Accelerate

This month might've been the busiest month of my young career. From about two weeks before Easter to this point, every week has seemed to elevated in its busyness. Funny how I said I was going to blog frequently this month, and that was my intention, but time just didn't quite allow it. I guess that's alright; it just means I've been spending more of my time doing actual things rather than sitting down at my computer and talking about what I'm doing.

Today was really the first day in 5 or 6 days where I got to actually sit down and breathe. Well, last night was, but I was too tired to really do anything. I got home from attending a night service, and basically passed out after winding down.

I'm going to be preaching, pretty much, 6 weeks in a row here. I've got 4 in a row at my own service, then two more times at 2 different services. Looking ahead, I'm going to be really busy heading into the Fall. I've booked my time off for the last week of July and the first week of August. But, looking at it now, I'm not sure if that's the best choice. I don't know, because it's right in the middle of a lot of busy things. The end of June and the beginning of July are 3 weddings. Following the weddings is summer camp. Then I've got some more planning to do before I take my two weeks; and when I come back, we've got our youth mission's trip to go on. After that is our Fall kick off.

I could keep going, but thinking about it just gets overwhelming.

Last week, I had the joy of attending a brief conference with John Piper. I was so glad that I got to get away a little bit from the church and listen to a wise man. Listening to John Piper preach on 1 Peter was so refreshing and so fulfilling for me. I think taking time out of a busy week to attend this conference was really worth it. I walked away super motivated and excited to study my Bible, and that's always a good day.

In church, things are going well too. We were able to confirm a partnership with AIA to begin a sports ministry with our church and community through soccer camps. We're only doing a one day clinic this summer to serve as a bit of a teaser for what camps could look like. So hopefully there's enough interest that we can do the full week next year.

Also, out of my incredible dissatisfaction of being out of shape, I managed to convince my senior pastor to let me start up soccer Sunday here beginning next week. I'm excited for that, but there is one major problem. It's almost impossible to find a soccer field in Vancouver! Like come on man! A lot of the fields I've found are all gravel and not grass. On the fields that have grass, there's rarely soccer nets. Add onto the fact that they're usually pretty busy with people playing on them. I really hope the field near my house is vacant when we play so we don't have to go somewhere else. I really want to be able to play on grass and not gravel, or have to travel 30 minutes just to find a grass field. I just really want to be able to play soccer and not be so grossly out of shape!

Alright, enough whining. My life in Vancouver is really starting to accelerate, and I'm beginning to establish myself a good foundation. There's still several things I'm hoping that can get set in to place that will make my life and time here better, but they're all things that take time to build, so I hope that with my involvement throughout, I can continue to get accustomed to things.

With how busy my schedule looks, I'm not sure what will have happened by the next time I blog. Hopefully, there is great news!