Moving Time

Hello Everyone,

i am moving my blog to wordpress.com my new address will be richemery.wordpress.com 

i am move to wordpress because i would like a bit more control over my blog, also i would like to know my stats of how many people are visiting and subscribed to what i post.  so please upgrade you bookmarks and i look forward to see you all at my new home 

Rich

Who are you Following?

Are you following your heart, your mind, or are you fully following God and what he has for you? Are you living a good life, or are you living a Great life? We can all live a good life by taking the first good idea that passes by us we could be doing good thing for God and our families and our communities. 

If you are wanting to have a Great life all you have to do is Pray and Listen. Talk to God! Does he want you to be helping in the kids ministry, youth church, or even McDonlads or Winners? What about that six figure carrier that you could be offered. All of those places are good but God is calling us to be Great. We should make sure that where ever we go we need to pray, ask God if that is where he wants us. Are we saposed to move our families to the other side of the world? Why are so many people settling for less then what God has called them to be. 

Lord that is my prayer that people that I meet people that I know would be willing and obedient to call on your name to know which direction You are calling them to be so they won't just be good in your kingdom but Great in your kingdom.

Not Art. Gospel.

If you are a creative person or just love God. Then you should check out Not Art. Gospel. 

You can an amazing representation of the sermon on the mount

Check it out!

Beaverton

Today is the Second day being here in Beaverton Oregon at the Fall Regional Conference.  Last night we listened to Pastor Jack Hayford Inspire us to walk through the door and Join Jesus for what he has called us to be 

A time of Change

My life is changing really really fast! With my new job at Northgate Foursquare I am always being challenged in a new way, not just with technical stuff like creating videos and graphics.  I am being challenged in keeping up with my devotions and keeping a reading plan outside of my devotions.  I am also challenged with my emotions keeping them in line and not get angry or upset when I am receiving criticism.  Also God is really teaching me patients.  I know this because right now we are trying to buy a place and somethings are going through really fast but others are really wanting to take there sweet time. (please be in prayer that Amy and I will have a place to live sooner then later)

To add to the life change Amy and I are having a baby as you know.  It is really exciting and also a little scary.  When I think about it I am always second guessing myself thinking that I might not be cut out to be a Dad, yet at the same time I am really looking forward to the baby coming because we are surrounded by some of the greatest people that in the world, with our church family and leadership as well as my real family with my grandparents and my Dad and Step-Mom in town.

The Big Announcement!

If you have not see Pastor Craig Millar's Blog yet for what the big surprise was well you better check out here!  He is going to be following a passion of his politics.  He is running for a seat on city council. Pastor my prayers are with you and good luck! you have my vote

SURPRISE

Big Surprise at Millar Time see if you can figure it out

A day in paradise!

On Saturday September 20 I went climbing here at Comox Lake it was amazing. Jason (remember he is not my wife) and I both climbed a rout rated 5.10 cleanly (no falling or using the rope to help you up the rout) if you dont understand the rating system click here.  also with us climbing was Matt he just got his climbing gear and used it for the first time.

i will try to post some sweet pictures later

I am BACK

Its been a long long long time since I have been here.  Allot has been going on in my life, I am still living at Jason and Kelsey's place (Thank You Friends!!)  I am really looking hard at a place and i am going to look at it agin on monday with my Dad.

My beautiful wife Amy has sent me some 3D pictures of our baby.  I will post them later today.  Also Amy will be up in Courtenay soon! 7 more days!

My new job is fantastic!  I get to work with some of the best people that I know doing what I love to do.

That is all for now but the posts are going to be coming more frequently now that there is internet at the house

talk to y'll soon

who is my wife

Pointed out to me in a comment from my last post my wife is Amy not Jason just to make that clear I am not married to Jason and here is a great pic of here

A New Chapter in Life

I know it has been a while since I have posted anything here on my blog, but life has been pretty Awesome.  I am in the process after finishing my job with Presentation Services, my beautiful wife, Jason and I packed up the apartment and moved it all to storage in Courtenay BC.

Now being up in Courtenay I have been to the Northgate Foursquare staff retreat SHINE!  I was great going over everything for the next 12 months.  I never new how much planning was done before the new year started, it's great that we know this so we will always be on the same page throughout the year.  The second day of the staff retreat was unbelievable we went to Wild Play and did the high ropes course, and the zip line, and Pastor Scott and Pastor Matt did the bungy jumping.(see there videos below)

On Sunday we sent Fusion Youth off to Camp for the week.  Then for church we listened to Pastor Matt preach a great message keep your eyes open at ngate.ca for is message.

Today I excitedly went condo hunting with Karin and we look at 3 possible places to live I hope one will be the place to buy

My End with PSAV

I am officially finished work with PSAV it was good while it lasted.  I have learned a tone and made some good friends that I will never forget.  But with any job there are always thing that you are happy to give up as well.  below are some pictures of my office at the Delta and the last picture is of my office at the Habour Towers

yes that last pic has no window and no paint and the carpet is held down with tape great office eh

Going for the Gold

What's in a name?

What's in a name?  EVERYTHING!

Give me some suggestions on a great name for this blog

A Day at the Beach

The other day some of the young adults went to the break water in Victoria.  While we were out there we wondered out to the end of the break and I got the most lovely sun burn it was totally amazing my face was lobster red except for where my sun glasses were.  The best part of the who day was us being kinda mean, but it was still really funny, we were watching the tide come in a 2 pairs of shoes sat unattended on the beach, a pair of crocs and some puma look a likes.  as the owners were playing a little farther down on the beach, not paying attention to there shoes the water slowly crept up on there shoes.  It wasn't until a whole line of whale watching boats went by that we knew that the shoes would meet Davy Jones Locker.

The shoes did end up surviving but it was really fun to watch.

Photography

At different time over the past couple weeks have had people asking me about photography.  But first things first I am not a pro I just like to take pictures.  So see below for some great resources for learning how to use your camera how to compose a picture and some great inspiration to create some great pictures.  

Michael's Photography School - a great place to start, some great videos to describe different photography terms like aperture, exposer, ASA ISO.  Also he will some composition skills.  all form amateur to professional 

PhotoWalkPro - a great blog all about photography and as a side note of this site check out the Worldwide Photo Walk and if your city is not there add it and become and lead your own photo walk

Joe McNally's Blog - a great place to know what a real pro goes through with is traveling around the world shooting for people like National Geographic, New York Times, Nikon, Sports Illustrated, and thats just to name a few.  I also recommend watching some of his videos on youtube here

Strobist - for everything in flash and extra light gadgets for you camera

well thats my list i hope it helps you to get more involved with your camera and keep shooting

Great Links

Here is a list of links that you should visit if you are going any kind of design

Brusheezy!  if you need a fancy brush or just something totally off the wall check out this site

stock.xchng  great resource for all the free royalty free pics you will need

BittBox  a great blog that will offer you great textures type and any thing related to graphic design

Fuel Your Creativity a great blog just go look at it

Best Brands of the World search for logos of any company you can think of

its all about the heart

after that serious beautiful worship of my last post this will is sure to make you laugh

what are some of your favorite moments during worship?

Healer

A song that God has his hand on right now.  Watching the following videos and see what I mean.

I am Still ALIVE

I am still alive even though I have not Blogged in a week today.  This has really been the last thing on my mind.  As most of you know if not all you, I have been offered a position at Northgate Foursquare Church.  My Team and I will be looking after the church media, sound, video, graphics, and print. 

I am really quite excited to be moving back up to the valley, but for now it is all about getting everything organized for the move with packing and finishing up work and making sure that all the necessary people in Victoria Foursquare are ready to take over the youth ministry that Amy has been looking after and for me the keep helping out our audio guys.

If any one is in Victoria and they would like to help with some packing just send me an email.