Nicks weekly update

so once again i am not use to writing a blog about my life and posting it, so i am not going to bore you with a huge paper of thing i think were exciting...just the highlights, i promise.

So the biggest thing that happened this week is the "Love Buckets" This epic adventure, which started in the dome of one Justin Simmons, is with out a doubt one of the greatest displays of Ministry that I have seen... maybe i over exaggerate a little bit, but i digress. It was a truly great time of ministry. The Love Chapel Hill crew and I got about 1500 flowers, put them in to buckets ( hence the Love Buckets in case anyone was confused about the name) and drop them off in part of the city, and left. We got to hand out a few flowers, which was awesome by the way, but the leaving them there was one of the sweetest things about this event. It wasn't us trying to empress anyone or trying to get the churches name recognized, it was simply a group of people want to show the Love they had received to the people who needed it, and what better way than a flower (obviously there are allot of ways but i really liked this one :)) anyway we got some sweet stories out of it and some epic pictures which i have on my facebook page, but i know that this event went further than we realized, and i pray that everyone who picked up a flower that day would begin to be stured by the spirit, because God is going to fall on Chapel Hill, North Carolina in a mighty way very soon!! man good times!!

other than that the week was filled with super awesome times on franklin street, but i wont go in to all that, just keep me in your prayers. I love you guys, thanks for all your prayers!! be blessed and ill hit you up again soon

P.s. Excusse any misspellings of any sort...hooked on phonics didn't really work for me :)

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Okay so i am new to this whole "blog my life thing." so i will try my best to be as transparent as i can be and maybe and a little excitement somewhere in there some places.

Well for those who do not know i have been given the awesome opportunity to spend my summer in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and work with some of the sweetest dudes in ministry!! Love Chapel Hill baby!! lol. i am truly thankful to be here. Anyway i have been here for a little over a week now and I am truly amazed at the things God can do and already has done here! I have realized that i have soo much to learn about ministry and its only been the first week! This thing that i have been called to, this life of ministry goes so far beyond Sunday mornings or Wednesday nights, it is truly a LIFE of ministry. daily, hourly, secondly showing this great gift we have received to the world. Being the light that shows the way to the Life. All that to say i have removed any and all preconceived notions of what i want to learn this summer, and have just started looking for what God wants me to do, But i wont bore you anymore with my thoughts on that :) my days are filled with giving water and hanging out with the harmless, hanging out at this sweet well, were I spend time just reading and praying. i think the sweetest part of that is that this well is right on UNC campuss, and it use to be the source of water to the school. I have this crazy dream that this old well would be the center of this great movement of God to Chapel Hill. that the water of Life would flow from that place!! man that would be sweet!! i also have been spending my time getting to know this culture and what is needed to see God explode in this place. I've there is this huge sense of community in this place, almost like a family. they are all about local support and local businesses! kinda reminds me how the church should be. So if we can somehow become apart of this community, I can see God doin some epic stuff!!!

Right now I am trying to focus on simply this ministry and how God wants me to grow and learn this summer, but I defiantly have not forgotten my friends and love ones, some a little more than others, you know who you are ;) so my prayers are with you guys, if your reading this i love y'all and i will always be there if you need me...but mushy stuff aside ill try and keep you updated on how i am doing and whats going on here.