I'm having so much trouble checking my email!

i cant seem to access my account. Navigating the system is trouble for me, even as a former computer engineering major. Oh well.

As a result i'm having trouble emailing out my last prayer letter. Fortunately, it's a blog post under June 5th!

Hopefully you'll like it! i'll be writing another one soon since the last letter was making up for no May letter!!

Thanks! i'm having fun in Colorado, i've never been out here and it's giving meaning to the song lyrics, "For purple mountain majesties..."

It's absolutely beautiful! Look at my flickr site for some new pictures!

In Denver

Hey everyone!

i'm in Denver right now writing from the basement of a church in the Sun Valley section of the city. Statistically, it has the worst crime in the city. There's a lot of projects around and i heard that there is only 5 or 6 houses in the whole neighborhood. This doesnt fit my concept of the inner city. i'm used to more houses, even though they are run-down. Does anyone know if there is project housing in Rochester, NY. i dont remember seeing any, but that doesnt mean that it doesnt exist.

Our weeks have been jam-packed. The first week i arrived involved orientation with the staff, then we visited Sand Dunes National Park west of the Sangre de Cristo mountains. It was amazing. i took pictures but they're on film and some of them are on b&w film so i need to get them processed and scanned before anyone will see any hint of them.

Then our students arrived, we spent a week orienting them, and then we had a week of camp. It was a camp filled with youth group students from Texas. No offense to Texans, but i was picking on them a little bit... Some Texans were talking about how the bridge from the song "London Bridge is falling down..." was dismantled and moved to Texas and i said, "Well, what isnt in Texas..." i'd imagine that there's some Texans that would never feel the desire to leave the state. i'm not sure if that's a reality or not though.

Right now we're in Denver training for the weeks of camp that will be comprised of urban students. As we've seen already they are a handful and discipline will be very important. This will be a great opportunity to practice and grow in an area i've never had to do much with. i'm terrible at discipline, but i'm excited to grow in my understanding of one of my favorite sayings, choices and consequences. It should be a wild ride!

Thanks for your prayers! i really appreciate you all being a part of my team. If you could, please pray that this summer would be refreshing for me as i come off a difficult year in New Orleans, that i would be refreshed especially in my relationship with God, and that i would incline my ear to God's voice concerning my direction in the future!

Thanks again!

(if you want to see a picture of me in the snow on June 5th)

Out here in Colorado

Here i am in the beautiful state of Colorado!

The manager of the camp here was telling me that many people that live here arent from here, the mountains just attracted them to this place. i can understand why. i'm knee deep in the Sangre de Cristo mountains in maybe south-central Colorado and it's absolutely gorgeous. It even snowed here earlier today! Isnt that crazy.

i arrived here about a week and a half ago and since then it has been a whirlwind of activity as i have meet and worked with the staff, planned for the arrival of our students, worked with the arriving students, set up for the weeks of camp that will soon happen, and try to figure out how to do normal life stuff at the same time.

It's been fun but challenging.

What has been rewarding for me has been spending time with the Lord here. We have an hour scheduled every day and it's much needed! It's very refreshing!

Well, i need to get off the computer so others can use it! See ya!