Its All About Jesus

Happy Easter!

Today we went to the downtown Mars Hill service at Benaroya Hall.

It was large and beautiful in there- as you can see and it was a FULL house.  They also had the Seattle Symphony playing with the worship band making it wonderfully beautiful.  They started off the service with a song we ended with at Good Friday.  The sound of the symphony and the worship song brought instant tears to my eyes.  I really was holding back tears when they led into "All Creatures"- the song the wedding party and myself walked down to at our wedding- ahh so wonderful.  Pastor Mark Driscoll spoke live at our service and it was ALL about Jesus.  Pastor Mark let Jesus speak for himself and went through a handful of main points where Jesus said: he descended from heaven, was sinless, forgave sins, IS GOD.  One of the things he said that has made an impression is  "you need to deal with the REAL Jesus".  He was saying that you can reject Him or love Him but it needs to be the real Jesus you are either rejecting or loving- not a made up one.  It is easy to reject or love something you have altered to make whatever you choose more acceptable but to reject or love the REAL Jesus is the REAL DEAL.

big news! Jesus is Alive!

After the message was a PARTY!  There were around 100 baptisms done while the band and symphony continued to play worship music.  Like Josh said, "baptisms never get old" it was an emotional, worshipful, joyous time!


After service we headed to the best possible place to have an Easter meal- an irish pub!  Josh and I struggled to find a buffet and or a brunch that we wouldn't be paying out our noses- so we thought our favorite restaurant our here would be a good choice.  We enjoyed a breakfast plate and a Bally Castle Sausage Roll at Kell's Irish Pub in Post-Alley of downtown.

We strolled the Pike's Market in the nice warm sunshine- lots of beautiful flowers and fun arts and crafts.

We each got a chance to skype with our families- which was great, but it always makes me miss home that much more.

We have spent the rest of the evening hanging out and are currently watching "Up" on the "big screen".  This coming week brings more job hunting for me and Josh getting started on mapping out our time here with the different ministries.

Please pray for

• my job hunt that something would materialize soon.  
• Josh starting his job at Starbucks- that training will all go well
• finding a home church and developing some quality friends

once again- Happy Easter and remember- its all about Jesus! :)  night and sweet dreams