T-Barry

New Blog

2007-07-27T11:41:00.000-07:00

I've conformed to word press so yeah

www.tbarry.wordpress.com

check it out because it's ten times better

L.A. baby

2007-07-26T14:17:00.000-07:00

Wow L.A. was probably the coolest thing of the entire summer
I saw so many hurt people who were revealed to the love of Jesus through kids it was awesome.

So I guess now you guys are expecting some awesome story about how I talked to someone and they got saved but honestly I have nothing.

So many people have said man you gotta tell me some stories but honestly I have none.

This being my first mission trip was an experience like no other. I saw things that I really was not expecting at all.

I saw people lighting, slinging, and doing crack. I stepped over a few syringes that people had probably just got done shooting heroine with. I saw hurt people looking for pleasure in things that belong to the world that only satisfy them temporarily instead of for eternally like the love of Jesus. I got cussed at and persecuted by homeless people who thought that I thought I was better than them and that's why I was handing out cookies and water and prayers to them. I saw girls giving themselves away because they thought they were no good. and I also saw people accept prayer, and Jesus. I saw people grateful for the blessing and wanted to get back on their feet.

So I may not have some slammin story about how little billy got saved because I shared the love of Jesus. But now I can walk into school ready for whatever comes my way because I've been through it now and I know how it feels and I've seen way beyond what I'd see in a school hallway. So even though I have no stories and nothing cool. God did prepare me for what's coming this year and now I can be ready.

Love,

T-Barry

Well Well Well

2007-07-04T12:19:00.000-07:00

Since the last time I posted I've had some crazy stuff happen. I've written about a dozen new poems and I'm not gonna type them because I like reading them to people instead of you reading it because I can put the rhythm I have for it and some of the pieces have different emotions but yeah.

Well Camp was freaking awesome like I couldn't even explain how much I got out of it I've been so much closer to Christ ever since. I really don't have any crazy stories or anything just an experience like that words can't come to explain. So there isn't much I can say

I did happen to get corn rolls which were pretty tight.

Also Tori Ohlerking and I accomplished to show the Invisible Children movie at camp and 20 people showed up which was awesome because these people gave up there beach time and free time to come watch this movie so I was so excited.

and this here is my favorite The wonderful Tori O. and I are now planning a trip to Africa either Mozambique or Zimbabwe for next summer and I am so flipping excited. It's gonna be an experience like no other. We're gonna do all sorts of Justice projects and fund raisers and all sorts of stuff.

well so much has happened but it's nothing words can describe I'm gonna try my hardest to blog more often.

so that's really all for now

Love,

T-Barry

What a summer

2007-06-18T05:32:00.000-07:00

Well this is going to be a fairly long post so for those of you who hate reading can quit about NOW. OK you've made it this far now I'm going to tell you everything that's happened recently.

First off I want to thank everybody who's giving me prayer or money towards LA I need $210 left and I'm good to go (so I mean if you wanna hook a brotha up that's cool too lol) but you guys have no clue how much it means to me that you would give me your time and money (things that are very valuable to society now) so that I could go lead some people to Jesus in LA THANK YOU. I LOVE YOU.

Secondly I've managed to write some poetry this week and I must say God is a pretty good poet. So now I'm going to let you read them. This first one My boy Paul Musso helped me write.

You see it all starts with this thought in your brain,

That if you try to change the world people think your insane.

But you ain't gotta worry bout what people say,

Cause if you reppin God everything is OK.

Yeah people gonna say you whacked up, jacked up, tell you shut up

but don't give up, instead raise him up.

Because you see people they'll notice the difference, they'll notice the change

And then all of them they'll proclaim his name.

and now this one I wrote the other day (It's my favorite as well)

You see god doesn't care about your little reputation

He cares way more about where's your destination

He doesn't care about money or fame

He wants to know how many times did you spread his name

Did you reach out to that person show them some love

Or did you pass on by giving a shrug

God wants you to make good choices and to live well

He wants to make sure we don't end up in Hell.

We're one of God's children we're part of his name

Now go change the world and don't be ashamed.

Yeah tell me those aren't tight I'm pretty impressed personally but yeah that's that.

Finally today I was reading my cell bible. (I got the entire bible on my phone its pretty gangsta) and I read Romans 1:6 it was pretty cool so I started to read 1-6 and it kind of gave me like a five point sermon. Not literally but you get what I mean so I'm gonna share those with you.

Romans 1:1-2 says " "From Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle and appointed to spread the Good News of God."(God had already promised this Good News through his prophets in the Holy Scriptures)"

I thought this was pretty cool because us as Christians cry out for our calling like I want to be a youth pastor when I grow up and I pray about it often asking God just let me be a youth pastor. I don't know why I pray that I know it's promised and God's will is going to happen anyway but that was just a cool little thing to think about.

Romans 1:3-4 " "This Good News is about his Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. In his human nature he was a descendant of David. In His spiritual, holy nature he was declared the Son of God. This was shown in a powerful way when he came back to life."

I love this because In my human nature I'm a descendant of the Barry family and only Barry's are in that. But spiritually we are all Descendants of Christ. This made me think about a movie I watched yesterday called American History X (I don't advise anyone to watch it, it's pretty gross) But it's about these skinheads and the main one goes to jail and changes and starts to accept other races besides white people and it's a pretty weird movie with a good story line. But I thought about how they actually have people who hate other Races. It's real it happens. but if we're all descendants of Christ that makes us all the same nobody's higher than the other because we all come form the same spiritual family.

Romans 1:5-6 "Through him we have received God's kindness and the privilege of being apostles who bring people from every nation to the obedience that is associated with faith. This if for the honor of his name. You are among those who have been called to belong to Jesus Christ."

This is just flat out awesome I love verse 6 "you are among those who have been called to belong to Jesus Christ" How awesome is that there is a limit to people who are going to be saved (well not a limit but it says in the Bible not everyone will be saved) but the fact that God chose us. I mean that's like something everybody wants is to be chosen. Chosen for that team, that job, that group anything we want to be chosen and God chose us. He loves us and it's so cool to think about all that he did and all we can do.

Well that's all for now I'm all blogged out so I'm gonna go I love ya PEACE

Love,

T-Barry

2007-06-11T17:18:00.001-07:00

This is my first phone blog that is travin playing guitar hero and I'm pretty freakin excited well yeah PEACE

MY NEW PHONE

2007-06-11T17:04:00.000-07:00

I'm so excited because my cell hone came in today and I've been playing with it and all sorts of stuff. I would put my number but people I don't know read this so yeah

But now I can blog from my phone and I might even have a few pictures now so who knows anywho That's all for today but yeah EQUIP tomorrow woo woo anywho that's all

Love,

T-Barry

It's been a while

2007-06-10T12:48:00.000-07:00

Well I have had a lot of request(more like demands) to update my blog so I'm going to throw two weeks of information in this blog.

So throughout these two weeks I've managed to Get in a car wreck, cut a slice out of my finger get stung by a wasp all sorts of crazy stuff. But out of all of it I realized something you have no clue what is going to happen to you and when it's going to happen. So why not go live everyday like it's you're last day just in case ya know. But it was one of those random thoughts.

Well I also noticed something else today during the twelve o' clock service today all the 40 something summer session kids sat through service and it made me think about how I use to sit there and be one of those kids. I thought if there was one piece of advice what would I tell them. and I thought about it and I figured it out I would tell them they are sitting there in that service to convict and compel. They need to walk in there and out worship, take the best notes, be the best people they can be. They are a generation with a HUGE influence. Adults see them and they think if a teen is out worshiping me I need to worship better. If a teen is taking better notes than I am, i need to take better ones. That's just how adults think. So if anybody in summer session reads this you have the hugest influence in the church so do what you do the best you possibly can pursue everything with excellence.

Well I guess that's all I hopefully update more often, so PEACE OUT

love,

T-Barry

2007-05-31T10:13:00.000-07:00

This morning I went to Early Morning prayer at the annex. I got like this big revelation SOOOO I'm gonna blog about it.

So I first got there and I was ready to go to sleep because it was still the butt crack of dawn. But I decided to go pray. So I did and God told me to go look up Jeremiah 3:19 so I did and it says this.

"I thought to myself, "I would love to treat you as my own children!" I wanted nothing more than to give you this beautiful land-the finest inheritance in the world. I looked forward to you calling me "Father" and I thought you would never turn away from me again"

If you want a verse that convicts and compels that's it right there. To think God actually looked forward to us Crying out to him, to us saying we love him, to us saying we belong to him and he gives us so much trust and we take advantage of it every time.

This verse when I read it I was like *ouch* it just convicts you and then compels you to basically give God what he wants to never turn away from him again.

Well after that little thing there I was looking around and I saw a advertisement sign on the wall for Pastor Dino's book "Turning Points" and at the bottom it said really big "AVAILABLE NOW" and I thought about how you go to Wal-Mart and you see the movies, Cd's, Toys, Gadgets, just about anything is "Available Now" and I thought when Jesus died on the cross God put a big sign on himself that said "AVAILABLE NOW" and it's never gonna out date, expire, be replaced, nothing, it's going to stay the same then, now, and forever.

Finally I thought how we're are so quick to tell people about the new pants, shoes, shirts, glasses, belt, or anything we got because we think it's pretty cool. I know I do that I'll be like hey check out what I got and how good of a deal I got on it. but for some reason us as humans we hesitate to tell people about the Love we got for free from Jesus. It's the best deal in the world it's not 20, 50, or 75% off it's free. No hidden fee's, No Monthly Interest, NOTHING. We get basically a wonderful awesome crib in heaven that beats any of 50 Cent, P-Diddy, or Lil Jon's $500 million dollar houses. Because you know what they may have all this valuable stuff but the possessions the love, the power we get through Christ is priceless and nothing will ever change that. SO that's what I got today so I'm gonna go help My Hero "Tyler Tullos" do whatever he needs me to do. So yeah PEACE

Love,

T-Barry

Summer Time

2007-05-27T19:18:00.000-07:00

It's officially summer time and its been fun for the 3 days I've been out. Out of these days I've accomplished three things
1.) seeing Pirates 3
2.) Getting a Tan on my stomach and feet (what what)
and now my most personal favorite
3.) Me and Ariel are dating again.
So now if you ask her and she says no you know she's lying. SOOOOOO. but yeah summers been pretty fun.

Well throughout these three days I've had a revelation (I'm not gonna say where I got it because it's kind of personal *Cough bathroom cough* but I was thinking about it and I was like how did we just pick up going and sitting on the toilet when we need to go. And I thought about it and we learned from three things.

1.) We watched our parents do it (which is really weird but hey we all did)
2.) All of our friends were starting so we wanted to as well.
3.) Experienced people taught us

I thought about how I became a christian at that point and it's very similar to how you become potty trained. Me I saw a change in my mom she would be all "Tyler I think youshould go to amplified" and I was like " Yeah I'd rather not" but now I'm the kid saying If you don't go you'll get sucker punched in the jugular. Then all of my friends were like dude you got to go to pathfinders and finally a girlfriend of mine got me to go and I got a smack down there. Finally experienced people such as Tyler Tullos, Byrd, TweezeCrystal Taught and are teaching me how to be everything God wants me to be and to live up to my full potential now I know that has almost nothing to do with being potty trained but being potty trained is very important in life and so is knowing your calling and living the life God intended.

I know at this point you're probably like is this kid smoking pot or popping ecstasy or something but it makes sense to me and yes this post is a little disturbing but hey everybody does it ya know. Besides this just shows that I fell that I can be open and honest on hear so yeah.

Well I'm gonna go I'm going to an all day memorial day party tomorrow and I'm excited

Love,

T-Barry

P.S. If you don't know what Go wants you to do for him pray about it I promise God will show it to you in his way.

2007-05-24T12:52:00.000-07:00

Well it's official I am no longer a freshmen. Which is awesome now. But yeah today was our last day of school and uprising for the year and when I say today's prayer group was awesome I mean it was awesome.

First Tyler Tullos spoke about looking back at our summer and asking ourselves if we're satisfied with what we did and it was really good. Than we prayed and everybody prayed new people to which was totally out of the ordinary. Anyways the Bell rang and we kept on praying and it was awesome.

Later on through the school day I thought about what Tyler said and I thought about it and I asked myself am I satisfied with what I did this year. I mean yeah I started a Prayer Group and showed the Invisible Children Movie a few times. But did I give those things my all. I really don't feel like I did. So next year things are gonna be alot better.

Anyways last night at Refuge Chad Daniels brought it like a mug. Before he started speaking I felt like God was telling me "Don't settle for what you have" I thought abouts o next year that's going to be my goal. If I got 10 kids coming to the Uprising I'll make it 20 if we got 20 than 40 if 40 than 80. And it was just crazy.

When I thought about that I thought about something that I've probably heard from somewhere but I'm not sure where. Anyways it was Our God is so amazing he takes our things and multiplies them. He doesn't add them but multiply. think about it if you do 3+3+3 it equals 9. But if you do 3x3x3 it equals 27. God takes our fruit and multiplies it and that was just something really cool to think about.

Well I really don't know what else to type so I guess I'm going to go well that's all PEACE

Love,

T-Barry

2007-05-23T10:52:00.000-07:00

Well yesterday this guy form my school Chris Martinez died in a car accident and I didn't know him but during death one thing always gets me. When people say he's in a better place now I think is he really. A friend of mine said that she tried getting him to come to our prayer group a few times and he said he wasn't into that stuff. It gets to you, you know.

But I thought about it and people today think you get to heaven because you were a "good person" than I think what is a good person. Is it a popular person, somebody who drank and took into things the world does, or is it someone who did things to benefit others. Our world is blinded by the thought that if you are good you go to heaven. But that's not true people think if they believe in God they are going to heaven. but it says in the Bible that we need a personal relationship with him to get to heaven.

Think about it if some random person came to your house saying please let me come in you wouldn't let them in as easy as you would someone you knew and had a personal relationship with. (None of this is referring to Chris so don't think I'm dogging this kid) but it just hurts to think that one this kid may not be in heaven. and two that 1000 other kids may not either unless we do something about it.

We can't let people go around thinking that good works get you to heaven because they don't and I'm sorry if this is gloomy but it's true and the truth isn't always a good jumpy forest with little bunnies hopping around.

Well I don't have much else to say so I'm gonna go now. PEACE

Love,

T-Barry

2007-05-22T09:04:00.000-07:00

Well Sunday I had something happen to me that I just thought about and I learned something behind it so here it is

Sunday after the noon service, since my mom was out of town I stayed with Byrd all weekend, I vacuumed the church. While I was vacuuming all these people were like "ohhh God Bless You" and I thought you now thanks. But last night I was laying down and I really thought about it and before that no one just stopped me after a service and said God Bless You. I mean thanks for telling me that when I do a good work, but why don't we bless everybody how come we bless only people who do good works. I'm sure Cho Seung Hui didn't go shoot 32 people because somebody told him "God Bless You". You never know what three little words like that could do for someone you know. I'm sorry if I'm not getting my point across but this all makes sense in my head so if it makes sense in my head it probably doesn't in yours.

Well that's really all for today. so yeah

Love,

T-Barry

OMGSH

2007-05-21T09:43:00.001-07:00

Today our schedule is kind of messed up so I'm in fifth period and I just got out of sixth period anyways something awesome happened in sixth period. The substitute teacher asked if anybody had a movie. Nobody had one but in my backpack there lied the Invisible Children movie and we watched it.

Of course you had your kids who were like "brah this stuff is so stupid" and played cards and made fun of it. However about 10 kids really got touched one girl said I'm going tot he website and making my dad give them money. One girl said she wanted to go to Africa. A bunch of people asked me about my experience with Displace Me. IT WAS AWESOME. We definitely are not gonna show the movie in the cafeteria on a Saturday. At first I was a little upset because I was really looking forward to it. but I feel like God told me why does everything have to be big. It's okay to have big dreams but it can't come to you right away. Than he said And who said I can't work through little things as well. God showed you in that classroom and nobody may have fallen on the ground crying. Nobody may have started speaking in Tongues. It may have felt like just a normal class but I could tell God was there and he was working with people. That's one class down now only 6 more to go. Pray that my teachers let me show it. THANKS FOR EVERYTHING.

Love,

T-Barry

Awesome

2007-05-16T09:47:00.000-07:00

Last night for my birthday Paul and I went to the movies to go see Spider man 3. WHICH WAS TOTALLY AWESOME. The graphics were so good it was insane venom looked awesome but anyway.

I'm one of the many who believe God can speak to you anyway, anyhow, anywhere and wouldn't you believe God spoke to me in the middle of Spider man 3. The whole thing is Spider man and Mary Jane are making out and a comet hits the earth and this black gooey stuff comes out and it basically hitch hikes on Spider man's little scooter thing. Well one night spider man is pretty mad and he is waiting for a police call and all of the sudden this black stuff takes over the spidey outfit and makes it all black and cool looking and stuff. Well Spider man start thinking he's all big and bad and does stuff he normally wouldn't do. When he realizes this he goes to a church and the suit won't come off so he starts freaking out and fighting it and eventually it comes off. Well earlier Spider man humiliated this photographer guy and they photographer guy was in the church and the black gooey stuff fell on him and he turned into venom(which the graphics were so good it was amazing!!!!). Then this guy starts harming other people and you'll just have to see the rest.

This made me think you know hatred gets into our hearts and then we get revenge and it feels good so we keep it. Then we start to hurt the people around us and start doing things we normally wouldn't do. Then we realize what we did and we try to get rid of all of it. but as soon as we think it's gone it's passes on to someone else. Then somebody else starts hurting others and it's all because of the hate we passed on to them. Then it just turns into one big chain. So we really need to watch what we say. Because that's one thing you can never take back people always remember what you say and they don't forget. There's an illustration Mr. Danny told me about and it's like take a tube of toothpaste and squeeze it into your mouth, once you do that try to spit it back in. You can't do it it's impossible. The same thing with words you can't take them back.

Thanks for everything. I think that's about all for today.

GO TO REFUGE!!!!!

Love,

T-Barry

Guess what

2007-05-15T09:30:00.000-07:00

Today is my 15th birthday and to be completely honest I feel no different than I did yesterday. Anyways I think today the best birthday present I got was an ex-girlfriend of mine from eighth grade came up to me and told me happy birthday. You may be thinking why is that so special well me and this girl haven't talked since we broke up and it was just cool that out of all my friends who didn't remember she did and to be 100% honest she is the last person I expected to say anything. She even wrote me a note saying that we may not talk but she just feels like she should tell me that she still thinks I'm a very special person in her life and all this stuff and I mean we did have our moments where we were all mad and junk and fights but I don't know it meant alot.

Anyways yesterday I went to fusion with Blake Urban and that dude worked me like a mug so I'm pretty sore right now. But however I did get a free week membership to go so I'll probably go everyday after school and use it.

I was reading this and when I say all my friends who didn't remember I mean at school and it's really not there fault because I've never really been one to make a big deal about my birthday because it just hasn't ever been a big deal to me.

Well today I was reading my 30 days of silence and something hit me. I know you've heard this a million times but in Isaiah 6:8 it says "Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?" And I said, "Here am I. Send me!". That just hits me every time you can here it a million times and still think am I saying here I am send me are we living the life so that our actions say "here I am, send me" it's awesome. but yeah

God has been putting this thing about statistics on my heart I looked up a few and this is what I found out.

According to statistics because I have no male influence in my house I'm supposed to be sexually confused.

According to statistics about 53% of teenage girls in this generation will be pregnant by age 16

According to statistics less than 4% of this generation are bible believing Christians.

But I thought about it and I was like why not be a statistic breaker. Why live life doing what the world says is gonna happen. According to science the world is supposed to burn and all humans will die and a new species will form and rule the earth. The world may burn a new species may take over but I know not every human is dying because according to my God who lives I'll be living in eternity with him so I could care less what science said. It made me mad reading these statistics because this shows our world is hurting and people are just giving into it saying well this was supposed to happen. This all makes sense in my mind and I'm sorry if it doesn't in yours. Well I got to go PEACE!!!

Love,

T-Barry

ok

2007-05-11T09:29:00.000-07:00

so yesterday I didn't post and I know that many of you are disappointed I'm sorry.

Anyways I am having a much better day today then I was Wednesday so yeah. Anyways today I had an awesome experience today. Well this morning I decided I wasn't doing to hot on the quiet time thing and so I opened up that 30 days of silence book and when I tell you smoke me in the face I mean it. No lie I sat there wondering what in the world this passage meant and then God told me by sticking it right in my face. It's funny how you get something new every time from reading it.

Well I've already decided what I'm going to preach about at our prayer group next Thursday. I'm preaching on doubt. I thought about this and it's like back in the day they had crazy psycho miracles going on like raising people from the dead and all sorts of stuff like that. Then today I know that I always think how come that doesn't happen now. I've come to the conclusion that it's doubt. Seriously we let scientist tell us it's physically impossible to raise someone from the dead. but that's the point it's physically impossible to raise somebody from the dead but we serve a God who can do anything. We aren't suppose to do miracles physically we do them spiritually and in the Fathers authority.

I have no clue where in the bible but there is somewhere where it talks about no major prophets or anybody hearing from God for a long time. It kind of reminds me of now. The only thing God wants to speak he wants to do great things but are we listening, are we ready to take on the responsibility and go out and do things that no human could possibly do.

Somewhere in my blog it says this but I saw this sign outside of Woodlawn Baptist and it said "Trust is saying it could, Faith is saying it Will". Wow, is all I could think after that. but seriously are we saying God could bring people out of wheelchairs or God Will. Are we saying God used to raise people from the dead or God is raising from the dead. Last time I checked our God lives in the now. He doesn't focus on the past.

I'm excited for summer and I know God is going to do some crazy stuff in LA, equip, in everything we do. So I can't wait.

I love you guys and I pray you have a blessed day.

Love,

T-Barry

2007-05-09T09:56:00.000-07:00

Today has been crazy. First off we had a Bomb threat for today so basically if you cough the wrong way you are sent to the office. Also it was the seniors last day so they strolled up in school with some Water AK47's and super soakers and everything and alot of the teachers and halls were wet. So it's been wild.

I've had some interesting conversations today. One of my best friends is now talking to this guy and he doesn't believe in God. He hates Bush and is for Gay marriage. He loves peace and wants world peace. and this girl just started getting into church and it kills me to see her hang out with this guy. Now don't get me wrong I respect this guys opinion 100% and I love him he really is a cool guy but seriously this guy thinks marriage is stupid and pointless. It's like she's setting herself up for a heart break and there is nothing I can say or do to let her see that and IT'S KILLING ME because I care about this girl ALOT and she's like walking down a road that has big flashy signs saying COME GET HURT. I don't know I just want to see her happy for once.

Well besides all that I've been very stressed this whole day has been aggravating me. I got a behavior clinic for not having my ID. Everybody is flipping out because of this bomb threat and I don't know it's just been a rough day.

I PRAY that you guys are having away better day than I am. Love you guys.

PEACE

Love,

T-Barry

Ok

2007-05-08T08:36:00.000-07:00

So today has been nuts it's 12:41 dismissal and my schedule is all wacked up. Well Mr. Dave still hasn't called me to the office. SO I'll probablly stroll up in there tommorow and ask again because I REFUSE TO GIVE UP.

Anyways today we didn't watch Invisible Children in Civics so Coach Lusk played me.

But yeah well today I've been thinking and I have come to a conclusion that everything I say and do is going to somehow fulfill the purpose of me being on this earth. You guys are probablly like Tyler but don't you already do that. I do try my hardest but I thought about it and it's just hit me there really are so many hurt people in this world whol ook for comfort in guys drugs girls alcohol and all sorts of stuff and it's like your in a movie saying NO DONT DO IT TURN TO GOD and you feel like there is nopthing you can say or do to make them realize. But I've realized that we aren't here to make them realize. We ar ehere to help them realize we can't push or rush these things. That was just a random thought but yeah

Well I better go do my work PEACE

Love,

T-Barry

2007-05-07T09:22:00.000-07:00

Well today has been pretty slow I left a note for Mr. Dave on Friday to call me in when he wants to discuss it but he hasn't yet and I highly doubt he even got the note. but yeah I guess things are gonna work out I just have to let Jesus handle this one.

Anyways today in Civics two things cool happened. Coach Lusk said we are gonna watch the Invisible Children DVD in civics tomorrow. (I don't know if he was joking or what but hopefully he was serious.) then secondly I heard this story and it was pretty slammin.

Dwight Eisenhower wanted to write a paper kind of like a biography and hired these people to write it for him. They spent 3 to 4 days working 24 hours a day on it. Sleeping whenever they got a quick break. They brought it to him and put it on his desk and walked off. No less more than 20 minutes later Dwight called and sent them the paper with a stamp on it that said revise. So the people took it and made it even better. They brought it to him the next day and before they even stepped out the door he said you have 16 hours to make it perfect. So they took it and revised it again and made it absolutely perfect no more possible changes could be made and they brought it to him. They handed it to him and said look we can't make anymore changes everything is perfect and Dwight said OK now I'll read it.

That smoked me in the face it's like why not give it our 100% the first time and then not have to go back and do it over and over and over. Those guys in the story were exhausted I'm sure and that was their punishment for not giving it their best. We should give all we got to God in every way possible so that we can have a positive outcome and not a negative one when Judgment time comes.

Well keep praying for the Invisible Children thing I really believe it's gonna come out good.

THANKS!!!!!!

Love,

T-Barry

OMGSHHH

2007-05-04T09:34:00.000-07:00

Well last night at Closer WAS AWESOME. We talked about taming the tongue and it was so good. Mr. Danny Musso had it goin like a mug. It was so cool.

Well yesterday in speech we talked about faith because we are starting out theatre unit and well Mr. Mangus was preaching man and he probably didn't even realize it. He called a student to come sit in a chair and the kid did. He said why did you just sit in the chair why didn't you examine it first and it all lead to our past experiences base what we have faith in. So its like if you've had a horrible past and its full of death and addicitons its going to be way harder to have faith in something you can't see. But if you've been pulled up from all that then it's alot easier to trust in God and have faith in him. but yeah it was pretty cool.

I also realized how much words make a difference. I have a friend and she is so negative about herself its crazy. The reason why is because shes had boy problems off the heazy and was always put down and used and stuff. Yesterday I wrote her a note saying that if she ever felt like no one was there, that nobody loved her, that she was ugly. She could always remember that I'm here for her because she is very beautiful and very sweet. I didn't know if she was comfortable with the whole Jesus thing yet so I decided to let her know I thought she was special and I tell you what this girl has been smiling everyday in class ever since. I love it. You know it's like i learned last night. The tongue is used for both praise an cursing. I know I'd much rather be making people smile then putting them down and watch them bury themselves in a deep hole.

Anyways as far as the whole Screening of Invisible Children goes I'm barging up in the principals office today so I will probably be able to post the result in about 2 hours so that should be cool

Oh and oh my gosh my cluster map and I got a little bit of European, Asian, African, and South Amercing Love, and about 10 states to I'm pretty excited. It's funny in IBCA I just typed this fact for these fake reports we type and it said "In the fourth quarter of 1999, AOL, an Internet service provider, added 685,000 new U.S. members. Look how many people could read My blog and get a touch from God. It's great.

Well love you guys,

PEACE,

T-Barry

Well

2007-05-03T15:13:00.000-07:00

I didn't get to go to the principal because of the dreaded TACO DAY!!! Yes Taco Day is not a mexican holiday. I thappens about once a month at D-Town High and what it is is for lunch we have taco's one of the few good things that the cafeteria makes. SO everybody halls butt to the line and its liek amile long and no joke i had to throw myh lunch down in 5 minutes and about as soon as I finished the bell rung it's horrible. anyways so yeah i have to wait until tommorow I think im just gonna say hey when your ready call me in because last time he was busy and we were lucky to have h im listen to our proposal. Anyways yeah so guess what I teased you guys today. THe few of you who read this were like ohhh tyler is gonna have an answer and you know what BAM I won't so in your face lol just kidding you guys I'll try KEEP PRAYING RAHHHH. lol Thanks

Love,

T-Barry

Okay

2007-05-03T09:24:00.000-07:00

Wow last night I got to talk to Refuge and it was SO COOL!!!!! I was up there saying how awesome displace me was and in the back of my mind all I could think was one day I'll be doing this to my own youth ministry it was pretty wild.

Afterwards I think my most favorite compliment was "Tyler you have a very nice stage presence" I was like "sweet" So yeah that was fun.

Well today I'm going back to the principal to ask him about the screening and we're gonna hopefully be able to set a date and if we set a date it will hopefully be soon because we got everything settled now we just need the ok. I'm totally excited so I still need everybodies prayer.

Anywho this week has totally been amazing I've been bolder, stronger, happier, more good spirited, and all sorts of stuff after Displace Me. I wish everybody could go through the impact I got. It was absolutely INCREDIBLE!!!

Well I really don't have to much on my mind anymore but if I get anything I 'll be sure to post it right away.

Love,

T-Barry

Incredible

2007-05-02T09:39:00.000-07:00

Yesterday 3 teenagers wlaked to a principals office on a mission to bring reality into a school. They didnt get waht they were looking for however they didn't get turned down completely. He told us we have to get an organization such as FCA or Red Cross to sponsor the event we'd have to rent the cafeteria or gym (Preferabbly the cafeteria) on the weekend which will cost $250 plus $20 an hour for the janitor to supervise it. he said this would roughly cost depending on what we decide to do between $350-$500. I heard that and ws like WOW!!! So I think we're gonna do it one satruday within the next two weeks just us three teenagers the wonderful Tori Ohlerking and some people from the church I am excited thanks for the prayer!!

If there is anything you would like to do to help just contact me or someting

Also this won't be for just the school so people from St. Amant or E.A. or College can come as long as you dont go like psycho terrorist on us

Love you guys,

T-Barry

I need prayer

2007-04-30T18:57:00.000-07:00

Tomorrow Ryan, Johnny, and Myself are going to the principals office to go ask if we can set up a screening for the Invisible Children Movie. It's totally free of cost and it would be slamming so w/e you can do please pray for us we are gonna need it I'll Post the outcome tomorrow hopefully

Love,

T-Barry

Today

2007-04-30T09:59:00.000-07:00

All I can think about are those kids in Uganda. It's nuts like everything leads to them. It's like if I'm hungry i think so are they. its nuts. I really cant wait to get something started at the school about it SO far I got some pretty big Ideas so it should be cool anywho not to much has happened to me today so there is nothing to blog so I' m gonna go Late

Love,

T-Barry

Displace Me

2007-04-29T08:17:00.000-07:00

Wow, is the most I can say after this experience. I mean it's like you basically get a hands on look at how the Northern Ugandian Displacement camps live. I'll give you the 411 on what happened.

Ok so first we get there and we build our homes out of cardboard mine was slammin and I will have pictures pretty soon of it. Then we went and hung out for a little while and we made a video of some kids holding the banner that says New Orleans. then we watched this video from (I wanna say) a president of one of the Displacement camps. He told us to go build our house or finish building it if we were not done. So we did that.

After that we watched another video on writting letters to ouur leaders to demand their participation in bringing an end to this war. So we all went and wrote letters to The President of Uganda and To the senator of our state.

Then we Learned how the eating and drinking worked. The Girls had to get water for every guy in there group. So for instance if you are one girl in a group with three guys the girl would have to walk and get one bottle of water each time until everybody including themselves had one. Then the guys had to go get three packs of cracker and give them to the girls and then one for your selves. I got my water from Sandra and gave my crackers to Sandra Julia Sarah and Faith so it all worked. We made this weird food its like you put the cracker in your mouth then drink some water and it made this mushy corn meall feeling stuff and it actually would fill you up.

After that we had 21 minutes of silence which was awesome if you actually did it. We did 21 minutes in memorial for the 21 years the war has been going on. And God spoke some things to me and it was awesome. He told me that I would be telling everybody at school about my experience with all of their undivided attention. That I would Actually go to Uganda for 1-2 months. And that the War will end. But yeah it was flippin awesome.

After that we went to "bed" supposedly. Our group dat and played guitar and sang some praise and worship songs on the bleachers they have and we watched all these people it was great.

And I have to say this. This Displace me event was basically like Woodstock and it was crazy. No joke I set up my hut and looked ove rand there were this group of peolpe smoking a bong. Me and Paul watched a dude roll a Joint it was crazy. But yeah I twas fun and a great experiecne I should have pictures on soon.

Well if you got any questions comment or something.

Love,

T-Barry

2007-04-27T09:45:00.000-07:00

Well today I wore my displace me shirt and you wouldn't believe all the people I'm telling about Displace Me. I'm super excited. Well So far I've witnessed to my entire first hour class. Almost my entire third hour and I even had a Janitor ask me what it was about. I was so excited.

Anyways last night at Closer was absolutely amazing. Pastor Danny form the Spanish campus spoke and one part really stuck out to me. He was talking about in 1 timothy 4 Paul writes timothy a letter and there's one part about words. (I was kind of spacing out so I couldn't tell you exactly what it was) but I remember God telling me through somebody why say something if it has no point. I thought about it and think about it say your in a conversation about Politics and you and your friend are really getting into it. Suddenly out of the blue somebody comes in and says "I ate chicken pot pie yesterday" you just sit there and think I don't care.

God put us on this earth to Talk about him hes the point to our every conversation. Whether its about politics or the kind of spice you like to put in your food everything should lead to him. So i have challenged myself to say only things that have a point to them it's very difficult but it's interesting how much you realize your words mean. Well I gotta go I just nearly got caught. So yeah PEACE

Love,

T-Barry

Guess What

2007-04-26T09:53:00.000-07:00

Today I feel like an experienced Blogger. Because thanks to Sarah Andry I now have a Blog Roll and knowing how to do that has taught me how to add a lot more other little trinkets to my blog so I am super excited. Anywho last nights message at Refuge was SLAMMIN. I love how we have something that nobody else has our "Jesus Believing Community" has a power or strength that no other person could ever have without Christ himself.

Well today I was listening to the new Hillsong CD (yes I illegally got Christian music) and I was listening to a song and there is a part in it that goes like this.

We will be your hands we will be your feet
We will run this race for the least of these
In the darkest place we will be your light
We will be your life.

How crazy is it that a god who could do absolutely anything he wanted chose us to do this for him. I don't know about you guys but thinking about it makes me want to take advantage of every little opportunity I get. God doesn't need us but he uses us anyway. God could easily bring anybody he wants to him but instead he lets us get hands on with his work. It's great.

But hey I guess that's all for today but you should definably go Friday to watch the Invisible children at the Highland Campus It's going to be slammin. Also you should all go to displace me Saturday as well as the outreach at Prescott middle. I'm excited.

Take advantage of the job God has given you it's not gonna last to long

Love,

T-Barry

Rnaodm Thought

2007-04-25T10:04:00.001-07:00

Well yesterday on Myspace I noticed all these bulletins saying we should pray for the VA Tech victims. As I was reading this bulletin I realized two things.

a.) They are forgetting one person

b.) Are they really praying for them?

I thought about it and they were missing Cho Seung Hui. Yes he killed 33 people but everybody seems to think since he killed people he doesn’t deserve to be prayed for or cared about. This was probably the main reason he went around and shot all these people. Maybe we should all be more Christ like and start taking people in with arms wide open regardless of what they did. Anyways that’s just a little random thought for today so yeah peace out!!

Love,

T-Barry

My New playlist

2007-04-24T16:52:00.001-07:00

Yeah I updated it a bit so I thought I might just add the new onee on here so yeah

Appearances

2007-04-24T09:54:00.000-07:00

Today I learned something amazing. Appearances can actually mean a lot. Last night I went to Claire’s and bought a fake lip ring and I’ve worn it today and people look at me like I’m nuts. Me personally I think its pretty gansta. Anyways I thought (which is totally something new to me) what if I changed my spiritual appearance. Would people see me differently? Would I see myself differently? Think about it seriously how do people look at you do they know you as you the Christian or do they know you as you a follower of Christ a disciple for Jesus. Let’s quit worrying about religion and focus on salvation. Let’s change our appearance. Well that’s all I’m in IBCA and I really need to do my work so yeah PEACE OUT.

Love,

T-Barry

P.S. Challenge yourself to change something about you today and see if anybody notices tell me about it if you’d like.

Wow

2007-04-22T17:35:00.000-07:00

I had a crazy experience today. Well I went and worked for these people that I basically dedicate my saturday to to plant stuff for them and do a bunch of yard work. Well today I was talking to the lady and I was telling her about the Invisible Children. Then I told her I was going to spend next saturday and sunday sleeping in N.O. in dedication to them. She told me something and it got to me so much. The most she could say was " Why would you do that it's not like those kids in Africa care if you do that." at that point I had to say SATAN GET BEHIND ME. But it just broke my heart to hear her say that. I thought about it and God told me "you know maybe kids in Africa don't know that you're doing this, maybe they could care less even if they did know but since when has anything ever been about getting recognition, since when have you gone to serve just to get noticed, That's not whats serving is about. Doing this 24 hours without any materialistic things and a pack of Crackers and one bottle of water, it may not help anyone in Africa it may not end the War but Tyler I promise it is going to make an impact you'll never forget." I cant wait to see whats in store for that but yeah.

It was so crazy that God told me that because it reminded me about last sundays message about why is life not fair. I thought about The Invisible Children, VA Tech Shooting, NASA shooting, and I just prayed God why would you let those things happen. Nobody deserves that. I just rememebered God is in control God has a purpose and then just like today Dino said "the answer to Whats the purpose for life is to hard for any human to understand" It's the same way We don't understand why GOd does thing but we have to trust him.

Which also reminds me of this sign I saw today It said trust i ssyaing God can Faith is saying God will. It made me think about all sorts of things. but i thought that was a nifty little saying so yeah. Well thats all for today so yeah LATA

Love,

T-BARRY

SO SORRY

2007-04-21T07:06:00.000-07:00

It was weird I couldnt sign in to this for the longest time but now that I got my sign in and everything straight I'm going to try to post everyday. Anywho so far fo rmy trip to California I have $600. I turned it all in April 19. I earned $350 of it by working and then I got $250 thanks to all of you guys who are donating. Well now that I got this started I'm gonna keep you guys updated. PEACE OUT

In Christ,

T-Barry

My First Blog

2007-03-18T17:10:00.000-07:00

Alright cool this is my first Blog. Well the reason I'm making this is so that i can basically give people updates on me. That is if anybody is interested. I also made this to give all of my supporters for the California missions trip an update on how things are going. Well this past weekend was amplified (Woo woo) and well I roomed with some of the best people and had some of the most fun in the world. I mean this game room the size of my house had a pool and Foosball table. I thinking about a 48" 1080 p HDTV with a Nintendo Wii, 2 acres of land and a soccer net. What else do you need to keep 15 teenage guys occupied. Well Chad Daniel was absolutely amazing and for some odd reason people kept quoting form the Gladiator, but anyways, The Holy Ghost showed up at every service the outreach on Saturday was amazing and everything all over was awesome. Well I'm gonna try to keep up with this as much as possible so yeah.

Love,

T-Barry