PCC...The Beginning of a new journey

For the past five years, I attended Nappanee Missionary Church. This church was a great place for me spiritually. I think in all my life, I grew at NMC the most. It was at Nappannee where my friend and Youth Pastor Derry Prenkert introduced me to Youth Ministries. I was a small group leader and was very involved on Wednesday nights. I also had the wonderful opportunity of going on mission trips to New York City and last summer to Washington, D.C. These mission trips were amazing. It really stretched out my shyness about sharing the Gospel of Christ. We witnessed to people in parks in New York and D.C. I will never forget those trips and all the sharing we did for Christ. One thing I will always take away from NMC are the relationships I made there. My best friends I met at NMC, the may youth kids who I continue to stay in touch with, amazing pastors and friends.

When I got married in December, I moved away from NMC and began in a new church with my wife, Pathway Community Church. I'm not going to lie, I was pretty nervous at first, but after two months, I totally love it! Pathway is a lot like NMC, it is actually part of the Missionary Church. The pastor, Ron Williams, is a great speaker and has a heart for Christ like Pastor Dave at NMC. We just started in a small group and we are excited about that. I am just looking forward to plugging in to my new church and sharing the love of Christ to those in the Fort Wayne area. I am also excited about the possibility of joining the worship team at PCC. God is so good. When I was nervous about going to a new church, God put the right people in my life to help me feel welcome and comfortable there.

The "Un-luck" of the Irish

As I was sitting here today watching the Notre Dame basketball team, I about threw up! Notre Dame was heading into the UCLA game tonight on a six game losing steak and was playing its self right out of the NCAA tournament. The Irish were ranked as high as seventh earlier this year and now find themselves 12-10 and headed straight to the NIT.

If I was Mike Brey, I would be livid. The Irish just aren't athletic enough to stay with the top teams in the Big East. Another one of Brey's problems is that he only goes like 7 deep. Notre Dame basketball is starting to feel like the football team, underachievers! Things are not going to get any better until Notre Dame starts recruiting better athletes. Sure Luke Harangody is good, but the rest of the team is very inconsistent. It doesn't get any easier. A 7 game losing streak doesn't look so hot on the NCAA Committee's agenda does it?

Update on New Year's Resolutions

It is February now, so that means it is time to re-evaluate my three New Year's Resolutions. Here it goes:
1. No pop- I have done really well with this, haven't even wanted it really.
2. No fries- This has been more challenging, but I haven't had any fries so far this year.
3. Workout 4-5 times a week- I haven't had trouble with this one, I like to workout so this might be the easiest of the three.

All in all, one month down, 11 more to go!

Super Bowl Champions

What a game last night! The Pittsburgh Steelers, the team I predicted to win the Super Bowl defeated the Arizona Cardinals 27-23 last night. This was a great game. The Steelers took a 17-7 halftime lead before the Cardinals came all the way back to take a 23-20 lead with a little over 2 minutes left. At that point, I thought my team would lose and Dan would win the first annual DDDC championship. Luckily, the Steelers have Big Ben and now a big receiver in Antonio Holmes. Holmes made an incredible catch with :35 left to give the Steelers the win!

I just wanted to briefly comment on how awesome the 1st ever DDDC challenge has been. I looked forward to picking the games every week. Earlier in the year, it looked like Dan would run away with it. I started picking up steam four or five weeks ago. It was all on the line last night: Dan picked the Cardinals, I picked the Steelers. Whoever won the game, was the champion. Watching the game with Dan last night made it fun because both of our teams gave a good showing. Like I said last week, next year maybe it will be called the CDDD Challenge!