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Name: Sambo
Birthday: 10/13/1981
Gender: Male
Interests: Praise and Worship Music, Guitar, Real Christians, Humor, People, video games, Song writing (http://www.purevolume.com/acousticprayer), Food... yeah food
Expertise: Leading Worship, being myself, cooking, eating, and sarcasm
Occupation: Retired
Industry: Textiles
Message: message me
Member Since:
6/17/2005
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Does Kenneth Eng have a point? Is it annoying to have people walk up to
you and say "Ching Chog Ching" and think it's hilarious? "But this
doesn't happen any more Sam. Being racist is a thing of the past!" I
think the fact that I've been asked "What do you people eat for
thanksgiving?" is proof of that. I find a lot of what Eng said to be
offensive to me personally, but I can't deny that I've been pissed off
at the way I've been treated by people of other colors because I'm
asian. Don't get me wrong, if you're not willing to have a sense of
humor about yourself, kiss my yellow butt. I've been singled out
because of my race plenty of times, but if I'm gonna throw a tantrum
like a 5 year old every time someone makes an asian joke, I'd be
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| Man Oh Man... it has been a rough week. A girl from the First Free youth group died a few days ago, Heather's mom is sick, and I have a sinus infection. I've been doing a lot of thinking as to how to deal with these things as well as how I should react to problems that are coming in the future. The harder I try to keep my life on track the more things seem to veer off the path. In the past year God has given me some great things: a wonderful wife, a house, an awesome job and new friends. It just seems so hard to stay on track, not that there's anything totally pressing but I feel like I'm being distracted from God by other things. As of late, I'm not even distracted by things I'm usually distracted by. Video games have seemed so mundane although the thought of it seems exciting. I have had a recent itch to starting writing music more often, but when I start, I get frustrated because I have nothing of substance to write about. Maybe I have a little bit of winter depression. I feel my best writing seems to come when I'm super depressed, but I don't like being super depressed. Am I destined to be my own emo rockstar? Crap, I hope not. There's something so refreshing and guilt filled that I feel when I open my bible up for the first time in a week or even weeks. So distracted by books, music, emotion, emotional people, etc. Maybe if I wasn't such a scattered person, my life wouldn't be so scattered...
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| Maybe it's the fact that I've been sucked into the nerd world of World of Warcraft, maybe I've been at church too much, maybe I just haven't felt like writing a new blog. Anyway, I have to say that these last few months have been challenging, frustrating, and awesome. Sunday Night at Central is an official worship service now. With the opening of our new facility we now have only three times posted instead of four. 9 and 10:45 am as well as 7:30! We are planning to start public advertising within the next month. It has been awesome connecting with new people as well as old friends. We just had a baby dedication for Joash Youso and it was awesome! It's been cool to see friends grow into parents as well as a little scary. I'm tired... I'm done now.
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| It's been a while since my last entry and I feel there are a few recent happenings in my life that are blog worthy. First off, I'm loving my job. I have gotten a lot of great feedback from people that have been attending "Sunday Night", the worship service that I am worship leader for. I'm feeling like I'm doing what I was meant to do. We have already doubled what we had expected for attendance. Not that numbers are the most important part, but I can see that God is beginning to do something awesome.
Recently... oh say... Saturday... Heather and I picked up a new family member. She's a black lab puppy and we named her Gracie. I had actually wanted to go to the Humane society and just check out the selection of the puppies. One of the volunteers was holding a cute little puppy that had just gotten out of a bath. I held her and she cuddled in my arms and tried to keep warm. I then handed her over to Heather who almost immediately fell in love with her. We went and played with her for a little while and I said "All right honey, time to go put her back." Heather almost began crying. I looked at her tearful eyes and said, "I guess we're taking her home, huh?" Heather said, "I just don't want to let her go."
So here I am with a puppy, something I always wanted as a child and was never able to have. The first night was horrific. We bought her a crate and put her in the next room. She yelped and barked all night. Needless to say, I didn't get much sleep that night. I actually went to church and sat in the back and slept. I usually am very good at staying awake at church but at this point, I couldn't even remember if I had slept at all. I went home and slept until Sunday Night started. The second night she was not as bad, but still I had a minimal amount of sleep. That day, I got some great advice from one of the pastors. He told me to put the crate in our bedroom with us. We did just that and now we only have to get up one time a night to let her out. It's much better... New job, new dog, still pretty new marriage... this is a completely different life.
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| It's a chili day... yes... that's a pun. But it's getting cold outside and I've made chili for a number of guests from the Sunday Night leadership team. I'm very excited to show off my culinary skills as well as entertain more than just 1 or 2 of my friends(not that there's anything wrong with that). I'm getting really excited about this new ministry, and more excited with each day. We've got our schedule all set for the next month and I'm super pumped for the second week. We're going to be doing something called "Silent Worship" I think it's a way awesome idea. No music for ten minutes. Just the sounds of people writing their praises and their hurts for ten minutes.
I'm finally able to spread my wings and be as creative as I can be. At the same time, I'm also the youngest person on the leadership team. I'm not totally sure as to how to handle this sometimes. I feel quite humbled by the situation as well and honored that I'm in this position. MMM.... It's early afternoon and I've been tasting the mild batch of chili as it slowly cooks away every hour or so... I've kinda been having lunch for the last few hours.
I've also been noticing that I'm sometimes so random, I forget what I'm saying. I'll be in the middle of a conversation thinking everything is ok, and suddenly I get a look from whoever I'm talking to like, "Wait a minute! How did we end up talking about your favorite kind of potatoes?" It's all a mystery to me...but I'm cool with it...
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