The other day, I was chatting it up with some of the moms of the kids I tutor on Tuesday nights. We were talking in Spanish, and right after I mentioned that I had studied in the Yucatan, they began mumbling something amongst themselves. I didn't catch much, but I did hear two key words: "William" and "Levy." Yup, I thought I had left that reputation in Mexico, but apparently not.
For those of you who don't know, William Levy was the star of a Spanish soap opera that was filmed in Merida, Mexico, where I studied last fall. Apparently he looks kind of like me. Whenever I wore sunglasses in Merida, I would usually receive a couple double-takes of people who thought they had seen their local TV celebrity.
You should google him, but maybe keep your kids out of the room when you do this, because before Billy Levy started acting, he did quite a bit of underwear modeling.
Yikes.
Moving on, this past Sunday, I was in charge of leading worship from acoustic guitar for both morning English services. We hadn't practiced during the week, so we got up ultra early to run through the songs. However, the church has kind of old sound equipment, and we wasted a lot of time trying different cables and direct boxes, searching for the cause of my guitar not coming through the sound system. After about 45 minutes of stressful waiting around, my bassist made an off-hand joke about how I probably just needed to turn my volume up.
I looked down at the guitar and, lo and behold, there was a volume knob, and it was set at zero. I sighed in embarrassment and switched it back to it's regular church setting of eleven, and told the sound guy my huge mistake. He almost stabbed me. Luckily, my Cousin Becky tackled him, sending the knife flying harmlessly into the empty pews.
That was a close one.
But yeah, things are getting pretty wild around here. SERVE starts this week Saturday. Click here to find out what SERVE has done in other cities. Oh wait! Click here. That's better.
In order to get ready for SERVE to come to our church, we made some videos that demonstrate the basic rules for the arriving students and leaders. My main participation involved donning a bikini top in order to show why we aren't allowing 2-piece bathing suits. There's nothing like a hairy man in a bikini to help kids remember the rules.
The pandemic of nightmares might be the only serious drawback from showing such a great video. That and I've completely lost all of my shame. Shoot.
Right now you're probably thinking, "This boy needs prayer." And you're right! Here are some things that you can pray about:
-That God would be present and tangible during SERVE
-That all of the participants would be excellent witnesses to Christ's love
-That the Rosewood staff would remain in prayer, rather than trying to administrate this behemoth of a youth program by themselves
Thank you for reading! Y'all are great!
-chris
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