10 days in and I'm feeling good.

Yep. I've been here for 10 days now. Buenos Aires is incredible. I'm so happy to get to come and share Christ's love. I've seen so much nationalistic pride, so much sincere religion, so much passion for bettering the world around one's self, and so much brokenness since I've been here. It breaks my heart to see people so misdirected.

God has been reminding me that we were created to be worshipers and we do that all the time. So much of our worship is misdirected. I've seen people worshiping soccer, fashion, success, fame, English, education, national identity, ideology, etc. I want to share my faith and my own story, but it has been difficult so far. They know that they need more, but they don't know where to look. However, because people have had a bad experience with the church, they don't want to look to Christ.

While here, I'm working on the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) Agronomy campus. So far on campus, my group has been working on a service project the name of which translates to"Improving the Quality of Your Life". We've been cleaning up the campus to show the students and faculty know that we are there to serve and not to be served. Several students have been coming up and helping. It's great. God is really showing His favor in big ways through people that don't know Him yet. :)

Monday I'm grabbing coffee with my new friend Tómas in the afternoon. Then Tuesday night I'll be merienda-ing with my friend Zac. I'm excited. Pray for that those times. God is good. I love His guidance. We need his hand and voice to lead us during these weeks.

See you soon. Love you all.
Comment if you read this, because I feel alone sometimes.
Dios te Bendiga,
Calebsito

Vida en Buenos Aires!

I'm in Buenos Aires!
Weird.

Today was my first day on campus. About 8 of us are working on the Agronomy campus of UBA (the highly esteemed public university system here in BS. AS.).
I'm really excited to see what ministry is like. Today we just ate at the cafeteria, met some students in the reigning political system there, prayed, and talked about the programs we'll be doing.

Oh, and I tried Mate. It's famous, and I'll make you all drink it. :P
Don't worry. It's safe too.


Okay. I'll try to explain things better in the days to come when I have time, but I wanted to update you real quick, so this'll do for now. :)

Peace and blessings (and besos),
Caleb

Let's Recap

Just realized that my last post was from the beginning of April. Yikes.

I'm not even consistent in the stuff I love.

Anyway, school is over. I'm not a Junior anymore. Weird. Last time I became a senior, I was a lot more excited about it.

A lot has happened in the last few weeks. I've enjoyed them thoroughly. We got everything initially squared away for the house next year, did some dumpster diving (found some SWEET couches), saw some good movies, tried some good food, climbed some legally questionable things, and hung out with some best friends. Oh, and my friend gave me a mohawk. ;)

I like doing sporadic, adventurous weird things. My friend ChrisLazattack pointed that out about me. I'd never really realized it before, but I think that's true.

I'm about to set out on a new adventure: Buenos Aires, Argentina; Summer 2010, Pt. #1.

Details will follow as I begin to learn them, but here's what I know so far:

- I leave for the trip's briefing tomorrow, Sunday 5/16th.

- We leave for B.A. the following Wednesday, 5/19th

- I'll be working at a University there in the Capitol, teaching English and loving people like Jesus does.

- We get back on June 30th.

It is going to be an adventure. Hopefully I'll have more to say about the trip after briefing starts. Stay tuned!