I’m working with this local church youth ministry, advising them and helping as much as I can. Tonight, I went to a meeting with the guy in charge of the youth ministry, and he took me to a meeting with their youth worship teams. They have three bands that take turns playing in their youth group meetings, and the problem that they were talking to him about was this: they are more committed than the “leader” of the worship ministry. Interesting, huh? He’s not really the leader of the worship ministry, but he is the acting leader of the worship ministry. It doesn’t happen much where the students are more committed than the leader. Interesting.
After the meeting, they showed me this incredible flash animation that one of the guys did for their big World Cup Outreach they did last month. It was amazing. I’m trying to get a copy of it in English. They did it in 5 languages. Wow.
Where do you go to buy shoes? Where do you go to buy your kid some shoes? We’ve never had to answer that second question before, but now that Nathan is walking more, we need to buy him some shoes.
But, where should we go to buy them? The majority of people would think that baby shoes are cheap, right? Well, not necessarily. We went over to Punta Norte, an outlet mall (owned by a US company…they have them all over the world), to look for baby shoes today.
But we encountered two problems…
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I found some old family photos the other day and thought I’d post them here (As always, click the photo to see it bigger). So, take a trip with me down Memory Lane…
Dennis and his family in 1988.
Janell’s family at out old house in Dunedin.
Us in 1998.
I just got off the phone with Daniel, the director of the seminary, and he asked me if I would want to have two weeks of youth emphasis this year. I said yes, of course. I am thinking that the first youth emphasis week will be focused more on the seminary students, and the second one will be focused more on the community around the seminary. Thus, the second week will be more work. Luckily, it isn’t until February. The dates are as follows: November 14-17, 2006 and February 6-9, 2007. Now to get working on planning them.
I guess the fact that I picked Italy to win the World Cup final didn’t hurt them after all. Despite some weird stuff, it was a pretty exciting game. Penalty kicks are always exciting. It was a great month of soccer.
We watched the game on Sunday after going to Huberto’s church, where he preached about youth ministry. I preach there this coming Sunday about spiritual maturity, and Huberto starts a new youth class, too.
Today, we went to the “tianguis,” the travelling market that comes our way every Monday. They have really good gorditas. I also got a lot of work done, we went to Costco, and watched the Home Run Derby. It was a good day.
