Better late than never...

It’s been two and a half months since my last post. So much keeping you all updated regularly. I apologize for the lack of an update in those two months. It wasn’t that I didn’t want to update everyone about how things were going her in Chambersburg, bit life has a funny way of catching up to people and with it comes busyness. That’s what happened to me. The school year got into full swing and I found myself trying to stay afloat with the assignments that I had to do and worrying about my blog. So for that, I am sorry.

Anyway, I've been up to a lot in the last few months. Each week at our Wednesday night youth group meetings I am responsible for one of two things. Most weeks I lead the game at the beginning and give the announcements. There have been a few weeks where I have taught the lesson. Those weeks Brian and I switch roles and he does the game and announcements. Each week I also co-lead the senior guys small group. We have one of the smaller groups, but it is a good group and I thoroughly enjoy my time with them each week.

We still do praise band each week on Sunday evenings. It continues to be a highlight of my week. The past two Sundays, each of our praise bands had the opportunity to lead worship during one of our worship services. It was fun to get to work with them and plan for each service and then lead worship. It was also a good experience for each of them.

About a month ago we started up our after school program on Thursday afternoons. We have several basketball teams that play in a local church league. Because we are in the middle of downtown Chambersburg, we have quite a few guys from the neighborhood who end up playing on our teams. One of the requirements to play is that the guys attend three church events a month. Our Wednesday night meetings count as one and Sunday morning services count as one. Last year Mark started this after school program to be another opportunity for these guys. Many of them come from rough home situations and are unchurched so Thursday program is a good middle ground for them. We hang out for a while, have a short bible study, and then feed the guys.

Those are my main things each week and they have kept me busy. Back in October we had our Fall retreat, EXIT. It was a lot of fun, but man did it tire me out. I got to teach one of the lessons which I enjoy a lot.

Anyway, it's getting late, so that's all I'm going to write for now. I promise to write more next week when I am officially done, sort of a wrap up, this is what I learned kind of thing. Sorry it's been so long, but thanks for reading!

God bless!