Its getting dark...

by 4:30 pm, which sucks, so it always feels later than it really is.  

Last night we had a social for the primary school aged kids (9-12), it was quite messy, slightly stressful, but it was fun as well.  We started off with with free time, giving the kids time to play pool, and the playstation, or xbox, I don't remember, but they played a football (meaning soccer)  game, once all of the kids arrived we started in on our program, which was lead by Brian our work experience student.  It involved a lot of different games, some on the play station/xbox and some as a group.  But the part of the evening that the children enjoyed the most was when Adam and I (we are both new staff members)  we interviewed, and while being questioned, had ketchup, flour and water smeared on us.  It took a few washes for the smell to come out.  I'm glad the kids enjoyed it. 

Its been too long...

since I last wrote that is.  I'm sorry for the delay, I'll work on it.  The past couple weeks have been pretty good.  The weather hasn't been too bad, meaning not much rain and not unbearably cold.  I did have a interesting task this week, I had to construct a snowman from chicken wire and paper mache, it brought out my creative side.  We then had the kids spray paint it, under strict supervision, and create the face.  It went pretty smoothly except for one mishap of a kid spray painting the wall, he had to then scrub it off.  All in all it went well.

As you all know I'm coaching a basketball team for a local secondary school.  We've had a few games and so far won all of the important ones (we did lose one game, but it wasn't a league game and we only lost by 1 point).  The last two we won 33-4 then 41-22.  I have to say I'm very proud of them, they have worked really hard.  

Thanks for all of your prayer and support, I really appreciate it.

Update

Its been awhile since my last post and I apologize for the delay.  Last weekend I had a chance to travel up to Bangor, Northern Ireland with 5 youth and about 12 leaders from Urban Junction.  We attended a camp/conference called Autumn Soul, which is similar to youth church camps in the States.  There we four speakers and loads of activities for the kids (anywhere from dance workshops, to creative worship, to a disco at night).  It was great to see the youth so excited about getting involved.  The two older girls that went are strong Christians so it was a good time of encouragement for them, while the three younger girls wouldn't necessarily consider themselves Christians, but left the camp open to the Word and excited about it.  It was a great encouraging time away for all of the girls (considering they don't necessarily have the best home lives).  If you could keep them in your prayers, I would appreciate it.  

So that trip lasted from Friday night to Sunday afternoon, on Monday I started to cough, I didn't think much of it, until the next day when it got progressively worse.  Yes, I have a cold and it has lasted since Tuesday.  Hopefully it will go away soon, its gone from my chest to my head, so I don't think it has anywhere else to go except away.  So if you all could pray for that as well, i would appreciate it.    Thanks for all of your support, I miss you all.