How do i do this,
Is something i have to wake up everyday and tell myself to do. and I fail consistently. I have been listening to John Piper lately and I right now am listening to Him talking about persecution.
we as Americans are so stuck up. people get bent out of shape when we are not allowed to post the 10 commandments in school or pray before class. witch tell me than America has this false view of what a christian is. the christian needs to. Satan wanted Job to think that in the midst of loss he would rely on his own strength and eventually fail. When something gets taken away and we curse God and we belittle Him we don't speak well to the world that God is out supreme treasure. we are punting our treasure in something or someone other then God. Satan wants this not to be known, Mostly in Job. That God is more valuable then Jobs Family. God is most glorified when you praise Him in the midst of Loss, Not Prosperity.
The Christian suffers.

WOW!!!
So much has happened and its been too long.
so sorry for the long delayed entry but things have been crazy.Summer camp!
This is what Hume is known for and we have been at mach 5 for the last two months so down time is used for sleeping and rejuvenation from the day. My staff is great, and above how hard they work i have been able to see them grow from when they first arrived in June, the sad thing is we only have 3 weeks left of summer camp. I cant believe how fast it is going and soon my year long mark at Hume will have come to pass. Just to put it out there I'm planning on staying here beyond my original commitment of one year.
I'm leading worship for the summer staff service that we hold on Wed. night and probably going to continue to lead in the off season for Sunday night service for the full time off season staff.
something that is really cool are some friends of mine and Bret and Amy who were just married last fall and Bret was one of my room mates in 07 when I was a summer staffer my self will be heading to San Fransisco to join Ywam full time there, its great to see them doing this and they could use prayer for the whole thing.
Japan is starting to get closer too and almost everything is lining up for me to head there with Hume in the spring which I'm excited about. All in all it has been a great summer, but some one asked me the other day what my favorite season was and i said the next one. I'm ready for fall to come and things to slow down a bit. It will also be good to have a new job. In the fall I should be moving from the dish room to the kitchen as a cook. I guess you could call that climbing up the ladder.

Winter camp if finally over, it has been long and tiring but worth it.
something coo that happened a couple weeks ago, i moved to a bigger house and i acctually have a kitchen, i have two roomies and we all get along fine. we are starting to build the set for summer camp and i have been threatened with death if i reveal anything about it, but its cool and its a direction that hume hase not gone yet.
also i only have one more spot on my summer staff roster to fill, so 7/8 guys have signed on, witch is great, we have about doubly the applications we normally have right now, so we are being pickey but its good for us.
the lake is starting to fill up again and the new boat house is finished, they added about 500,000 gallons out of the lake near the boat house so this summer getting in and out should be a bit easier and cleaner, plus we are going to have that much more water to store for the entire summer, it should ensure the bike jump for the last few weeks of summer camp when the lake is starting to get low. all the snow is almost melted, they are taking huge loaders and dumping it all into the pond and stream, the weather has been around 70 degrees all week and there has not really been any talk of seeing it change to much.
anyway its almost time for Church so i have to go,
something i could use prayer for is the possibility of me going to Israel next spring and also this fall going to Thailand.
In Him,
Matt

So Christmas has passed and we are fully into winter camp, we had a little heat wave that melted a bunch of the snow but its has started to get cold again and we got about 3 inches the other day, and its been consistently below freezing so all our snow makers are on. in the kitchen we are starting to look into summer staff and alot of the Joshua students are making decisions to stay at Hume this summer. its all really exciting. also something that is really new and cool is that i have the opertunity to go to Iseral next year for two weeks with the joshua program as an emt wich hume said they will pay for the training, along with that is a two year commitment here at Hume.
Anyway with lots of things still changing please pray for me just in my decision making, that they are the right choices and that i continue to learn and grow and not become bord with life up here and constantly keep myself stumulated.
i think when we are comfortable we are lazy.
Thanks for reading.
In Him, Matt

Hello again everyone, so November... it was good, its been constantly cold up here at Hume and we have started to make and lay our own snow, via snow machine. Winter camp is just around the corner and after my week visit to Mac I'm ready for it. There have been many changes up here, mostly loosing people.
After thanksgiving we discovered that about three to fore people ether transferred from food service or up and quit. this leaves us short handed and makes the days a bit more stressful, especially when there are three hundred people waiting to eat. But you could say its the grunt of the job. Also the lake right now is non-existant. After coming back from my viset home i saw that the lake had been drained, ill try to get some before and after pictures up.

Another new development is, I, with in the next month or so will be running a collage welcoming ministry for the staff up here. About 40% of our staff is between 19-24, me and another girl are looking to begin a ministry focused on them, basically it will consist of once a week meeting with simply worship and eventually we are going to head down the hill once a month and serve in a soup kitchen.
I am really excited about this because it gives me something to really focus on and not just sit at Hume and get fat.(which has happened to a few people i know up here).

Anyway thanks for reading and ill post again in a few weeks probable.


O ya for any of you Beaver Fans Out there, maybe next year.

Greetings again from Hume, things are still going great and I officially had to buy house supplies, Windex and toilet paper, woot woot.
Some cool and new news, I was invited to a free trip to Disneyland with free entry and a place to stay, something I am really excited about.
The week after I'll be heading to San Fransisco to see the band Copeland, me and the group Im going with are going to stay at the YWAM base downtown, so I'm really excited to be heading back to a YWAM base and be able to interact with some ywamers.
Anyway

After a Month

I have been at Hume for around a month now and I'm loven it. I'm all set up in my house and I don't have a room mate. everyone up here is really nice and I have made plenty of new friends. more or less all the full timers down here are sort of a big family. on Sundays I go to a church down the hill called The Well and its really similar to The Way up in Portland.
all in all its been great,
thanks
In Him,