2nd SPI Class

The Biblical Foundations for Justice and Peacemaking class has been incredible. I have been very encouraged and challenged by Scripture and what we’ve been learning about the overwhelming justice/righteousness of God and how we’re called to live it as agents of His love and kingdom. Yesterday, we had some interesting discussion centering on justice in Syrian context and how to approach that idea when equality (which is NOT what biblical justice is about) would have so many more dead.

I am enjoying the professor and have become friends with a gal who’s in seminary here. I had the privilege of praying with her the first day after class when she was feeling unwell and overwhelmed.

Over the weekend, we went to DC to reconnect and visit some JBU friends. It was really fun! And we had great conversations, catching up and talking about the things that are on our hearts right now. Amy (Hudson) and Allan Fong showed us sweet hospitality, Mark found a gyro, and we rode bikes around the national mall Saturday night. It was cool.

Visited the church that Gary Haugen (the leader of International Justice Mission) and Sean Litton (former youth pastor in Roswell and also IJM big-wig) attend. It was a sweet balance between the liturgy that we’ve become accustomed to in the past couple of years and more evangelical (meaty) sermon. We were both really glad we got to do that.

And we met up with the girl who was the first reason I started learning about Africa, Jamie Dangers, who was my RA partner in Mayfield a long time ago and is from Uganda. We had a nice lunch visit together, too.

Notable happenings at Frisbee this week: Sunday after the game, our neighbor who also plays, invited us over to make Asian dumplings (started preparing about 9pm), and it was fun, delicious, and felt like a cultural experience. Yesterday, one of my classmates from SPI (he was in my first class and is South Korean; might be entering the masters program in my cohort in fall 2014) was running around the track while we were playing, and we got him to join us. It was fun to teach him the basics and he was a great sport to join and hang in there.