Ahhhh.... The wonderful world of Ministry. I was pretty bummed to learn that my home church has an opening for a Pastor. Still a few credits short (and a few years of experience short)of getting my pastoral license. It would be so great to be in Kalamazoo again! But I have to remember that God has me where I am for a reason and I need to continue to follow his path.
Aside from that I currently have a family in our Church that I have been dealing with and it seems to be getting good... then worse... then good again. The girl really is a sweetheart but her mom is kinda crazy. She is still under the impression that she is a teenager. Everything the kids do... she does. If the kids are going to this... she's going to this. The problem is that the girl has a boyfriend that goes to the church and he's been in a lot of problems lately. Every time I catch him doing something wrong, she is there to bail him out and say that he didn't do it. Even after I caught him stealing a laptop, found it in his position and he admit ed it... she denied it! Uhhhh..... It's just a hard one. I find my heart hardening sometimes because of it. I pray that God softens my heart... It's just discouraging.
I'm currently finishing my Homiletics class and that seems to be going good. I just don't seem to have enough time between work, family, church, church work, school and life.... but isn't that all of our problems? Just trying to find time to get it all done. I've been part of CRU on Thursday Nights at GVSU and that rocks! Seeing so many kids packed into a lecture hall to learn about God is awesome! They have great worship and I've experienced nothing like it... it's refreshing.
Trying to get everything ready for this NYC Missions trip that we are going on and having problems filling the slots. Funny how I plan things way in advance and still only have about 20% actually follow through. What a fun process!

Other than that God has continued to bless my family and I. God is good and I need to remember that it's all the time!

Thanks for the continued prayer and support!

Len

My fellow friends....

Here is the skinny... During my transition to vocational ministry I have found myself thinking and very much wanting to talk but I feel guarded as to what and to whom I would say things to. So a good friend on mine told me to blog about it and ask some of my friends (through out all stages of my life... school, camp, college, church, etc...) to give me advice, pray, listen and help me a long this long road. So if you are getting this... feel honored that means that you are trusted, you have impacted my life along the way and I would trust your advice. I'll try to keep up regularly with my journey and I'll even try to give you a life story to help fill in some of the blanks for those I haven't seen in a while. Alot of you know where I was but don't know where I'm at now, others know where I am now but not where I came from. Sooooooooooooo... I will try to update as much as possible.
Well... THANKS! I look forward to taking this journey with you!

Len