About 5 months ago Scott McChrystal approached me about speaking to a church which would have about 300 soldiers in the congregation. How could I turn something like that down.
On thursday my wife and I were able to do one of our favorite things together which is flying. After arriving in Atlanta, Ga. we found ourselves checking into an amazing Hyatt in Buckhead. We spent our first two days sightseeing the city which included World of Coca-Cola, The Bodies Exhibit, and the National Infantry Museum in Columbus, GA.
We then found ourselves greeting 300 basic training soldiers at Evangel Temple Assemblies of God. I shared my testimony with the soldiers and about 500 other congregants and had a response of around 100 soldiers say they wanted God to help them with their walk by finding an accountability partner and another 60 make a decision to accept Jesus into their lives. PRAISE GOD!!! After the service the soldiers were served a steak meal and an amazing dessert buffet. The dessert buffet might not be a big deal to the average person but trust me to a basic training soldier who hasn't had a dessert in 9 weeks that's huge. During the dinner I had several soldiers approach me to say how much their life had been changed by the message they had heard. One soldier in particular asked me to pray for him and his family he joined the Army at the age of 39 to support his family. Please continue with me in prayer for the very soldiers that received this message, for 25% of the deaths in the current war are infantry soldiers and that is who these guys are.
I want to say a special thanks to the following people for making this trip possible: God for being so faithful in giving me the desires of my heart which is to minister to soldiers; my amazing wife for the encouragement; @thefields church, @tspencer, @philipkousma, @allisonaaronb, @mattpolites, and @evancourtney for the prayer; www.etcolumbus.org for inviting my wife and I; Scott McChrystal for being my booking agent, mentor, and amazing friend; and all my other friends and family not mentioned above.
Monday, June 29, 2009
Monday, June 22, 2009
Well my birthday is coming up and I will be 27. I can't believe it. Well as many of you know I am getting ready to take my next step in life and start college in the fall. So in order for me to be ready for this I have to have some school clothes. That leads me to answer the question "All I want for my birthday is....." MONEY for some new school clothes. All the students at college are wearing the hip, in style clothes and I am wearing my t-shirts from the youth camps and army. So if I could get 50 of my readers to send me a birthday wish of $5 that would put me on the path of being the coolest kid on the campus. Well not kid but you know what I mean.
You can get my contact information from my facebook profile. http://www.facebook.com/blakeleitch
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
So much discussion was made over what Taylor Swift and T-Pain would be doing at tonight’s (June 16) CMT Music Awards that I was almost worried the moment would be anticlimactic. But Swift and T-Pain did not disappoint. In a fast-moving video sequence with awards show host Bill Engvall, we saw Swift as a Vulcan in the new Star Trek movie, as a grossly undersized NFL player and then finally as a slightly less-than gansta rapper with T-Pain in the music video for “Thug Story.” Swift rapped original lyrics and poked fun at herself while T-Pain contributed his signature auto-tuned hooks. Her self-deprecating humor was hilarious.
