On the casting of lots…

“The lot is cast into the lap, but it’s every decision is from the Lord” [Proverbs 16:33]

“And they drew lots for them, and the lot fell to Matthias, and he was added to the eleven apostles” [Acts 1:26]

“Be sure your sin will find you out” [Leviticus 32:23]

“For the wages of sin is death” [Romans 6:23]

Anyone who sins is doomed.

(via randomnyc)

Romans 12:2 “Living in Culture; Anchored in God” [Chris]

The prayers of the saints are like golden bowls of incense. [Rev. 5:8b]

Chad Amico is our Missions Pastor, and a coordinator at the Ventura Campus.

One time, when we were prepping our teams for missions, and the excitement of running around a new city was overwhelming the team, Chad exclaimed with a Piper-esque fervor,

“This ain’t no cappuccino prayer tour! Learn to suffer!”

We’ve been suffering on the mission field ever since (Except for S.F. and London, where part of the mission is to infiltrate coffee shops and be hip).

Chad is the great dichotomy of our staff meeting…

• He is often the one with brilliant suggestions for maintaining the ebb and flow of various church functions, and is a voice of wisdom and experience in nearly every possible field of ministry, not limited to, but including pastoring our international sending team, to offering wise council in the lives of others (like us) on a regular basis.
• Yet he unashamedly remains unscathed by Facebook, Twitter, blogs, mp3 players, and if you ask him if he got in someone’s grill, he will reply, “What’s a grill?”

Of course, he is a fast learner, and is constantly picking up on the current lingo of the times, and at such a rapid pace, he would have hipsters weeping and gnashing. In fact, he learns so quickly that he sometimes takes things overboard, but in a way that makes us truly love having him on staff with us. He fits in well.

(For some of his uses of modern day slang, click here)

College Partay! (Cody is our chaperon)