERF swords, you have a totally different animal. A Flash Rave Animal. And it was viscously awesome!
Starting at the 17th floor and stopping at each one we grew in size and hype as we descended. With an audience looking on at most floors they saw the elevator bounce heavily at each pit stop, full of fun and minimal danger. As we hit the first floor the doors burst open with hoops and hollers of Rave bliss. After posing for a few photos we took up a crowd surfer and let him cruise the elevator ceiling.
As we reached our peak (the 17th floor) and began to make our final decent when a security greeted us at the 15th floor and politely asked us to get out. We did with out a fuss, thanked him for the fun time and thus concluded the first ever Elevator Flash Rave of Encounter.
(All actions were of students, no Crusade staff or interns were used, referenced, or injured during this event)
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