La Batalla de las Bandas…and other stuff as well!

Hello all!!!

So Drew participated in Crossfire’s (the youth group) first “Battle of the Bands” recently and the group he drums for won 3rd place!  Cool stuff!  Some comments about Drew were:

When did Drew learn to play the drums?

So…that was…Drew, right?

Hey, look at that…That’s {looks between Drew and me repeatedly} Mr. Pill’s son!

Pretty cool stuff!  They played a cover of Rend Collective’s “My Lighthouse” (see original song below…

…and then played their original song called “Forevermore.”  This song was AWESOME!  Think Green Day meets the Cranberries from the ’90s…so much YES in this one!  And a tremendous message in the lyrics as well!

If you would like to HEAR their original song, please just send me an email at mike.pilliod@gmail.com and I’ll see what I can do!

So…what else is going on?!  A friend of mine has a website called PTYGuia that’s just getting started.  Clink on the link to view: http://ptyguia.com/

Here you can either submit a place if you are a business owner and want some more traffic to your place, or if you’re a tourist or looking for a place you can go here and search around for various establishments or locations…Good stuff!  Tremendous upside!

Pepper is now FOR SURE going to Moody Bible Institute in Chicago!  It’s totally and completely official!  Woot woot!!!  Now we just begin the process of figuring out housing and schedules and orientations and blah blah blah…So, if you think about it, please pray for ME as I now have a wife who’s the mother of an eldest son that’s jumping headlong out of the nest and about stretch out his wings and catch some air!  Hahaha!  But seriously, give our family some prayer…Lots of changes coming quickly…and it’s all good, of course, but change nonetheless.

Today a huge truck came to CCA loaded down with “goodies” for next year…so that was fun to unload…My buddy and fellow educator Jamie took to cataloging the materials that arrived so I got to have the fun of distributing the science stuff to the appropriate teachers (read: Brennan and Allison)…so that’s always like a nerd Christmas in the science department as we get sheep organs and cats and models and Newton’s 2nd Law devices and slingshot thingies and posters and all the cool stuff!

We are pushing towards our last few weeks of school here in Panama…please pray for the students and the staff as we are all tired…of each other…Lol!  AP testing begins TOMORROW on Thursday with a great many of our students taking the AP Spanish exam and then again on Monday where I have 5 brave souls tackling the AP Biology exam…Then there’s AP English Language and Composition as well…anyway, these tests are happening in your town, too…

Lastly, a plug for some CCA openings!  See below for some spots still open for the coming school year!

1. Elementary teaching positions
   1. Grade 2
   2. Grade 3
2. High School Math Instructor
   1. One position open
   2. To teach multiple preps from Algebra I on up to as high as you can go!
   3. If you love Physics, let me know as that might be available as well
3. Elementary Principal

For all positions, please visit the following link: http://www.ccapanama.org/resources/employment_opportunities.cfm

When you get there, fill out the online interest form and our staff recruiter will get in touch with you and fill you in!  Additionally, please feel free to browse the rest of the website there and check us out!

Well, I think that just about catches us all up on the goings on that is the Pills in Panama!

Thanks a bunch, y’all, for reading!  Thanks for praying!  And if you need anything at all…let me know!

Soli Deo Gloria!

So here’s something new…

So my buddy Jay Shacklett…

He’s the College Counselor here at Crossroads Christian Academy and he also teaches Foundations of Personal Finance and Worldviews classes.  Seeing as how we share an office, we tend to talk a lot…and that’s a good thing…that is, right up until he makes a CRAZY suggestion!

We have great talks all the time…about education, of course, and theology and apologetics and cool stuff like that!  In fact, sometimes students might come in to talk with one of us about something, hear what’s going on, and think better of it and leave!  Hahahaha!  Just kidding, we would never ignore a student like that!

😉

Anyway, so I’ll make this fairly short…I get an email from Jay the other day, and inside it is a short argument about something HE THINKS that I should do…and a link…the link is below.

http://www.liberty.edu/online/doctoral/philosophy-theology-apologetics/

So I click on it, and I’m struck dead in the face with an online Ph.D. program from Liberty University in Theology and Apologetics.  We laugh a bit and of course Jay tries to talk me into it.  I find it so extremely amusing that I send the link to Allison…you know, sort of a “hahaha” kind of thing.  Well, she has the AUDACITY to merely shrug her shoulders and say, “Alright, I think you should do it!”  Can you believe that?  The one person who I figured would definitely talk me out of it is supportive.  Oh well…guess I can’t win.

Anyway, I’d need a gaggle of letters of recommendations, a short 300+ word essay on why I would want to pursue this and how I would commit to it, and a short 30 page writing sample in the Turabian format preferably on a topic regarding Theology and Apologetics…of course…

So, what do you guys think?  Should I bother talking to the University about it at all?  There is one requirement for admission that I don’t think I fulfill, but should that dissuade me from pursuing it?  Why indeed would I want to do this?  Why now-ish (…I say, “-ish,” because it likely would not start this August by the following since I’m taking on more responsibilities at CCA and Pepper will be starting his first year of college and I’d need time to put together a 30 page writing piece on some Theology and Apologetics topic, etc.)?

So, leave a comment!  What do you guys think about when you here the possibility of me pursuing a Ph.D. in Theology and Apologetics?

Thanks, y’all!

Soli Deo Gloria!