Thursday [art dept. prayer request]
Sup y'all,
Hope your Thursday has been grrrreat. Hope you're ready for some scrumdidily-umpsious food at the Union tonight at 5:45. I, however, will be absent from the Union this week. My parents are coming into town so I'm going to be eating dinner with them. Please pray that they'll travel safely. I know y'all will have a good ole time without me.
I will however be at the guys prayer group around 9 on Old Main. Again I want to recommend that you check either the girls or guys group out if you haven't been before or give it another try if you have been before. The prayer group was a little out of wack last week, but we had more important things to tend to first: Leanna's baptism. Amen? AMEN!
Please be praying for our new brothers and sisters and for our Bible studies and prayer groups and classes and devos and for the girls retreat and for the ski trip and for next semester and for the summer missions. It's never too early to get started.
I have a prayer request myself. Be praying for the Art Department. It's a common thing across the country for art departments to get the shaft when it comes to funds and it's happened here as well. I know there is less and less demand for most of the fine arts, but the areas of graphic design and photography are growing fields and deserve and need support. About 60% of the UofA's fine arts students graduate in Graphic Design yet we only have one design teacher and only about 15 computers. However, the deans of the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences say we can't hire another teacher or buy new computers because they just don't have enough funds. Well, I have a hard time believing that. The Graphic Design: Symbols class for next semester has at least 23 people interested in it, but the deans say only 13 can be allowed in and another section can't be opened up because of a lack of funds and because it would be too much trouble to rearrange some schedules. Thankfully I made the list for the class, but that doesn't mean I will in the future. And think of the students who didn't get in...this could really mess up their plans for classes and for graduating. Well, a bunch of us design students are going to write the chancellor and a couple of deans some letters and may even pay them a visit. So, please just be praying for the Art Department and more specifically for graphic design. Please pray that our letters or visits or something will cause some much needed changes. Please pray for our professor, Marilyn. She's frustrated because she's been asking for more funds and more computers and for another teacher for the last couple of years but has seen no results. She has great passion for what she's teaching and wants us to be as best prepared as we can after we graduate and could definitely use some of God's comfort. Thanks. I can't wait to see God display his power!
I really liked the story tonight in class where a sign that God had gone out before David's army would be the sound of marching in the tops of the mulberry streets...I mean trees. ("And to think that it happened on Mulberry Street" was a children's book my mom read to me when I was little.) As Kaelin pointed out, it was a sign to David that God was in control and was the One winning the battles. It's pretty amazing what God can do if we just give him control. What's really cool is that he doesn't take control...he only takes it if we want Him to and are willing to give it up. He gives us free will to make decisions so that we can realize that we can't make the right decisions without Him. Think of how great the RFCs are right now........okay, now, imagine how amazing we would be if we all gave complete control over our lives over to God! Dude! I'm being kinda selfish this week...I've got another request. Please pray for me that I'll let God take control and let His will rule my life and let Him make me what He wants me to be and send me where He wants me to go. Thanks.
“For if their purpose or activity is of human origin, it will fail. But if it is from God, you will not be able to stop these men; you will only find yourselves fighting against God.”
Acts 5:38,39
“We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired even of life. Indeed, in our hearts we felt the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead. He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us. On him we have set our hope that he will continue to deliver us, as you help us by your prayers. Then many will give thanks on our behalf for the gracious favor granted us in answer to the prayers of many.”
2 Corinthians 1:8-11
“Yet not as I will, but as you will.”
Matthew 26:39
“...may your will be done.”
Matthew 26:42
Adios,
Mitch
Hope your Thursday has been grrrreat. Hope you're ready for some scrumdidily-umpsious food at the Union tonight at 5:45. I, however, will be absent from the Union this week. My parents are coming into town so I'm going to be eating dinner with them. Please pray that they'll travel safely. I know y'all will have a good ole time without me.
I will however be at the guys prayer group around 9 on Old Main. Again I want to recommend that you check either the girls or guys group out if you haven't been before or give it another try if you have been before. The prayer group was a little out of wack last week, but we had more important things to tend to first: Leanna's baptism. Amen? AMEN!
Please be praying for our new brothers and sisters and for our Bible studies and prayer groups and classes and devos and for the girls retreat and for the ski trip and for next semester and for the summer missions. It's never too early to get started.
I have a prayer request myself. Be praying for the Art Department. It's a common thing across the country for art departments to get the shaft when it comes to funds and it's happened here as well. I know there is less and less demand for most of the fine arts, but the areas of graphic design and photography are growing fields and deserve and need support. About 60% of the UofA's fine arts students graduate in Graphic Design yet we only have one design teacher and only about 15 computers. However, the deans of the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences say we can't hire another teacher or buy new computers because they just don't have enough funds. Well, I have a hard time believing that. The Graphic Design: Symbols class for next semester has at least 23 people interested in it, but the deans say only 13 can be allowed in and another section can't be opened up because of a lack of funds and because it would be too much trouble to rearrange some schedules. Thankfully I made the list for the class, but that doesn't mean I will in the future. And think of the students who didn't get in...this could really mess up their plans for classes and for graduating. Well, a bunch of us design students are going to write the chancellor and a couple of deans some letters and may even pay them a visit. So, please just be praying for the Art Department and more specifically for graphic design. Please pray that our letters or visits or something will cause some much needed changes. Please pray for our professor, Marilyn. She's frustrated because she's been asking for more funds and more computers and for another teacher for the last couple of years but has seen no results. She has great passion for what she's teaching and wants us to be as best prepared as we can after we graduate and could definitely use some of God's comfort. Thanks. I can't wait to see God display his power!
I really liked the story tonight in class where a sign that God had gone out before David's army would be the sound of marching in the tops of the mulberry streets...I mean trees. ("And to think that it happened on Mulberry Street" was a children's book my mom read to me when I was little.) As Kaelin pointed out, it was a sign to David that God was in control and was the One winning the battles. It's pretty amazing what God can do if we just give him control. What's really cool is that he doesn't take control...he only takes it if we want Him to and are willing to give it up. He gives us free will to make decisions so that we can realize that we can't make the right decisions without Him. Think of how great the RFCs are right now........okay, now, imagine how amazing we would be if we all gave complete control over our lives over to God! Dude! I'm being kinda selfish this week...I've got another request. Please pray for me that I'll let God take control and let His will rule my life and let Him make me what He wants me to be and send me where He wants me to go. Thanks.
“For if their purpose or activity is of human origin, it will fail. But if it is from God, you will not be able to stop these men; you will only find yourselves fighting against God.”
Acts 5:38,39
“We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired even of life. Indeed, in our hearts we felt the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead. He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us. On him we have set our hope that he will continue to deliver us, as you help us by your prayers. Then many will give thanks on our behalf for the gracious favor granted us in answer to the prayers of many.”
2 Corinthians 1:8-11
“Yet not as I will, but as you will.”
Matthew 26:39
“...may your will be done.”
Matthew 26:42
Adios,
Mitch
posted by mitch | 4:27 AM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home