leaving tomorrow

well, i'm up here at my office with my buddy chris and we are just tying up some loose ends before we leave for camp siloam in the morning. i am so pumped, we are going to have the best time! well, i'll update ya when we get back. LATER!

The Pigeon Room

well, today i just finished tackling one of the most difficult tasks that i've had to do in ministry thus far. we have this HUGE storage room in the back of our building that is called "The Pigeon Room", and it is a place that if no one knows where something goes...well, they just throw it on the floor in there. when you have a church with about 420 members and a HIGH volunteer base you can end up with a BIG mess on your hands.

we filled up 2 dumpsters with trash from out of there. some stuff we later found out, might not have been trash...oops, sorry. i have never had much trouble with the "Ministry Side" of ministry; it's always been the stuff like this that has gotten the best of me. cleaning out a GINORMOUS room and then organizing all of it's contents. for those of you who know me, you know that i am organizationally challenged. this is all changing little by little, thank God. i had help from 5 guys in our youth group, and with all of their hard work and perseverance we finally finished it today. now we have 7 brand new shelving units for storage that we built and NO clutter piled up on the floor. i'd like to thank rob, gray, tim, kyle, and martin for helping to make this all happen. i couldn't have done it without you guys. now we just have to do too more, much SMALLER closets and we will be finished with organizing ALL of the storage closets in the church. THANK GOD!!!

sonogram

jeanette and i went to the doctor today because she was having some pains monday night when we were moving tony and erin, our new children's pastors, in to their house. we were a little worried but trying to stay confident in our faith and how far God has brought us thus far.

we got to the doctor and i honestly held my breath for what seemed like an eternity. until, finally, we saw a VERY evident heartbeat. as we looked closer, we saw tiny little feet and hands and the head. the baby is almost an inch tall. i was so relieved and excited that everything was okay that i almost started crying...i've done plenty of that since we found out that we were having a baby. we go back july 5th to actually hear the heartbeat and we'll find out the sex of te baby sometime in september. WE ARE SO EXCITED!!!

Camp Siloam

i am getting ready to embark on a very surreal experience this next week. 12 years ago i went to church camp for the very first time. it was at this time that God reached down and met me right where i was at. the rest is all history. this will be the first time that i have been back to this camp in 11 years. last time i was going into the 9th grade and now i am taking my own youth group. i'm use to being the one who was always a little mischevious and getting into trouble at camp (no, i didn't do anything bad...just a little fun mischief). so, it'll be interesting to see what happens with me being in charge this year. this is a time that i get to let my hair down and have a little stupid fun that i wouldn't normally get to do. the only thing that i'm not happy about is, nett isn't getting to go because of her being pregnant and her not being able to get off work. other than that, we're all going to have a lot of fun. i'll be sure to let you know how it all goes.

Father's Day

well, this was my first father's day that i am a dad...kinda. i still count it, even though the baby is still in the womb and i don't even know if it is a boy or a girl yet. i had a great father's day, jeanette bought me a new charcoal grill that i have been wanting for quite sometime now. so, i spent all day yesterday playing with it and grilling up steaks and sausage links. MAN, THAT WAS SOME GOOD FOOD!!! i can't wait for next year when i have a little 5 month old on father's day. maybe i'll be able to teach it to say daddy earlier than most kids do.

couple of days off

jeanette and i left sunday after church to go to texarkana for a couple of days to relax and take a few days off. we had a lot of fun. i always love taking a little time off just to unwind. i went and played golf monday afternoon with some old golf buddies of mine. i was blown away at how well i played. i actually played better than the last time i was on the course, which was 10 months ago. what's crazy about that is, then, i was playing twice a week! so, we had a lot of fun and then on tuesday evening i grilled burgers for everybody and my boy jackie came over to chill with us. then we went over to his house so he could spank me in some xbox 360. so, all in all, we had a great time. we got back wednesday night at about 11:45pm. it felt so good to finally be asleep in our own bed.

6 Flags

well, we took our high schoolers to 6 flags over texas in arlington yesterday. we pulled out of the church parking lot at 5:30am and pulled back into the church parking lot at 11:45pm. i must say that this was one of the funnest 6 flags trips that i’ve ever been on. i have found though, that i am a little more affected by rollercoasters than i was 10 years ago. i didn’t get sick or nauseated or anything like that. But, i did get a little disoriented on a couple of rides that never use to even phase me. that makes it just that much more fun though! if you’ve ever wanted to know what it feels like to fly like a superhero, you have to ride the SUPERMAN at 6 flags in arlington. that was such a cool feeling! i’m already looking forward to going again next year!