02.01.09
Posted in Church, Family, Travel, Vanessa
at 2:22 pm
I had a wonderful time this weekend with Vanessa and my niece and nephew at the ROCK 2009 conference in Ocean City, MD. ROCK is a Christian youth retreat that the Baltimore-Washington Conference of the United Methodist Church sponsors every year for middle and high school age kids. During the retreat, there are workshops and there is usually a main guest speaker as well as Christian bands who perform and give concerts every night. This year, we had an awesome speaker, Rev. Reggie Dabbs and heard the groups Stellar Kart and Youthful Praise perform. They were all really good! It was truly an AWESOME experience!! We had such a great time last year that Vanessa wanted Kyle and Kendra to come as well!
So John Wesley UM Church had 3 kids representing! WHOOP-WHOOP!! (hahaha) Next year, I’m praying that we’ll have twice as many kids AND we’ll need to have another chaperone and hotel room to house the kids! And beyond that, I’m praying for one of those fancy church vans like some of the other churches had for us as well. Can Pastors have VAN ENVY?? (hehehe) It did my heart good to witness Kendra accept Christ that weekend and to hear Kyle a.k.a. The BMOC (big man on campus) say he wanted to bring his friends next year!! THAT TOTALLY ROCKS!!
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03.23.08
Posted in Church, General
at 1:36 pm
PRAISE GOD! I survived my first Holy Week as pastor of two churches! HALLELUJAH!! It indeed was my most stressful week (besides Christmas). In all honesty, I am glad that Easter is over! Two Palm Sunday services, preaching at Ames Memorial UMC for Good Friday, and then who’s bright idea was it to have an Easter sunrise service at 6:00 a.m. and another service at 11:00 a.m.? Driving over to the church at 5 a.m. felt bizarre but it was a good service! Praise Him! My next busy season will be the Annual Conferences I’m required to attend. Since I’m part of two denominations, I have to go to both. (oh great!)
But Easter was a blessing. And the kids looked so adorable in their Easter outfits! Gabby got a new hat and she looked like a little old lady in it! Ben looked handsome in his vest and tie and Ness is looking more and more like a teenager every day!
We decided to make Easter baskets with the kids this year. We bought baskets and stuffed them with grass, dyed eggs, and filled them with candy. It was fun! And then the folks from church gave me some little bags filled with MORE candy to boot! Yikes! These kids will be amped up on sugar until the day of Pentacost! (hahaha)
Here are some of my favorite Easter pictures. Look at my cuties!
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