It's interesting, I've had two people mention song writing to me. What was incredible is that the other night my wife prayed about God giving me a song and one night later God gave me a powerful dream. It was pretty intense! A child comes up to me and shows me a segment of my life and said, "Here is your life now, look back to the beginning." I was then shown a glimse of my life with Mimi and I when we were first together. The excitement and joy when God first brought us together. I woke up thinking about the significance about this dream and the beginning. Then it hit me tremendously. Think about in marriage, at the beginning how exciting it was when you first got married but how the world, stress and our busy lifestyles can take away the joy and happiness found in our union. What was once fresh and new is now just routine. The same can be true in our Christian walk. When we first find Him we're overwhelmed with joy. It's an incredible experience like no other. But the same can happen in our walk with Him. Just like the seeds thrown on stony ground. They received it with gladness but have no root. "Remember look to the beginning", was spoken to me so strongly. After this experience the words to a song I wrote started to flow. I'm really excited in the future to see where God takes it.

I am so excited, I had an opprotunity to hear my cousin Michael's CD. Wow!!! This is the first cut and it some of the best music I've heard in my life! Honestly! I'm so excited about the OrtizBand CD project also. What an incredible year of music. I will keep you posted! Feb 18th we're going to be playing a Veritas. http://www.veritasolympia.com/ . Be praying for us. Check out our new radio show. We've love to have you participate!

It's interesting, I've had two people mention song writing to me. What was incredible is that the other night my wife prayed about God giving me a song and one night later God gave me a powerful dream. It was pretty intense! A child comes up to me and shows me a segment of my life and said, "Here is your life now, look back to the beginning." I was then shown a glimse of my life with Mimi and I when we were first together. The excitement and joy when God first brought us together. I woke up thinking about the significance about this dream and the beginning. Then it hit me tremedously. Think about in marriage, at the beginning how exciting it was when you first got married but how the world, stress and our busy lifestyles can take away the joy and happiness found in our union. What was once fresh and new is now just routine. The same can be true in our Christian walk. When we first find Him we're overwhelmed with joy. It's an incredible experience like no other. But the same can happen in our walk with Him. Just like the seeds thrown on stony ground. They received it with gladness but have no root. "Remember look to the beginning", was spoken to me so strongly. After this experience the words to a song I wrote started to flow. I'm really excited in the future to see where God takes it.

I am so excited, I had an opprotunity to hear my cousin Michael's CD. Wow!!! This is the first cut and it some of the best music I've heard in my life! Honestly! I'm so excited about the OrtizBand CD project also. What an incredible year of music. I will keep you posted! Feb 18th we're going to be playing a Veritas. http://www.veritasolympia.com/ . Be praying for us. Check out our new radio show. We've love to have you participate!

I was really touched when our worshiper leader talked about her vision for the Wednesday night and seeing the vision come together. I was really inspired. How amazing to be a part of that. There are so many things I could submit my life to. Cable TV, DVD, there is so many things out there to overload our senses. At times these things can be overwhelming. It's so amazing when God gets a hold of you and start using you. The things that the world say are important become less and less.

The "Capital Christian Center Live!" CD is now available. Looking back it's amazing to have the opprotunity to play percussion on this album. Don't ever believe the lie that your not good enough to be part of a team. God will take you places you could never believe. You just have to take the first step. I encourage everyone to pick up a copy. Soon to be available online at http://www.capitalcc.org for purchase. Now available and the Capital Christian Center bookstore.

I'm also extremely excited about my Dad's CD project. My cousin is also releasing a CD that is coming out in the next week that is totally incredible. I can't wait to get my hands on it. Stay tuned for information links on this CD.

This week has really been a testimony of what God has called us to do. We had a great fellowship party over the weekend. We had a full house it was awesome! This would have never been possible living out of town. We watch a very inspiration movie called "The Gospel". Highly recommended! Another movie one of my friends recommended see that is coming out soon is End of the Spear at www.endofthespear.com . I'm really getting excited, we're going to be playing at Veritas on Tuesday, Eric will be doing his comedy routine. His comedy is better than anything I've seen on Comedy Central. There is nothing better then being used by God. I'm so excited about playing on Wednesday at Capital as well. I watched an interesting show on TBN about a 40 day fast and how draws you closer to God and also cleans out your body. I was so happy when they said organic coffee is a beverage you can still consume as it has antioxidants. For more information on fasting and prayer visit: http://www.billbright.com/howtofast/

Lately I've been sounding a lot like a broken record. But God's plan for us has revealed itself again. Wednesday service was incredible. I've been learning so much from everyone. I'm so blessed to have the opprotunity to play drums 3 Wednesdays in a row. We also are hosting a big party on Friday. God is using us in amazing ways!

An amazing thing happened during our trip to Portland to pick up Samantha. We purchased an older van 3 month ago. From the beginning we've had problems with it. Everytime we turned it on made a loud noisy. Overall it was running well the last few weeks. As we were coming home I noticed the it was starting to go out. The van completely crashed 3 blocks away from our house. God totally protected us from what could have a total disaster. We would have been in a world of hurt if it would have broken down in Portland.

It's been wonderful having Samantha back. The transitions has been hard on her but she is adjusting well now. Turning Point had amazing message about how dangerous our tongues can be, We need to be careful what we say and to always encourage one another. The message can be found on tpc website at www.turningpointolympia.com.

God's plan is already unfolding before our eyes. We just found out that one of our lead drummers is taking some much need time off. I've been given the opprotunity to play 3 Wednesday services! God definately knew what he was doing when he called us to sell our house. What a blessing, now he is able to uses in ways that seem impossible before. It's so awesome when God places purpose in our lives. The pinnacle of fullment can be found in servanthood with Jesus.

God has definately been moving in our lives. 2 months ago He spoke to us about preparing our family for something big. He knew about the struggles we experienced from enduring a long daily commute to and from church. It was getting to the point where it was becoming a heavy burden. Since then we have obeyed God and have sold our house. Already we are seeing his blessing. In simplifying our lives God will be able to use us more. Now that we are established in our new home, it will be excited to see where God leads our family in this coming year.

Tonight at Rod and Pat's homegroup God planted an idea in my mind that I am going to pray about. The idea of a non-profit (christian based) web development business. I will post more as this develops.