Saturday, February 13, 2010

Finally an Update!

Well, it's been a good three months since I updated our blog, so I thought it was time once again. We've been doing well, dealing with all the winter weather that has been coming our way. Nicole is doing well at Kindercare and is playing in two volleyball leagues, one on Monday nights and one on Thursday nights. I am enjoying getting to play basketball with some guys on Thursday nights, trying to stay in shape a little bit. Since the Holiday shopping season is over at the mall, my hours at Aeropostale are down to around 15 a week instead of the 30-40 that I was working in December.
My FCA hours are now up to 22 as I have $1350 in monthly pledged support now so I'm making good progress in getting towards full-time funding. I'm really excited about the future with FCA, as we have a lot of really good things going right now in Southeast Minnesota FCA. I am still meeting with a group of 5 students at Rochester John Marshall HS every Tuesday morning going through a study called "Winning God's Way." We host a Pancake breakfast on the first Tues of each month to try and invite more kids to come to the Bible Study that is focused for athletes. Also, at Rochester Mayo, there are now 6 Students Leaders and 20 more regular attenders for their Campus FCA and at Rochester Century, there are about 30 regular attenders for the FCA Huddle.
Next Saturday, we are having a snow tubing retreat for our Rochester FCA student leadership teams at Ironwood Springs in Stewartville. Also, on Feb. 28th, we are having the Culver's Cup, a Broomball tournament for all of the SE MN FCA huddles, hosted by the Pine Island group.

A few weeks ago, Nicole and I were able to attend the Rochester Amateur Sports Commission banquet with Sylvia Rogers, one of my Home Team supporters and the main speaker was former Twins player, Rod Carew, the picture here is all the people that were at our table.
I also recently applied for two assistant track coaching jobs here in Rochester, one at JM and one at Century. I have always wanted to coach someday and track was my favorite sport in HS so I think either of these positions would be a great way to get my foot in the door. So if you could pray that I would get an interview/job opportunity for one of these, that would be great!
Hope you are all doing well!