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Name: Rob
Country: United States
State: Mississippi
Metro: Jackson
Birthday: 3/5/1986
Gender: Male
Interests: RUF, my classes (at least this semester), running, racquetball, seeing friends, reading GOOD books, small group, and my new APARTMENT! whoo hoo!
Expertise: hmm... still working on this one
Occupation: Student
Industry: Hospitality
Message: message meEmail: email me
AIM:  rcphi211
Member Since:
4/25/2004
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| sorry xanga...I've come to the conclusion that at least for me and my circle of friends... xanga has died.
Therefore, feel free to visit my new blog at:
http://roberdeau.blogspot.com/
hope you enjoy!
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| I'm so excited :) I just got off the phone with one of my friends from Lagniappe and we had a great chat about how things have been since I left last summer. I have had the opportunity to go back numerous times in the past few months, but unless you really ask specific questions, it is really hard to see the whole picture. One of the reasons for this wonderful conversation was that I was recently given the opportunity to share about my experiences at Lagniappe last summer as a construction intern for Lagniappe Church on the Gulf Coast at Grace Pres in Starkville. If you live in Starkville, I hope you'll come to Sunday school and get to hear me and the other students that were involved in summer missions during Sunday school (9:30ish a.m. ! ).
In other news, school is getting tougher as deadlines are approaching. Everything seems to be stacking up a bit. Fortunately, if things continue to progress as they have, I won't have to do all that well on my final exams (a great place to be in, I must say).
Next semester's schedule really is a blessing. I don't have any class on Mondays or Fridays!!! Of course, my parents would say that now I have no excuse not to come home every single weekend, but I see it from a different perspective :). I can go on a road trip or to Lagniappe on most any weekend! I will say though, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday are looking rather ominous.
Scary to think I would be graduating in two weeks had I not co-oped a few years ago... everything would be so different.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I --
I took the one less travelled by,
and that has made all the difference
~Robert Frost
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| Lagniappe InternshipsI'm going to use the free advertisement of the internet to the people who read this (I guess you get what you pay for).
Last summer, many of you know that I worked at Lagniappe Church in Bay St. Louis, MS. We did construction work and worked with a lot of volunteers from all over the country. I have done many things with my summers since high school. Let's do a little recap:
2002, 2003, 2004 - Twin Lakes Summer Camp
2005 - Alpine Camp for Boys
2006 - Co-oped in East TN
2007 - Lagniappe Construction Internship
I have to say, all of those things played a particular role in my life at the time, but I really can say that my summer at Lagniappe was one of my favorites. I didn't make much (only what I raised from friends and family (thanks! if you supported me last summer :) ) compared to co-oping at an engineering company, but it was soooo much more rewarding in other ways.
If you want to minister to families and build lots of relationships you would never have the opportunity to make.
If you would like to live with 13-14 other people your age for 24 hours a day for 12 weeks
If you want to do construction work and get sweaty all day long
If you want to meet people who are real, but not perfect
If you like working with people from around the country
If you want to hear a real Gospel message every Sunday and see people living it every other day of the week
If you want to learn new things about construction that you've never had the chance to learn
If you want to see how the Gospel changes relationships and allows us to see our brokenness and accept God's grace
If you have a passion for helping people in a time of need
If you don't know what you're doing this summer yet...
Then I challenge you to consider spending this summer at Lagniappe- it is not the only place that God is working, but it is a place that he is working. Please let me know if you want more information
If you want to read Lagniappe's blog, go to http://lagniappechurch.blogspot.com/
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| I've got to do better about this blogging thing. Bloglines.com has made it incredibly easy to read other people's blogs, but they have yet to make something that makes it easier to blog!
The past two days have been Peter's Roommate Appreciation Day (parts 1 and 2). Last night we got to go to Dave's Darkhorse Tavern and get some pizza for the man. I can't believe it has taken being in Starkville this long for me to finally go there.
I'm gonna miss Roommate Appreciation Day next semester if I move out. The jury is still out (I credit Robin for that phrase) on whether I'll be living on campus or not next year. There's a program called 'Engineering Mentorship' that would allow me to have a tutoring session for two hours per week and help people with the more basic classes in engineering (i.e. Calculus, Physics, Chemistry, Statics...) They offer free housing and a stipend to all the students who are in the program. There is that fear that 'O Crap, what if I don't know how to help this person? What if I have forgotten everything?" Well, I hope this isn't true, but we'll see. I'm really excited though and I think it fits my personality quite well.
I need to post a few pictures soon.
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| 50 some-odd pages later...You know... someone told me I would be busy this semester, but I didn't think they were that serious. :)
Well, Peter and Jason, two of my wonderful roommates, and I spent a large portion of our week being eaten by the ESD (Energy Systems Design) Monster. This monster has the ability to down many hours of your day in one helping! Also, I think the ESD monster is eating a large portion of the rainforest considering how much paper we use in that class. Before you know it, your whole afternoon is gone. My professors always talk about the Laws of Conservation of Mass and Energy, but I don't think they've proved the Law of Conservation of Time yet, cause I don't know where all those hours went.
Well, this week is over and I'm looking forward to tomorrow. Being home right now for a short trip right now, I will get to go to my home church tomorrow! Always a great experience. I miss being at home for long periods of time when I can actually build on the relationships there. Honestly, I'm tired of always being asked, "so how long you got left?, what are you going to do when you graduate? How's State?" I mean, I can't blame people for asking, considering they never see me, but I just wish I could GROW in those relationships, but right now, that just doesn't seem real possible considering I am at school and they are in Jackson.
I came home this weekend to see the parents, and I'm glad I did. I do regret it being so short, but I am glad I didn't bring my car because that means I can't go anywhere and make a bunch of plans. I am here and I'm stayin' put!
In small group last week, we talked about Romans 1:1-17. The following are verses 16 and 17:
"I am not ashamed of the
gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone
who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile. For in the gospel a righteousness from God is revealed, a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: "The righteous will live by faith.""
I just hope I can say that, too.
Roberdeau
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