The Art of Marriage is taking on a whole new look and feel. Through the generosity of a FamilyLife donor, the Art of Marriage will now be seen in Spanish with no subtitles.
When The Art of Marriage first took on a Spanish feel, our intent was to reach the third most spoken language as fast as possible. We took the series and subtitled it in Spanish with a word for word translation through subtitles. Since Art of Marriage is not a movie and there is much more dialog, it was not that effective for viewers to keep up with the fast pace and quickly moving subtitles, thus not having the “reach” we desired.
Beginning just after Thanksgiving, the Global Department took on the overwhelming task of removing the subtitles, and finding Spanish actors that could do a voice dub-over in Spanish. It sounds pretty easy once you find a company that can do that for $10,000?! God led us to a company in Miami that would hire Colombian actors and create the Spanish voice track we needed.
Then the fun began for Hal. Global came to the Video Department and asked us to strip all the English voices and leave only the music and sound effects. Once again, it sounds pretty simple - just turn off the English voice track. Easy enough, until we started going through the original files, only to find that there was no ‘voice track’ and everything was mixed together. We eventually found the files with just the voices and were able to accomplish the task. But no, it doesn’t stop there. If you are using Spanish voices, what about all the graphics in English? Art of Marriage is loaded with graphics and text animations, which also needed to be changed. If anyone is familiar with Spanish, the words are not the same length as English, thus requiring us to change a majority of the animations along with the text to make this work correctly.
We praise the Lord for giving Hal the talent to be able to change all the text and animations, saving the ministry over $40,000 to fix the graphics. What a blessing Hal has, to be a small part in potentially reaching millions of Spanish speaking people with the gospel through Art of Marriage. This could possibly be another reason God moved the Drivers to Little Rock.
Sunday, January 27, 2013
Saturday, September 15, 2012
Summer Updates
It's been a couple of quiet months at our home this summer, but FamilyLife was extremely busy throughout the summer trying to finish the editing of the Spanish training we filmed in April. Praise the Lord we had a Spanish intern that was able to complete the basic edit and now we have about 6 sessions to complete color correction on.
Life at Fellowship Bible is changing for the whole church. We have changed our community groups to Discipleship Groups or D-Groups. This is a concentrated effort to take the entire church back to what God called us all to do, "make disciples'. We are working through a nine week series in our weekly groups called the Gospel Centered Life.
Hal's mom turned 83 in August along with our grandson turning 10 and we are thankful that Hal's mom is doing well after his dad's passing in March. Probably the biggest news of all in August was the announcement of Jon & Rachel's baby which is due around Christmas. Needless to say, the last two weeks of December will be spent in Tulsa waiting for the arrival of Jocelyn.
September will see both Charlotte and Hal traveling the same weekend in different directions. Charlotte will be going on a Women's FamilyLife Retreat for the weekend while Hal flies to Austin for a training class. No, he's not back to teaching, just attending.
Life at Fellowship Bible is changing for the whole church. We have changed our community groups to Discipleship Groups or D-Groups. This is a concentrated effort to take the entire church back to what God called us all to do, "make disciples'. We are working through a nine week series in our weekly groups called the Gospel Centered Life.
Hal's mom turned 83 in August along with our grandson turning 10 and we are thankful that Hal's mom is doing well after his dad's passing in March. Probably the biggest news of all in August was the announcement of Jon & Rachel's baby which is due around Christmas. Needless to say, the last two weeks of December will be spent in Tulsa waiting for the arrival of Jocelyn.
September will see both Charlotte and Hal traveling the same weekend in different directions. Charlotte will be going on a Women's FamilyLife Retreat for the weekend while Hal flies to Austin for a training class. No, he's not back to teaching, just attending.
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
MPD Trip
We spent the last nine days of June making our trip to see ministry partners. Our trip took us to Memphis, St Louis, Springfield, IL, Chicago, Ames, IA, Kansas City, Bentonville, AR and then home. We had a great time ministering and being ministered to, delivering resources and just a little fun.
Amy had her friend, Bethany, along for the trip and they had the privilege of going to "Worlds of Fun" amusement park while in Kansas City thanks to a very gracious partner.
Work has picked up again with much editing to do for all the training of regional and international staff. Hal took a short trip to Orlando to interview a couple for our staff conference the end of July and now begins the editing process. Thanks for making it possible!
Amy had her friend, Bethany, along for the trip and they had the privilege of going to "Worlds of Fun" amusement park while in Kansas City thanks to a very gracious partner.
Work has picked up again with much editing to do for all the training of regional and international staff. Hal took a short trip to Orlando to interview a couple for our staff conference the end of July and now begins the editing process. Thanks for making it possible!
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Updates
It's about time for another update covering Thanksgiving to the present:
Thanksgiving was spent in Tulsa with Joel & Bethia who graciously invited us, just weeks after their wedding. Joel and Hal shot an interview for the Weekend to Remember on Saturday with a couple from Broken Arrow! We swung through Bentonville, AR to pick up Katie and bring her back to Little Rock for a recovery period. Christmas took us to Burlington, NC to see David & Sarah Beth. We went through Atlanta to see Hal's brother and parents then returned to Atlanta four days later, since Dad was admitted to the hospital. He had surgery to remove a tumor in his wind pipe only to see him pass away on March 6 being unable to recover from hip surgery and cancer he had been battling for a few years.
January was actually quiet, but we were gearing up for a busy February and March.
February brought us to the cruise with FamilyLife, where Hal spent the week shooting video, the Missions Conference in Tulsa, and trips to Tahlequah, OK multiple times due to Dad's failing health.
March saw Dad peacefully pass away on the 6th, Jonathan and Rachel's rehearsal dinner on the 8th, their wedding the 9th, and Dad's memorial service the morning of the 10th. It was such a blessing to see Jon and Rachel come to honor his grandpa on the first day of their honeymoon.
Two weeks later, Hal headed to Miami, FL to shoot a Latin America Training session, teaching couples how to speak at a Weekend to Remember Getaway.
April started with Charlotte having parathyroid surgery, successfully removing a gland 6x the size it should have been. Easter will be in Tahlequah with Mom, since this will be her first holiday without Dad.
The rest of April and May seems to be quiet until Memorial Day when Kristi and Joey come for the weekend. June brings a missions trip for Amy to Nashville and a short ministry trip to Kansas City and Chicago to see ministry partners.
Hal
Thanksgiving was spent in Tulsa with Joel & Bethia who graciously invited us, just weeks after their wedding. Joel and Hal shot an interview for the Weekend to Remember on Saturday with a couple from Broken Arrow! We swung through Bentonville, AR to pick up Katie and bring her back to Little Rock for a recovery period. Christmas took us to Burlington, NC to see David & Sarah Beth. We went through Atlanta to see Hal's brother and parents then returned to Atlanta four days later, since Dad was admitted to the hospital. He had surgery to remove a tumor in his wind pipe only to see him pass away on March 6 being unable to recover from hip surgery and cancer he had been battling for a few years.
January was actually quiet, but we were gearing up for a busy February and March.
February brought us to the cruise with FamilyLife, where Hal spent the week shooting video, the Missions Conference in Tulsa, and trips to Tahlequah, OK multiple times due to Dad's failing health.
March saw Dad peacefully pass away on the 6th, Jonathan and Rachel's rehearsal dinner on the 8th, their wedding the 9th, and Dad's memorial service the morning of the 10th. It was such a blessing to see Jon and Rachel come to honor his grandpa on the first day of their honeymoon.
Two weeks later, Hal headed to Miami, FL to shoot a Latin America Training session, teaching couples how to speak at a Weekend to Remember Getaway.
April started with Charlotte having parathyroid surgery, successfully removing a gland 6x the size it should have been. Easter will be in Tahlequah with Mom, since this will be her first holiday without Dad.
The rest of April and May seems to be quiet until Memorial Day when Kristi and Joey come for the weekend. June brings a missions trip for Amy to Nashville and a short ministry trip to Kansas City and Chicago to see ministry partners.
Hal
Sunday, October 9, 2011
Weekend to Remember Approved in CHINA!
Many of you may remember from issues of the “Driver Herald” about a year ago, we told about the project Hal was working on for China. He was asked to capture the “Weekend to Remember” in Dallas and edit it into a set that would then have Chinese subtitles added, so that we could get approval from the Chinese government to hold public conferences in China. That project was finished and sent to China about six months ago, in hopes that we would get approval within the next year. Praise the Lord! We were officially granted an ISBN number that now makes FamilyLife materials legal in China. Below, is an email from Jim and Judy Burrows, our FamilyLife Missionaries in China, with the good news. Thank you for praying!
Kirk & Lynn Murray are a couple who started the process of coming to FamilyLife the same time we did and reported about three months ahead of us. They have become dear friends, and Hal worked directly with Kirk on this project. When Kirk told Hal the good news on Friday, September 9, 2011, he also made this comment: “... you know Hal, this may be one of the reasons God brought the Murrays and Drivers to Little Rock, to help FamilyLife reach potentially billions of Chinese people for Christ.”
Email from Jim & Judy Burrows:
“Dear Kirk,
If you already read Perry’s email, he may have beaten me to the punch. We Got It! We Got the ISBN! meaning the material is approved, and like Perry said below, we have approval even before having the finished product. Also, that means we can do fully public events now since we now have the approved number. We can even use our existing (pre-ISBN) WTR manuals until we have the finished product.
So you can pass this on to Dennis and Bob, that the bi- lingual WTR manual, 9/9/2011, has been approved as is and now legal in the People’s Republic of China. The title of the manual ‘The Real Meaning of Family Life’, we found was the best in translation. WTR, does not communicate to a Chinese audience.
Please give everyone there at Little Rock, Hal Driver, and all the others a big thank you for helping us get to this point. Now we can finally shift out of first gear.
Jim & Judy”
With your faithful prayer and financial support China now has a Biblical blueprint for marriages. Thanks, again, to all of our partners, you who make it possible for us to serve in God’s ministry.
Kirk & Lynn Murray are a couple who started the process of coming to FamilyLife the same time we did and reported about three months ahead of us. They have become dear friends, and Hal worked directly with Kirk on this project. When Kirk told Hal the good news on Friday, September 9, 2011, he also made this comment: “... you know Hal, this may be one of the reasons God brought the Murrays and Drivers to Little Rock, to help FamilyLife reach potentially billions of Chinese people for Christ.”
Email from Jim & Judy Burrows:
“Dear Kirk,
If you already read Perry’s email, he may have beaten me to the punch. We Got It! We Got the ISBN! meaning the material is approved, and like Perry said below, we have approval even before having the finished product. Also, that means we can do fully public events now since we now have the approved number. We can even use our existing (pre-ISBN) WTR manuals until we have the finished product.
So you can pass this on to Dennis and Bob, that the bi- lingual WTR manual, 9/9/2011, has been approved as is and now legal in the People’s Republic of China. The title of the manual ‘The Real Meaning of Family Life’, we found was the best in translation. WTR, does not communicate to a Chinese audience.
Please give everyone there at Little Rock, Hal Driver, and all the others a big thank you for helping us get to this point. Now we can finally shift out of first gear.
Jim & Judy”
With your faithful prayer and financial support China now has a Biblical blueprint for marriages. Thanks, again, to all of our partners, you who make it possible for us to serve in God’s ministry.
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Wednesday July 27, 2008
We left Ft. Collins this morning around 9a and headed to Trinidad, CO for our first stop with a cousin of Charlotte's and stay overnight in a B&B. Trinidad is a really expensive place for hotels, a Holiday Inn EXPRESS was going for $155 a night, but we found this historical B&B for much less.
Day 8 - Staff Conference
Tuesday is the last day for staff conference. The day began with an email from Spencer (leader of the tent tours) with the numbers of people who toured our tent. Here is a segment from his email that tell it all:
Highlight of the day….
Kathi & I were visiting Staff Depot w/Don Zerbian, and in walked Mrs. Bright w/her asst. Sarah. When we greeted her, she was adamant that she needed FL resources; she knew a young couple in trouble and wanted to help. We invited her over to “The Journey Home”, and Sarah drove her over to our tent. After her tour, we gave her Dennis’ book for the husband and Life Ready Woman for the wife, in addition, a few extra copies she wanted to give to other friends. We also gave her a “WTRG Guest Pass” for the couple to attend – Vonette was extremely grateful. Big moment was when she stepped in the front door to our home, and she saw the photo of her and Bill and she got teary eyed. A very special visit. Oh, she really wants the audio to listen to again, and share. What a great day!!! What a wonderful Lady!!!!
Today was record breaking guest attendance with 403 guests. The Lord blessed us with a total of 1,434 Cru Guests – that’s about 29% of Cru Staff attending CSU!!! Wow!!!
Singles and/or Couples filled out one card each – so, out of the 820 cards filled out when our guests finished “The Journey Home” experience, 646 checked one or more HomeBuilder tool boxes, 79% of our guests have joined us, and God, as HomeBuilders!!!!! Another Wow!!!!
God blessed us in helping us beat our attendance goal; we beat our HomeBuilder goal, and beat our Staff Interest goal. We can’t wait to see what the days and weeks ahead will be like for the 53 couples that are interested in pursuing joining God’s HomeBuilder movement w/FamilyLife!!!! Giving Him ALL the glory for this time here at the tent!
The morning session was a bit different after the praise and worship. We were able here from the 4 speakers conducting the afternoon Super Seminars. After hearing Phil Cooke, I realized this was the seminar I needed since it was about marketing and I'm in the marketing department at FamilyLife. Much of what he said reminded me of some of the things I taught in the marketing classes I did with National Seminars. He was also behind the name change 100% because of our changing audience and the people we need to reach.
We were able to hear Dave Platt, author of the book Radical share his heart. He has a church in Birmingham and knows Crawford Lorits, one of his mentors and board members of CCC and FamilyLife. We had a farewell for Bob Horner who hosted the staff conference for over 40 years. In the process of him saying a few words of farewell, he mentioned that part of his job of hosting was to make people think a bad speaker was great even if they weren't. All that to say, Dave Platt was over intimidated when he got up to speak. He didn't was to be one of those 'bad speakers'. He was over the top as a speaker even though he felt he was 'in over his head'. He used Isaiah 6 as his text, emphasizing how great our God is. What a way to end our conference.
The day ended with a 'circus' (mostly just a bunch of circus food and a couple of acts. Some of us bailed and went to a coffee house near by for some fellowship. These people our a few of our closer friends, the Damiens and Davaults.
We head home this morning taking 4 days to get home seeing a few people on our way. We may by-pass Oklahoma City, since the people we wanted to see are not available, and just get back to Little Rock early.
Harold
Highlight of the day….
Kathi & I were visiting Staff Depot w/Don Zerbian, and in walked Mrs. Bright w/her asst. Sarah. When we greeted her, she was adamant that she needed FL resources; she knew a young couple in trouble and wanted to help. We invited her over to “The Journey Home”, and Sarah drove her over to our tent. After her tour, we gave her Dennis’ book for the husband and Life Ready Woman for the wife, in addition, a few extra copies she wanted to give to other friends. We also gave her a “WTRG Guest Pass” for the couple to attend – Vonette was extremely grateful. Big moment was when she stepped in the front door to our home, and she saw the photo of her and Bill and she got teary eyed. A very special visit. Oh, she really wants the audio to listen to again, and share. What a great day!!! What a wonderful Lady!!!!
Today was record breaking guest attendance with 403 guests. The Lord blessed us with a total of 1,434 Cru Guests – that’s about 29% of Cru Staff attending CSU!!! Wow!!!
Singles and/or Couples filled out one card each – so, out of the 820 cards filled out when our guests finished “The Journey Home” experience, 646 checked one or more HomeBuilder tool boxes, 79% of our guests have joined us, and God, as HomeBuilders!!!!! Another Wow!!!!
God blessed us in helping us beat our attendance goal; we beat our HomeBuilder goal, and beat our Staff Interest goal. We can’t wait to see what the days and weeks ahead will be like for the 53 couples that are interested in pursuing joining God’s HomeBuilder movement w/FamilyLife!!!! Giving Him ALL the glory for this time here at the tent!
The morning session was a bit different after the praise and worship. We were able here from the 4 speakers conducting the afternoon Super Seminars. After hearing Phil Cooke, I realized this was the seminar I needed since it was about marketing and I'm in the marketing department at FamilyLife. Much of what he said reminded me of some of the things I taught in the marketing classes I did with National Seminars. He was also behind the name change 100% because of our changing audience and the people we need to reach.
We were able to hear Dave Platt, author of the book Radical share his heart. He has a church in Birmingham and knows Crawford Lorits, one of his mentors and board members of CCC and FamilyLife. We had a farewell for Bob Horner who hosted the staff conference for over 40 years. In the process of him saying a few words of farewell, he mentioned that part of his job of hosting was to make people think a bad speaker was great even if they weren't. All that to say, Dave Platt was over intimidated when he got up to speak. He didn't was to be one of those 'bad speakers'. He was over the top as a speaker even though he felt he was 'in over his head'. He used Isaiah 6 as his text, emphasizing how great our God is. What a way to end our conference.
The day ended with a 'circus' (mostly just a bunch of circus food and a couple of acts. Some of us bailed and went to a coffee house near by for some fellowship. These people our a few of our closer friends, the Damiens and Davaults.
We head home this morning taking 4 days to get home seeing a few people on our way. We may by-pass Oklahoma City, since the people we wanted to see are not available, and just get back to Little Rock early.
Harold
Day 7 - Staff Conference
Monday turned out to be an extremely busy day, we had 2 shifts at the tent and normal meetings and seminars during the afternoon. We helped in the hospitality area in the afternoon and started people on the tour in the evening. Another hot day, but fun. I ended up being the bouncer (keeping people from coming in the exit) and Charlotte was the waitress give people soda, water, and tea after their tour of the tent.
The David Crowder band played at 9:00p but we were too beat to attend and went to bed.
Harold
The David Crowder band played at 9:00p but we were too beat to attend and went to bed.
Harold
Day 6 - Staff Conference
It is now Sunday and we headed off to a small Community church close to campus. The pastor was great and spoke from his heart being transparent with the congregation. We headed back to CSU for lunch then off to 'Old Town' where we toured a late 1800's home. It was very close to period in all the furnishings and restoration. Amazing how far we have come.
We headed to Denver about 5 to meet one of my friends from National Seminar days and had a great dinner with them. We got back to CSU about 10:30p and crashed. Busy day for a day off from meetings.
Harold
We headed to Denver about 5 to meet one of my friends from National Seminar days and had a great dinner with them. We got back to CSU about 10:30p and crashed. Busy day for a day off from meetings.
Harold
Day 5 - Staff Conference
It is now Saturday and the media has now had two days of what we referred to as a 'firestorm'. They spent 2 days blasting what we did with the name change and we were dropping Christ from the ministry to be politically correct. Of course they had no clue what they were talking about. On Friday, Steve Sellers was able to talk about the name change of FOX and was able to use the name of Jesus 16 times and explained that we have in no way changed what we do. We just needed a new name for the new culture.
We spent part of the afternoon in break out seminars and we took our first shift greeting people at the tent. We say over 30 couples and some singles take the tour. It was very busy for 3 hours and hot. I had a bug take bites out of my neck during that time. Had about 6 bites before our shift was over.
The day ended with our evening meeting and they sent us off to the first break (Sunday) for most of CCC staff. After meetings all week this was a welcome time for most.
The evening ended with Tim Hawkins doing his comedy for us. He had about 4000 in attendance and had us laughing until 10:30p. It was good to laugh after being pretty serious all week.
Harold
We spent part of the afternoon in break out seminars and we took our first shift greeting people at the tent. We say over 30 couples and some singles take the tour. It was very busy for 3 hours and hot. I had a bug take bites out of my neck during that time. Had about 6 bites before our shift was over.
The day ended with our evening meeting and they sent us off to the first break (Sunday) for most of CCC staff. After meetings all week this was a welcome time for most.
The evening ended with Tim Hawkins doing his comedy for us. He had about 4000 in attendance and had us laughing until 10:30p. It was good to laugh after being pretty serious all week.
Harold
Day 4 - Staff Conference
This day became a rather quiet day due to the other ministries having special meetings. We met as a ministry to welcome new staff at a lunch. Dennis Rainey spoke for a half hour and encouraged the new staff to finish the race of raising support and gave a vision of what the future may look like at FamilyLife. Very exciting. I recorded the whole lunch and then we did an interview with Dennis afterwards. To see it, go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gY_dwj79MjU
This will also give you a fly over of our tent that was used all week to give the rest of CCC staff a picture of what FamilyLife does and to recruit some new people to FamilyLife that are in need of changing ministries for various reasons.
The day ended with our evening meeting with lots of praise and worship as usual.
Harold
This will also give you a fly over of our tent that was used all week to give the rest of CCC staff a picture of what FamilyLife does and to recruit some new people to FamilyLife that are in need of changing ministries for various reasons.
The day ended with our evening meeting with lots of praise and worship as usual.
Harold
Friday, July 22, 2011
Day 3 - Staff Conference
We had an incredible day of R&R. FamilyLife staff had the day off due to all the other ministries meeting together individually. Since we have staff meetings twice a month, we don't need the meetings, thus a day off.
We met one of our ministry partners (Charlotte's childhood pastor) and had a wonderful time of fellowship and reminiscing. I actually knew many of the same people that they did, so it was real interesting.
About 3, we headed up to Estes Park to view God's creation. We were blown away with all the spender and majesty of God. We found a $1600 antique in one of the stores that goes perfectly in our eating area at home. (Just kidding, great idea but totally impractical).
Harold
We met one of our ministry partners (Charlotte's childhood pastor) and had a wonderful time of fellowship and reminiscing. I actually knew many of the same people that they did, so it was real interesting.
About 3, we headed up to Estes Park to view God's creation. We were blown away with all the spender and majesty of God. We found a $1600 antique in one of the stores that goes perfectly in our eating area at home. (Just kidding, great idea but totally impractical).
Harold
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Day 2 - Staff Conference
Another incredible day with Francis Chan. A real call to action to get your heart right with God. Here is a brief overview of the events of the morning.
9a Praise and Worship
9:30a Francis Chan spoke
10:15a Call to action from Francis Chan - This was a spiritual revival among the 5000 staff, most on their knees before God, some weeping.
10:50a Praise and Worship - Ended up being over an hour of Praising God. We sang many hymns including 'Holy, Holy, Holy' again.
11:25a Session ends - all of the planned events from 10:15 - 11:30 were scrapped.
One or two workshop/seminars took most of the afternoon and then our evening session was with Steve Sellers taking questions on the name change. All in all, it won't take place until early 2012 and only after letting people, including donors, get used to the change. "Cru" is not an acronym, or short for Crusade. It will be developed as time moves on by most ministries relating it to their specific work.
Dennis Rainey gave a short talk on the impact of Art of Marriage. 100,000 people have view the series in just five months. We want to put our tools into the hands of volunteers instead of us running everything. This will be the strategy for all of CCC over the next few years. 'It is not about us, it is about Him.'
We so appreciate those of you who are along side us and the opportunity to be here.
Harold
9a Praise and Worship
9:30a Francis Chan spoke
10:15a Call to action from Francis Chan - This was a spiritual revival among the 5000 staff, most on their knees before God, some weeping.
10:50a Praise and Worship - Ended up being over an hour of Praising God. We sang many hymns including 'Holy, Holy, Holy' again.
11:25a Session ends - all of the planned events from 10:15 - 11:30 were scrapped.
One or two workshop/seminars took most of the afternoon and then our evening session was with Steve Sellers taking questions on the name change. All in all, it won't take place until early 2012 and only after letting people, including donors, get used to the change. "Cru" is not an acronym, or short for Crusade. It will be developed as time moves on by most ministries relating it to their specific work.
Dennis Rainey gave a short talk on the impact of Art of Marriage. 100,000 people have view the series in just five months. We want to put our tools into the hands of volunteers instead of us running everything. This will be the strategy for all of CCC over the next few years. 'It is not about us, it is about Him.'
We so appreciate those of you who are along side us and the opportunity to be here.
Harold
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Day 1 - Staff Conference
This will probably be our longest blog of the entire conference, but what a historic day that we were honored to be part of it. I imagine the biggest news was the name change. As you can see it is simple. Is it an acronym? Is it an abbreviation? I have no clue, except that this is the name that God selected, not CCC. Therefore, we love it. 
You may be asking, how did God select it? The biggest and most obvious was when they got down to the last 5, only 4 had been chosen, but they needed 5 for research. The name "cru" was not one of the 4 and was added to make 5. No one believed it was the right name, but they needed 5 names. After all the praying, researching, surveying, and all the stuff marketing people are supposed to do, "cru" was the overwhelmingly chosen. So, once again, did CCC pick the name, no, GOD did.
You may be asking, how did God select it? The biggest and most obvious was when they got down to the last 5, only 4 had been chosen, but they needed 5 for research. The name "cru" was not one of the 4 and was added to make 5. No one believed it was the right name, but they needed 5 names. After all the praying, researching, surveying, and all the stuff marketing people are supposed to do, "cru" was the overwhelmingly chosen. So, once again, did CCC pick the name, no, GOD did.So, now that we have that out of the way, the best part of the day was our session with Francis Chan. What a man of God is all I can say. We started the day with 30 min of praise and worship. Hearing 5,000 people praising God together is only an earthly example of what we will experience in heaven. Was it emotional? You bet.
Then it was Francis Chan's turn. Here are the highlights:
Don't let people talk us out of what God wants us to do
There is power & purity in His book through the Holy Spirit
Is Jesus the most important thing in my life or is He my life? Rev. 3
It is not about mustering up more commitment, it is about being more yielded to Jesus.
This was followed with about a half hour of prayer and confession, individually and in small groups, which ended in more praise and worship and ultimately singing 'Holy, Holy, Holy'. Imagine hearing 5,000 people singing that! It doesn't get much better here on earth.
The remainder of the day, we recorded our FamilyLife tent to send a clip back to Little Rock for the staff there to see, listened to Josh McDowell be 'frank' with teens and parents about all the consequences of intimacy before marriage. Twenty-five possible diseases that can be transmitted and only four have a cure. This is worse than AIDS and HIV, and the media is pushing it under the rug.
More pictures tomorrow.
Harold
Then it was Francis Chan's turn. Here are the highlights:Don't let people talk us out of what God wants us to do
There is power & purity in His book through the Holy Spirit
Is Jesus the most important thing in my life or is He my life? Rev. 3
It is not about mustering up more commitment, it is about being more yielded to Jesus.
This was followed with about a half hour of prayer and confession, individually and in small groups, which ended in more praise and worship and ultimately singing 'Holy, Holy, Holy'. Imagine hearing 5,000 people singing that! It doesn't get much better here on earth.
The remainder of the day, we recorded our FamilyLife tent to send a clip back to Little Rock for the staff there to see, listened to Josh McDowell be 'frank' with teens and parents about all the consequences of intimacy before marriage. Twenty-five possible diseases that can be transmitted and only four have a cure. This is worse than AIDS and HIV, and the media is pushing it under the rug.
More pictures tomorrow.
Harold
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