Preaching Conference

This has been one long week...

It all started with the trip to Chicago on Saturday to go pick-up the boys from the Airport... Things were going according to schedule until the airplane decided to do a few extra circles around the airport and the luggage guys were having issues and the van overheated... But the worst part was the fact these boys were physically 2 hours behind the rest of us... Meaning we were tired and they slept on the plane... (in theory)

Sunday was pretty much a normal day, except for the new buddy Kirk made... Him and Seth are now pals... (Seth asked about you, not by name but by size...) That afternoon, they found Kelso and their week was pretty much set...

Monday, I got to go out to George's ("Any excuse is a good excuse to go t o George's." -- Steve Brady) with Mr. Kris Brandenburg... I enjoyed the afternoon with that branch of the family... Kirk did do the double take when he saw Dan Corey (Fairhaven's miniture version of him) and Glenn, Marlowe and I agreed that he looks like Pastor with a goatee... Glenn also made the observation that Brooke looks exactly the same only taller...

Tuesday was the competition day... Every one did a great job from what I understand... I only listened to the Preaching Competition and the Bible Stories... The sermon that night by Doctor Green on the Historicity of the Holy Spirit seemed to solidify the tone and theme of the conference as was pointed out by Pastor Whitecar on Thursday...

Wednesday was the Trip to the Cubs game... Unfortunately they were winning when we left, so the attitude was as dreary as the sky was... The key event of the day for me was the message from Pastor Unger that night... He preached on trials and the necessity of them... whether or not that was the point of the message that was what I got out of that besides getting to sit next to Melanie and Elizabeth... (smile)

Thursday, We, the California guys (-Sean, his choice, too good for us or something like that) went to go eat at a chinese buffet, was good like usual. Then came awards... Everyone did a good job like I stated earlier... Just a note of a couple of things... I usually do not like to judge judges, but I think there might have been some bias on a particular judge that allowed Kiandy to beat out Kirk for grand prize, maybe just an idea, throwing it out to munch on... (kidding of course)... 2nd was the unfortunate tactical, logistical error that cost James his placing... He did do a phenomenal job on the violin...

I even played a good game of basketball on Thursday night... It ended pretty late or early in the morning depending as you look at it... Kirk waited until Thursday night/Friday morning to pack... The alarm went off at 3:30 AM, we were on our way to the airport t 4AM with no major events, except some road construciton... Joseph and I tried to pay tolls for cars behind us, do a good deed, but none would follow us... Too bad for them...

Saturday was a return to normal day... Well almost, I got to play in the mud most of the evening that day... Woohoo, I think I did get something productive acomplished though... I better go check on it after the rain last night...

In conclusion, 10 good things from this week...

10. I got to see people from back home.

9. I got to shake Doctor Corkish's hand every service.

8. I got to be the only snorer in the room.

7. I did not have to march around the walls of Jericho like David.

6. Pastor Mallinack remembered me by name. (I hope that is a good thing.)

5. There was a tremendous amount of preaching on the simple subject of the power of God.

4. I scared Trevor.

3. Joseph has a new younger brother.

2. I got all my math homework for the rest of the year done.

1. I can do two laps in the pool now without stopping both crawl and on the back.

Looking just 17 days ahead (Glenn only 16),

Christopher Myers