The streak of beautiful weather continues here in the Shenandoah Valley.  Today we went to the DMV to get our address changed.  It was a surprisingly pleasant experience.  Much thanks goes to the employees of the Waynesboro DMV.  It was quick and painless.  It helps that we didn’t go right at the end or right at the beginning of the month and I found out that Wednesdays are a pretty good day to go.  We are continuing to get our feet on the ground and getting the lay of the land, but we are settled.

I spent a good part of the day working on the worship set for Sunday and working on a philosophy of ministry for the worship arts team.  Tomorrow, I’m planning to put together a philosophy for student ministries.  These will both be working documents that will change as needed.

Tonight was my first Wednesday night in student ministries.  We don’t currently have a name.  I have tossed around the name Crossroads, but want to get the student’s input and hopefully even have them design a logo.  We had 6 middle school and high school students and I taught.  I was supposed to assist but the teacher was sick, so I called on my previous experience and taught.  It has been amazing how God has always placed us around middle schoolers.  We had a good time as we played a word game and then sang a few songs and then I taught the lesson.

Following student ministries, our worship team got together to rehearse.  I love the chance to work out the kinks and we had a few tonight.  This is only our fifth time together and we are still getting to know one another.  We have a great team of volunteers and I really appreciate them.  One of the last songs we practiced was “You Are My All In All.”  At the end we dropped out the instruments and sang a cappella — it was wonderful.  I am looking forward to Sunday’s service.

Seize the Day!