# MyJournal — 7/18/05 10:48 pm #
Today God helped me to accomplish a few things for the church plant. The major thing that I was able to do was to set up a dynamic graph that will automatically display our current support level according to two .csv files on our webserver.
It’s something that I had been wanting to do for a while, and I’m really satisfied that it is now done. I think it looks great and I’m really excited about the fact that I have been able to accomplish it.
Another thing that I have been working on is the new little computer that Josh Thomas’s boss gave to me. Today, I installed (excuse the language…) Damn Small Linux on it. It is a tiny little linux distribution that allows you to run a full desktop in a very minimalistic environment. My plan is to use it as a web an file server, so it needs to have mySQL or some database on it, Apache, more ram perhaps, and a bigger hard drive perhaps. I’m planning to get it set up here to be like a personal intranet and file server, but that’s just as a test bed.
On a more direct ministry note, I had a meeting with Ruth and Sunil to talk about a wedding reception for Jonathan Kaushal. I was really flattered that out of all the pastors they know and out of all the frustrations they have had with me, they chose me to do the ceremony. I don’t really understand their reasons, but I’m flattered by it.
For some reason they respect me, and that feels pretty good.
I’m also excited because once I got all the data entered and the information on the chart all updated to track our support level, I clicked the refresh button and it popped up with 35% support!
In just two weeks of real support raising efforts, we are at more than 1/3 of what we need.
Of course, the major gifts have already come in. The major contributors have already made their pledges, and now the real grunt work needs to begin… now, the real prayer needs to begin.
Jen and I haven’t really contacted many people from Northwest Baptist yet, so I don’t know what kind of response we will get from them, and I’m not sure who on our list still needs to be contacted.
I need to do some work on our database system to see who has been contacted and who hasn’t and all that stuff.
I need to track the gifts that have come in and make sure the right people get on my email mailing list and stuff.
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So today is the second day of my 30 minutes a day fasting kind of thing, and I’m doing it, but it’s late at night, and I’m not really fasting from anything to get it done. I guess I’m not doing my hobby with the new server, but I’m not really giving anything up to sit here. I should have done that earlier tonight, and maybe the chart thing would have worked out faster than it did.
I just don’t trust God to take care of that stuff.
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God, I want to trust you even when I’m right in the middle of doing something. I want to trust you that when I stop for you, I will reap the benefits later. I want to trust you for all the things I face.
So here I am in front of you just sitting and typing and praying and I want to let you know that I’m not going to give up on this this time. I’m not going to quit doing this fasting thing until I know that I’ve heard from you and I know that my relationship with you is stronger. I’m going to stick with it. I want to really connect with you.
I love you…
Help me get better at this.
J
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