Sunday Nights...Ah July 2nd

So it is Monday morning once again, I survived another Sunday Night! What’s so big about Sunday Night you may ask, well we have a teen hangout time and a cookout. They have all been different.
The first night we were at Pastor Gene and Joy’s house and we played volleyball in the dark, played goofy golf…which is fastly becoming my favorite game ever!
The second Sunday we were at our house and got out the new slip and slides. The 5th and 6th graders loved this, the older teens were a little to cool to hang out with them, but it was ok. The high schoolers left after we ate to go get one of their friends in revenge…side note. Over the past year and a half they have toilet papered a house or two. Forked yards and gotten permission to destroy each others rooms. Stuff like turning each others beds upside down or wrapping them in saran wrap or papers or duck tape. This one was one of the best ones yet, including stacking the beds on each other, hiding all of his clothes, and taping his boxers to the ceiling! This one I didn’t help with, but it sounded like fun…After they left Becky and I played the Wii with the Jr. Highers…We bowled and one of the girls let go of the remote and smoked her head…it was hilarious!!!!
The third week we went out into the country…I mean out in to the country, it’s about 20 miles from here and there is only one road in and one road out, and your cell phones don’t work. We finally found it and went back and found the car that was coming later. We sat around for a while and then she gave us the tour…good thing it wasn’t a big tour…they own 305 acres, and raise and breed horses. We had fried chicken and potato salad…and a few other things. After dinner Kelly, the host said, “ Well Tim, do you want me to show you how to rope a steer?” I was like most definitely…I thought this would be easy…not so much, it took me a while to rope the metal steer but once I did it was in trouble, I pulled it through the yard! Her husband Rob, had a great time making fun of the way I through the rope…so did the teens. We probably spent an hour and a half trying to rope it…and yes I have gone shopping to look to but one…You never know when a Youth Pastor will have to double as a ranch hand.
Last night we were going to go to our friends, the Epp’s, who just came back from Nicaragua. I took a nap yesterday during the race and woke up to three missed phone calls from Rich. I called him back and he told me Judy was in an accident and was at the hospital. Then he told me she was hit by a Semi Truck…And I was worried, here is what happened. They were in the right lane at the stop light and the truck was in the left. The trucker decided he was going to turn and turned right into them, luckily there was a light because if he was going any faster it could have been really bad. She got out of the hospital in time to be there last night but she was really sore. We had sloppy joes and hot dogs, had smores and swam for a long time. We had 13 teens last night, and we made a whirl pool in the pool, a lot of them had never done it, it was a blast.On the other note it is July 2nd and were about to get really busy. We leave for camp exactly one week from when I am writing this. We come home Friday morning and leave for Mexico 4 hours later. After Mexico we get to see family!!!!! By the way James, Becky is looking forward to her new counter tops!!!

We are having a Baby Girl!!!

Let me introduce you to our Baby Girl...This is Mya.

Lessons Learned Everywhere

So...I am not a fan of Superchick at all. I never have liked there music but I have found out that sometimes you learn lessons from places you are not expecting them...
Superchick has a song titled hero...someone on youtube put a video to it and it makes you think...I will post the link, if you watch this video write back to me and let me know what you think of it...it's better/sadder than hugs....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AjAeXW_0Gc

Love Ya...
Tim

Finally Got A Break...

Ok...so Heather was wondering if we were still living, and I finally have time to sit down at the Church computer and write on this blog. We have been busy, we've been to Colorado a couple of times over Spring Break, and also to Oklahoma Wesleyan, in Bartelsville Oklahoma. So yes, we've been busy but they were all good trips.
We went to Colorado Springs at the beginning of Spring Break...it was awesome! We drove around Pikes Peak at sunset, it was so beautiful, we went the next morning. We went to Home Depot to get new handles and knobs for our kitchen, some shopping at the mall, and a lot of relaxing in the hot tub, oh yeah and who could forget TEXAS ROADHOUSE!!!!!
The next weekend we went on Spirtiual Retreat with 7 teens and 2 adult helpers to the beautiful $200,000 home in the mountains. We had a great time learning, growing, skating, and climbing mountains together!!!
Then we went the next weekend to Oklahoma, had a wonderful time for the most part, until we went to Wal-Mart and Becky tried on a pair of pants and got a cut from an old used razor blade. If you want the deatils you'll have to call us. Over all it was a great trip, they had an awesome speaker who was there just for the Youth Pastors/Sponsors...He was a refreashing Spirit to listen to and learn from.
You would think that these trips would be enough for us...but you would be wrong. We've always got to have something going on. Here's our next couple of weeks. This Saturday, comedian Ken Davis will be in town for a concert, we get to help with it, we'll do a product table and help set up.
Then the next weekend, April 21st, we are doing an auction lunch...Becky and I were told we will feed anwhere from 300 to 500 people. I wish I could pray to heaven and have my bread and fish be multiplied and that be enough, like it was for Jesus and the many many people.
Then the weekend after that, I get the big monster off of my back...Acquire The Fire...We have 60 tickets and I am down to getting rid of the last 6. It will be an awesome time once we get there. We're taking the Heartland Christian School's activity bus, which is pretty nice.
After that we don't have anything huge until May 20th. That's the day we go to Topeka to meet with the DBMD for the last time, hopefully. It will be a 2 hour meeting to tell me for sure if I am getting Ordained, I first have to fill out the 9 page form!!!!Yipee!!!!
June is full of little activities and when we get to July, I will be praying for vacation to come. We have camp July 9th-13th, and we leave that Friday nightthe (13th) for Mexico, we come home on the 20th and Ordination is on the 27th. If anybody wants info on ordination go to www.kdwc.org
and click on the Family Gathering page. That's it for now...
Love Ya...

Time to Salute our Presidents!!!

It’s Friday once again!!!! Yeah. We still have a lot going on. I’ll get to that in a minute, but first let me update you on what’s been happening. First of all, for once this summer those of you who are reading this, if any of you are, have more snow then we do!!! It’s actually starting to warm up here, were supposed to reach the 50’s this weekend.
As you may have read, we had a lock-in last Friday. It was an awesome event! We had 17 teens, and throughout the night 3 other adults come and hangout with the teens. We played games as a crowd breaker, Uno, SET, Spoons and Nerts. These are all fun games that my kids have come to enjoy. After that we had snacks and then went and had a worship time and a short lesson of how we are not called to be PEZ dispensers.
Then we played DDR, that’s Dance Dance Revolution. We had 2 Xboxes and 4 Mats going at once. The kids loved this and it is a lot of fun to watch also. Then we had pizza and pop. We actually had 2 pizzas left over.
We then went into the sanctuary and had story time. I read an interactive book, with different voices, a blast!!! Then we played games and had food-eating contest. Can you believe that a sponsor, Judy, in her 50’s could eat almost 4 Twinkies in less than 90 seconds? We also did things like pudding eating contest, without using your hands. Feed your partner Cheetos, with your feet. This one was nasty because their feet were gross, sweaty, and stinky after play DDR. We took pictures, I will try to post some this coming week.
All I can say is…IT WAS FUN!!!!!
There are 2 girls in our youth group that have been hounding me about going on a mission trip this summer. They both went last year to the boys ranch and want to go somewhere else this summer. I talked to one of our friends who is a Youth Pastor and we decided that we would partner with their church on their trip. So it is decided that we arte going to Mexico this summer. I am little bummed because where we are going is right across the border from El Paso, Texas. My friend and college roommate, Joel was there until he got sent to Korea. It would have been fun to get to see him, but that’s ok.
So we are getting ready to start doing fundraiser, if you have ideas I wouldn’t mind them…
Here is our schedule of big events coming up.

Feb 19-21, Trip to Salina for Ministerial Retreat
March 5th Becky’s Birthday
March 15-17 Trip to Colorado Springs to celebrate Bday and shopping!?!?!?!?!?!
March 20-23 Spring Break Spiritual Retreat (Trip to mountains, weather permitting)
March 29-31 SOAR, Oklahoma Wesleyan’s Youth Conference
April 27-28 Acquire the Fire, In Denver, we have 60 tickets, hopefully we will have that many go with us…Praying for God to do a miracle.
May 20 CHS Graduation, 2 leaders are graduating
May21st Meeting with DBMD in Topeka, they tell me if I am getting Ordained or not.
July 9-13 Youth Camp in Nebraska
July 13-20 Mission Trip to Mexico
July 27-29 Praise Gathering in Hutchinson, Ks……Ordination Weekend!!!!
I think that’s all of the big ones, I’ll let you know more later…Love Ya…