State Fair

OK…OK So I have been busy…It’s like I have nothing else to do…just kidding.
What have we been up to? Well, since school has started life has gotten busier for both Becky and I. She is working at the elementary school, working with 4th and 5th graders, she mainly has two kids she works with, but there can be up to twelve some days.
I have been busy with many things at work, can you believe that a Youth Pastor actually does more than play video games? I have been working really hard getting ready for my Wednesday Night Youth Groups. We had 26 teens for or Wiffle, Waffle, Worshiping, Witnessing Wednesday. It was an awesome time of just playing games and having fun, the highlight to me was hearing two of my Seniors give their testimonies. Tonight we are starting our Armor of God Series, not just yeah, yeah, this is your belt blah, blah. I am going to show them where it fit into the Bible times and how important armor was to them in battle. Did you know that their sandals had at least a one inch spike at the bottom of them?
Along with my activities at the church, I am also helping with as much stuff as I can for New Year’s Eve. We are co-chairs, for the second annual Rappin & Rockin’ New Year’s Eve Party. This year we are having two bands, John Reuben and Three Cord Wonder. We know for sure that we will once again be playing dodge ball, going bowling, having a battle of the bands. We are trying to get inflatables, hopefully a really fun obstacle course. We might be doing Fear Factor again, but we are not sure. I have also put together a blog on myspace.com for the New Years Eve party. It has the music from Three Cord Wonder and 2 John Reuben videos, you can also see pictures from last year but you have to be a myspace member to see them. www.myspace.com/rockinnewyears
The last weekend in August I went to Promise Keepers in Colorado Springs. It was a fun time, I rode with my friend Joey and a couple of the teens. We ad a great time talking on the way home, and I got to know 2 of the teens better. While I was gone Becky was busy also. She had put together a Princess Party for the girls in our youth group. They stayed up most of the night talking and watching movies, Becky also had them do some crafts. From what I heard about it, everyone there had fun.
What else…of we have plenty to do on the weekends, we have girls in tennis and guys in football. This week is homecoming, it’s our third game of the season, but they only have 2 home games left. We have 5th Quarter parties after every home game. In case anyone wants to come this Friday we are having Mexican, and will be having a bond fire. Also this weekend we are doing Community Service Projects on Saturday. Oh yeah, and Sunday Dr. Piper from Oklahoma Wesleyan University will be here speaking and having lunch with the teens. Let me just say that for a College President, Dr. Piper is a real awesome guy. He loves God, his school and he loves his kids!! I wish that at our school our President would have interacted with us.
We are looking forward to October…we are coming to Indy for a Youth Pastor’s conference on October 19-20. We will also be visiting Marion to see how big IWU has gotten. I was told the other day that Center Elementary is now classroom space for IWU. We are also looking forward to seeing some of you!!!Ok…that’s it for now…Love Ya!