Accountable

I find myself on the road alot lately and with much travel comes much tiredness. Hotel beds sort of run the range from "slab of stone" to so soft that "my nose and feet end up in the same area". It makes for a sore neck, back, hips and blood shot eyes at times because sleep can come in "fits and starts."

One of the great roles I get to play (and use my gifts) is to encourage others in ministry whether they be full-time, part-time, volunteer, "tag, you're it" ministers, to FUGE staffers, and a myriad of others in ministry. They are people who love Christ, love students and their families, and they also find themselves stretched very thin. They work hard, provide for their families, get little to no earthly recognition, but love what they get to do in the Kingdom. They also find themselves, like all of us, very vulnerable at times. It is in our weakness that we are made strong, if we will allow Him to work through us.

You and I cannot live like Christ on our own. We know it, yet many times we try it on our own. I try it too many times on my own. I am asking you to help hold me accountable. I want to be guilty of living this life through His strength - Col. 1:29. I am praying the same thing for you.

Exciting Times

Summer has been very good and very busy. I have been at FUGE camps in MO, AZ, NM, FL so far and will be in AL and SC before the summer is over. I also am doing some training in MS this weekend.

Sondra and I had a great time at Glorieta, NM and got to hang out with Shelbi some. Sondra and Shelbi shopped alot on Shelbi's day off while I took pictures of wildfires and slept on park benches while they shopped. We did visit the square in Santa Fe and all the sites there that include the Loretto Church with the mysterious spiral staircase and ate some wonderful food.

Sondra and I returned home for a day and a half and then headed out to Orange Beach, AL for some vacation time. We enjoyed our stay but it was very different without the girls. The weather was good, there was another wildfire close by that authorities got under control, and we enjoyed our time together. On the back side of that trip we headed to Rome, GA and visited with Morgan who is working Winshape Camps this summer. It was good to be with her and know that she is having a great summer.

I am able to run again and got 35 min. in today which is the most at one time I have ventured out. The knees are both doing good. I am pleased. I am in FL some this week and the ground is very flat here which makes the running much easier on the knees.

Sondra is enjoying a couple of weeks more off from work and heads back to work on the 18th. Our big news is that we will be hosting an international student for this school year beginning in August. We are getting a female student from China and I will share her name and more info. once it becomes completely official this next week. We are very excited. She is a sophomore in high school and will be attending DCA where we have been heavily involved the last few years.