What This Picture Means to Me

From Tuesday evening through Wednesday afternoon, my website went down. I know you folks have been worried sick that the Russians got to me. Good news: I'm okay, and it appears we fixed the problem. The eagle will fly again.

Last night, we had a youth ministry volunteer vision dinner. I was really worried about it--would anybody show up, and if they did, would it even be worth it?We ended up having a great turnout and a great time, and we closed the evening by having folks circle up in small groups and pray for our students and our church. I took the photo above while folks were praying.I've been worried about taking over the leadership of our youth ministry this fall.

Is the additional responsibility going to drive me into the ground? Will I be able to keep up my energy? Will this commitment hurt my family?
Will anyone step up to help? Are we going to get buy-in from parents?
Will any families show up at our kickoff? Will any students show up after that?
Will any of this even work?

Seeing all those folks praying last night was a good reminder:Everything is going to be all right. We are so blessed.

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