Beautiful

God has been blessing our church immensely. On Monday we had a Valentine's banquet. We had a ton of people show up and they all had a great time. The policy was that the men would do everything. They cooked, served, and cleaned up. It was quite a surprise to our ladies that we were actually able to function in the kitchen. (Hopefully they won't start expecting anything:) We also had entertainment from one of our newer members, Alvin, who has an interesting talent. He is a magician. He wowed everybody with his deft hands and quick witt! During his show he grew a following of men. You can see Ronnie in the back smiling. It was a wonderful night.
There have been amazing things going on with the youth group also. I took seven kids to Altus last weekend for a youth rally. We all had such a great time. The fellowship was wonderful, and I truly enjoyed just hanging out with my teens without having any responsibility.
We are also doing the Relay for Life in May. Last night we got started on all of our fundraising ideas. The teens are so excited about it all. We delegated responsibilities last night and are starting the raising of money to support cancer victims. It is turning into such an amazing bonding experience for everyone and it is really getting everybody involved, especially the girls.
The ski trip is shaping up well, and it looks like we are going to have a great group in March. WE might even have as many as 40 people coming from a church of 100. To me that is amazing.

Sometimes I just wish I could go away

Man, I feel so much better. I just finished a book review that has been hanging over my head all day long. I didn't do as good as I could have on it. There is just way to much to do and never enough time to do it. LIke last week, I had to preach two sermons (my preacher was gone), plus teach a class, plus study for a test, plus have two different Bible studies with kids. Plus read for my second class, plus working on a paper topic, plus work on my mission trip that fell through, etc. I could go on and on. I am just going to be so happy when I am done with graduate school and when some volunteers here in Cordell have been cultivated. Maybe I'll be a little bit less busy. I love my job, but there are some days when I just want to get out for a while and breathe.

So much to do, so little time

Picture of several of my kids on a Christmas outing to see lights and a movie (Chronicles of Narnia)

I have not posted on here in quite some time. I want to try to start posting on here every Monday, but we'll see how that goes. So much has gone on in the last couple months. I went to my in-laws house for Christmas, then I went to my parents house also. I went to NCYM (National Conference on Youth Ministries) in Nashville, TN in the first week of January. On top of all that I had youth activities and homework.

Last night was the Super Bowl. I really didn't have a team that I was going for. I wanted the Steelers to win because they beat my Broncos. And if they are going to get beat, I want them to get beat by the champions. But I also kind of wanted the Seahawks to win also because they were a team nobody expected to be in the Super Bowl. It was a decent game, nothing real exciting, but by no means a blowout.

Well, it's time to get a little work done in preparation for the men's meeting and homework for tomorrow.