WEEK 8

My pastors have three schools that they have started and expanded literally all around the world: Southern Ohio School of Ministry, Fire School of Prophetic Training, and SOMA Business Institute. They were recently hooked up with Wagner Leadership Institute so that the students in our schools can go on to get a degree from an accredited school. We had a conference this weekend to celebrate that connection. Apostle C. Peter Wagner came to speak. The conference was friday night and all day saturday. It really was amazing to hear some of his stories and research that he did at Fuller when he was teaching. I was taking pictures at the conference and actually got some really good ones!

Sunday morning service went well. Apostle Wagner spoke then too because our pastors were on vacation. Pastor ben forgot to announce that the teens had service sunday night. It's been so random that unless we tell them, they assume we don't have church and don't come. Counting the leaders there were 18 people there sunday night, so ben just talked with them to get some feedback on upcoming plans. After that we all went to dairy queen to grab something to eat. That was fun! Monday i finished putting together a video from last Wednesday's bible study, Tuesday ben was out of the office, so i bought a new desk for my room. Today I went to the soma building to help with getting games together for camp. tomorrow i need to buy the supplies for the games. The game is the biggest water balloon fight this world has ever seen!!! And i'm leaving for church here in a little bit to help bryce get ready for tonight, "gangster night"

I was wondering about church wide communication. The teens are having gangster night, but the adults and kids ministries are having family movie night and watching Charlottes Web. This is a big deal that the two events conflict, because the church is not working as one? I was wondering if this happens often or is poor communication a not so common thing in churches?

I was also wondering what the most productive way to get kids to sign up for camp, because our numbers are way down this year?

My personal spiritual life is going great. I'm seeing more and more where God is calling me. I'm talking to God more than usual about future things, but i need to talk to him more about current things. I'm learning the value and truth of the phrase "hope is for the future, but faith is for now" It doesn't take any faith to believe that God will do something in the future, it doesn't take any faith to say that God did something in the past, but it takes all the faith i have to believe that God can change my life and make me more like him today. I want all that God has for me! I believe that God can use me even before i get that diploma. 

hours: 

friday conference: 3 hrs

saturday conference: 4 hrs (i left early)

sunday morning church: 2 hrs

sunday night church: 2 hrs

monday video work: 5 hrs

wednesday camp prep: 1 hr + 5 hours of helping at service tonight