New year, new life, still getting in trouble

Well, another year has come and gone. 2005 was good. The Lord blessed Melissa with an awesome job in February. We've been able to pay off the Cavelier in just over 2 years. Melissa has her school debt down to under $10k and I got an iPod! That's right, after whining and begging for months I got my full size 20gb iPod. this has to be the best invention ever!!!!

In July I got reelected as the district youth treasurer. And funny enough we still have money in the account :-)

In the Fall Steve moved in. That seems to be going well. He works at Old Navy in PH and seems to be enjoying that. He just started a young adult ministry here at the church. I hope and pray that this one goes well.

Ministry is still going strong here at CWC. Our youth ministry continues to thrive. Teens are coming to know the Lord for the first time and growing in their faith. RIght now we have about 10 teens being discipled in a one-on-one mentorship. We have about 15 teens in our Saturday morning discipleship group. We took 9 students to Logos5 NC Area Wesleyan Youth Convention. It was a great trip. We were challenged to dig into God's Word as this year is The Year of the Bible for the Wesleyan Church. It was a great conference! And it was only in Grand Rapids! Good days!
Things are good. They could always be better as I continue to grow as a youth pastor and a leader. I'm always learning.

Speaking of learning...I did the unthinkable this year. I went back to school. In May I began my Masters of Arts in Youth Ministry from Indiana Wesleyan University. It's going really well. right now, after 3 classes, I'm holding a 3.95 GPA. I'm learning a lot and I'm able to almost immeidiately apply things to my ministry. I'm really enjoying the online format they have.

So as 2005 closed, I still get in trouble a lot (as you can see from this pic) but it's tons of fun and good days. Things are going well and they continue to get better. Love you all! Hopefully I'll get more consistent with this blogging thing.