Schools Out Forever

Schools Out Forever, I have to laugh as I type because during my high school years each year on the last day of school I would jam out to that song. This Summer I plan to continue to update my house, complete 4 writing projects, Officiate and Participate in quite a few weddings, and hopefully get some time out of town to take a few deep breaths. What about you, I would love to hear about your plans!!!


Live to Love.
C

Next Sunday

Don't forget to bring your change!

We are continuing our efforts to gain funds for our water project in Brazil. Don't forget to bring your change to community in the morning.

Live to Love,

C

Don't Miss June 11th, 2011

Hey guys I am partnering with the Dallas Chapter of Guardian Angels and Premier Martial Arts to provide a free seminar that will change you and your kid's life.

The event will be  at Premier Martial Arts Training Facility on South 14th street.

11:30AM-12:30PM Bully Prevention for Children 6 and up, taught by Professor James Cox, 7th Degree Black Belt



12:30-1:00PM Guardian Angels Open Forum, during this session you will be able to ask Rafael the leader of the Guardian Angels in Dallas any questions you might have about Guardian Angels.


1:00PM-2:00PM Adult Self Defense taught by Professor James and Rafael of the Guardian Angels.

Need Your Feedback

When you think of the word Christian what comes to your mind? Or let me rephrase that question, if you are a Christian, before you came to Christ, what did you think of when you heard the word Christian?

Mall Cop

So like I mentioned in a previous post my family is out of town for a few days. Therefore I am catching up on a lot of unfinished projects around my house. This morning, as I began my day, I started to sand our kitchen cabinets. Needless to say, my first cabinet didn't come out too good. You can see it featured in the corner of this post. Ha Ha I felt like Paul Blart on Mall Cop when he got a cut on his arm. I bled quite a bit, in all honesty I was scared I needed stitches because of the amount of blood. Even now, I can't quit laughing as I blog. What happened next is I took the horrifying leap to finally execute every ounce of courage within me. I look down, pull the shard of glass out of my knee and in disbelief I notice my horrifying cut was gigantic, the truth was it was about an inch long. Ha Ha. Life, at times you just have to pause and laugh.

I enclosed a clip of Mall Cop just for laughs


Live to Love.
C

Mall Cop

So like I mentionedin a previous post my family is out of town for a few days. Therefore I am catching up on a lot of unfinished projects around my house. This morning, as I began my day, I started to sand our kitchen cabinets. Needless to say, my first cabinet didn't come out too good. You can see it featured in the corner of this post. Ha Ha I felt like Paul Blart on Mall Cop when he got a cut on his arm. I bled quite a bit, in all honesty I was scared I needed stitches because of the amount of blood. Even now, I can't quit laughing as I blog. What happened next is I took the horrifying leap to finally execute every ounce of courage within me. I look down, pull the shard of glass out of my knee and much and in disbelief I notice my horrifying cut was gigantic, the truth was it was about an inch long. Ha Ha. Life, at times you just have to pause and laugh.


Live to Love.
C

Mall Cop

So like I mentionedin a previous post my family is out of town for a few days. Therefore I am catching up on a lot of unfinished projects around my house. This morning, as I began my day, I started to sand our kitchen cabinets. Needless to say, my first cabinet didn't come out too good. You can see it featured in the corner of this post. Ha Ha I felt like Paul Blart on Mall Cop when he got a cut on his arm. I bled quite a bit, in all honesty I was scared I needed stitches because of the amount of blood. Even now, I can't quit laughing as I blog. What happened next is I took the horrifying leap to finally execute every ounce of courage within me. I look down, pull the shard of glass out of my knee and much and in disbelief I notice my horrifying cut was gigantic, the truth was it was about an inch long. Ha Ha. Life, at times you just have to pause and laugh.





Live to Love.
C

Mall Cop

So like I mentioned in a previous post my family is out of town for a few days. Therefore I am catching up on a lot of unfinished projects around my house. This morning, as I began my day, I started to sand our kitchen cabinets. Needless to say, my first cabinet didn't come out too good. You can see it featured in the corner of this post. Ha Ha I felt like Paul Blart on Mall Cop when he got a cut on his arm. I bled quite a bit, in all honesty I was scared I needed stitches because of the amount of blood. Even now, I can't quit laughing as I blog. What happened next is I took the horrifying leap to finally execute every ounce of courage within me. I look down, pull the shard of glass out of my knee and much and in disbelief I notice my horrifying cut was gigantic, the truth was it was about an inch long. Ha Ha. Life, at times you just have to pause and laugh.

http://youtu.be/72G-5VrPsVA

Live to Love.
C

Mall Cop

So like I mentioned in a previous post my family is out of town for a few days. Therefore I am catching up on a lot of unfinished projects around my house. This morning, as I began my day, I started to sand our kitchen cabinets. Needless to say, my first cabinet didn't come out too good. You can see it featured in the corner of this post. Ha Ha I felt like Paul Blart on Mall Cop when he got a cut on his arm. I bled quite a bit, in all honesty I was scared I needed stitches because of the amount of blood. Even now, I can't quit laughing as I blog. What happened next is I took the horrifying leap to finally execute every ounce of courage within me. I look down, pull the shard of glass out of my knee and much and in disbelief I notice my horrifying cut was gigantic, in fact is was

about an inch long. Ha Ha. Life, at times you just have to pause and laugh.

Live to Love.
C

Not Forgotten

Yesterday was the anniversary of the death of one of my friends, who I had the great privilege to witness God transform him. Albert though you might be gone, you are not forgotten, your legacy will continue to live on.

STOP THE VIOLENCE AUG 27TH, 2011

Here is Albert's obituary.

Albert Cadena, 29, passed away Monday, May 26, 2008. Services will be held at 11:00 a.m. Friday at The Mission at the corner of North 3rd and Mockingbird, with Pastor Chad Mitchell officiating. Burial will follow in Elmwood Memorial Park, directed by Abilene Funeral Home. Mr. Cadena was born on April 30, 1979, in El Paso to Carlos and Lidia Cadena. He had been a resident of Abilene since 2001.

Survivors include his wife, Maria Cadena of Abilene; two sons, Domanik Damien Cadena of Abilene and Albert Vincent Cadena of California; two daughters, Celina Marie Martinez of Abilene and Destiny Marie Cadena of California; his parents, Carlos and Lidia Cadena of Abilene; three brothers, Carlos Cadena, Jr. of El Paso, Adrian Cadena and Alex Cadena, both of Abilene; a sister, Melissa Cadena Rodriguez and husband Victor of Abilene; and his grandparents, Justina Cadena and Matilde Ramirez.

A visitation will be held from 6:00 until 8:00 p.m. Thursday at Abilene Funeral Home, 3349 N. 12th Street.

New Lego Box

Early this morning my Ash and double trouble aka (Alexis and Sadie) caught a flight to Houston to surprise Ash's Grandma for her 80 birthday. Today I spent most of my day tackling some household projects, and tonight I was able to catch dinner with my great parents. Throughout the night, my father and I talked about sports, and the fond memories that we made during my athletic career, but more importantly than my sports accolades were the conversations that centered around my childhood friends. I found this portion of our conversation the most intriguing. My Dad and I would constantly say, "I wonder where they ended up?" Then I would mention another person and my Dad would say, "Hmm, I wonder what they are doing?"

Sadly enough don't we do that as Christians as well? Life gets busy and we disconnect from our community. We lose touch, and eventually the body of Christ as a result of our selfishness looks like a box of new legos waiting to be connected.

As a new day arrives, I dare you to catch up with somebody that you haven't grabbed a cup of coffee with in a long time, make time for that person that God has placed on your heart for weeks, or simply enjoy community some how, some way.

Live to Love.
C

Help

I'm going to spend the rest of the day celebrating what God did today but next week I need your help. Next Sunday afternoon we will be helping Grace Fellowship with an outreach. If you would like to help out give me a shout at the office:

Live to Love
C

The sun stood still

Today we witnessed the sun stand still at Mission Abilene. Our church community donated our entire offering to pay for a Water filteration system that will provide clean water to approximately 3000 people in Brazil. Glory to God

Continue to dream, dreams really do come true.

Live to Love
C

Lost Sleep

The last several days have been extremely painful around our household. Our little Sadie, had an incredibly hard time cutting her upper front tooth. Countless nights of lost sleep, witnessing your lil one be in pain is quite tough to witness. I'm happy to say that Sadie did, finally cut her front tooth, so needless to say our house has got a little bit more sleep recently. I thought I would share with you a pic that was taken prior to her tooth finally breaking through.

: Look who is coming to STOP THE VIOLENCE 2011

Yesterday, I had the great honor to get a confirmation from Big Al, the founder of the Mongols Motorcycle club that he will join us for Stop The Violence 2011 on August 27th, 2011. Check out the video that depicts a portion of his life that CBN composed.

Shh...don't tell anyone, just kidding tell everyone

MINI-SERIES CONTINUES, DON'T MISS OUT

THE SUN STAND STILL MINI-SERIES CONTINUES THIS
SUNDAY MAY 8TH, 2011

HISTORIC EVENT

On MAY 15TH, 2011 MISSION ABILENE WILL PARTICIPATE IN A HISTORIC EVENT, A DAY THAT HAS THE POTENTIAL TO  IMPACT OVER 2,000 LIVES ACROSS THE GLOBE.


WILL YOU BE A PART OF THE MOVEMENT?