Hey! My name is Justin and I am married to my ridiculously awesome wife Jules. We are youth pastors at Christ Church of Orlando. Life, up 'til now is golden. Not only am I the student pastor of identity student ministries but I am also the worship leader at our church, the graphics and web designer and I run a photography business called J.Mikl Photography (www.jmikl.com). This isn't the only site I maintain. I have a youth site, a college site, a church site, and a photography business to manage. But that's enough of that. I love my life, my job, and my youth. I must say that I have one of the most time consuming jobs but I also have the best job in the whole world. We can't wait to see what God has in store for us and our quickly growing family. Someone once told me, "You gotta think BIG, dream BIG, and plan HUGE!"...they are words I now live by...
I can't believe 2009 is finally here and 2008 has come and gone. It seems so completely different than what we all might have thought it would be. I am sure you can all remember yourself growing up watching movies like Back to the Future and imagining what the 21st century would hold for all of us; flying cars, crazy technology, and a Jetson's-esque type lifestyles. Well, now that we are all here I think we can all say that our imaginations were way off. We are still driving on the ground and paying tons of money for Gasoline and no space age clothing is in sight. The end of the year is here and we are saying good-bye to our 2008 Christmas decorations and saying hello to our newly added beautiful nursery for our new addition to the family, Judah Avery Johnson. This Saturday marks the day the doctors guestimated for his arrival but he is proving to be content with his surrounding in Momma-Jules' belly. I can't wait until he gets here but until then I thought I would share some pictures of his new pad. Here are some individual shots I took today but I also pieced some shots together to give you the full 360˚ affect. From the Johnson family to Yours...HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Well, Christmas is over and once again God has blessed us beyond belief. We were able to get our hands on a really nice camera this Christmas and with the future of our new baby boy, I couldn't be more amped to own a Canon Rebel XSi SLR Digital Camera. For those of you that have no idea what I just said...that means it's pretty close to professional grade with abilities to shoot completely manual with the option of changing lenses and filters. It is an amazing piece of technology.With the new addition to our tool box of gadgets I am will be selling our old digital camera. It is a Panasonic Lumix. It takes great pictures. Most of the photos that have been posted below have been taken with it and it is not a cheap camera either. We have had it for three years and it is still in GREAT condition. I am planning to sell it on eBay or Craiglist but I thought I would post on here and see if any of my readers are interested. I also bought a new external Harddrive for my ever growing photo and video library and I will also be selling my old Western Digital External "MYBOOK" Harddrive. It has been a great asset to me in storing photos, files, video, and backing up my computer. Here is a photo of it. It has USB 2.0, Firewire 400, and 800 capabilities. So if anyone is interested in any of these items just let me know. I won't be listing them on eBay or Craigslist for at least a week but after that it will be up to the auctions. Until then, I'll be here if you are interested. Just leave me a comment and I will try to contact you.
With the coming of our new baby boy this Christmas seems to be extra special for our family. I love my family. The closeness of my family is like non other. This year we had 4 generations in celebration of the Johnson family Christmas party. There's 5 generations if you count baby Judah in Julies belly. I thought I would share the family pics from this year. MERRY CHRISTMAS from the Johnson family!
This past week was our Christmas Concert at Christ Church of Orlando and the show was the best it has ever been. The actors, singers, kids, videos, and lights were all outstanding. Our former daycare director wrote and acted out an extremely moving monologue that tied all of the music and singing together to make one great performance. Attendance in both services was jammed packed and pushed over the 600 mark. This past Sunday was a HUGE WIN for Christ Church of Orlando. This is a small video somebody shot from the balcony. The footage and audio capture doesn't do the show any justice but here it is anyway. This is the song I sang (This Is Our God) in between running lights for the show.
I took some photos of Jules this past week at our house and I thought I would share. My wife is so beautiful! Tell what you think....of the pictures and of Jules...
A quick snapshot and a little Photoshop does wonders....huh?
WOW! It's been a while since I have posted and I am really sorry. I have been swamped with holiday stuff, church musicals, and not to mention the last month of our pregnancy. Well, I was sitting at home last night watching some television and I came across the latest LA INK show. As I was watching a guy named Brian "Head" Welch (EX-lead guitarist for Korn) came on to get a tattoo. I had heard his life story through a couple of second-hand translations but this was the first time I had heard him tell about the day God consumed his life and changed the way his HEAD continued to think. He tells about his lifestyle while in Korn and now his lifestyle outside of the secular rock and about the day Jesus changed his life FOREVER. Check out his story for yourself in this video below.
It's amazing! God blows me away in how he reaches his people. One of the biggest things we instill in our youth at our church is the importance of reaching for God. We hammer it into them. We want them to realize that God has given us the HUGE responsibility of sharing His truth and love. But then I see a video like this one and it reminds me that, YES, He is calling us to reach people but He is a BIG enough God to do it on His own. If you listen to the multiple times Brian "Head" Welch has given his testimony on CNN, FOX NEWS, YouTube.com and many others, you can hear Brian say that something in the spirit reached out to him and miraculously changed his life. GOD, YOU TRULY ARE AN AWESOME GOD!!!
I can't believe 2009 is finally here and 2008 has come and gone. It seems so completely different than what we all might have thought it would be. I am sure you can all remember yourself growing up watching movies like Back to the Future and imagining what the 21st century would hold for all of us; flying cars, crazy technology, and a Jetson's-esque type lifestyles. Well, now that we are all here I think we can all say that our imaginations were way off. We are still driving on the ground and paying tons of money for Gasoline and no space age clothing is in sight. The end 
of the year is here and we are saying good-bye to our 
2008 Christmas decorations and saying hello to our newly added beautiful nursery for our new addition to the family, Judah Avery Johnson. This Saturday marks the day the doctors guestimated for his arrival but he is proving to be content with his surrounding in Momma
-Jules' belly. I can't wait until he gets here but until then I thought I would share some pictures of his new pad. Here are some individual shots I took today but I also pieced some shots together to give you the full 360˚ affect. From the Johnson family to Yours...HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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