9/07/2005 10:06:00 PM|||Joel VandenBrink|||

This week 92 new students arrived through the doors of Mars Hill Graduate School. These new faces and this new hopes are a relief. It was fun to chat with many of them today and find out how things are going, what brought them out to Seattle and how has the transition been. These students fan something in me that I too quickly forget -- that God is working for the good of the world. I often find myself so deeply entrenched in the world I live in that I forget that I'm swimming in water until someone who is in a different bowl says, "hey, your water looks different than mine." So thank you incoming students at Mars Hill -- your presence is a blessing.

joel

|||112615623215753791|||Life at School9/07/2005 10:52:20 PM|||john|||Your welcome. :)

Thanks for all you do in helping us to acclimate to this strange and new world.9/09/2005 08:09:32 PM|||Mark|||Thanks for the welcome. I am sad not to be able to go camping this weekend but I am looking forward to Sunday. I hope and pray that we continue to learn from each other.9/12/2005 09:50:55 AM|||Mark|||joel,

want to touch base for coffee, breakfast, or lunch either - Tuesday or Wednesday?

mark
mclosson@gmail.com9/12/2005 01:31:09 PM|||Anonymous|||Nice new look. You're starting to gain quite a following!

Hope the retreat went well...I stopped by "campus" on orientation day and was reminded of lunch out on the sidewalk, mind-numbing classes with Dan, and our trip out to the N. Cascades.

I'll be in touch to see if you are still open to getting dinner sometime soon.

Nate