Day 1 in San Diego.

So I'm here, finally made it in last night around 9. It's really awesome here and I love it. Thanks to everyone who helped support my trip and keeping up with me.
I spent all morning and some of the afternoon looking for a job out here. I think I may have a few good leads, but jobs seems pretty scarce right now with the economy how it is, along with our limited times we can work. So hopefully it'll work out for me, so pray about that for me if you can!

After the job search, one of the guys I'm with brought some long boards so we got to ride up and down the coast on the paths on them which was awesome. The even better part was we got to meet this street performer type guy. We rode by and saw he all a bunch of signs with different verses and sayings like "Jesus loves you", among others. He was out there with a keyboard getting ready to sing. My mind is set on this whole evangelistic thing for the summer and I've always wanted to talk to these type of people, so I did. He was really interesting. He is from Argentina and moved here I think in '87 and became a Christian. He's been coming to this spot on the beach for about a year, every Saturday. He went on to tell us stories about how some people have yelled at him telling him he's crazy and should leave, then they come back a few weeks later and apologize and have changed lives. He shared about how he can see people's lives changing is different ways through what he does. It was really good to see how one of these guys really has a big impact on the people out there. I told him that I play music as well so he invited me to come out and play sometime, and I'm really excited about it, so hopefully you can read about me doing that sometime in the next couple of weeks.

So it hasn't really hit me yet that their will be 120 other people coming in on Monday. It's going to be a lot of confusion chaos, but I know it's going to be amazing. I've just been praying that I will be able to do my part and contribute to our ministry team here. I can't wait to get started.

A Prayer To Send Off

Astound me Lord!
What I have is nothing
What I know is nothing
Everything within me cries out in Your name
You hold every piece of me together
In every sense I am crying out to you
This time I say hurt me Lord, break me
Tear me down in Your name
I'll get up and stand before You and the world
Showing my scars as a statement of my love, and Yours
Asking for what's next

My Address!

So here is my address:


Ryon Hinson

Campus Crusade for Christ

824 Santa Clara Place Unit #2

San Diego, CA 92109


Feel free to send me any letters or anything you want over the next weeks, I would love to hear from everybody, but calling/texting/facebooking/emailing all are still just fine!

Getting Ready For San Diego

June 1st is the date my life starts changing, by this I mean it is the date Summer Project starts! I get to spend my summer sharing God in every way possible, and this will be my blog to let my friends and family keep up with me and what I'm doing over the summer.

If you don't know me too well, I love to write. So I will posting up different things I write and talking about what I've been doing and how I feel on here, as well as probably posting videos I may make over the summer, so it will be a great chance to get to know me better throughout the summer. Leave any comments you want, or any encouragements. Or call/text/email me if you want to.

Right now, I have a subtle nervousness inside of me about this summer. I am convinced in every way that it is going to be amazing and life changing, yet I don't know how. I've seen the different talents God gave me and the possible uses for them. I've seen the struggles I have daily and why I need to fix them. I've seen the beauty of this world and the awe and wonder of life and God is the only answer I need. So I'm dedicating myself for this summer and the rest of my life to finding all the joy I can in God and do my best to spread it to each person I come in contact with, whether it's through talking about life, or just my actions around them. Let God's will be done.
I was listening to a song today that has the title and message of "history can't be undone, but it can be erased". At first I was thinking of course that it's good that it can be erased, but stinks that anything that happened is still there, technically. It wasn't until a little while ago that I realized that I really was only seeing half of what I read/heard. The fact that history can't be undone is just as important and that fact that it can be erased. Our lives are a testimony of God's love, just like Jesus' life was. Our testimony is how our life has changed, and if everything we do prior to forgiveness is undone, we have no testimony, just a statement of who we are at that particular moment. (I'm not trying to sound like I have a completely terrible past, just thought it was something good to think about)