Apology Update

I would first like to apologize that I have not been faithful to my word of at least one post every two weeks. A small reason would be that I haven't had time, but the truthful statement would be that I simply haven't made time. For this, I am sorry. However, with that said, prayerfully I will be posting a few blogs here shortly with a couple updates from St. Pete. Here's the first from yesterday:

In St. Pete not even a week and we already have some connections. My brother Mike and I had a fun time playing toss with a few little kids who introduced us to their grandmother Joyce who seemed interested in hearing more about Jesus, so we're going back to speak to her soon.

Today the interns and some of us staff went to the best place to get free Wi-Fi... Chick-Fil-A. Haha, and we met this young manager named Derik who is going to participate in a gap-year program after high school to strengthen his faith before going to college. It was really neat to get connected with him, and to top things off a stranger bought us all cookies because they overheard that we were on mission here in St. Pete. I thought the day was great by then, which it was, but it got better.

Morning Prayer at 7:00 every morning

This evening, we were able to be encouraged by Ray Vaughn (the champion for Christ in Columbia, SC) in some T4T training. I think the people not so familiar with it were able to catch the vision that God put upon the leaders' hearts. It was really encouraging to be paired up with a campus minister on USF-SP's campus, David. He seemed really excited and encouraged to be laboring alongside us for the summer outreach program. Another encouraging sight was to see my pal Andi who we met last summer come back and get reconnected to be able to do some outreach with us this summer. He went so far as to pretty much put aside all his work until August.

So needless to say, I'm excited about what this summer holds for us here in St. Pete and I pray that I'll be able to make the effort to keep everyone updated.

Encouraging verse of the day: John 21:25 NASB

Staff/Intern "team-building" exercise

And there are also many other things which Jesus did, which if they were written in detail, I suppose that even the world itself would not contain the books that would be written.

I find that John always ends his books with a bang of some sort. Haha