Good Evening!

It has been around two weeks since my last post! I am sorry that I have not been posting as regularly as before. Seminary has kept me very busy. This brings me to this post. First it would be nice to give ya'll an overview of how school is going so far. Although tiring and lots of work it has been very awesome. The days are full and I mean full of classes, spiritual formation, extended orientation sessions, fellowship, and yes lots of reading. All this is very rewarding no matter how tired you become throughout the week. This Sunday will be my first to take part in leading worship at my field education church. To fill ya'll in on this I am at St. Paul's Lutheran church in downtown Columbia. The church is over a 120 years old! The sanctuary is beautiful, the building's are well kept but besides its aesthetic qualities what stands out among everything are the people there. It is a very mixed congregation in far as age, ideas, and walks of life but the one thing that brings them together is their sense of community. I had the chance last Sunday to "sneak" into worship as a visitor and simply watch the congregation. I use the word sneak in parenthesis only because it was hard to sneak in. I was warmly welcomed by several members of the congregation. It is the south and when a visitor comes you are made to feel at home and that is exactly what happened. My supervisor this year is Pr. Tony Metze( a southern alumni). I feel that it will be a very enriching experience working with Pr. Metze over this first year. Continuing with the worship theme here Steve and I are leading chapel this coming Monday morning at 10 (please pray for us!). The unique thing about Steve and I leading worship is that we are both junior M. Div's. This may seem like no big deal but in our rota group we just happened to run out of middlers who are to lead chapel and juniors are only supposed to read. I think we have planned well and will do very well this monday. Switching gears again this week should be intersting we have two papers due along with the usual studying. I also have a presentation to do on the outreach for Lutherans of African Decent on monday. On top of all this there is some serious UF football watching that will be taking place tommorow night upon completion of homework. With this I say goodnight!

Peace,

Jason