It is good to be back. I had a great time visiting my family back in south eastern Iowa over Christmas…but now I am back and have a ton to do to get caught up. I will be updating my blog daily once again so be sure to check back often. I will be sharing some good stories from my [...]

Nicely done…

I am glad I left yesterday. It looks as if Western Nebraska is getting a lot of snow and ice right now. It’s raining here in South Eastern Iowa. But it’s good to be with family. Last night I got to hang out with my neices….wow. So hyper and full of energy. To be 6 and 3 again. syp

I am heading back to Iowa tomorrow to visit my family for Christmas. I am really looking forward to it. There is supposed to be a snow storm moving in tomorrow and staying around through this Thursday. We are projected to get up to 12″ inches of snow. Fun stuff. I will update my blog when I can but make [...]

I just joined Facebook.com today. It is now the largest social networking site. It is so much cleaner than myspace. You can check my facebook page here. If you have a page add me as your friend. syp

While in Denver Friday afternoon I thought it would be a good idea to grab some lunch. So we stopped at a Chile’s not too far from the airport. I had a cobb salad. About 5 or 6 bites into the salad I started feeling nauseous. By the time we got home (at 5:30pm) I was sicker than I had [...]

Tonight we took our students who are in Life Hurts (all 22 of them) to one of our local stores and did some Christmas shopping for some underprivileged kids. Between the 22 kids they brought in $150 to spend on 4 kids. Our student ministry also kicked in some more to help provide these kids with a Christmas they won’t [...]

This guy can’t play the drums or piano. He hit each drum independently and did each piano chord independently THEN through video editing put it together. Pretty cool… syp

Nice… syp

Tomorrow morning I will be going to Denver to pick up a graduate from our student ministry. He really is a great kid. Every time I think of his story I am baffled and am in wonderment of why God would allow him to go through some of the things he has. Believe me he has had it rough through [...]