Political correctness, you gotta love it. If for nothing more than to laugh your head off at the absurdity of it all.
Political correctness is why the media calls Osama Bin Laden a "freedom fighter". Yeah, the man who is responsible for the deaths of over 2000 American citizens is a "freedom fighter". I'm sorry, wait no I'm not, but Osama Bin Laden is a radical Muslim terrorist. There is no other way to say it. He is a radical Muslim terrorist! How can the media even think of calling someone like that a "freedom fighter"?!?
Political correctness is also why the media calls the maniac that shot and killed 4 cops in Washington state "morally challenged" or an "unsavory character" instead of what he really is; a cold blooded murderer. But wait, think of how he would feel about being called a murderer. He has feelings too you know? I do not care. He is a murderer and there is no way that I would call anyone who kills 4 other people anything but a murderer! But God forbid we offend the man that killed 4 cops or the man responsible for the deaths of over 2000 Americans by calling them what they really are. No, no, we can't let that happen now can we? It's ridiculous!
Political correctness goes beyond these two examples. Oh yeah, these are just two of the millions of examples I could have used (they are also two of the ones that I find to be the most ridiculous and infuriating).
Let me talk about how political correctness is killing our country. There may have been one before I knew anything about politics, but for what I know, president Obama is the most politically correct president we have ever had. Have you noticed that he spent most of 2009 on a world apology tour? He went to something like 30 countries to apologize for the U.S. and how greedy and oppressing we are. Yes, we are all just a bunch of greedy, rich, oppressing warmongers and we are so sorry! No! We are the United States of America! The greatest country in the world and the greatest country the world has ever known! We are also the only truly free country in the world! No other country in the world enjoys the freedoms that we do! And you wanna know something else? Not a SINGLE natural disaster, war, or other kind of catastrophe happens ANYWHERE in the world that the U.S. is not there to help the country that is suffering out! Heck! we even help our enemies! So president Obama, stop apologizing! There is nothing we need to apologize for as a country and I sure never will apologize for being an American citizen!
There is nothing anyone can say or do to me that will ever make me be anything but proud to be an American. I hope it's the same for you. If you feel the same or even if you don't then let me ask you this: why is our president so obviously ashamed of being an American? This is the man who's wife said on the campaign trail that "for the first time in my life I feel proud to be an American". I have a problem with that statement. I don't know how you feel, but to me it doesn't matter who you are, what you do for a living, who your family is, or where you live in this country, if you are an American citizen then you should be proud of it! I don't care if you are a homeless person! The homeless in our country live better than 80 percent of the rest of the world anyway!
So why is our president going around the world apologizing for us? The answer is political correctness. Keep everyone happy, keep everyone appeased, and don't offend anyone. You can't call a spade a spade anymore! We have made it so that no matter what a person has done we can't bring ourselves to call them what they are and all because we do not want to offend them! It's the same thing with other countries, religions, and political systems. It doesn't matter what the country has done or what they stand for, we can't say anything about them that may be offensive, even if it's the truth! Religions are the same way. It doesn't matter if a religion's whole purpose is to exterminate another religion and rule the world *cough Radical Islam cough*, we can't say anything, whether it's true or not doesn't matter, that will offend them! Political systems; same old story. Even if a political system is completely un-biblical and proven to be a failure, we can't protest against it, because it would offend the people who believe in it.
So there you are, political correctness in a nutshell. Don't you love it? (That's a joke guys). I am about sick of it. How about you? Thanks for reading.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Political Rants of an Insignificant Teenager
Well first off I'd like to apologize for not posting in a while. Things have been beyond crazy in my life for the last few weeks/months. I am however going to start posting a "series" of posts on the political insanity that is happening all around us on a daily basis. Most of this will just be me "venting", but that is the beauty of a blog, you can say whatever you want! Also, there will be a lot of true hard fact presented in the next few posts, but there will also be some of my personal opinions on certain issues. I will not be posting anything that is false though. Everything will be either hard fact, or fairly debatable. Anyway, I hope you get some new information that you can use from these upcoming posts, and if nothing else I hope you get a couple laughs at me :).
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Research Paper
Alright, I need you all to tell me what you think of my research paper. It's on the shift our government has taken from the principles it was founded on to where it is today. This is only the rough draft, but I need some input so if you have the time to read through it and leave me a comment I would really appreciate it. And don't be afraid to tell me something is whacked! Thanks! Here it is:
In the two hundred and thirty three years that the United States has been a country, we have never experienced the kind of economic and moral crisis we are experiencing right now, nor have we been farther ideologically from the principles that our country was founded on. If we are ever to truly pull out of this crisis then we must return to the principles that this country was founded on.
When this country was founded, over 200 years ago, we were established as a Christian nation. We were considered a Christian nation, because the principles and morals we were founded on were derived from the Bible. As the years have gone by though, we have moved farther and farther away from our Christian roots. We have moved away from the God-centered nation that we were founded as and have become, instead, a man-centered nation. Gary Demar, in his book God and Government, says:
The values and laws of the United States reflect the beliefs of the people who
make up the nation. If the people and the representatives they elect view
themselves as the final authority in lawmaking, then the Constitution will
implement man-centered (humanistic) laws. If the people and the representatives
the elect see God as their judge, law-giver, and savior (Isaiah 33:22), then the
Constitution will implement biblical laws and values. Thus, elected
representatives will either implement the laws of God or the laws of men. There is
no third way. (151)
Every decision that our elected representatives have made that has gone against the principles of the bible has also gone against the principles of the founding fathers. The removal of the bible and prayer from schools is something the founding fathers never would have even thought about doing. They knew that the continuance of our nation would depend on having the young people of the nation educated in sound biblical teachings. The legalization of abortion is another example of a move toward a humanistic form of government. Abortion is direct violation of the Right of Life as well as a violation of what the Bible says about the sanctity of life, in that “God created man in His own image” (Gen. 1:27). There is no stronger statement about the value of human life than that.
The founding fathers also knew the importance of having a sound biblical structure for our national government. In his book The Beginning of the Republic, Clarence B. Carson says it like this:
They [the founding fathers] believed that government was necessary, of course. It
is necessary because men without government would do violence to one another;
the strong would prey on the weak; the clever would take unjust advantage of
others; disorder would prevail. (107)
They knew government was necessary, but they also knew it must be limited and restrained. They understood that the government is a living organism and that if given the opportunity it would grow and seek to obtain more and more power. With that in mind the founding fathers set our government up so that the power would be in the hands of the people. Not directly, or course, but through the election of representatives. The people elect representatives that they feel will best protect the country and their personal freedom. That is what our government’s original purpose was: to protect our country and our freedom. As of recent years though, we have seen the government grow in power as a result of we as a people becoming more and more dependent on it. We want the government to do everything for us instead of doing the work ourselves. We would rather, as Glenn Beck says, “…be cared for, fed, clothed, housed, and told what’s best for us by the parent-like state” (Common Sense 13) instead of working for ourselves and bettering ourselves through our own labor. This dependence on the government has made us forget what it means to work for something. We are like children, as illustrated in the quote above; apparently not capable of supporting ourselves, so the government has to do it for us. The government is there to hold our hand and give us everything we “need” and in turn we do whatever they tell us without hesitation. That is not freedom, that’s bondage, and it is what is happening to us as a nation. We live in fear of the government instead of the government living in fear of us (the people). Glenn Beck remarks that “the power of the government is limited to the power we have lent it” (Common Sense 78). What will it take for us to realize that the only power the government has comes from us?
Capitalism by definition is: “an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision rather than state control, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market.” (Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary 204) It means that anyone that possesses capital goods is free to invest them, sell them, or distribute them as they see fit. The state (government) has no say in what they can or can’t do with their property, as long as it is nothing illegal. Capitalism is what has made this country great. We have grown from the thirteen original colonies to the most powerful country in the world in two hundred and thirty three years and that is because of capitalism. People who are free to work and reap the benefits of that work have greater incentive to work than those who are under a system such as socialism where no matter how hard you work you always get the same amount of profit or gain. Capitalism follows the biblical teaching of sowing and reaping in that if you are willing to work hard at something you will be rewarded in the end. The Bible says that “Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully” (2 Cor. 9:6). Socialism, on the other hand, is set up so that even if you work twice as hard as another person you still get the same amount of profit. Likewise, the person who barely works at all will still get as much as the person who was working diligently. History has shown that this system does not work. The colony of Jamestown and how it was started is one of the best examples from our own country’s past. In American Government and Economics they explain that when Jamestown was first being established they tried a communal economic system where all the food was gathered into one big community store house and was distributed evenly among the people. This system failed miserably. Most of the English gentlemen were more interested in finding gold than working in the fields to grow crops, but after a long day of doing nothing they expected to be fed just as much as those who had spent the day working in the fields. It wasn’t long before the settlement had changed from the communal economic system to a system of private ownership of property and individual responsibility (375). Captain John Smith wrote an entrée in his diary after this change was made, this is what it said:
When our people were fed out of the common storehouse and labored jointly together, glad was he who could slip away from his labor or slumber over his task. He cared not, presuming that howsoever the harvest prospered, the general storehouse must maintain him. Even the most honest among them would hardly take so much true pains in a week under the public ownership and common storehouse system, as now for themselves they will do in a day. So that, we reaped not so much corn from the labor of thirty as now three or four will provide for themselves. (375)
It is very easy to see the prosperity that comes from a private ownership and individual responsibility system versus a socialistic communal or state regulated system. It is this system of private ownership and individual responsibility that has made America great, but we our government is changing. The bigger our government gets, the more regulation there is going to be on our personal property and freedom and when that happens, we are not too far from becoming a socialistic country.
In the two hundred and thirty three years that the United States has been a country, we have never experienced the kind of economic and moral crisis we are experiencing right now, nor have we been farther ideologically from the principles that our country was founded on. If we are ever to truly pull out of this crisis then we must return to the principles that this country was founded on.
When this country was founded, over 200 years ago, we were established as a Christian nation. We were considered a Christian nation, because the principles and morals we were founded on were derived from the Bible. As the years have gone by though, we have moved farther and farther away from our Christian roots. We have moved away from the God-centered nation that we were founded as and have become, instead, a man-centered nation. Gary Demar, in his book God and Government, says:
The values and laws of the United States reflect the beliefs of the people who
make up the nation. If the people and the representatives they elect view
themselves as the final authority in lawmaking, then the Constitution will
implement man-centered (humanistic) laws. If the people and the representatives
the elect see God as their judge, law-giver, and savior (Isaiah 33:22), then the
Constitution will implement biblical laws and values. Thus, elected
representatives will either implement the laws of God or the laws of men. There is
no third way. (151)
Every decision that our elected representatives have made that has gone against the principles of the bible has also gone against the principles of the founding fathers. The removal of the bible and prayer from schools is something the founding fathers never would have even thought about doing. They knew that the continuance of our nation would depend on having the young people of the nation educated in sound biblical teachings. The legalization of abortion is another example of a move toward a humanistic form of government. Abortion is direct violation of the Right of Life as well as a violation of what the Bible says about the sanctity of life, in that “God created man in His own image” (Gen. 1:27). There is no stronger statement about the value of human life than that.
The founding fathers also knew the importance of having a sound biblical structure for our national government. In his book The Beginning of the Republic, Clarence B. Carson says it like this:
They [the founding fathers] believed that government was necessary, of course. It
is necessary because men without government would do violence to one another;
the strong would prey on the weak; the clever would take unjust advantage of
others; disorder would prevail. (107)
They knew government was necessary, but they also knew it must be limited and restrained. They understood that the government is a living organism and that if given the opportunity it would grow and seek to obtain more and more power. With that in mind the founding fathers set our government up so that the power would be in the hands of the people. Not directly, or course, but through the election of representatives. The people elect representatives that they feel will best protect the country and their personal freedom. That is what our government’s original purpose was: to protect our country and our freedom. As of recent years though, we have seen the government grow in power as a result of we as a people becoming more and more dependent on it. We want the government to do everything for us instead of doing the work ourselves. We would rather, as Glenn Beck says, “…be cared for, fed, clothed, housed, and told what’s best for us by the parent-like state” (Common Sense 13) instead of working for ourselves and bettering ourselves through our own labor. This dependence on the government has made us forget what it means to work for something. We are like children, as illustrated in the quote above; apparently not capable of supporting ourselves, so the government has to do it for us. The government is there to hold our hand and give us everything we “need” and in turn we do whatever they tell us without hesitation. That is not freedom, that’s bondage, and it is what is happening to us as a nation. We live in fear of the government instead of the government living in fear of us (the people). Glenn Beck remarks that “the power of the government is limited to the power we have lent it” (Common Sense 78). What will it take for us to realize that the only power the government has comes from us?
Capitalism by definition is: “an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision rather than state control, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market.” (Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary 204) It means that anyone that possesses capital goods is free to invest them, sell them, or distribute them as they see fit. The state (government) has no say in what they can or can’t do with their property, as long as it is nothing illegal. Capitalism is what has made this country great. We have grown from the thirteen original colonies to the most powerful country in the world in two hundred and thirty three years and that is because of capitalism. People who are free to work and reap the benefits of that work have greater incentive to work than those who are under a system such as socialism where no matter how hard you work you always get the same amount of profit or gain. Capitalism follows the biblical teaching of sowing and reaping in that if you are willing to work hard at something you will be rewarded in the end. The Bible says that “Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully” (2 Cor. 9:6). Socialism, on the other hand, is set up so that even if you work twice as hard as another person you still get the same amount of profit. Likewise, the person who barely works at all will still get as much as the person who was working diligently. History has shown that this system does not work. The colony of Jamestown and how it was started is one of the best examples from our own country’s past. In American Government and Economics they explain that when Jamestown was first being established they tried a communal economic system where all the food was gathered into one big community store house and was distributed evenly among the people. This system failed miserably. Most of the English gentlemen were more interested in finding gold than working in the fields to grow crops, but after a long day of doing nothing they expected to be fed just as much as those who had spent the day working in the fields. It wasn’t long before the settlement had changed from the communal economic system to a system of private ownership of property and individual responsibility (375). Captain John Smith wrote an entrée in his diary after this change was made, this is what it said:
When our people were fed out of the common storehouse and labored jointly together, glad was he who could slip away from his labor or slumber over his task. He cared not, presuming that howsoever the harvest prospered, the general storehouse must maintain him. Even the most honest among them would hardly take so much true pains in a week under the public ownership and common storehouse system, as now for themselves they will do in a day. So that, we reaped not so much corn from the labor of thirty as now three or four will provide for themselves. (375)
It is very easy to see the prosperity that comes from a private ownership and individual responsibility system versus a socialistic communal or state regulated system. It is this system of private ownership and individual responsibility that has made America great, but we our government is changing. The bigger our government gets, the more regulation there is going to be on our personal property and freedom and when that happens, we are not too far from becoming a socialistic country.
Saturday, September 12, 2009
The "Usual"
Well, over the last few weeks, it has been pretty crazy around here. I apologize for being a "sellout" to Facebook and not updating my blog, but it really has been crazy around here. So let me explain myself and then you all can decide whether or not you forgive me.
About a week or so after I got back from Haiti I was at the beach with a bunch of the kids from Metro and Daytona and we were all having a good ol' time =D. We were basically just hanging by the pool at the Lightfoot's condo, walking on the beach, doing a little swimming, and eating hot dogs and hamburgers. Sounds like a good time right? Yeah, it was! At least until Nolan and I decided to go do some body surfing (not my best sport). We were out riding the waves for about 20 minutes or so and I decided I was going to go get something to eat. I tell Nolan: " hey bro I am going to ride one last wave in and get something to eat".......famous last words. That one wave totally thrashed me and sent me to the bottom in a very awkward position making it so that I landed right on the back of my right shoulder. Right as I hit the bottom I heard a very unpleasant "pop" in my shoulder. I got up and knew immediately that I had done something bad. I started walking toward the condo and as I was I tried to move my arm and as I did I saw that my bone was not where it was supposed to be :/. Luckily I just lifted my arm and gave it a little push and it popped back in, but it did continue to hurt pretty bad and swell up a lot. Long and the short of it; we had to go to Gainsville to get it checked out, because it was my throwing shoulder and this type of injury can end people's career. When we went to the doctor's they told us that they were going to have to do an MRI to see what kind of surgery I would need. Notice I didn't say "if" I would need surgery. They basically told us that the chances of it dislocating and not needing surgery to repair it are small at best, and especially for a pitcher if I was ever going to throw again I would probably need surgery. The MRI wasn't till the next day so we went home and we let some people know about what they told us and asked as many people as we could to be praying for me. By the end of the week I had a small army of people praying for me. I had people in my church, the metro church, the Titusville church, the Gainsville church, my sister's in-law's church (in North Carolina), and so many others that I can't list. I had so many people praying for me and a lot of them did not even know me, it was really amazing to know that that many people care and were lifting me up in prayer. So, as it turns out I go for the MRI and it goes good, but we won't know till the following Tuesday if I need surgery. So over the whole weekend we continued to pray that I wouldn't need surgery. When we went back on Tuesday the doctor came in and said "Well, I am really surprised. His MRI looks great he has no cartilage or tendon damage. He isn't going to need surgery at all". When he told me that I was like "really?". I couldn't believe it. God had answered my prayers and the prayers of so many others, it was an amazing experience! They did tell me that I would need to go through some pretty extensive Physical Therapy before I could go back to playing, specifically throwing, but that was WAY better than having to have surgery and then Therapy =). So that is the firs thing that has been going on.
The second thing has not affected my schedule too much, but I do want to tell you all that my brother Keith and his wife Aimee are expecting!!!! This will be their first child and we are all really excited for them =).
The third thing, which is the saddest of all of these concerns my other older brother Barrett. Barrett left day before yesterday for Texas where he will be working for a company called Galco Steel. Jason Link, who used to go to our church, offered Barrett a job in Texas working for Galco. He is moving out there to be trained to do what Jason does, which is the selling of steel. So Barrett is out in Texas now =(. Yes, I am VERY sad. Barrett is not only my brother, but he is also my best friend, and one of the biggest reasons I am who I am today. He is a constant encouragement to me whenever I am mad or frustrated, he is a seemingly never ending supply of Godly wisdom on basically any subject or any circumstance, and he is also just one of the best people to hang out with and be around. So, that's it guys. That's what has been happening at the Nugent house =). Again, I apologize for being a sellout (Kaylee) hahaha. I will be trying to post again soon. Don't give up on me yet! =D
About a week or so after I got back from Haiti I was at the beach with a bunch of the kids from Metro and Daytona and we were all having a good ol' time =D. We were basically just hanging by the pool at the Lightfoot's condo, walking on the beach, doing a little swimming, and eating hot dogs and hamburgers. Sounds like a good time right? Yeah, it was! At least until Nolan and I decided to go do some body surfing (not my best sport). We were out riding the waves for about 20 minutes or so and I decided I was going to go get something to eat. I tell Nolan: " hey bro I am going to ride one last wave in and get something to eat".......famous last words. That one wave totally thrashed me and sent me to the bottom in a very awkward position making it so that I landed right on the back of my right shoulder. Right as I hit the bottom I heard a very unpleasant "pop" in my shoulder. I got up and knew immediately that I had done something bad. I started walking toward the condo and as I was I tried to move my arm and as I did I saw that my bone was not where it was supposed to be :/. Luckily I just lifted my arm and gave it a little push and it popped back in, but it did continue to hurt pretty bad and swell up a lot. Long and the short of it; we had to go to Gainsville to get it checked out, because it was my throwing shoulder and this type of injury can end people's career. When we went to the doctor's they told us that they were going to have to do an MRI to see what kind of surgery I would need. Notice I didn't say "if" I would need surgery. They basically told us that the chances of it dislocating and not needing surgery to repair it are small at best, and especially for a pitcher if I was ever going to throw again I would probably need surgery. The MRI wasn't till the next day so we went home and we let some people know about what they told us and asked as many people as we could to be praying for me. By the end of the week I had a small army of people praying for me. I had people in my church, the metro church, the Titusville church, the Gainsville church, my sister's in-law's church (in North Carolina), and so many others that I can't list. I had so many people praying for me and a lot of them did not even know me, it was really amazing to know that that many people care and were lifting me up in prayer. So, as it turns out I go for the MRI and it goes good, but we won't know till the following Tuesday if I need surgery. So over the whole weekend we continued to pray that I wouldn't need surgery. When we went back on Tuesday the doctor came in and said "Well, I am really surprised. His MRI looks great he has no cartilage or tendon damage. He isn't going to need surgery at all". When he told me that I was like "really?". I couldn't believe it. God had answered my prayers and the prayers of so many others, it was an amazing experience! They did tell me that I would need to go through some pretty extensive Physical Therapy before I could go back to playing, specifically throwing, but that was WAY better than having to have surgery and then Therapy =). So that is the firs thing that has been going on.
The second thing has not affected my schedule too much, but I do want to tell you all that my brother Keith and his wife Aimee are expecting!!!! This will be their first child and we are all really excited for them =).
The third thing, which is the saddest of all of these concerns my other older brother Barrett. Barrett left day before yesterday for Texas where he will be working for a company called Galco Steel. Jason Link, who used to go to our church, offered Barrett a job in Texas working for Galco. He is moving out there to be trained to do what Jason does, which is the selling of steel. So Barrett is out in Texas now =(. Yes, I am VERY sad. Barrett is not only my brother, but he is also my best friend, and one of the biggest reasons I am who I am today. He is a constant encouragement to me whenever I am mad or frustrated, he is a seemingly never ending supply of Godly wisdom on basically any subject or any circumstance, and he is also just one of the best people to hang out with and be around. So, that's it guys. That's what has been happening at the Nugent house =). Again, I apologize for being a sellout (Kaylee) hahaha. I will be trying to post again soon. Don't give up on me yet! =D
Monday, August 17, 2009
Haiti
Here it is people, the post you've all been waiting for =P. I spent 9 days in Haiti last week and let me say before I get into this post too far, I would STRONGLY encourage everyone I know to go on a missions trip to a country like Haiti, if the opportunity ever arose. That is not to say that other missions trips are any less important, not at all! But there is something about going to a foreign country (especially one as poor as Haiti) and seeing how the rest of the world lives that just changes your perspective on your own life completely. I know for me personally, seeing the extreme poverty that is everywhere in Haiti is something that I will remember for the rest of my life. Haiti is not without hope though, quite to the contrary the people that we had the privilege to work with and serve with were some of the most hope-filled and joy-filled people I have EVER met. That in itself is a testimony to God's spirit at work in Haiti. That is another thing that God was challenging me with throughout the trip. See, when I thought of Haiti I thought that for some reason God's presence was not there as much as it was in the U.S. or in other places of the world. I saw Haiti as "God-forsaken", and God made quick work of showing me how wrong I was. The people and the children at the Boys and Girls home that we were working at had such a passion for worshiping and praising God. The one Sunday that we were there three of the men from our team (Jesse Philips, Derek Walley, and my dad) had the opportunity to preach at 3 different churches. We split up the rest of the team in three and sent some team members with each speaker. I ended up going to the boys and girls home for their Sunday service and Derek Walley was the speaker there. Before Derek gave his sermon though they had a time of worship by singing praise to our God. That time of praise and worship is something I will never forget. They sang half the songs in French and half of them in English, so there was a time when we (as stupid little Americans) had no idea what they were singing, but they just sang and sang and sang. They didn't know all the verses to all the songs in English so they just repeated one verse and the chorus over and over, it seemed like they could go on singing non-stop for the whole day.The joy and the thankfulness that they had in the way they sang was just unbelievable and it really challenged me to be more passionate in my own worship.
As far as the work that was done, here it goes. We mixed and poured 45 TONS of concrete over the course of 4 days. All by His grace let me tell you, God was so gracious to us in keeping us all free from injury and giving us excellent weather to work in. We also had one heck of a construction team working on this wall. We had 14 guys "officially" on the construction team, but the childrens ministry team ( made up of all girls) were made honorary members of the construction team after the first day. The childrens ministry team spent the first half of the day at the babies home and then the second half of the day came to help the construction team. They didn't do any mixing (except one batch =DDDDD) but they performed and invaluable task of filling buckets with rock and dirt so that we could keep mixing as fast as we possibly could. So you can fully appreciate how this all worked let me tell you how the mixing and pouring process went. First, there was 3 teams on our construction team: bucket fillers, mixers (WOLF PACK), and the pouring crew. This is how it went. The bucket fillers filled 12 buckets with rock and dirt then sent them to the mixers. The mixers poured out the buckets into a pile, then dumped a bag of concrete onto it. Then, they added water and mixed the pile with shovels till it was ready to be put into buckets and then lifted up to the pouring crew that was standing on the scaffolding. The pouring crew grabbed the buckets from the mixers and dumped the freshly mixed concrete into the wall. So yeah, that's what the construction team did in Haiti. I can't tell you anything about the medical crew, other than the fact that they also worked their butts off down there. They saw over 800 people over the course of 4 days. God was so good and so gracious to all of us through the whole trip. He is worthy of all praise and all glory. Thanks for reading.
As far as the work that was done, here it goes. We mixed and poured 45 TONS of concrete over the course of 4 days. All by His grace let me tell you, God was so gracious to us in keeping us all free from injury and giving us excellent weather to work in. We also had one heck of a construction team working on this wall. We had 14 guys "officially" on the construction team, but the childrens ministry team ( made up of all girls) were made honorary members of the construction team after the first day. The childrens ministry team spent the first half of the day at the babies home and then the second half of the day came to help the construction team. They didn't do any mixing (except one batch =DDDDD) but they performed and invaluable task of filling buckets with rock and dirt so that we could keep mixing as fast as we possibly could. So you can fully appreciate how this all worked let me tell you how the mixing and pouring process went. First, there was 3 teams on our construction team: bucket fillers, mixers (WOLF PACK), and the pouring crew. This is how it went. The bucket fillers filled 12 buckets with rock and dirt then sent them to the mixers. The mixers poured out the buckets into a pile, then dumped a bag of concrete onto it. Then, they added water and mixed the pile with shovels till it was ready to be put into buckets and then lifted up to the pouring crew that was standing on the scaffolding. The pouring crew grabbed the buckets from the mixers and dumped the freshly mixed concrete into the wall. So yeah, that's what the construction team did in Haiti. I can't tell you anything about the medical crew, other than the fact that they also worked their butts off down there. They saw over 800 people over the course of 4 days. God was so good and so gracious to all of us through the whole trip. He is worthy of all praise and all glory. Thanks for reading.
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Haiti
Well, as most of you know, I am leaving for Haiti tomorrow night (very late). So this will be my last post till I get home. Please be in prayer for this trip. I am SUPER excited about what God is going to do in us and through us on this trip so please be praying. Pray for everyone's safety, pray for good weather, pray for everyone's health, and most of all pray that the gospel will be proclaimed and God will be glorified. I will try and post as soon as possible when I get back, but until then you all will have to try and survive without regular posts from my blog. I know that is going to be super hard for some of you, but I have confidence in you guys and I will be praying for you. ......Ok that was a joke *Laugh Out Loud* lol. Talk to you all later =D.
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
All Stars
Okay, well I could go on and on about how my life is just "so busy" and that's why I haven't been posting, but what it comes down to is...I didn't post. These past three weeks have been crazy though. Owen, Dewey, and Daniel had their All Star Tournaments. I'm going to break it down into a little equation for you so you can truly appreciate how crazy this is. Dewey's tournament was in Marianna Fl (6 hours away) July 11-16. His team was eliminated early so he was only up there from the 10th-12th, but Daniels tournament was that same week but in Paxton Fl (7 1/2 hours away). Daniel's team stayed in a bit longer than Dewey's so they were up there from the 10th to the 15th. Then we had Owen's tournament, which was from the 18th-22nd. My mom drove ALL THE WAY back to our house on the 15th only to leave for Marianna again on the 17th (yeah she's the greatest). Owen's team got eliminated quickly also, but we decided to stay up there and just have a little vacation time. So we spent Monday and Tuesday enjoying the springs up there in the Panhandle. We went to De Leon Springs and Blue Springs (yes they have the same name as ours down here). Anyway the springs were awesome. The water was so refreshing and Blue Springs had a diving board that just made my day =D. I was flipping off that thing in just about every way that you could lol. We got home last night just after 10:30, unpacked the car, and then we spent the better part of today getting all of the stuff put away and getting the house back in shape. So that is what we have BEEN doing. This weekend my sister Keri my brother in-law Adam, and their 4 kids Elliott, Coleton, Emerald, and Lily-Kate are going to be here at our house visiting. And then next Friday I am leaving for Haiti. Then when I get back from Haiti I will have 2 weeks till my Dual-enrollment starts at DSC. I will also hopefully be getting onto a traveling baseball team somewhere in the middle of all that. So it is has and will be busy for me. I will be trying as hard as I can to post more frequently though. I have a couple of posts breweing in my mind so hopefully I will be able to get them up soon. Thanks for reading.
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