A couple of days ago I blogged about hoping to do some more to use my passions and gifts. Tonight was a great start towards that. I met with our pastor for a while tonight and started planningout a basketball clinic outreach for our church in July. When it comes to sports ministry, basketball is definitley the my favorite form of sports ministry. Anyhoo….please be praying for us as we plan out this outreach. It’s very exciting and I know God can use it mightily.

For the past couple of Sunday’s we have been substitute teaching the teen sunday school class at our church.   Since none of the kids in the class have been involved in FCA, Erin and I have going over the FCA theme with the kids.  Last week we talked with them about changing their sacrifice – meaning looking at their lives and seeing what aspects they need to change/sacrifice/give up/  that might be currently holding them back from growing in their walk w/ Christ.

This week though we talked about changing our aim.   Basically what is our goal?   As Christians our goal should be to bring honor and glory to God in every aspect of our life.   And to do that we have to take aim by using the gifts that God has given us to achieve this goal.   God has given us each gifts and passions in which we can excel at bringing honor and glory to him.

A few weeks back I took a spiritual giflts test and some of my main gifts were prophesy/truth and leadership.  I know from experience that my passion is using sports as a way to break across barriers and share the love of Jesus.   I sometimes struggle with the fact that I am not able to do this in as many ways as I would like to.   I know my goal and purpose for life but am I using my God given gifts and passions to reach it??  It’s a question I have really been struggling with over the past couple of months.   Please pray for me as I look for new ways and oppportunities to share the love of Christ through sports ministry and the gifts God has given me.   Also please just pray for wisdom and openness to whatever direction God maybe leading or patience if I am being told to stay put in any area of my life.   Thanks so much…

Today has been a very slow paced Saturday so far. Normally when you wake up on a Saturday knowing you have to work at the Rec Center all day and night and that there is a 45 person party scheduled you anticipate it being an overwhelming day…..not so today. The big party decided to cancel, but they forgot to let us know. Now with the beautiful weather outside and the fair/carnival that is in town for it’s yearly appearance, the Rec Center looks pretty much like a ghost town. The good news about all this is that I am substitute teaching the teens at church tomorrow so hopefully I am going to be able to get in a little extra studying time today! Also, we are going to have a mini father’s day time w/ Mom and Dad tonight here at the Rec which should be fun. Anyhoo, I need to go, but if you are having a slow day..come see your good friend Andy @ the Rec Center!

An old song says summertime and the livin is easy…well, that is a very nice thought but so far has yet to be the case with my summer so far. That being said, while not easy, this summer has gotten off to a great start.

On Friday night we had our end of the school year teen lock in at the Rec Center. I was really worried about how many kids would come because I really didn’t know who or how much help we had coming. We ended up having enough help to make it through the night. Around 100 kids showed up, some left early, so for the majority of the night I would say we had around 90 kids or so. The kids probably behaved the best that they ever have for us. Especially during the devotional where Dave Price shared a great challenge with the kids. The only real problem I had was several parents for some reason thought it was ok to sleep as long as they wanted before picking up their kids. So finally two hours after the even ended I sent the last two kids home!

This week I also began helping at camp with the internship program. We had our first meeting monday morning with the KMM interns about what to expect over the next year and basically setting up a mentorship program for them. I am really excited to be a part of this, mainly because I wish it was something that would have been offerred to me a few years ago.

Also this week I am beginning to try and figure out what I need to be doing to start to get our nursery together. We hopefully will be having some help with waterproofing our basement coming soon. Please pray that this works out so I can get stuff out of the future nursery and into a dry storage area!

Lastly, this is the week of the big fair in Beattyville. Tonight is my night to go sell tickets. Hopefully I will get to plug the Rec Center some as well as eat a funnel cake!!

For the first time in a long time I had a really great night of bowling. Here is the stat sheet to prove it!!