Some bits of information, staccato fashion:
- Junior high basketball season is over. I know I didn't blog about it, so let me fill you in on some season highlights. We finished 3-9 on the year, and missed the CALOC playoffs. Our team had only two returning players and a whole lot of short, scrawny seventh graders. It's true that we weren't as talented a team as last year's, but I really saw marked improvement among the players individually and as a team. A few minutes ago, one of the seventh graders returned his jersey to me and I made sure to encourage him to keep playing, to keep working hard because I saw so much improvement in him this year. It was hard being on the losing side so many times, especially when all of our losses but one were by ten or more points. I learned many lessons this year as a coach, most of them having to do with patience, perseverance, attitude and perspective. It was good season and I'm reminded how much I love coaching by the fact that as I'm typing this I would usually have been on my way over to the court to start practice.
- For those of you who don't know, at the end of January I was accepted into the M.Div. program of Talbot School of Theology at Biola University. I have sensed the Lord calling me into pastoral ministry and this was and is being confirmed by many different circumstances, conversations (with Amy, my pastors, friends, family) and prayer. Lord willing, I will enroll in classes in the fall and Amy and I are tentatively planning for it take me four years. It is a long, grueling program, requiring more units than a JD (law degree) or MD. Since then, I have begun teaching our church's mid-week service - Reality Check - every second Tuesday of the month. Amy and I continue to wait on the Lord for his leading in many different ways. We have decided that I need to work part-time, so I can focus enough time on studying, writing papers, increasing ministry loads at church, etc. Please pray that we would be patient and peaceful as we wait for God to show us how he will provide for us financially. I do not know if I will continue at Liberty Christian, but I have told my boss that I would love to come back next year and teach Bible and PE and whatever else he needs until about noon every day.
- Last, the Lakers are playing amazing ball right now, and I can't wait for April and the playoffs!
2 comments:
Hey! Thanks for the update and congratulations on your acceptance. Welcome to the world of less than two incomes! It's actually easy once you get the hang of it. My advice? A studio apartment and lots and lots of dried beans. Hope we get to see you guys soon.
Well, we'll be in our one-bedroom until February 2009. We'll see if that was a wise choice. The downside to a studio apartment (as I see it) is not being able to have groups of friends over and not being completely cramped.
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