Busy Year
It has been a busy few weeks and posting has been light. There are a couple of things keeping me busy besides the normal stuff that goes along with being a husband and father. There have been a ton of things going on with the local GFI community, and I have changed employers in the past two weeks.
With the parenting ministry, my wife and I began the year by leading a Preparation for Toddler Years class, organized a one night teaching presented live by Gary and Anne Marie Ezzo, and are putting together at least one Growing Kids God’s Way (GKGW) class with another couple that we are going to co-lead with beginning next week. The response to this GKGW class has been great and we may have to split it into two classes. Even better was the response to the one night teaching titled “How to Raise a Responsible Child”. Gary and Anne Marie Ezzo came to Seacoast Summerville on January 19th to present this teaching. The response was so outstanding that we had to rent extra chairs. Pastor Phil, the Seacaost Summerville campus pastor started getting very nervous when our RSVP list approached 90 people for a room that had never seen more than 65 adults in one sitting. We found a way to fit everyone in the room and the teaching was a huge success. I think we ended up with less than five vacant chairs in that room and that was with about a dozen pre-teen kids sitting up front on the floor. God brought in just the right size crowd and we have got nothing but praises from those who attended.
The other busy stuff has centered around my job change. I am no longer a contractor for the US Government. I am now a federal government employee. This a very good move for my family because I will have much better job security, more than twice the paid time off per year, and a list of other improved benefits. My new job will require me become less of an engineer and more of a project manager. That is about as much as I will say about my job, because I have made it a personal policy to not blog about the specifics of my work. I could tell you more, but well you don’t have a need to know and probably don’t care about that stuff anyway.
I am not too busy to continue my plans for some more recordings of The Living Bible. I continue to get emails from folks who are blessed by this little podcast service. I am seeing more than a thousand downloads of mp3 files per month from this podcast even though I have only posted 52 chapters of the New Testament.
Please keep me in your prayers. Ask God to continue to reveal Himself to me. It is truly a blessing to serve God through this blog, my church, and the local Charleston GFI community.