June 2009
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Nicaragua Day One
After a looooooong day of travel (somewhere in the neighborhood of 16-18 hours between driving, flights and layovers), we have arrived safely in Managua, Nicaragua! We’re exhausted, but excited about what the next two weeks hold for us! We’re staying at a missionary compound in the capital city of Nicaragua through Tuesday night, and then…
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We sold our house!
Well, it’s finally official! Actually, it was official the other week, but I was scrambling to leave for the mission trip to Maine (and now I’m scrambling for our early morning departure for Nicaragua tomorrow!!!)! I haven’t said too much because I didn’t want to get too excited until we finally closed and the deal…
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Live small group curriculum
We’re giving our small group program a bit of a reboot this fall – I’m pretty excited about it! We’re changing the night, playing with the format a little bit to include some larger group social time, reworking how we group kids and I’m changing up how we do small group curriculum. In the past,…
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My email blog!
Okay, so this is kind of an experiment, but here’s the deal: I just noticed that WordPress is now letting me post blogs via email. This is way cooler than you might realize since it means I can create posts while I’m offline, while I’m traveling, and even from my phone! Very, very cool. All…
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Maine mission trip
I went to Maine … and I have the Black Fly bites to prove it! For almost a decade now, Brandywine Valley Baptist has been sending the youth to northern Maine (literally ten miles from the Canada border) to do Vacation Bible School at two churches up there. I only went along for the first…
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Tough Topics app
Youth Specialties dropped an app on the iTunes app store called ‘Tough Topics’ a few weeks ago and I’ve been dying to try it out. : ) Now that I have an iPod touch, I grabbed it! It’s only $1.99 (that’s four bucks cheaper than the book versions!), and it’s great! You can see from the screen…
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Mission Txt
I’m excited about trying something out for the first time this year on our mission trips! Text message updates! I’ve been using Simply Txt (a mass text messaging service) for about half a year now and I am HOOKED. I love how easy it is, the students love getting the reminders on their phones, and my…
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Family updates!
Life is CRAZY right now! Computer issues, family sicknesses, and two missions trips starting this coming Friday! Hence the recent blog silence! My computer has been on the fritz for the last month, causing no end of headaches for me. The tech guy hired by our church to come set our laptops up on the…
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Bakugan
Anyone else have kids obsessing about these little guys? It’s pretty much all my sons will talk about! Seriously. They wake up in the morning talking about Bakugan, keep it up all day long, and then go to bed talking about them. We watch the cartoons, play with the toys, read the books, check out…
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PSP vs iPod
Well, I finally took the plunge. I’ve loved my PSP like you wouldn’t believe … but recently I realized I never actually play games on it – I’m just watching movies, listening to music and surfing the internet with it (mostly facebook!!!). The iPod touch does those three things better and in a tinier package,…