Month: April 2008

One of our wor­ship lead­ers, Awa, has some of the most quotable lines of any­one I know.

As exhib­it A, I sub­mit the fol­low­ing excerpt from an email to our group last week:

It’s spring quar­ter peo­ple, time to pro­cras­ti­nate so you can enjoy the beau­ti­ful warm weath­er and the beau­ti­ful peeps of Chi Alpha. I mean, we are a good look­ing bunch…I say that in truth and with humil­i­ty…

How mag­nif­i­cent is that lan­guage?

Any­way, at least one reporter at the Stan­ford Dai­ly agrees with me: Awa was quot­ed not once but twice in a recent arti­cle as was Chris, anoth­er of our stu­dents.

For con­text, the arti­cle is about a Hawai­ian Lu’au on cam­pus.

…kahlua pig … is tra­di­tion­al­ly pre­pared by fill­ing the pig’s abdom­i­nal cav­i­ty with hot stones, then plac­ing the pig in a pit con­tain­ing hot stones.

“But I’m sure San­ta Clara Coun­ty wouldn’t have been too open to that idea, so we hand-shred­ded the 40 lbs. of pork our­selves using forks,” said Lu’au Co-Chair Awa­puhi Dan­cil ‘10. “The hard­est part was fig­ur­ing out how much of each item to buy. Peo­ple at Cost­co kept star­ing at us since we had 40 toma­toes, pineap­ples and pounds of salmon.”

And then lat­er on,

“The mem­bers of the Hawai’i Club poured our heart and soul into this event, work­ing at 100 mph,” Dan­cil said.

And the con­tri­bu­tion from Chris:

Per­haps the most inter­est­ing side dish was the poi, pound­ed taro root that is knead­ed into a smooth paste, tra­di­tion­al­ly meant to be eat­en by scoop­ing it out of a bowl with one’s fin­gers.

“I still haven’t made up my mind about the poi,” said Chris Oli­vares ‘10. “But every­thing else is absolute­ly deli­cious. I came last year and had to come again to sup­port friends and watch the great dances. And how often do you get to have authen­tic Hawai­ian food that’s real­ly good?”

So a big shout out to you both for your 15 min­utes of fame.

Although next time you’re talk­ing about slaugh­tered pigs and root paste try to fig­ure out a sub­tle way to work in “Chi Alpha Chris­t­ian Fel­low­ship meets at 7:30pm every Wednes­day school is in ses­sion in build­ing 300–300.” I’m not quite sure how to do that ele­gant­ly, but there must be some way. Maybe some­thing like “Of course, slaugh­tered pigs can­not atone for our sins. They are mere­ly tasty. How­ev­er, there is one sac­ri­fice

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that has already been giv­en on our behalf, and we’ll be talk­ing about it this Wednes­day… etc, etc”. 🙂trad­ing places movie down­load

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Bri­an just tagged me with this sem­i­nary ques­tion­naire. As I’ve men­tioned before, sem­i­nary is great prepa­ra­tion for min­istry. In fact, I think the ide­al min­istry tra­jec­to­ry is for some­one to go a sec­u­lar uni­ver­si­ty for their under­grad and then to get sem­i­nary train­ing. This is more com­mon than many sup­pose — rough­ly half the stu­dents at my sem­i­nary came from sec­u­lar uni­ver­si­ties.

Any­way, here’s the meme:

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This Sem­i­nary Meme is part of a com­pe­ti­tion spon­sored by Going to Sem­i­nary and Eisen­brauns. If you’d like to be entered, sim­ply answer the 7 ques­tions below and tag 5 oth­er peo­ple. You’ll also need to post this para­graph (links includ­ed) with your answers as the links will be tracked back to your blog and will count as your “entry” into the com­pe­ti­tion. On April 30th, 2008, one blog­ger will be select­ed at ran­dom to win a $100 gift cer­tifi­cate to the Eisen­brauns online book­store.

1. Where did you attend sem­i­nary?
   

   The Assem­blies of God The­o­log­i­cal Sem­i­nary

2. What class do you think has most impact­ed your spir­i­tu­al life?
   

   Effec­tive Lead­er­ship with Mel Ming.

3. What sem­i­nary pro­fes­sor was most influ­en­tial while in sem­i­nary?
   

   Tough call. Remark­ably tough. Every prof I had at AGTS rocked my world one way or anoth­er.

4. What was the great­est chal­lenge you faced in sem­i­nary?
   

   Not coast­ing.

5. What was the great­est reward you expe­ri­enced in sem­i­nary?
   

   Grad­u­at­ing.

6. What did you do after sem­i­nary?
   

   The same thing I did while I was in sem­i­nary — I min­is­tered to stu­dents at sec­u­lar uni­ver­si­ties.

7. While in sem­i­nary, how many times were asked what you’d do after grad­u­at­ing?
   

   Almost nev­er — I telegraphed my inten­tions pret­ty clear­ly.

I’m sup­posed to tag five peo­ple. The amaz­ing Mr. Zick­afoose has not par­tic­i­pat­ed, and I don’t think Earl Creps

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has either. Nor have Lane Dou­glas down­load mon­key shines online nor George P. Wood nor Mark Bat­ter­son. Pre­dic­tion: prob­a­bil­i­ty of any of them par­tic­i­pat­ing is less than 5%.trade down­load