Josh
For the sunshiners out there that have been to the Sunshine Festival in Willmar, MN, you might have heard this guy named Josh Finklea speaking, a Youth Pastor. He had a very interesting message about his experience with God in different country’s. The thing that struck me most was the idea “is your church a clean church or a dirty one”. Doctors are for the sick, not the healthy, just as Jesus was and we can model our Church after that. Invite and accept the outcasts of society, the prostitutes, homosexuals and drunks, the people that we have been taught not to be associated with. To unlearn that way of thinking and invite them, accept them, and especially, love them as Jesus did. Not to love what the do or did, but love them as the people God made them.
Anyways, I wrote him an email sharing some stuff and saying that his ministry has reached Paraguay. He responded and was glad to here that.
Here some info:
http://www.staroutreach.net/ is the ministry he has started
http://www.myspace.com/joshfinklea
http://www.compassion.com/ Comassion. Child sponsering.
Sonshine Festival 2007
From July 12-14 we were in Willmar, MN for the Sonshine Festival. With about 200 artists and bands performing at 5 stages during 3 days… It was awesome.
Personally I enjoyed TobyMac’s show, Skillet’s hard yet inspiring Rock, Jeremy Camp’s beautiful worship concert and Switchfoot’s as well. The rest were great as well, but these stand out the most. Hope to go again some year, but untill then… here are some pic’s
Sanctus Real
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TobyMac
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David Crowder, yes, that’s a Guitar Hero guitar…
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Jeremy Camp on stage with Hawk Nelson lead singer
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Skillet lead singer
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Kutless lead singer on a stage support tower
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Relient K’s Matt Thiessen
Hillsong Concert in Paraguay
I was at a Hillsong United concert last week and it was awesome. Thousands of people worshiping God in a country that lacks dedicated christians. It was a great experience, great worship, not just a concert.
There were many that dedicated their lives that night to the one and only saviour, and I hope and pray that this is the beginning of a new era in Paraguay.
