My good friend Smokey is the youth pastor at FBC Biloxi. We have gotten to know him and his family very well since we worked in Biloxi after Hurricane Katrina. It's different knowing someone in the gulf... the news reports and weather updates are surreal!
Please pray for Smokey and his family. They have chosen to board up their house and hunker down for the storm.
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Friday, August 29, 2008
It's been a while!
Ok... I know that there are only about 3 people reading this and I also know that you are all either related to me... or you are me... but, I want to be better at posting... it's not to be read... I just want to write more!
I am so stinking impressed with what God is doing right now! I don't get it! This Summer has just FLOWN by. It seems like yesterday that the kids were getting out of school and youth group was finishing up for the season. There was so much in front of me... hire an additional student ministry person to accommodate the new job role at New Hope... work alongside of George (our Lead Pastor) to transition our leadership team while we wait for the third part of the SLT (Dave Nicholls, our "XP") to get on site full time... plan and execute our mission experience trip to Honduras with 28 students and 6 adults... preach a good chunk of the summer... not to mention see my kids enjoy the beautiful Summer weather and spend a week on vacation with my incredible wife and kids... ... and get back just in time to kick off "the Edge" for the fall...
It's hard to believe that students (with the exception of Stryker) are back in school now and we have already started Wednesday nights back up! Each of the past 6 years, we have seen our first night of student ministry grow... 2 years ago, it was 79... last year, it was 84... this year, we saw 144 students (including 90 students in Junior High alone)!!!
I am confident that these notes (assuming I stick to writing them) will be a time line chronicle of some pretty amazing God stories as He unfolds his next great movement in Northwest Ohio! You know... sometimes there isn't much around here... but isn't is just then... when we think that there is nothing special around... that God shows up and does amazing things!!!!
i look forward to ranting here...
Jeremy
I am so stinking impressed with what God is doing right now! I don't get it! This Summer has just FLOWN by. It seems like yesterday that the kids were getting out of school and youth group was finishing up for the season. There was so much in front of me... hire an additional student ministry person to accommodate the new job role at New Hope... work alongside of George (our Lead Pastor) to transition our leadership team while we wait for the third part of the SLT (Dave Nicholls, our "XP") to get on site full time... plan and execute our mission experience trip to Honduras with 28 students and 6 adults... preach a good chunk of the summer... not to mention see my kids enjoy the beautiful Summer weather and spend a week on vacation with my incredible wife and kids... ... and get back just in time to kick off "the Edge" for the fall...
It's hard to believe that students (with the exception of Stryker) are back in school now and we have already started Wednesday nights back up! Each of the past 6 years, we have seen our first night of student ministry grow... 2 years ago, it was 79... last year, it was 84... this year, we saw 144 students (including 90 students in Junior High alone)!!!
I am confident that these notes (assuming I stick to writing them) will be a time line chronicle of some pretty amazing God stories as He unfolds his next great movement in Northwest Ohio! You know... sometimes there isn't much around here... but isn't is just then... when we think that there is nothing special around... that God shows up and does amazing things!!!!
i look forward to ranting here...
Jeremy
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