Friday, December 26, 2008

suffering for the gospel in sunny florida





suhee, gideon & i spent a few days in tampa in order to speak for a youth & college retreat. new light church (tampa) hosted the retreat for a handful of churches from all over florida & one church from new orleans. we had an awesome time. everyone was so warm & welcoming. the retreat center was nice. the food was good. & it even hit 85 degrees. gideon was happy to have so much family time together & he got a lot of attention from all the students too. it's rare for our family of three to share all our meal together like that. apparently the senior pastor's wife (bang un-mi) used to be a pop singer in korea. so a lot of older korean people know who she is. a bunch of the guys from the tampa church train bjj (brazilian jiu-jitsu) together. actually most of the guys in the worship team train together. that's like a personal dream of mine to have a group of close friends that trains together. that last picture is jacob (the bass player). he got cauliflower ear (a hardened mixture of blood & pus) from training bjj. it's kind of like a badge of honor that gives you instant street cred.

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