blasted computer!

Today I got home around 5am from the Lightrider overland excursion with the youth group. A pretty wild time I must admit 4 days on a stinky bus, driving across america to God knows where to do God knows what. We skiied, hiked, and ate... so on and so forth. It makes me glad to know that I'm having an impact on these guys. Even the ones I'm not discipling and close to, feel a closeness to me and a trust with me that's pretty unbelievable. It's taken a year for them to be this comfortable with me, and being a patient person, I've been pretty overwhelmed with the speed at which they grown and grown in friendship with me. I think it's been a little tougher for Misti though, at times seeing the impact she's having on her girls. She's not around them 24 - 5 like the last place she was at, and so it's difficult for her to see the great growth of those girls, but last night it became pretty clear to her the impact she's had on them (and the impact they've had on her.) As most anyone knows I'm an emotional guy, but I didn't expect to tear up when I was encouraging sam, after all I was able to encourage all the other 15 people without getting worked up, but when I came to sam, it hit me that he's become more than just a disciple learning under me and friend that I'm mentoring, he's become my right hand in working with those guys and the little brother I haven't had since I was in ministry with DiBella. Pretty neat indeed. There's definitely more to say, but for now, I've said plenty.

Shea