Busy Month

I have wanted to update this blog much more often than this, however, we have been very busy.

The first week of the month was spent at the North American Christian Convention. The training was excellent. I especially appreciated the training on understanding the next generation. Those who are 18-25 are many of the Soldiers to whom I am trying to minister. I know that they view the world slightly different than I do, so this was some really good material.

After that we had a couple weeks of "block leave." This is when almost everyone in the brigade is given the opportunity to take leave with their family. We decided to take a week and go somewhere that was new for us. We went to Disney World! We had a lot of fun and were actually thankful for the rain. It really helped to keep things cool. We also discovered the pin-traded practice. Essentially, most of the employees have Disney pins that they wear and they are required to trade them with you if you ask. We really enjoyed putting together a set by work with the folks at Disney.

Then we returned and I ended up covering for a lot of the other chaplains who were on block leave. The good thing is that I got to do some stuff that I would not normally do, meet some new Soldiers, and spent some time with two of my other brigade chaplains. Busy, but good stuff.

My youngest son is at camp and is having a blast. He got to celebrate his birthday there and the staff took the entire cabin out to Dairy Queen. I'm sure they were very thankful for him at that point.

I also met my new chaplain's assistant and he is a great guy, with a lot of experience. Hopefully he'll be able to keep me from getting into too much trouble.

Finally, we will be doing some additional traveling for some training with my endorser. This should also be some very good training. One of the speakers is Dr. Norm Geisler. So I am very interested in this opportunity.

The Army has announced some of the upcoming deployments and I have some friends in that brigade. Please keep our Soldiers, leaders, and world events in your prayers.