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Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Tuesday, August 7, 2007
Let's Move...
So I have been a blogger now for a few months, but I am not able to do some different kind of stuff. So I have moved again. Hopefully this will be the last move.
Check out this site....http://web.mac.com/geraldmalloy. Please bookmark this site!
Check out this site....http://web.mac.com/geraldmalloy. Please bookmark this site!
Reflectors...
So I realize that we are reflectors of God's love to the world. How are we doing at that? Can we blame the world for having bad thoughts about our God because of our actions? Are we at a place where his name and renown is truly the desire of our hearts? This is not a "jam for the lamb" kind of thing. There is no cornball-ness involved here. There are people groups all over the world who have not heard of Jesus, yet they call out to the sun, rain, and earth. Are these the ones that God calls us to share his name with? Are they the ones that He refers to when He says, "That THEY may know." This is the real deal. Consider and reply.
Current Listenings: Lifehouse...Who we are
Current Readings: Genesis, Velvet Elvis... I am currently on hiatus from VE due to some thievery. I would like to continue this particular reading very soon. You know who you are, bring back the Elvis!!
Friday, August 3, 2007
so we finally made it back...
ok as promised here are the details to our adventure. Please get ready for a long story. I hate reading long posts on blogs, but a short one would not do justice.
so we are at the airport in Guatemala City watching our plane getting towed in due to a fire that started in the landing gear, when all of the sudden it dawned on me that our flight was next on this thing. The panic started. I've seen final destination 1, 2, and 3 and I wasn't going out like that! Well lucky for us the pilots were unable to fly due to time constraints so our flight was cancelled. So we go to the ticketing counter where we start rebooking all 30 tickets. Thanks for the help Wu!! The oh-so kind airline offers us vouchers for a really nice hotel, with a buffet. We were stoked! The shuttle to the hotel was taking too long with all 200 people that were assigned to the same hotel..hint, hint. My friend Luis decides to get us all cabs to the hotel. it sounded like a great idea. now please realize that I am giving only the cat. 5 details. Along with every major detail comes several almost major details that will not get mentioned due to my poor typing skills. Anyway, we leave the airport with a headcount of 27. Not good. After arriving at the hotel, I find the missing three, who will remain nameless (only because I have no idea who they were). So this wonderful hotel runs out of rooms and will not allow us to partake of their wonderful buffet. It is now about 9.30pm. We have not eaten since breakfast. We are starting to lose all sense of reality. Fatigue sets in. My team is restless. Well, we find the extremely nice on-duty manager (her first night on duty), and the deal making starts. She ends up setting us up in the Westin which is really nice, oh yes! We get the executive suites for the deluxe price. So now I have a place for all to sleep however our stomachs were not too happy. So like any other God fearing man would do, I sent a team to the only open restaurant on the block, Hooters!! We enjoy some fine dining, wing style, in one of the rooms. Now don't forget, there are a lot of details left out. We finally get to sleep around midnight. After 3 beautiful hours of sleep in the "Heavenly Beds", we bolt out the door to find Kenneth, our trip coordinator, with a school bus waiting to take us to the airport. However, the cabbies from the night before were asked to come back and get us at 4am so we could get a jump on everyone else leaving for the airport. They were not too happy that we had arranged other means of transportation. I was ready to duke it out with all of them. Luis had my back, we were ready to die! After we paid them off, we left for the airport. We finally leave Guatemala City and arrive in Miami, where a certain airline that had royaly messed us up was going to have 3, 15 passenger vans waiting on us. See, they booked us on a flight from Guat, to Miami to Tampa to Ft. Myers, knowing that the flight from Tampa to FM was overbooked by 6 seats already. That's great service!! Anyway, the vans were nowhere to be found! We had to rent minivans from Ricardo the van nazi who was trying to raise the price on us. DIRTY!! We finally get 4 vans reserved so off we go to the lot to pick out our ride home. Little did we know that this was a first come first serve lot. All of the keys were in the door and whoever got there first gets that car. I saw a kid running for one of the vans...so I sprinted. I pulled the keys out of the door and locked it down. I looked at the kid and told him in Christian love, "You don't want to do this today son". I think he got the point. So he runs for the other van, I motioned for Brad to get the keys. I had my men all over that lot. Well the kid's dad gets all fired up and tries to get the keys from Brad. I gave Brad the order to not hand over the keys to this man, infidel. Once again, I was ready to roll up the sleeves and pull out "All Day and All Night". After considering the circumstance, Brad handed over the keys disregarding a direct order. SO then we waited for the other vans to be cleaned and went back to get the team to go home. And so here we are, 5 days removed from that horrific day, that if not for the bravery of a few men, we might have lost some of our team. To the ones who suffered for Jesus on day 10 and 11, God bless you all. To the ones who enjoyed peanuts and coke on the first class flight out, along with their own beds, and easy flights, may you be forever grateful that some gave all! Can you hear the music playing...May the country of Guatemala never forget the day the Americans came!! Gotta go, I think I need to go change a stinky diaper!
so we are at the airport in Guatemala City watching our plane getting towed in due to a fire that started in the landing gear, when all of the sudden it dawned on me that our flight was next on this thing. The panic started. I've seen final destination 1, 2, and 3 and I wasn't going out like that! Well lucky for us the pilots were unable to fly due to time constraints so our flight was cancelled. So we go to the ticketing counter where we start rebooking all 30 tickets. Thanks for the help Wu!! The oh-so kind airline offers us vouchers for a really nice hotel, with a buffet. We were stoked! The shuttle to the hotel was taking too long with all 200 people that were assigned to the same hotel..hint, hint. My friend Luis decides to get us all cabs to the hotel. it sounded like a great idea. now please realize that I am giving only the cat. 5 details. Along with every major detail comes several almost major details that will not get mentioned due to my poor typing skills. Anyway, we leave the airport with a headcount of 27. Not good. After arriving at the hotel, I find the missing three, who will remain nameless (only because I have no idea who they were). So this wonderful hotel runs out of rooms and will not allow us to partake of their wonderful buffet. It is now about 9.30pm. We have not eaten since breakfast. We are starting to lose all sense of reality. Fatigue sets in. My team is restless. Well, we find the extremely nice on-duty manager (her first night on duty), and the deal making starts. She ends up setting us up in the Westin which is really nice, oh yes! We get the executive suites for the deluxe price. So now I have a place for all to sleep however our stomachs were not too happy. So like any other God fearing man would do, I sent a team to the only open restaurant on the block, Hooters!! We enjoy some fine dining, wing style, in one of the rooms. Now don't forget, there are a lot of details left out. We finally get to sleep around midnight. After 3 beautiful hours of sleep in the "Heavenly Beds", we bolt out the door to find Kenneth, our trip coordinator, with a school bus waiting to take us to the airport. However, the cabbies from the night before were asked to come back and get us at 4am so we could get a jump on everyone else leaving for the airport. They were not too happy that we had arranged other means of transportation. I was ready to duke it out with all of them. Luis had my back, we were ready to die! After we paid them off, we left for the airport. We finally leave Guatemala City and arrive in Miami, where a certain airline that had royaly messed us up was going to have 3, 15 passenger vans waiting on us. See, they booked us on a flight from Guat, to Miami to Tampa to Ft. Myers, knowing that the flight from Tampa to FM was overbooked by 6 seats already. That's great service!! Anyway, the vans were nowhere to be found! We had to rent minivans from Ricardo the van nazi who was trying to raise the price on us. DIRTY!! We finally get 4 vans reserved so off we go to the lot to pick out our ride home. Little did we know that this was a first come first serve lot. All of the keys were in the door and whoever got there first gets that car. I saw a kid running for one of the vans...so I sprinted. I pulled the keys out of the door and locked it down. I looked at the kid and told him in Christian love, "You don't want to do this today son". I think he got the point. So he runs for the other van, I motioned for Brad to get the keys. I had my men all over that lot. Well the kid's dad gets all fired up and tries to get the keys from Brad. I gave Brad the order to not hand over the keys to this man, infidel. Once again, I was ready to roll up the sleeves and pull out "All Day and All Night". After considering the circumstance, Brad handed over the keys disregarding a direct order. SO then we waited for the other vans to be cleaned and went back to get the team to go home. And so here we are, 5 days removed from that horrific day, that if not for the bravery of a few men, we might have lost some of our team. To the ones who suffered for Jesus on day 10 and 11, God bless you all. To the ones who enjoyed peanuts and coke on the first class flight out, along with their own beds, and easy flights, may you be forever grateful that some gave all! Can you hear the music playing...May the country of Guatemala never forget the day the Americans came!! Gotta go, I think I need to go change a stinky diaper!
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Glad to be home...
God is great! Not just today, but at all times. We had a great time in Guatemala allowing God to shape and mold us as He pleased. We were able to minister to over 10,000 people. It seems so unreal and overwhelming that God used us to see that many people. Several hundred of them accepted Christ for the first time. For all things we give God His glory.
The next several blogs will be recapping the last 2 weeks. We had a lot of events that I am sure will make for a great read.
The next several blogs will be recapping the last 2 weeks. We had a lot of events that I am sure will make for a great read.
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Here we go again...
How exciting it is to join God in the work he is doing!! It's always neat to see what God is up to in my area, but also cool to know that He is changing lives all over the world. We are getting ready to go back to Guatemala City, Guatemala on Thursday. We have several different areas of ministry that we will be conducting while down there. We have clowns, (which is always a hit), puppets, dramas, construction, man all kinds of things.
Here's how you can pray for us:
-Safety when traveling
-Servant's hearts
-Power of the Holy Spirit to guide us
-Unity in our college and career group
-God's hand to move in the hearts of Guatemalans
-Endurance and continued faithfulness for Kenneth and Diana-our contacts there...view their blog...
-Language barriers will not hold back the word of God.
More updates to come later.
Current Listenings...Chris Tomlin
Friday, July 6, 2007
Latest movie...
Transformers.....check it out! This movie was great. Action the whole way through. I always get a little leary about "toys turn movie" movies, but I was well pleased. Other great shows similar in nature... GI Joe Iraqi Freedom, Pimp my Power Wheel, Star Wars...wait...ok, so you get the point. Anyway, Transformers was well worth the 10 bucks!
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