Archive for the ‘Joshua Life’ Category
Good News. Tonight is Purim. We’re pretty excited about it. Now you may ask yourself. What is Purim? Well. I am glad you asked. Let me tell you. Purim is a Jewish feast celebrated each year in remembrance of Esther and her bravery in the face of genocide of the Jewish people. Taryn is especially [...]
GOOD MORNING PARENTS AND LIKEFELLOW! We are here at the Joshua building reporting on the highlight of the weekend:THE BOXSLED BLITZ!!! This weekend the Joshua students were invited to participate in this epic race. This is what the participants have to say in response to so me very difficult questions: Luke, tell us about the [...]
Andy Schmidt and Nick Zavala here hijacking the Joshua Blog! Nick and I graduated from JWI last year and have returned for our annual reunion, which took place last evening. It was a strange thing to walk into our past home to see that it has now become the home of others, however it was [...]
Here is an addition to the weekly Joshua blog. Salutations to the parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, friends, and siblings, and pets who actually read this weekly account. This week has been a week of awesomeness; our speaker has been Brad Bell from the Well Community Church in Fresno, CA who we get to see [...]
Greetings fellow earthlings, it is we once again to update you on recent events. You have now entered the space-time continuum that is called the Joshua Wilderness Institute. Unfortunately, not much has really occurred since we’ve been back in the building. Let’s see: there was a Corinthians test, we had our Corinthians class, we had [...]
“Are you sure you want me to write this blog?” I asked. My story of today is not a highlight-reel of incredible experiences. Rather, it is one of disappointment. “Yes,” they said; I would be the one to write the blog. Okay. Here it goes. Our afternoon was spent in Santa Monica. We were sent [...]
First off let me say that this place is beyond me, I did not really know all these places were here. Like the dream center, and how close skid row was to the convention district in downtown LA. Today was an interesting day, we started it off by going to The Getty museum, which I [...]
This week at the Joshua building, Josh Reibock was our special guest speaker, like special guest referee in the WWE. He is by far the youngest, most hip speaker we have had, by far. He is a storyteller, speaker, and writer. This week he spoke to us with rich imagery. He brought simple parables to [...]
I’m dedicating this blog post to all of the moms who have cleaned up after their children day in and day out for our entire lives. This weekend, Megan, Micaela and I (Lauryn) were dinning hosts for the winter camp full of 1,000 hungry high schoolers. Each of us had our different stations or “corners” [...]
It’s crazy that in just two short weeks we’ll be heading to L.A. Preparations have begun as we have started to refresh or unveil our evangelism skills. We have started off by reading: The Gospel and Personal Evangelism by Mark Dever. Last Wednesday we broke off into groups and reviewed different chapters of the book. [...]
