life continues pretty much as normal these days. jenn's already counting down to our time off this christmas. we leave december 16th and we'll try to come back around the 30th. trying to figure out the timing and keeping everyone happy is a struggle. the reality of us not being with 2 out of 3 families when everyone wants the first christmas with grayson is difficult. everyone (almost) will see him, and us, and perhaps the time spent together is more important than the day we spend it on...
grayson's still growing. i am ever so thankful to God for him. jenn made the comment the other day (to grayson) "you make daddy smile so much, i don't think he's ever smiled so much before in his whole life". i think she's right. i never knew being a dad could be so... there are no words.
ministry is tough right now. a very key person in our group is taking a medical leave of absence and there are lots of questions that are being asked. all we can do is wait and pray that God leads like only He can. so for now the workload is more. but God is good, and christmas is coming. oh, and the flames are playing a lot better these days. they're going for their 5th straight win. they're looking more like a team these days.
i am...
- Jeremy
- Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada
- i'm the Director of Camp Wapiti and i have the best job in the universe. yes, the whole universe.
Showing posts with label hockey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hockey. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Monday, October 16, 2006
what a weekend...
this weekend started off great, moved to horrible, but made its way back to great. i need to start off by saying though that i've got my mac back, and it's great to finally be working on something that never crashes and just simply does what i need it to do.
friday evening jenn and i watched the movie Click with adam sandler. great movie, good story line, decent moral (family matters - more than you realize). then saturday i was at work trying to find out why people hadn't been emailing me back, and why i was still waiting for a whole whack of information from people that i needed to move forward in a few projects. to set this up for you, our church's web hosting service changed their email system a while back. i never got word that they had done this, so the result was that i never recieved almost 70 emails, all of which were expecting fairly immediate responses. i normally handle my emails all through gmail, because i can handle all my accounts through there with no problems. but with the changeover, any possibility of forwarding my messages to gmail was taken away.
to top this all off, i got my butt kicked at board games with a small group of friends, calgary lost, and edmonton won. a horrible night just kept on getting worse.
but to finish it all off, we had a great night at youth group on sunday evening. there weren't many of us there, but we went out to our church's camp and walked and played some games by lantern light, and then enjoyed s'mores by a raging bonfire thanks to joe. it was great. we had a chance to really connect with a few of the kids, and the chance to really be honest and let them know they are cared for. i really hope beyond hope that these guys see the things that Jesus has in store for them. if what they see is anything close to the potential i see when i look at them, they are in for the rides of their lives.
friday evening jenn and i watched the movie Click with adam sandler. great movie, good story line, decent moral (family matters - more than you realize). then saturday i was at work trying to find out why people hadn't been emailing me back, and why i was still waiting for a whole whack of information from people that i needed to move forward in a few projects. to set this up for you, our church's web hosting service changed their email system a while back. i never got word that they had done this, so the result was that i never recieved almost 70 emails, all of which were expecting fairly immediate responses. i normally handle my emails all through gmail, because i can handle all my accounts through there with no problems. but with the changeover, any possibility of forwarding my messages to gmail was taken away.
to top this all off, i got my butt kicked at board games with a small group of friends, calgary lost, and edmonton won. a horrible night just kept on getting worse.
but to finish it all off, we had a great night at youth group on sunday evening. there weren't many of us there, but we went out to our church's camp and walked and played some games by lantern light, and then enjoyed s'mores by a raging bonfire thanks to joe. it was great. we had a chance to really connect with a few of the kids, and the chance to really be honest and let them know they are cared for. i really hope beyond hope that these guys see the things that Jesus has in store for them. if what they see is anything close to the potential i see when i look at them, they are in for the rides of their lives.
Saturday, October 07, 2006
the flames win...
a convincing 2-1 victory in the battle of Alberta for the good guys. that's right...the good guys. we'll have to wait to see though if they follow it up with a little better performance than last year's 4 win 7 loss start. so far though, they look good.
i feel like i lost a huge chunk of this week, and well, i did. moving my office and getting set-up in the basement has just been a giant hassle. hopefully i can get things back to normal now though. it's time now to begin really turning our youth ministry into more of a spiritual training time than a come and have fun time. i'm not saying youth group isn't a place to have fun. i think one of the most spiritual things we can do is play. however, i think if we're going to really impact people for the Kingdom of Christ, we need to teach them how to be spiritual people, and show them how to connect with the side of themselves that they never knew they had.
the building decision is still forefront in alot of people's minds. please continue to pray as we go through this process - it has major implications for the future of our faith community.
i feel like i lost a huge chunk of this week, and well, i did. moving my office and getting set-up in the basement has just been a giant hassle. hopefully i can get things back to normal now though. it's time now to begin really turning our youth ministry into more of a spiritual training time than a come and have fun time. i'm not saying youth group isn't a place to have fun. i think one of the most spiritual things we can do is play. however, i think if we're going to really impact people for the Kingdom of Christ, we need to teach them how to be spiritual people, and show them how to connect with the side of themselves that they never knew they had.
the building decision is still forefront in alot of people's minds. please continue to pray as we go through this process - it has major implications for the future of our faith community.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)