June 12 '06

Hello all!

School Stuff!
I'm up late tonight because I have some "after hours" work to do tonight. These days I'll take all the hours I can get. I finished my Apologetics class last week and I really enjoyed it. It had to do with pluralism (the belief that all religions should be viewed as equal) which is what alot of people around the world believe. - even some former "evangelicals" have moved in this direction (no one with any high view of Scripture). I now have a few weeks to write a 20-page paper about the theory proposed by Paul J. Griffiths in An Apology for Apologetics: A Study in the Logic of Interreligious Dialogue. He argues in the book that every religion makes "truth claims" and that when they contradict another worldview/religion they OUGHT TO defend their truth claim as correct and the opposing one as flawed.

Community Group
We have had three new people come to our "community group" the last 2 weeks. One guy just came back from Iraq and the other two people are a young couple that is applying with the International Mission Board. They are all new to Crossing and are eager to find a place to plug in. I need to take some pictures of us having community group so you guys can see everybody. I will do that soon.

Crossing Church
A couple of things big going on at Crossing:
1)We are sending out three people from our church to go and plant a church in New Orleans. James, Amy (and their three kids) and Travis will be leaving us shortly to start the church, partnering with the North American Mission Board. Check out James' blog (you can even see a picture of yours-truly) here. We know that this is where God is leading them - join us in praying for them also.
2)The other big thing... "They Lyndon Fair". This is an event for people in the Lyndon area (here on the East side of Louisville) to come and play games, for kids to ride rides, get their faces painted, eat cotton candy and all of the other stuff that goes along with a town fair. The part concerning crossing is that we will have a booth - we are going to be doing face painting and making balloon animals. I practiced making balloon dogs yesterday - I popped about as many as I made. Hopefully things will go better next weekend. :) Pray that we will be able to make some good contacts with people who are disconnected from God and/or from a church.

New Apartment
We will be moving at the end of July from Woodbridge apartments to Maplebrook apartments (assuming our credit gets approved this week). The drive to school/work will be a little longer but the rent will be lowered enough to definately make up the difference. We are going from 3 bedrooms to 2 bedrooms so we will probably have to go through another cutting down of the "stuff" that we have to get it to work out.

More to come....

Thanks for praying for us!

The Braggs