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This week a select group of people are on a Compassion Bloggers trip in Kenya, visiting projects (think churches with after school programs) and getting a better understanding of how the locals live life everyday.

Scot and I attended a vision trip to Guatemala in October 2009 that changed my life. I can only imagine the content you’re going to see from these bloggers as they experience some amazing, life changing events on this trip.

Here’s a video from LV Hanson’s post over at CatalystSpace:

Dakika Moja – Episode 1 from Catalyst on Vimeo.

You can also text ‘disaster’ to 90999 to donate $10.

If you live in the Nashville area be sure to get tickets to this amazing event being held at Ryman Auditorium at 7:30pm central time.

Tell your friends. Tell your family. Tell everyone. Haiti still needs our help.

We dropped this one at MCC a couple weeks ago. Love it.

50 There was a man by the name of Joseph, a member of the Jewish High Council, a man of good heart and good character. 51 He had not gone along with the plans and actions of the council. His hometown was the Jewish village of Arimathea. 52 He lived in alert expectation of the kingdom of God. He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. -Luke 23

Alert expectation. That’s a man who’s ready for the Master to come home. He’s not sleeping on the job, or getting lazy. He’s alert and expecting the kingdom.

Do I act as if I expect the kingdom? I don’t think I do. I live in expectation of tomorrow. How does that differ?

Expectation of the kingdom is keeping your eyes open for *every* opportunity that comes your way. Being ready to make a difference for His name no matter what you do, where you are, or who you know. Why? Because tomorrow might never come. Tomorrow may never arrive. You have to live every day as if it’s your last and seize every opportunity to share the good news of the One that saved you.

I act as if I’m going to breathe this air for 1000 years.

Do you live in “alert expectation?”

Bob is a resident at the Lighthouse Mission. Bob was on his way across the country when he ran out of money in Ohio. He pawned some stuff and had enough to get him as far as Terre Haute. He landed at the mission a few months ago and has been there ever since.

We heard he played guitar and sang so we asked him to play a little song.

And he did.

Thanks Bob.