THANK YOU, David Crosby, Jr.

David Crosby, I just wanted to start by saying Thank You so much... In the beginning of class i went to sit down and was looking for plane tickets to Thailand for my internship in the summer and i was not able to find a traveling agent to help me find a ticket.. I didn't know what to do, so i sat there not knowing what to do. David Crosby sat right in front of me and said so how are you? I told him my situation with the ticket. And then he was like when i used to go overseas to help with intentional affairs Springfield Airs in Missouri would always get my ticket booked for me. Maybe they can help you out. Check into the next day.. and they helped me get a ticket right away... So thanks so much David for that little advice it helped me so much.

That was my first impressions for David Crosby in my class. Cool right. 

David Crosby a typical pastor son from the Poconos, leave the pastor son life, went to high school meet a girl heart broke after didn't know what to do after school. Then Father asked if he want to help at the church as Youth Pastor.. went to school at the same time at home... meet a girl in the church got his heart hurt again. Got so down that he dad told him that he should go on a mission trip. So he went.. and feel in love with God again.. After he started doing things with international affairs overseas, meet his wife got married and came back to PA... He wanted to start a church in Hershey PA. Got everything approved but then when to Hershey to check it out.. but him and his wife didnt feel that it was right, that night, he felt that he need to plan a church in the Poconnos, But he didnt want to go back to the some place were he grow up... his wife didnt want to GO at all. That night after check out Hershey he said this to his wife she ran up stair crying... he went up there with his mother, and he said if God wants you to be even tho i dont want to go up there i will go with you because that what God wants you to. That night the went up to a church, and went into a board meeting and became the new pastor there. 

Hearing everything that he want to do in the church seems so cool. HAVING A running STARBUCKS (drivein) is amazing. He found out that in that area that he was a pastor, they need child care, church, and coffee.. So in there church they have A MASSIVE kids program and a coffee place...  But right now they are in a highschool One thing that i like was the way that he says that he preaches. He looks to change the stage every month to match the theme of his sermons... HomeMakeover, Desperate Homelife, and Construction.. HARD HATS the band wore them (WOW)... it is amazing what he is doing, and what he is going to do.. He really have a heart for touching God, but changing culture to Christ. 

Exploring the unchurched Mind of a New Believe that just started going to church

What do them thing when something so important comes into their lives? For me, I was so little when I came to know Jesus as my Savior of my life, so I could tell you how I felt. Know I want to know what it feels like to be in the world one moment and with God the next. When I was talking to my friend on campus, I told her that I need to find someone to talk to about this subject. She was like ME… She was so excited to tell me about her experience. She come from a foreign land when she was 8 and moving into the states adjustment was hate, but she started to fit in better with kids at school when she did the things that they did. Also her parents were really strict about everything that she was doing, so she would sneak off and do thing that she was not allowed to do. She becomes adducted to things that a girl at 13 should have not been on. One day, one of her new friends in high school asked her if she wanted to go to Youth Convention. She went and that was the first time that she understood love of Christ. She went home broken from the adduction and her parent saw the change in her. In three years, her sister, mother, aunt and uncle were saved from the witness that she had to them. Her life had her ups and downs but she is here at school live the Godly dream for life. What she said that helped her step over the line was the love that she needed. As a kid she was not loved by family because they were to best adjusting to the culture of America and after that she never wanted to feel love. The most challenging part of being a Christian is always feeling that the devil wants you back. She said that it was hard to keep following some one that you could not see but not following some one that you fall away and follow. Most growth in her faith that she told me was the people that love her for who she is, the people that care for her like her Christian friend and family. Advice that she had for me in help unbelievers was being there... Ready to listen, and BE A TRUE CHRISTIAN… and example of Christ because going back and forth got me so confused at what to know about Christ.

Dan Miller

Wow.. Can i say WOw... He had some much energy in his body that all i wanted to do was schedule him for a four K run. Dan Miller the Energy Bunny Man.. I would call him.. Doing so many things for God, That i wonder how he can breath sometime. 

Dan Miller at a young age was a talker, he told us in class that i was like Wow, i could not stop laughing, He told us that when he was in the store with his mother he would walk and talk to everyone. His mother would leave him with Stranger because he could talk there ear off. In my mind i image one of those cartoon kids that start telling people about embearishing things out in public. You can see that he was a talker, and to this day he will not stop talking for Christ. You could tell that he was going to do something great for God one day. 

He got invalid in a church at the age of 19 and become the youth pastor and started to go to school but he felt that God was saying stay here and work in the church. So he worked with Brendan Bible College were he was able to work in the church and go to school... He made his start at Green Mount View. The Church was thirsty for more everyday, and Since God was there the Church wanted more. Any time God is there God covers everything.  there were about 700 people every sunday, they move in a new place and need 25,000 for things and some one gave him 25,000 it was God, he was able to make the payment needed to get the church going. He said that We need to stop thinking about the church and thing about the people around it. It is not the people in the church that need God it is the people outside it. He moved again after the big change, and there was only 15 people in the church when he started, but one thing that he did was think about the community around him. God gave him the people that he needs to touch in ministry one night that he knew that there needed to be a change. After looking for a church for along time.. He come up with the most amazing IDEA in the church community today. It is a Gym Center... With Health Class and Basketball.. It is paid by membership. It is a place were people can get fed thought out the week and on sunday they can go to a church in the area. Since there are church in that area they felt that people need a place to go to really get fed in the week but also a place where they can take care of their bodies that God gave them... Raising People that are ready for ministry and really for Church...  Community that was reach through this Gym Worship Center is something that we need to see is really important to us, reaching the Community = Dan Miller= +++++JESUS+++++ that how it work.. it is all Jesus.

Exploring the Unchruched Mind ... Unchurched Friend 1

As I was sitting in my room think of a person to call and ask these question to for this assignment, it was not easy to find one that I know that has not been church before that I talk to all the time. Then it came to me, I have a friend that I meet a couple years back that called me the other day to say hi. Since he opened up by calling even through we had not talked for almost a year. He called and it was a good talk. So I said to myself maybe this could be the one that could answer my question about the un- Christian world and the world that I am living in today. So I called him up the next day and talk for two hours. At that time I felt that I reconnected with him in that I was able to ask these question with out being “unchurched friend” that I have not talked to forever’ answer these question. I need to talk to him before I did this because I know him as a person that get offend really easily. A little about his background in the church. He went to church as a little kid but as he got old he parent stop going, so in turn he stopped going to. He started to not believe in anything. I asked him if he believe in God, he said Yes, but that he doesn’t really care that much anymore about God, Church, or religion. He said that he is just a life rider, surfing through life with no care. After some small talk about our lives. He told me things that impact him the most is working and trying to find a nice girl to marry. I asked him a couple question about the area that he lives in know, which is fun because it is my home town too. He was I don’t really care that much, but if I had to say something, It would have to be drugs. He said the reason why there is a drug problem because there is nothing for teen or adult really to do in the town, so smoke pot is just better then sitting around. One thing that I thought was interesting that he said was that either people sitting around do nothing, or go out to the movie or get in trouble, and this is what shocked me, go to the Main Street Baptist church. He was talking that everyone goes there to play games and hang. From that I asked him, if you went to church what would you look for? He said People that were real. He felt that church people were not real with him at all, it was like they are selling a bag of dirty but making it out to be gold. At this time, I felt the need to be like but it is not, but people do need to be real. But what I said that has now let him be very open with me is that. People in the church can be un real just like the people outside but there are a lot of people that are real and understand that life is hard it is not easy. Trying to be Christian is easy, why take the easy way out. This related to him because he is one crazy guy, so he was like harder life seems better and more real. Understanding the thinking that he went through in answering this answer is something that only a person that knew them can do… Relationship is the KEY