Life is pretty good!

I am about over my cold I think. I only cough once today so far.

Leadership camp went very well. I want to do it again before the summer is out. I love talking and guiding people thru leadership experiences.

I have made an offer on a house. Hopefully, I will hear something back really soon. It is a condo not very far from where I live right now. I just want to close before I go to uplift would be great. We will see.

12:11 is ok for now. We are starting out really slow on one hand and really fast on the other. I look at this service as a church plant. Many of the members right now come from East Cobb. We have had visitors, but it is early. I will be away from this service for about 3 weeks. Jay Collins a good friend of mine will be leading. He does such a great job! He needs to be leading worship somewhere I believe. I am glad he will fill in for me.

Short Vacation this week! I will leave to go somewhere after Sunday morning services to return on Wednesday hopefully in time for church. Now that I am buying a house, vacations will be short this summer. I will take them of course, but they will be short.

My niece graduated last night. Ashley Nicole Stewart is my niece who graduated from Forest Park High School. I am soooo proud of her. She has done an incredible job in school and also in life. My prayer is that she will have continue success in college as well. The whole family was there to witness. I continue to tell my nephews and nieces that they will break the cycle in our family by graduating and going to college. I am so proud!

That's all for now!

Wow! House hunting we will go!

Well,

Upon getting out of church yesterday, I found my notice of renewing my lease. No way! The rates went up just 20 dollars if I signed a year lease and a $200 break fee. It is time for me to get back in the home owning business. I have not mowed grass in two years. I don't look forward to it either. I do have a couple of nephews who likes to get away. Now, they can come over if they cut my grass. Ha! The market here in Atlanta is full of homes and condo's. I am looking at both because there are some real deals out there. Not what I was planning on doing for the next 3 weeks. I have already secured financing here on Memorial day. I have to fax the papers in the morning and the mortgage guy thinks he can do it within 15 days of me securing a house. I spent this evening driving around. I do look at 2 properties tomorrow. This will happen fast, as long as the right deal comes along. Meanwhile, my lease is up at the end of June. Be praying that the right doors will open. This will be my 3rd house purchase, so I do at least know what I don't want.

Leadership camp starts tomorrow. I have so much material I want to cover. I am teaching them the Servant Leadership model. I believe this is the model I follow. I guess you have to asked those who worked with me. The more I study, the more I am convinced that this is the way to go. I have also decided to expose these kids to the servant-leaders around campus. Yes, this is cheaper than bringing someone end, but I am still not quite sure how the finances work with this gig. Anyway, I will be having fun and done by 12 noon each day. 4 day work week sorta.

Be Good!

I have missed you too!

Let me tell you the latest..

The last two Thursday's have been really bad healthwise. Two weeks ago I woke up to go to the bathroom, turn on the lights and fell to my needs. I got an eye infection(I guess from my contacts that I wear) It cause a dilemma for me because I did not have a replacement for chapel that day. This was 8th grade graduation( I did not get to go to) I had the 6th and 7th graders with me for chapel that morning. I thought someone had taken a knife and started cutting my eye it hurt so bad. This was around 2am. By 6am, I got one contact in and trying for the other one. The light was killing me. I drove the school in pain covering my bad eye. We did have chapel in the dark. The kids just thought it was a different chapel, not knowing about my pain. I won't go into how my eye doctor was my savior that day and tried on Monday to get me to do my eye exam and contact fitting again of course full price. NO WAY! I am still comfortable in my original contact lenses fully cleansed I might add.

The next Thursday(last week) I woke up to having a real bad cold with a cough that you might have thought I was dying. I am nursing this cold with over the counter drugs. The pharmacist recommended Claritin D and Musicnex. I think they work against each other. Last night was my best night of sleep and at 5:30am this morning I was WIDE awake. By 8am, I was coughing again. Stay tune Lord willing, I will be alive next Thursday for my new adventure.

This coming week will be my Leadership Camp. I am really wanting to build it into something that would be around a long time. Right now, we are looking at 12 participants. They say that this is not too bad for a first year camp. I love having the opportunity to teach and influence these young mind. I'll let you know how it goes.

Well, it is summer, which mean, I will get around to dating again. All my free time you know. I look forward to what God will bring my way this year. Everybody wants to say I am picky. (YOU GOT THAT RIGHT) i am just waiting for Miss Right to come my way. I'll post more later.....

Trying to stay focus!!

I am glad that we are near the end of the school year. I have my summer plans all made except for where I will go for vacation. It will either be Chicago in June and the Bahamas in July, unless better offers come my way. I have had a little trouble staying focus on my diet, school, and church. I know this is just the time of the year. In a few weeks it will all be over....

What I miss most about full time ministry!

I miss a lot of thing about full time ministry. Having a day off in the middle of the week was great! I would take Thursday's off. I would usually sleep in and be a bum most of the day. I would go to a mall to people watch. It was great! I also got the opportunity to go to Pepperdine lectures and Tulsa Workshop. I am not a bible teacher at a Christian school. At this point I would have to be invited to go to these places during the school year. I do long for those days again.

But... I am getting ready to have 10 weeks off for the summer. I have planned a very busy one. I like the fact that I do have all of this time off. Next summer, I want to try to do nothing. I know, I don't think I will do it either.

Weigh in is tomorrow for me. I have been walking for 2 weeks and want to weign in every 2 weeks to see if it is making a difference on my weight. I am hungrier than normal when I get up in the mornings. This has made me eat breakfast which the doctor said was a good thing.

12:11 went alright today. We had over 40 this morning. Our regular preacher was gone, and it was mission sunday. We always have a sub for this service. I try my best to bring the same excitement, but we are preacher driven society at East Cobb. Got to have the preacher! Anyway, not too bad of a thing. I hope your week goes well. Bye!