I thought I would put together a post with a little bit of info for you. (Yeah, I bet you are waiting with baited breath for that)  🙂

I had an updated experience Thursday. For 6 weeks in the summer, Ryan, our youth pastor, offers what he calls Summer JAM. It meets from 2-4:30 at a local elementary school. It is a time of play, some learning of various kinds, crafts (thanks to the local library), and some snacks. Ryan does the teaching part, unless he is gone…like he is this week. So yours truly was asked to teach. You know that part about “you can’t teach an old dog new tricks?” I have not taught Ages 5 through elementary in eons. The kids were fun- reminding me why I liked that age when I was a youth pastor-but also reminding me how old I now am. 🙂

I leave today (Friday) for vacation. We plan to head to Ohio and after watching our grandson play in two All-Star games on Saturday, head to Pigeon Forge on Sunday for a get-away with Janna (our youngest), Braden (our grandson), and Tami (our oldest) who will meet us there. Plans are to see a Smokies game (AA team), tour the Titanic museum, go to a zoo, hang out around a pool, and have a pretty loose schedule. Thursday we head back to Ohio and then will go further north to visit Jo’s sister. We will head back home Sunday. Lots of driving so I would appreciate your prayers. Oh yeah…a little bike riding will be in the mix. I hope. I hope.

While in Pigeon Forge I hope to meet up with Larry, the Deuce, and Matt, the Seeking Pastor.

Because of my vacation, I will be short on blog time. I have scheduled posts for next week, which involve videos, except one. I will apologize ahead of time for not commenting on your posts.

I hope you have a great weekend and a fantastic week ahead.

LIVE THE ADVENTURE!