the past few days

hey everybody. its Monday morning just want to give you a quick summery of the past few days. starting with Thursday, i went with Dan from believers to Metro Christian academy. we had lunch with the high school students and went to their chapel service. looking back at my high school experience i wish i could have been in that kind of environment, i was a student at the Union Alternative High school where about 80 percent 123 students are previous drop-outs, in or out of Rehab, AA, or just out of jail. some are headed to jail. i was apart of the other 20 percent, students with learning disabilities any where from dyslexia, ADD, ADHD, or just struggles in the classroom. i had struggles with the classroom so Alt-Ed was a great fit for me. but seeing the atmosphere at Metro made me wish for something that i didn't have. after that me and Dan went to starbucks and talked for awhile, i learned a few things about him that was cool.

So on friday we (me and Andrea) had some devotional time with our new small group leader Joanie. she is great, very animated. what was only supposed to be an hour turned into two and a half. we all shared our story and listened to each other about struggles and hurts, then talked about joys and blessings in our lives. it was very refreshing and i walked out feeling some weight lifted off of me. im very excited about the next time we all meet to do it again.

saturday was a day trip to the beautiful Norman Oklahoma to watch OU take on Mizzou while tailgating with my girlfriend Ashlee. seeing her and some other friends was great and just a great vacation day.

sunday im going to divide into two parts, first, sunday school sucked. i met with the college students and my relationship with Ashlee came up. a couple people really gave me a hard time about some stuff that happened between me and her a few months ago. and after beating that dead horse for awhile they started saying i was not putting any effort into Link Year because im having struggles with my internship. so sunday school was very frustrating.

so part 2 of sunday was pretty good. i went up to Believers to hang out with some seventh and eighth graders. i got to lead them in worship for three great songs with my 2 new friends Alissa ande Ethan. both are very talanted and playing with them was a joy! seeing abut twenty mid-high students worship was awesome and encouraging. after worship we split them up and went and read some scripture, we read 1 timothy 1:1-11. a great passage of Paul writing to timothy to maintain the truth of the lord jesus in the church of Ephesus. it was very difficult for even the adults to understand but these seventh and eighth grade guys nailed it after awhile of decoding the message.

so there you have my past few days. im now sitting in our fearless leaders office listening to some classic rock and roll. after this its lunch time and class time. until next time everybody