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Dear Friends,

This letter is sent to you today as an outline as to what I believe is Gods call on my life. My name is Joshua Holmes and I currently live in Nashville with my wife Julie & a group of Christians who are also in training to go into all the world & share Gods call on their lives. I attend "The Anchor Fellowship Church", where I volunteer by assisting with a leadership school called "The Anchor School of Ministry". I have attended here & have been an active part of the church for over 5 years. During that time I have completed
several discipleship training programs which also involved active missions work. Before that I attended Christ Church in Nashville with my family for over 14 years. I have been on several mission trips & have had the privilege of seeing Gods work in action in Costa Rica as well as several areas in Europe. I also spent 6 months helping with Katrina victims in Mississippi.

I believe it is Gods will for my life to be in full time ministry not just in the inner city of Nashville but in other parts of His world as well. This summer I have the opportunity to go to France & Peru to help local churches & meet the needs of the poor. There are also some U.S. outreach opportunities I would like to attend as well. Indeed the fields are ready for the harvest & I am ready for the call God has placed on my life. I send you this letter to first & foremost ask for your prayers that Gods complete will & guidance in carrying out His plan for my life be done. Secondly, I ask for any financial assistance in this cause for Christ as well. I've estimated my basic needs throughout the summer to be about $4500. Tax deductible donations can be made to The Anchor Fellowship w/ Joshua Holmes in the memo. Whatever you can do I thank you & ask Gods abundant blessings on your lives.

Joshua Holmes
1022 Sharpe Ave
Nashville, TN
37206
615.972.6980 cell
joshuatheanchor@gmail.com
theanchorfellowship.com
vineyard.org

so we moved back to Nashville a few weeks ago, and it has been amazing ever since. i don't know why we ever left but i do know that God has brought us back to this wonderful city and moreover the wonderful people in it. mississippi was a hard time in a lot of ways and i know God wanted to use and mold us there, but it's great to be back home. the cold air, the city streets, the friends, and the anchor. it's one of the best places on earth to us. we love it here.

moving back to nashville in less than a week. Christmas is such a great time for family and remembering Christ and his sacrifice and Love. I'm just very thankful that so many are fighting for the truth and against our domestic enemies. i hope that everyone has a great Christmas and New Years time. and may the good Lord protect and guide us day in and day out in all that we say and do. may we forgive each other for our sins and move forward to live life in the way God's intended us to. have fun and life free.

i know my last post was a little crazy, but the truth shall set you free my dear brothers and sisters. in another day...

last night i found out my sister in law was beat pretty badley by her boyfriend, and i had to ask myself some difficult questions. what do you do with such wreckless hate? as a christian, how do you look in the eyes of the offender and let them keep walking when you know it's justfiable to leave them bloody and broken in the middle of the street. but what about jesus? would he raise a fist to an angry kid, and by kid i'm saying he's not a man (he's 24), and would he cut him for breaking his family's nose and bruising their face? if anyone ever hurt my wife, i know i would bury them in their own blood, literally. but what do we do with such wreckless hate? only each moment can tell. in the moment i would fight til the death, and i sitll will even a month or year from now. but may God grant me the strength to not raise my hand out of anger or revenge but out of love that they will never do that to another again. isn't that worth fighting for? isn't that worth breaking his nose for? isn't that worth it? what would you do if someone hurt your family? can we trust that the police will stop them? i don't know anymore. pray

I can't take it anymore. The Gov't is killing thousand of people eveyday. Citizens are being stripped of rights and given needless tickets, searches, and seizures. And everyone that doesn't like Ron Paul seems to have bought into the idea of trusting the Gov't no matter what they do or how much they destroy and desecrate the US Constitution. The neocons and neolibs use immigration to overrun our medical and public facilities while giving the bill to the American Citizen. They're destroying the dollar through inflation and by everything the Federal Reserve does. We're being poisoned through our drinking water, soaps, and food supplies. We have to get ready for whatever comes next. We have to arm ourselves with food, heat, and firearms or we may too fall subject to what the NWO has done to the third world population. be informed! protect your family! get your food supply! now.

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i was but a child when my eyes were opened by the night skies and the stars shined for God. i saw that moment that i was so weak, but in Him i was so alive. if i forget my first love i would perish like the sun will burn and die. so shall i. so we all will burn and die, or we will live and be free with God and our families. i hope i see you on the other side. i hope i see you on the other side. cause this life is too dark for me, but i shine, but i shine in God who clothes me. in God who clothes me.

Too many dudes are 33 degree level masons in the US. it sucks. everyone from jesse jackson to bush and hillary clinton. they are all in on it, destroying this beautiful country. and we can't let em. vote ron paul! live free or die. infowars.com

i got too many bills, but this is growing up and being a man i guess. i wish i could sell everything and not let it enslave me, but i guess i gotta make my family comfortable, cause that's being a man. i hope when i get to the gates i can stand and say, Lord i was being a man.

the evening's drink left a lingering taste in my mouth. when i left you were fast asleep, tangled in the sheets...
so i started my new job today, selling phones for alltel wireless. i really like them, too. wierd. so i spend my days selling phones and cutlery (aka knives) now, and my nights going to games and wishing that the evenings with my wife would never end. i think you usually have to pay for love this amazing, but anyways... i don't think i'm getting that job at the church because they're in the middle of some hard times, but i can't say yet cause it's all getting worked out whatver that means.... it's probably for the best though. i probably drink too much for baptist churchs, eventhough they aren't hardcore baptist, whatever that means. i guess i'm often too blah, but with so many things uncertain in this world, i just like to hold onto the things that i know are true. i could name them but you know what is true to you and probably to me too. seeya

i'm about to kill myself working for alltel wireless and cutco cutlery. man this is gonna suck, but be awesome when i pay off my debt and start working on the house loan of money, aka my house i just bought. so, let me know if alltel is good, cause i've always had at&t. in other news, it's gonna rain a lot this weekend, damn tropical storm, but i guess the grass will grow. i just got my puppy dog a house so that's good he won't get wet anymore. it's starting to feel good down here finally. the gov't needs to give me school money now!! football game tonight, hu-rrah or whatever. and wilco & coffee are the best things about the morning, besides waking up next to my wife.

i got the marketing job i wanted selling knives for cutco on a referral only basis. it will be good for at least the rest of the semester until i start back at school, and then i can still work there part time around my schedule. they're gonna pay me 15 bucks to talk to someone about awesome knives per appt. rad! i got financial stuff back from school today and it's looking good so far. also, i got the internet and cable at my house today. life is good. i hope that my sister does well today at volleyball and the sweet potatoes i'm cooking tonight for my wife come out great! God bless Mississippi.

well my wife's sister had a beautiful 6 lb, 2 ounce boy named elijah. he's awesome!

also...

if you pray, please pray for me to get this youth pastor job i applied for. I think it would be awesome. and i know God wants me to do something like this right now! so hopefully things will work out. thanks.
holmes.

i don't think that life is just getting by til you get to the next day... it's playing in the rain when it's 100 degrees outside w/ the dog. it's kissing your love, or holding your kid, or swinging at the park til it's so hot you can barely walk. it's smoking every last cigarette and drinking every last beer til you feel like nothing can touch you. it's running 5 miles a day down the beach til you collapse in the sand and the tide comes in on you. it's writing books and singing songs & drinking coffee all day long. it's not knowing where your next paycheck is gonna come from, but you still keep living life like it doesn't matter, and it doesn't. not depending on anything but God and love.

i know it's hard and rewarding to live life like this... but i want to. i can't go back and i won't. i must cast the line into the ocean and pray that God will give us a good catch. cause i'm a failure and a winner. but why can't we love being both. being free to swim with the sharks and throw it all to the sunny shores of hope. i miss my friends and my family. but Julie's my family now and her family is insane, but amazing, funny and charming. it doesn't matter if i'm right or wrong as long as God is right. and He is always.

i can't keep wondering if i could be any better anywhere else cause it doesn't matter where we are. as long as we're all together and we keep going. my plastic cup keeps sweating and i keep praying. my wife keeps working and i keep saying. we need this.

well we're all settled in mississippi now. we got our new house, and some furniture and my wife's sister is staying with us, too. and it's kind of cool, cause she's having a baby next week probably cause that's when she's due. a little family under one roof, with our kitten, sodapop, and our puppy, machette. we got a white picket fence and a shed in the backyard. yellow flowers and a back porch for shrimp boilin'.

i started writing music again, playing guitar, what little i can, mostly singing and yelling at the top of my lungs til my fingers hurt and i'm dripping with sweat. learning to be a better husband is easier when you got such a good wife lookin' out for ya. she's perfect i think sometimes to myself. the only thing that's sucked lately is i got laid off from work, but i prayed about it and it's for the best i think, the job wasn't for me or so my ol' boss told me. i've filled out some aps and am waiting to see what the people do. calling for jobs is kinda wierd ya know.

i pray sometimes that i'll be a good enough provider, look out for my wife and animals and the house and now my sister. anyways, it's hard to be this real sometimes, but easier in a way then just kickin' around ya know. i miss tennessee something awful sometimes, but i love it here more and more everyday - the fishing, the family, shelly's volleyball games every week, the gulf of mexico, smokin on the porch everyday and drinking the beers to go with it, and the country. God i love the country.

i think we're gonna go out to ship island this weekend, where this ol' civil war fort is and all these shipwrecks, too. man, i hope i don't get too far behind with what i want to do, with my book and the music and the Lord's work. so here i go, have a good ol' one for me all right.

can you say hey hey hey, elbows as weapons tommorrow night oh yea! the anchor the anchor the anchor. dancing at bridge's to some shake your what oh no she did not! just bought icky thump by the white stripes. amazing... see you tommorrow cause i'm not going to work cause my knees still hurt from stooopid bonnaroo!! no!!! party like it's 1998. goodnight and a beautiful fond farewall.