No time to say hello; goodbye...

It seems like there's always quite a gap in my blogging. It always seems like forever since the last time I wrote. I'm not sure if its because I don't do it often or because I'm not really into writing updates. I'll make an attempt at an update...

There never really seems to be much new news to tell about life around here. The school year is just as challenging as ever. There are more challenges this year than I ever would have thought. The attitudes of some of the students have been less than desirable. Please just pray for the attitudes of them and for the rest of the school year.

Matt and I and another teacher from the school are still planning on going to India over spring break to look at a facility for future mission trips. Matt and I already have our visas and, as far as I know, Alexa has hers too.

Please pray that we find affordable tickets to India. We haven't been able to find anywhere to give us airline prices yet. One (of the two affordable places here) told us they wouldn't have prices until the middle of March (and spring break is the second week in April), plus, they won't give us our whole flight. She said we could just pick up our connecting flight off the internet.

Matt and I are hopefully going to check out ticket prices from somewhere else. We're still exploring options with some other travel agents in Seoul that friends of friends have used.

School is school and being the high school English department is a tedious task. I don't have anyone to run ideas off of or to ask questions to. It's also intimidating that next year, I'll be the senior staff member of the secondary group. Scary...

The school itself is in constant need of prayer. We still have eight of the ten positions open for next year. We've got basically our entire elementary school open along with three secondary positions and our art position. We could be in serious trouble if we don't get these positions filled. We need all the prayer support we can get, pretty much because we can't offer the benefits and the perks that some of the other schools can. We're just a little school in the middle of a rice paddy. There's little incentive for people who are looking for perks on the mission field.

I guess that's about all the updates I've got for now.

Just thoughts spurred on from a book I'm reading.

Sometime during my junior year of high school Christianity became a fad. Sadly, in order to have been a part of that fad crowd you had to attend a certain church and a certain youth group.

It is so sad to see that the people that were so influential in helping bring people to Christianity (but unfortunately, not necessarily to Christ) had pretty much all turned their backs on the faith. It just saddens me to see it.

Maybe they discovered that following Christ isn't all roses, daisies, and frolics in easy fields. I have lots of thoughts on this issue but I'm not sure how to express that. Devastating is probably the correct word.

I've been reading a book lately that deals with issues like that and like what many churches are like in the states these days. People are definitely suffering from spiritual suburbia. People live in complacency instead of truly listening to God's voice and calling. They just want what's comfortable, not what's real.

Get out of the burbs, take some risks, and live for Christ!

(The book is Plastic Jesus: Exposing the Hollowness of Comfortable Christianity by Dr. Eric Sandras. A challenging and highly recommended read.)