Here are the highlights from Youth Ministry TV this week:
Today was the first day I actually walked to my office at the seminary from my house. There’s a house in our neighborhood that connects to the seminary. Since it belongs to the seminary and is empty, it makes sense for me to walk 5 minutes to the office instead of driving my car and waste gas (I’m getting so green, just like Al Gore). It also takes away the temptation of yelling at other drivers on the way to work.
I could always get a segway. That off road one would be great here in Mexico. Do you think that could pass as a ministry expense? Doubt it. I guess I’ll just stick to walking. It’s better for me, anyway. Anyway, my office is coming along. Pictures will be here when I’m done putting everything where it belongs.
Yes, it’s true. Last week, we decided to try to do something with our yard. We pulled out 4 or 5 thorny rose bushes that were in front of our house. We raked out the dead grass. We prepared the ground. We bought grass seed. We even planted the grass seed. Then…it poured…and poured…and poured. I mean monsoon. You know what this did? It watered our grass. It caused puddles of water. And it made a lot of our grass seed useless.
But, there is hope. We noticed yesterday that there are, in fact, some seedlings sprouting out of the ground. We do have a little grass growing. We’ll see if this continues. Anyway, this ad of the week is from Scott’s Turf Builder. I picked it up at Home Depot when we were buying the stuff for the grass.
I don’t know if it was because I was tired of being in the house all day, needed sugar, or just wanted to put off preparing myself for my sermon tomorrow (like I’m doing now), but I took Janell and Nathan to the Krispy Kreme tonight.
It turns out that next to the donut shop there’s a new place called Fun Burgers and Coffee (for real, in English). It’s basically an indoor kids’ playground that sells coffee, burgers, and other food. Nathan absolutely loved it. He had a good time playing in the ball pit and walking all over the place while investigating the other kids who were there. Anyway, I’m sure it’s a place we will be visiting a lot in the future (not for the coffee…yuck…they have bad coffee!)
Maybe now, he’ll sleep all night so we’ll all be rested in the morning (I’m preaching at our friends’ church).
(Photo by: yuichi.sakuraba on flickr.com)
We just finished putting the survey results in the computer. I found a trial version of a program called SurveyGold, so we put in the results of the 238 surveys that were returned to us (we distributed 500). It’s been tedious, and we are now analyzing the data to get a better feel for Baptist youth in Mexico.
The survey covered 6 sections: relationship with God, relationship with adults, relationship with the church, relationship with other youth, relationship with the culture, and relationship with themselves.
We’ll be reporting periodically here on the results, so check back soon.
