Ministry
Out of all the things people said to me when I got married only one I remember the most. A Peruvian friend of mine, who pastors a church in Pasadena put his arm around me and said, "Sergio, all these years you have been doing ministry you didn't have a ministry. You ministry starts now, your marriage is your ministry."

Thanks Maggie

Prayer

Here goes one. Realizing majoring in Psych wasn't for me, I started looking at different career options. I sorted through a lot of different things I liked, I thought about the possiblity of going to a Christian school and majoring in non-profit management but it didn't tickle my fancy. So I kept on looking. A while later I think I found something I would like to major in,Public Administration. I can see myself doing city management and being part of improving living conditions for poor, housing development, city transportation and urban planning.
Check out the description for this major here:
www.hss.fullerton.edu/polisci/undergraduatepa.asp

So with all that said keep me in prayer as I try to get my stuff together to submit my application.

Peace

La Katrina

I feel I have a heart for homeless people. It really sucks not to have a place where you can call home and have to roam the street. I walk home from work at night and every once in a while I run into families or people by themselves pushing a cart or find people near the dumpster when I throw the trash out at work. It breaks my heart. Part of the reason I see homeless people often here is because right across the street from our home there is a church outreach to homeless and addicts. I try to help when I'm able.
I have been thinking about the Katrina victims and feeling guilty for not giving any money to help with the damages and needs. Perhaps next pay check I get I'll donate some via my church.
My church is sending a team ministry of men to do work down there and I really wish I could afford to go and be part of it but I can't take off two weeks. Ministry has been on my heart as well. I been asking God to give opportunities to do ministry here and He has provided here and there. There community where I live there is a bunch of pre-teens running around skating and making noise. I was thinking maybe God would do something with them but I haven't felt my heart move there.

I'm going to keep asking.

Otro Nuevo Post

Lets share about work. So, far i'm able to make 23 different meals and cook eggs 12 diffrent ways. I'm working under el main chef whose name is Jose. Mexican dude from the state of Zacatecas whos has been cooking for almost 30 years now at this same place. Today he told me he has worked for three different owners. Cool vato.
I have two jobs now, working as a chef apprentice, and at a fast food joint at night. The people I'm working with at both places are pretty cool.

At the fast food joint I mainly work the grill which is pretty easy. It gets hard when you have to cover meat, chicken and assembly. Having to go down stairs to carry boxes up gets kind of sucky. Especially when you have to do it a few times per hour and still be responsible for what you are doing on the cooking line. It has been good getting to know the characters that work at these places. The job at the fast food joint has Mexicans, Blacks, Salvadorian, Honduran and Guatemalan people working there. I like everyone I work with and it seems like they like me. There is two ladies whom are my favorites, Violeta and Elsie, both from San Salvador.
Violeta was my trainer when I started, she is good but it was kind of hard to understand what she was saying while training me. She doesn't know any English and when she spoke she tried to say the words in English with a heavy Salvadorian accent very hard to understand.

Thats all from the work world of Sergio

For those of you who wonder donde esta Sergio...I'm still around.

Major things that happened this year:
1. I got baptised finally (thanks Ram, John, Sam, and Dan)
2. I got fired from Harambee, after 4 years of ministry with them (God bless that place)
3. I got married.
4. I found out I am going to be a dad.
5. I began my career as a professional photographer. I sold six pictures to PRISM Magazine, thank you Kristyn for giving me the chance. I also photographed a dude for his high school senior picture, a family of six and a mom and her son. I bought a couple of studio lights and two back drops. SO, if anyone needs some pictures done hollar.

Gracias a Dios por la chamba, por que sin chamba ya me biera volvido loco.

Look into your spanish/english dictionary if you don't understand that. Well, i'm keeping it real. I got hired as a cook, working shoulder to shoulder with other mexican men.
For a moment I thought I was going crazy just chilling at home snacking, reading, and watching tv. But thank God for this job, the pay sucks but its work. I'm still applying at other places.