This Past Weekend and Such

This past Sunday could most accurately be described as my initiation as pastoral intern at PMC. I began teaching my adult Sunday school class and delivered my first sermon. It was taken out of the 12th chapter of 1 Corinthians and was entitled "Fulfilling Our Purpose to Achieve Community". It seemed to go well overall, and if you would like to see my notes on it then click here (hopefully this link works).

So I'm very much enjoying my time here in Pittsburgh. This city specifically has an interesting dynamic because it has all the really neat opportunities and venues that a big city has, but there's still the ability to feel at home in a smaller community. Pittsburgh is arranged in neighborhoods; there's roughly 90 of them from what I understand, so it's easy to establish yourself in a neighborhood and really feel at home there. Plus, I just like the city. It's different than what I'm used to. And there's so much potential and opportunity to do good things here in terms of what I would call my life mission: trying to make a difference by doing good to others, letting others make a difference in my life, and living according to my Christian values. It seems kind of early to say right now, but I could honestly see myself being happy here for a while (whatever time frame describes a "while" I'm not sure).

Dining Room Table

Our house, which started out a little rough, is beginning to find its niche as our home. I thought I would share a few pictures. Pictures are good...but I need to develop the habit of taking them more often.

My Room

                                         

                             




Also, Joey and I decided to make use of a stale loaf of bread tonight by making bread pudding. We really didn't know what we were doing, but we found a recipe online and went to town with it - making up measurements and throwing in whatever ingredients we thought would be good. It turned out to be delicious.

Finally, here are my fellow PULSErs on the day we went to see a Pirates game a couple weeks ago. Such a good group of people :)