Walking on...

Whew. what a week.
Jess and Kate (the new DNA students) helped with FOAM on WED. and Jess is in Troop on Thurs. so it's good to have some help there (FOAM needs more guys to come along...the last two weeks it's been all girls and me...I'd love to see more guys there! please pray for that to happen).
Last Tues. was bit better than monday, so things are being worked through. I still feel lonely and disconnected at points, but as I said, it takes time for all this to work out...I don't like it but it's the process God has me in I guess.

Saturday night Jess, Kate and I went to go to Chitchester to see a movie. It was a good time (although I think we all wished more people could have made it out with us). It was nice to have time to NOT think about work and the transition phase I'm in.

Sunday was church and I am now in the lead role for Grapes (the 12-18 age group). It's been going ok this past month, and in Nov. I'm going to split the ages 11-13 and then 14-18. I'll take the older crowd and see what to do with them...please pray about that. I really want to see them take steps towards a place of maturity where they can (and want to) sit in with the main service.
This week I'm busy all nights except tonight (Monday). Housegroup on Tues. FOAM on Wed. Troop on TH. and then Raise Ya Hands on Fri. RYH is the benefit show for AIDS victims in S. Africa. Pat (one of the uni students here) and I are going to open the night with a drum off! I'm pretty stoked, and I can't wait to have a bit of crazy fun:-) DVD's will be available thanks to support by Apple (yes, Sara pulled out some really amazing stops for this thing in the way of sponsorship) and I'm really thrilled to see what they put their hearts to next.

Troop has been going well. We've had some real moments of voulnerability, and I'm so thankful to God for leading the group in relationships and how He's using me to challenge them to a deeper level of relationship with Jesus. Plese pray that I would stay real and keep MY eyes on Jesus. I want to point the young people to Him and I want to speak from being in that place of a real relationship with Him.

That's most of the main news here. I'd love to hear how you all are doing. Take care! Paul