Sign What?

I have a very good friend named Leon Devriendt and he is a total blessing from God. I met Leon this spring because he was my ASL 101 teacher. I took the class out of curiosity because i thought it was a beautiful language and i would learn something from it. man o man i have learned more than this blog will ever tell from him.
Anyways, i was talking to him after church on sunday and i always end up leaving the conversation with a smile. There are two things one should know about me.
1. I am a goofball by nature. I laugh at anything and everything and i love to have fun.
2. I am a not so good ASLer(if you will)

so when Leon is signing to me i get most of what he is saying but not all. There is an ongoing joke of how i make up my own signs for different words. And if you ever meet leon just tell him that you believe SSL is the language of the future as a joke.

I couldnt tell you why we are friends because i just dont know. We are so different but yet so similar. He is great at golf and i think the highest score wins. He understands every aspect of politics and i cant vote for prom queen. That is just minor details because we share the same passion for Christ. We both love to have religious conversations with people to see their view on Christ. I mean when you look on the surface of our friendships it seemsthat we have nothing in common yet God knew that I would need him. I would need that spiritual leader to guide me by example of what to do when times got tough. I pray that he feels the same way. I know we strengthen each other when the day is long and the world hurts us.

Leon, I value our friendship in so many ways. I thank you for having patience with me as I learn ASL and make the smooth transition from SSL. I pray God continues to use you in praise team and as a teacher in Deaf for Christ.

Faith Outside The Box

WOW! We finally have a blog and it only took three people three hours to think of our blog name. We think we came up with a pretty darn good name, only by His grace though because it started out pretty rocky. Faith Outside The Box means alot of different things to us. Faith is not something that stays inside the church it needs to be spread by the people of the church. People think that God is active only in the church, but the Bible shows that Jesus was never confined to a building, He went where He was needed. Most of the time He could be found amongst the sinners. How can we expect God to work in miraculous ways if we keep Him bottled up?
Our goal here at Faith Outside the Box is not to spread gossip but the gospel. We want to be able to see Jesus in every situation of our lives- the good and the bad. We are here to encourage those where ever they are in their walk with Christ.
We are interested in hearing from everyone who reads our blogs: tell us what you like, how you're feeling. If you have any questions about the gospel we will answer them to the best of our abilities using all of our resources.