Jeff Noble - "Notes from the Trail"

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2008 Roundup

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2008 Roundup

Jeff Noble
Jan 1, 2009
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2008 Roundup

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At the beginning of 2008, I never dreamed...

  • I would walk the streets of Krakow, Poland.

  • See Auschwitz.

  • Baptize Taylor James.

  • Preach in a Polish Baptist church.

  • Get published in a book for childrens charity.

  • Attend the Arkansas Baptist State Convention voluntarily.

  • I'd own a flat screen TV.

  • Carolyn would be diagnosed with breast cancer.

  • My family would receive sooo much love and prayer support.

  • Journey would gain so many new families and friends.

  • Journey would also lose a few more folks.

  • I'd reconnect with Tim Smith at Exponential in Orlando.

  • Olympics in China!?

  • Attend another Passion event in Dallas with Carolyn - and have to stay in the hotel with the flu.

  • Help develop an informal church planters network in Arkansas

  • See Sam go to his first week-long kids camp - by himself

  • Teach a seminar on using the internet for godly influence at Glorieta, NM

  • Watch Adelyn place first in just about every race she swam in.

  • See the UAM BCM building begin construction!

  • Attend the last worship service for the BCM in their old building (built in 1954).

  • Meet Ed Stetzer.

  • Become a Twaddict.

  • Get beat in the first round of the fantasy football playoffs.

  • Shop unsuccessfully for a Kia Rondo.

  • Get a moped stolen from me and have money provided to purchase a new one.

  • Fall more in love with my wife than ever.

  • Resurrect the old joke about seeing the fortune teller (don't ask; you have to present to fall for it.)

  • See gas go over $4 and under $1.50 in one year. That's retarded.

  • Be prayed for consistently and dramatically and intensely by so many folks from all over the world. (That's a blog post forthcoming in and of itself.)

  • Witness "The Catch" in Superbowl 2008.

  • Have some strong aversion to words like bailout, change, and pork.

  • See such radical change in national leadership and history made at the same time.

  • Live in our house without power for five days due to a hurricane

  • Watch Carolyn get her own iPhone and become one of those users she used to lash out at.

  • Witness a near-worship service on one of the last shows of American Idol '08.

  • Get to play in foot-deep snow in the middle of March in Arkansas!

  • Find a new home for Fancy the chihuahua, get a new dog... have a cat run over... and get a kitten for Christmas... whew. Pet Replacement Year.

  • Learn so much about Christ, life and intimacy with God through hardship.

  • Preach in Newark, Arkansas.

  • See dozens of college students coming to our church.

  • Marry one of my former students... (I was the officiating pastor... I'm not from Texas...)

  • Admit that PCs are better than Macs... then I woke up in a cold sweat. What a nightmare.

What did you see happen that surprised you? Blog about it and leave a comment and a link!

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