Summer

Summer is here. Yes! This is my favorite season. Here are some things the VK's and I are up to.

• Preparing for a missions trip to the Baja of Mexico. 23 of us from Heartland are traveling to an impoverished area of Mexico. We'll be ministering within a farm work camp by doing VBS, building a house (or two depending on our fundraising) for a family and feeding the camp a meal.
  
• Yard project. I've from Terrace, so I thought I'd make a terrace on my sloped back yard. Lots of work. I've moved around about 50 yards of material with a shovel and wheelbarrow.
  
• Don't have an iPhone yet (doubt if I ever will).
  
• Patti and the kids are coming back from camping today. Hopefully the mosquitoes were not too bad.
• The weather is hot, last night when I couldn't sleep at 1:00am, the house was 89 degrees.
  
• Purchased a spinner exercise bike to work out on. Trying to get my old legs ready for the upcoming rec. hockey season. I'm going to start in August since I'm taking a two month break from hockey. Some injuries are healing nicely now.
  
• July 25th is our 20th wedding anniversary. Wow!
• I'm taking some time off in August (August is my favorite month of the year!)
  
• Wishing I had a surfing trip planned, sigh.
  
• Working through the book of Ecclesiastes. For many of us it is a back burner book, yet many have expressed how relevant the book has been for them during this series.
• Lots of friends/people in Heartland are going through hard times. Their hardships are constantly on my mind. I try to shift the concern to prayer. But I'm not always successful.
• I married a couple on the beach of Kilby last weekend.
  
• I'm looking forward to the Bruins training camp -- to get back in the swing of chaplaincy. I officially don't like the off season.
• I'm having lunch with James today, our new council president. It's going to be a great year of ministry at Heartland!