open mouth insert foot!

today i opened my mouth at a fine arts practice and inserted my foot…its not the first time and probably wont be the last.  i know why david asked God to set a watchman over the doors of his mouth. what did i do? well i insuated we need to find a smaller girl for a build, but it was received as a slam on being fat…ouch i am a retard!  they hammered me the rest of the time- oh well i deserve it.  the students i am working on a human video with are just plain fun to be around. we almost dropped a few and crushed a few others…but all in all we are working it out.  this fine arts season is gonna be a blast!   

you may think why write on this…guess why…i am human i haven’t figured out how to walk on water yet-but i know who can by the way the them this year is everywhere! i like it- i am writing a drama for it too!

saturate ‘08

february 29-march 1 we have a retreat scheduled for a resort in orlando…shawn hennessy is the speaker, some of our college student are doing worship, many of our leaders are going to lead small groups, and on saturday we head off to islands of adventure to ride roller coasters.  this is a great weekend with our students full of opportunities for mentoring and sowing.  i look forward to seeing the fruit that comes from a weekend like this.  there is a lot of work that is put into a weekend like this, but the fruit that comes out of it is what’s worth it all. so at this point we are in the encouraging phase of registering students to get on board.  this is probably one of the most frustrating things in youth ministry. some will jump on board and go to anything you do, some have to see who buys into it before they commit , some have to be asked to go, some have to be convinced they need to go, some even choose not to get on board no matter what you do!  

this is how i view it all…a retreat when done right can and will bring about some of the best fruit you can attain in a group, so we do whatever it takes to get them on board.  we advertise, call, recruit students to encourage one another to go (internal momentum is vital), and i even pay for a few kids way to go-why because at $75 each it’s a burden to some, plus-there’s nothing like finding a few kids that need to go and be a blessing! best $75 dollars i have spent is seeing a students life impacted by a retreat. have i asked you if you are going to saturate 08 yet? if not we got our eye on you!