Month: July 2007

Bubba’s hearing


Beware of Dog…he is very sarcastic
Originally uploaded by erica2368.

From email:

Bubba at the Revival
Bubba goes to the revival and listens to the preacher. After a while, the preacher asks anyone with needs to come forward and be prayed over.
Bubba gets in line and when it’s his turn the preacher says, “Bubba, what you want me to pray about?” Bubba says,
“Preacher, I need you to pray for my hearing.”
So the preacher puts one finger in Bubba’s ear and the other hand on top of his head and prays a while. After a few minutes, he removes his hands and says, “Bubba, how’s your hearing now?”
Bubba says, “I don’t know preacher, it’s not until next Wednesday.”

Cool momento


National Community Church recently held a “Baptism by the Bay” in which a number of NCCers were baptized in the bay in Washington D.C.
They shot some great video which in turn, was made into a DVD for those being baptized.

Along with the DVD, the church gave towels to those being baptized as a memento to keep of the momentous occasion.

I may be mistaken but as I understand it, we have six baptisms coming up in the next few weeks at encounter.
We don’t have a bay nearby but instead we use a horse trough that’s set up in the middle of the room for baptisms.
I think we’re also going to try having several people being baptized give a brief testimony live before their baptism.
What different things does your church do when people make public commitments to Christ through baptism?

See more photos from NCC and their video (click Baptism by the Bay).

New Mexico gets role in Indiana Jones

New Mexico is putting lots of effort into bringing new Hollywood productions to the state, like the new Indiana Jones.
There are now six sound stages in the state with six feature films in production.
In addition, Sony Imageworks and Lionsgate Entertainment are moving some of their operations to New Mexico.
Currently the state offers a 25% tax rebate on movie productions there.
Funny how Waxahachie has a MASSIVE empty campus (more than 150 acres) that would make for an amazing sound stage/studio but it’s been sold by the county to an investment firm wanting to turn the former Superconducting Super Collider into a Tier IV Data Center.
In fact at least one movie production did some of their filming at the site in the past.
Listen to the full story on NPR.

Can you guess which other movies and TV shows have been filmed in Waxahachie?
From Imdb:

  1. Band (1998)
  2. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
    …aka Bonnie and Clyde… Were Killers! (1967) (UK)
  3. Breaking Home Ties (1987)
    …aka Norman Rockwell’s Breaking Home Ties (1987) (TV)
  4. Cowboy (1983) (TV)
  5. Fat Girls (2006)
  6. It Takes Two (1988)
    …aka My New Car (1989) (Australia)
  7. Lost Princess, The (2005)
  8. Mangus! (2007)
  9. Missionary Man (2007)
  10. Ollie Hopnoodle’s Haven of Bliss (1988) (TV)
  11. Optimystic (2006)
  12. Places in the Heart (1984)
  13. Square Dance (1987)
    …aka Home Is Where the Heart Is (1987) (USA: TV title)
  14. Strangeheart (2003)
  15. Tender Mercies (1983)
  16. Too High, Too Wide and Too Long: A Texas Style Road Trip (1999)
  17. Trip to Bountiful, The (1985)
  18. Universal Soldier: The Return (1999)
  19. When the Time Comes (1987) (TV)

In addition, within the last two years since I’ve been in Waxahachie, there was a Chevy Truck commercial, several episodes of Prison Break, several music videos and the movie Walking Tall 2 with Kevin Sorbo all filmed in Waxahachie.

Youth dies at Christian music festival

CNN has the story on 16 year-old Elizabeth K. Mohl, of Neenah, WI who died Saturday after a ride she was on at Lifest failed.

Winnebago County Deputy Coroner Chuck Hable said Sunday that a crane hoists a person or people in a sling, and that at the top someone inside pulls a ripcord. That drops the person or people, and they swing back and forth.
Witness Brian Childers of Kenosha, Wisconsin, said that two people went up in the ride, and that when the release was pulled he heard a snapping sound. One person fell, and the other remained swinging, he told the Oshkosh Northwestern.

Mohl died in surgery several hours later.
One of the biggest reminders of God’s sovereignty comes from a girl attending the festival, “You never know when God’s going to take someone.”
Remeber the Mohl family in your prayers today.