Easter eve

The thing that really excites me about Easter this year, is that the next time I celebrate Easter, I will probably be living in Denver. We will hopefully either be in or looking for a house. I will be done with my master's degree. But I don't want to overlook this Easter. Easter is by far our most important holiday. This is the time we remember not only the crucifixion, but the resurrection which makes the crucifixion our hope.

I am near the end of my last semester of class, and as I have told you before, I will be doing what is called "mentoring" over the summer. Part of what I will be doing is some stuff for Denver. I will be working on our basic polity, our "training plan," our tentative plans for many different things. I am going to need you guys help though. I am supposed to have a "lay committee" during mentoring. They are supposed to help me figure out if I suck as a minister or not. My mentoring is already a lot different than everyone else's, but I still need something similar to a lay committee. Here is where you guys can help. I need email addresses, I need you to check this blog, and actually comment, and I need feedback. This will not only help my mentoring (and me to finally graduate) I think it will help our church. If you are not 100% on coming to Denver, that is fine. Any of you who check this blog mean a lot to me anyway, so your input will be valuable. This way, I can email you updates, bylaws, etc. and you can help me make them better. It won't be a lot of work, if any, just some reading. So, if you want to be part of that, either leave your email here, or send it to me, my email is here on this site. Seriously, it will help a lot.

As far as other stuff goes. The plan right now is to get together, at Bethany and Erin's, either April 26 or May 3. If both work for everyone, I would prefer the May date. If someone cannot make the May date, the April will work for us too. Bethany has said she has been praying that God would guide her as to when to move. We also need prayer for that. I think asking God to provide financially for the move would be a big help too, since moving is not cheap. Tanner and Jessica have a wedding coming up, so they could probably use some prayer. Grant is working about 10 jobs right now, and Desiree is about to start graduate work. What about the rest of you clowns? You have prayer requests? I really, really get more excited every day. I am praying that God will provide and guide each of you, by name, unless I don't know you. If there is anything I am missing or forgetting, let me know.

Sorry for the long delay between posts, it has been a pretty crazy couple of weeks. We are on Spring Break this week, so of course I have crammed a ton of stuff to do into one week. We took time to change the youth room I inherited. It was institutional white, now it is cooler. Hopefully.

I appreciate the thoughts on the last post, it is not easy to think of your own crucifixion.

For those of you who made it to the little get-together a few weeks ago, what a great time. For those that couldn't make it, we missed you, but we want to do it again either in late April or early May. Any dates work best for anyone? Some of the things we talked about were just that we were all a bit scared by this whole thing, but the good thing was that we will all be in it together. We talked about frustration with churches we are in, and things we really enjoy about them. Overall, I would say it was really positive to get together like that.

So, when would everyone like to try it again, where would everyone like to meet, and does anyone have any concerns? Keep praying for each other, keep seeking God for guidance and courage. I am excited about our future and look forward to working on the kingdom together.