Friday, December 21, 2007
"keep it gutta" -rev.al
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"Homeless breakfasts has always captivated my attention. From the first time I went I have been amazed at the need that is just right around the corner. From the conversations you have to the breakfast you can look into their eyes and see you are making a difference. Perceptions are shattered, hearts are changed, and lives are transformed and this is all over breakfast. When you pull away pieces of your heart are still left with them. You go in the hopes of trying change lives but instead you leave with yours transformed." -chris val
Almost a year ago, we started feeding the homeless breakfast on Thursday mornings. In the beginning, we fed about twenty people. Since then, we've seen it grow to almost 100 people. It's amazing to see how such a small thing can be such a great blessing to these people. While serving on Thursday mornings, you get to know these people. They become more than just faces – you know their lives' stories.I realized, that we do more than just feed the people breakfast on Thursday mornings. Because of Jesus inside us, we can give them hope when we hand them a breakfast, we can help them realize God's plan for their lives when we pray with them, and we can let them know they aren't forgotten when we ask them how they're doing. every thursday morning im reminded of how great our God is and how much he cares about his people. Im reminded what my purpose is and what the purpose of the church is – to serve and love the people and that it's all about Jesus."- gabby leblanc
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Monday, November 12, 2007
humphrey who?
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
grillz
ahhhhhhhh!!!! i like to introduce you to my new grill. it came in about a million pieces so my good friends Chis Val and Jared "mantiss" Ray helped put it together. actually they put the entire thing together and i did nothing except for put the battery in the igniter switch and when i tested it Jared happened to be holding the wire that sends the electricity and so it shocked him really bad..YEAHYA!! it was awesome!!!
Friday, November 2, 2007
introduce the Christ
Sunday, October 28, 2007
the beez baby
the highlight from "live the dream".......those tights had all the ladies goin crazy...and J.P. did a great job choreographing the dance i would have to say. the conference was awesome...mad kudos to all the chicks who threw this 5star weekend.
Friday, October 19, 2007
trolls and truth
"Missions is not an action of a handful of global church advocates in a foreign land, but the loving drive of the God who is a missionary God reclaiming all of His creation from the inner cities to the suburbs to the ends of the earth. Biblical justice is not sending money to a hunger organization at thanksgiving, but collectively working to overturn the systemic patterns that cause the haves to have more and the have-nots to sink further into poverty. Evangelism is not slipping a four spiritual laws tract under the dinner plate as a tip to the unsaved waitress. It is building a caring relationship with her and her family which emanates Christ's compassion. Worship is not lifting hands to God alone, but lifting the downtrodden and rejected as well."
thanks to the leblanc family for this slammin book!!!!
Thursday, October 11, 2007
the smell of ministry
this is a pix of our closing prayer after homeless breakfast prayed by my boy St. peter(guy in the khaki). here's the funny thing about Pete....Pete smells very very bad and spits alot when he speaks and did i mention that he loves to hug you and talk real close about how thankful he is that we come share Jesus with him. when you leave homeless breakfast you leave smelling like "ST.PETE for men", if you know what i mean. i use to want to go home right afterward and shower and change so that i could get that smell off of me but not anymore....i kinna like carrying that smell throughout my day b/c it helps me carry Pete throughout my day. today i couldn't stop thinking about Pete...how much God loves him and people like him. its the smell of the poor, the forgotten, the abandoned.....Jesus loves that smell!!! Jesus is drawn to that smell.... could it be true that the very smells that we turn our nose from God turns His heart to?
do you love that smell?
Sunday, October 7, 2007
the black stallion
Monday, October 1, 2007
its just a test
2 weeks ago i preached out of Job 1 about being tested...job's story is a story of incredible loss but also incredible devotion. his response to everything being stripped from him was "i came into this world with nothing and i will leave with nothing, the lord gives and the lord takes away BUT BLESSED BE THE NAME OF THE LORD!!!" after all the test Job went thru you end up in chapter 42 where God gives him double what he had before. my point was: "faith thats never been tested cant be trusted." God wants to trust you with more but first there must be a test.
well after that sermon i felt like God said to get ready for your test jason...."have you considered my servant tweezy?" well, this past week has definitely been a test. on Monday my wife got in a wreck,Tuesday her family had some serious things come down,Wednesday my family had some issues,Friday i got in a wreck and on Sunday morning i went outside to leave for church and my car had been stolen. BLESSED BE THE NAME OF THE LORD!!" OYA, MY INSURANCE COMPANY IS NOT COVERING IT!!!PRAIZE EM. but you now what? faith thats never been tested cant be trusted and im just thankful that God has counted me trustworthy of this test b/c when my chapter 42 comes i know God will give me double for my trouble.
HAMANISM#42 God will give you double for yo trouble hahahaha
Thursday, September 27, 2007
EXIT
i was hanging out at morning prayer a couple of days ago and i looked up above the door that exits the annex(which is the room we use for REFUGE our youth service) and i had a thought.
"i wonder how many students will exit this door for the last time and still not know HIM? better yet, how many students from our youth will exit this life and enter eternity and still not know HIM? how many in this generation today will exit this life and enter eternity and not know HIM?
then last not at our service 15 students gave their hearts to JESUS and one girl came up to me and Jennifer (my rib) and she said,"i'll never exit these doors the same again...tonight i gave my life to Jesus and i know where i'll spend eternity."
i love it...its about peoples eternity and the moment i forget it i need to jus shut it down.
HAMANISM#41 "i wont leave here like i came, in Jesus name..." hahahahaha
Friday, September 21, 2007
the joshua problem
THE JOSHUA PROBLEM:
moses trained Joshua as an apprentice. sadly,Joshua never trained a Joshua. leaders must see that part of their job is training the next generation to lead behind them. LEADERS MULTIPLY. Moses knew that “success without a successor is a failure.” i thought about this and asked myself 2 questions: “who am i developing as the next generation of leaders?” and “what am i doing to develop them?” Because “the chief goal of a leader is not to build followers, but to build more leaders.” WHO IS YOUR JOSHUA?
Saturday, August 25, 2007
mo blog please come back to me
last wednessday nite was increedible to have pastor dino chillin with us down at our youth service...he preached about that old chick from 2 sammy 20 that choped off sheba's head....it was heeps good!!!! p diddy is the most amazing pastor on the planet!!!!! mad kudos to you rizzonator for showin up and actin rowdy with us.
o'ya.....to all you weirdos from refuge and pathfinders dont forget about the 12 o clock service at highland on the weekends.....its officially the youth takeover service....VIP seating......mad crazy worchip.......the GHOST BOMB.....so ya, come sit by the rest of us psychos during service every weekend at the highland campus 12'oclock service. i'll see you there sucka!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thursday, August 16, 2007
i need a support group
Monday, August 6, 2007
Jesus or Kenny G?
Friday, August 3, 2007
alabama on a mission
Sunday, July 29, 2007
messed up
Saturday, July 28, 2007
korn
l.a. dreamcenter and every wednessday they give it to one of the students with like a tank of gas and a free nite on the town or something!!!! sorry refuge all i got is my moms gangsta buick....hahahaha
Thursday, July 26, 2007
my moms buick has a demon
Saturday, July 21, 2007
family in L.A.
clean. so i prayed..and me and robert wepted and hugged each other in a croud of 300 homeless people!
Thursday, July 19, 2007
the well on sunset boulevard
once she met Jesus she left her empty jar at the well....i hope today that someone did the same
are there tacos in heaven?
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Friday, July 13, 2007
hearts of stone
and God so amazed us like He always does. you can prolly imagine the type of crowd we were workin with...."summer school" enough said right? i myself was part of the 5 year summer school plan at C.L.A and i remember everyone including myself were not too happy about participating in a 1hour chapel considering at that point in my life i was not a follower of Jesus and neither was 95% of the rest of the bunch.....
well, thursday the crowd looked just like the crowd from my summer school days= "hearts of stone" with faces to prove it. well, the band opened up with 3 rockin songs and then finished with Tab breakin out a lil GHOSTFEST "the more i seek you" and at that moment you could just sense the presence of God overtake the room. well by the time i got up to speak the table was already set and i could just sense that God was bout to do something.....i really didn't know what to speak on and i only had 18min to cover whatever i was going to, so i just preached the raw gospel.
billy graham once said," the only regret i have is that i didn't preach the gospel enough." that thought rang in my heart and i knew i may not get the chance to speak to these students ever again and i definitely didn't want to walk away with regrets so i went for it. at the close of the service the altars were flooded with students weeping and crying (ya..at summer school) and i couldn't believe it! we began praying with the students as the band began to play the song "Jesus paid it all..." and at a place in the song the lyrics say," Lord, now indeed I find
Thy pow’r, and Thine alone,
Can change the leper’s spots
And melt the heart of stone."
WOW! thursday it was not good music or good preaching that changed anything...man cannot do what i saw...only the gospel of Jesus Christ can melt a heart of stone. i hope i never forget the power of the gospel...there's nothing more precious and more powerful than that...nothing. the crazy thing is that over seven years ago i had i dream of me preaching at CLA...i actually sat down the principal at that time and told him that i felt God wanted me to speak to the school and here we are seven years later and God gave the band and me an opportunity to serve. WOW! Habakkuk 2 says,"For the vision is yet for the appointed time;
It hastens toward the goal and it will not fail Though it tarries, wait for it;For it will certainly come, it will not delay.
Monday, July 9, 2007
so i end up calling the biggest monopoly know to man..."pop-a-lock." the guy bust up in my moms ride in less than 2minutes flat....then gives me an invoice for fifty smackers. i hate pop a lock! the point of the story...don't ever drive a green buick cuz its bad luck.
i think im goona put some spinners on the buick...ya, thats what i'll do
Thursday, July 5, 2007
help for nag champas bride
i need a massive favor from all my homies....a freind of mine needs your votes and below is a breif description of what it's all about. i was gonna try explain it myself but i was scared that i would mess it up so i cut and pasted this from the haminators blog.
.... great woman in our church, Kacy Edwards, is a former teacher with a heart for the kids of our community. She quit teaching to start an organization called “Career Compass of Louisiana”, which helps high school seniors with their post-secondary endeavors at no charge. Kacy and another former teacher, Julie Scott, go into high schools and sit one-on-one with the kids, offering college and career coaching to them for free! Not only do they inform the students about the more than 30 schools in the area, but they also help them fill out SAT/ACT applications, federal financial aid forms, post-secondary applications, scholarship applications, and anything else they may need to pursue their goals and dreams. They met with and assisted over 500 seniors in EBR parish last year and have plans to expand into Ascension, WBR, Livingston, Iberville and other surrounding areas.
I say all that because Burger King is sponsoring a contest where they will give $50,000 to a winning cause. Out of more than four-thousand organizations, Career Compass has already made the top TEN - but in order to win, they need your help! (Sidenote: they are a two person non-profit up against much larger corporations) You can vote once a day between now and July 13 at www.campaignforyourcause.com. You can also text message COMPASS to 287437(BURGER). If you’re on the forgetful side, check out www.careercompassla.org and sign up for daily reminder. Voting will only take a second, but the money Career Compass might win could change the lives of thousands of teenagers in our state. They might even help change the life of someone you love.
Kacy’s relationship with HPC gave her the courage to start this whole thing. Her passion is education and she is leading the charge to change lives in Louisiana. Let’s step up and put this state on the map for something amazing! I’m voting every day- are you?
there are just a few days left in the voting. You can vote every day by sending a text message to 287437 or by clicking here. Read more about what this is about here.
Please do your best to vote every day - it’s free - it matters a ton. Thanks.
Sunday, July 1, 2007
submerge 07
left to right(al makavee, rev. spike, the docta)
sorry to all my readers that i haven't posted in a while i just needed to make it thru summer camp....WOW! God dropped the ghost bomb on us at submerge. we had over a thousand students from all over the nation gather to submerge themselves in the presence of God and it was amazing! we saw hundreds of students saved and changed by God and then on the last day we did a massive baptism at the beach. it was great to have so many awesome Church's and youth pastors there to celebrate what God is doing in our generation. also, mad props to rev. spike for bringing the heat!!!
acts 13:36 "David full filled the purpose of God in "HIS" generation...." i love that.... "his" generation. not just the next generation....not just this generation.....but his generation....this verse reminds me of how I've gotta take ownership for this generation....my generation....ownership=responsibility. I'm responsible for my generation. i love what billy graham once said, " there's nothing we can do for the past generation and there's not much we can do for the future generation but we will stand before the judgement seat of the ALMIGHTY GOD and give an account for what we did with "our generation."
Friday, June 8, 2007
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
nexgen-where the chickens kickin
Sunday, June 3, 2007
give a brotha some corn rows
Thursday, May 31, 2007
biscuits of grace
this morning before we headed down town to have our weekly breakfast with our homeless brothas and sistas we hooked up for prayer. well, while i was praying i had a thought ...."what if one of these guys that i may talk to today is right on the edge and ledge just waiting, hoping, and praying that something could change....that something could break? what if just one conversation, one handshake, or even one smile could be the very thing that pushes them right over the edge and ledge right into the depths of God's grace? what if todays their day of salvation?
so as cheezy as it may sound i began to pray that these biscuits today would be more than biscuits. that they would be God's grace extended toward them. you never know....they may be one biscuit away from experiencing the life God intends from them. might sound crazy but ask "Thadeus"(a guy from this morning) about those bisquits....he went over the edge today....he gave his life to JESUS. mmmmmmm biscuits of grace with a side of SALVATION. yeahya
Sunday, May 27, 2007
my rib
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
breakfast of champs
weirdo alert
Saturday, May 19, 2007
quote of the day
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
G-TOWN
o ya.....my new address is jasonlaird.com So, change my link on your roll sucka!
Monday, May 14, 2007
S.O.S. yall
Friday, May 11, 2007
Jesus wrecked my life
i love it when people share their
story of how their life was a complete wreck and then God saved them
and made their life all better. BUT, lately i think i've really kinna
been captivated by those people who tell their story about how they
came from a nice, conservative family, went to a nice private school,
then went off to a nice little college and finished with a nice little
degree with a very nice-promising future. you know, those pep's that
just have it all together AND THEN GOD.....wrecked everything. i love it! abandon all the nice stuff to live this radically different life from the culture we live in. God all thru the scriptures wrecked pep's lives and not one person ever regretted it. WOW! my prayer is that when my life looks nice that God would completely wreck it. YEAHYA