Well, life has been kind of a roller coaster lately. The last time I posted it was the day after an AWESOME Sunday morning where we sent our wonderful Hispanic minister to Fort Worth with blessing and praise! We spent that Sunday morning worshipping in two languages and it was beautiful. Life has been busy, busy since then. It almost seems like a short eternity ago since we had that Sunday. I’ll try to fill you in on the highlights.
Sunday, September 20th was a great day in my life. I’ll start by talking about how my wife is the coolest wife ever! This Sunday marked the first of three Christmas gifts I’d been given from the previous Christmas. Sunday, September 20th was the grand opening the Boss Hog Bowl (New Dallas Cowboys Stadium) in Arlington, and I had a ticket! My lovely wife got tickets for me, and I was able to attend the opening game of the inaugural season in the new Cowboys stadium. The place is immaculate, simply immaculate. It’s unlike any other sporting venue I’ve ever seen. Sadly, the Cowboys lost that game to the New York Giants 33-31, but it was still an awesome experience to be there. Pretty much I have the coolest wife ever. I also attended the 2nd game of the season on (Monday night September 28th) when the Cowboys played the Carolina Panthers. They won that game. I still have one more game left, and it’s currently scheduled for Sunday December 13th against the San Diego Chargers. Hopefully they’ll win that game as well.
Speaking of the Boss Hog Bowl, our small group from church also toured the stadium. It was awesome. Our tour guide was an architect that helped design the whole place. Check out my wife’s blog to look at pictures from that day.
Our youth group took on a new project. We are currently trying to raise $4,800 to dig a well for a community of people in India. We are accepting donations of any amount at https://championsforindia.org/legacyyouth but $7.77 is enough of a donation to give one person clean water for the next 30 years. I plan to write another blog dedicated to just that project with statistics and information. Check back for more info on that.
Our junior high group had a retreat the weekend of October 16th & 17th. It was on the theme of being called by God. We studied different characters from the Bible that God called to do difficult things. Our main verse came from Isaiah 43:1 where God says, “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name; you are mine.” We talked about how God calls us, by name, to a deeper relationship with Him. We talk about how God calls us to be Jesus in this world, and the implications of what it means to be Jesus. We went to Buffalo Ridge Ranch in Whitney, Texas (the camp was formerly Iron Springs Christian Camp) and spent just one night there. We woke up Saturday morning in silence (which was quite a challenge for middle schoolers) but we spent that morning in silence as we prepared for the morning, and spent the morning reading scripture and praying. We spent several times during the day in class time, but we also took a break to go to the swing and spent some time swinging. It was a fun retreat!
Well that pretty well sums up the major events of the last (almost) 2 months. Hopefully it won’t be two months until I post again.
Thanks for reading.