Hello friends and family. I write out of complete awe at the beauty of our Creator. God has been so evident in the past couple of weeks and I hope that His blessings are as evident to you as they are to us. I have found this week to be a week of reflection on where I'm at in my life and where God has brought me from. Over this past Valentine's Day, Kylee and I have been reminded of the reasons why we fell in love with each other. We found a couple rolls of film that we decided to get developed and see what they were. Many of the pictures were from the summer we met... of us together in our early having-a-crush-on-each-other stages. It helped in remembering those reasons why we fell in love with each other and how God brought us together. We then went and watched "P.S. I Love You" (If you ever need a good date movie that will make you emotional, even for the guy, that's the one...).

In this last week, God has caused me to do a lot of reflection. Reflection about where I'm at spiritually, where I'm at in The Bridge, If I'm supposed to be where I'm at... etc. He has proved to me that if I'm actively seeking after Him, I will feel the most fulfilled and yet desire more of Him. If I'm actively seeking after Him, He will teach me things so that I can in turn teach others... And that if I'm not actively seeking after Him, I am running the risk of misrepresenting the image of God to others who look up to me as a spiritual leader. God is a God of accountability. Have you ever found yourself getting back into old habits and then one day realizing this is not your full potential, and then realizing that there is no better time than now to get off your butt and do something about it...? I think God sometimes intercedes and gives us that kick in the butt of accountability.

When we have become Christians, or at least an active one, we have made the decision to die to our old habits and become reborn in Christ... with a new objective of serving our Creator through serving others. When we do that, we are bringing Heaven to Earth. However, the opposite is true too: When we don't do that, when we go back to our old self of a lazy, stale life and loose that servant-like attitude, we are bringing Hell to Earth. The urgency of living a life glorifying to God becomes more evident in seeing that we are either bringing Heaven or bringing Hell to Earth.

I'm seeing that once I made a decision to live a life that is going to raise Heaven (not Hell...), God's blessings are poured out and are so incredibly evident. And many of those blessings have come from you guys: our supporters! We feel so blessed by the testimonies that we hear from you guys. Many of you have taken the step to support us (easy or not) and have had some incredible things to say. You have all been amazing encouragement to Kylee and me. God continues to provide the funds that we need to raise when it seems to be getting low. And that is proof that we are where we are supposed to be at this point in our lives and that God wants us to keep doing what we're doing. He is letting us know that as long as we keep moving forward in faith, he'll work out the details... and so that detail stuff doesn't need to be worried about by us. We thank each of you for allow God to use you! Keep praying. Anderson could always use more prayer.

God bless!

"SnowBlast 2008" and "The Shock"

So we had a great weekend of fun with about 35 students last weekend on a ski/snowboard trip up to Kalamazoo, MI. What was great was that many of these kids that went on this trip don't normally get very involved in the church. We were able to develop some good relationships with them and a few of those students helped us tear down after Aftershock last Sunday. It was an awesome time to get to know them a little better.

Our new Wednesday night event titled "The Shock" (any surprises?) started last night. Basically this is taking place of small groups that we have had on Wednesdays since Aftershock started. Small groups were good in that they presented the opportunity to go deeper in discussion for those that showed up, but we found that for some students this is unfortunately intimidating to them and they don't come at all. The Shock is a fun night where we play a bunch of group games that draws a bigger crowd and then, from there, present a quick message and break the kids off into their age groups to discuss answers to questions that we ask based off of that message. We find that this way we draw kids that don't even go to church... which is what we're after.

The following is a video of our "SnowBlast 2008" weekend. Enjoy!