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Friday, August 28, 2009

It's been awhile

I have spent the last week thinking about college. My wife and I took our son Tony up to Crown College near Waconia, MN. It was an interesting week leading up to the journey north. We attempted to stock pile stuff that we/he thought we needed. Sometimes we differed on what was important. Bed sheets and towels weren't seen as important as cool pens, iPod gadgets, etc.
It was his money, but he does have enough bed sheet sets and towels as well as being fully equipped to do well in school.

Before I left for Minnesota I came across an article about Henry Kelly. After reading the article I knew I would comment via several blogs on his views on Satan.

Mr. Kelly is a UCLA English professor who spoke during a four day international Catholic biblical conference on the Creighton University Campus. His soap box was to argue for "an angel that popular culture incorrectly portrays as the pitchfork-toting emodiment of all evil." His talk was titled, "Lucifer: The Good, the Bad, and the Really Bad."

I need to reread the article so I can give some semi-intelligent thought and reaction to what he had to say.

Stay tuned.....

On the journey,
Steve Walters
CCC-Sarpy Campus Pastor

posted by Steve Walters at 3:08 PM

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

What a Deal!

I can't believe how great of an event Step Out is.

As promised at the Sarpy Campus two weeks ago, I checked out the number of hours donated last year and the monetary value of the volunteerism from Step Out.

2008 - 6,000 participants averaging 4 hours of work = 24,000 total hours
2008 - estimated monetary value? $408,000.

Here is another tidbit. Total monetary value donated to the Omaha Metro area since Step Out began five years ago? $ 2 million.

I'm not only impressed with those figures but love the thought that those who participated got to know a ministry in a unique way and were able to get to know the other participants in a unique way too.

Besides, you get a t-shirt and a lunch.

For this Sunday there are 109 partipants registered to first eat lunch in the cafeteria at Lewis & Clark and then car pool to the five different sites in east Sarpy County.

May God use us to be a blessing!
May you be blessed by being a blessing!

Steve Walters
CCC-Sarpy Campus Pastor

posted by Steve Walters at 11:48 AM

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

God is Smiling


When I think of the five Back Yard Bible Clubs that CCC-Sarpy hosted over the past two months, I can't help but smile....

  • watching the volunteers give of their time to teach children how much God loves them.
  • watching the volunteers serve with gracious hearts.
  • knowing that many of these children are hearing the truths about God for the first time.
  • knowing that our total attendance from 2008 [60] doubled in 2009 [125].


BYBC remind me of imagining Jesus smiling in Mark 10.13-16 as He was picking up the children at the end of passage.

"The people brought children to Jesus, hoping He might touch them. The disciples shooed them off. But Jesus was irate and let them know it: "Don't push these children away. Don't ever get between them and me. These children are at the very center of life in the kingdom. Mark this: Unless you accept God's kingdom in the simplicity of a child, you'll never get in." Then, gathering the children upin His arms, He laid His hands of blessing on them." [The Message]



Joyfully on the journey,

Steve Walters

posted by Steve Walters at 9:33 AM