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With Thursday mostly gone… Let me reflect on the past 12-24 hours!

Light Force Report: Youth group was great last night. That’s three weeks in a row where it has been solid. A lot of students, good attitudes, good worship, good games, and my inability to communicate God’s Word. Actually, I think the talks in Revelation to date have gone pretty good. The students are feeling good since finals are over, they finally can relax and embrace the “blahs” of the winter term.

Grad school: I leave Thursday morning (2/3) for 3 days of classes at Huntington. As per my usual, I have some classwork to take care of before I go down there. A load of reading and a couple small papers to write. I know I have a research project to avoid as well, but I haven’t even opened the e-mail about it yet. The class is called “Historical Foundations of Christian Ministry” so I feel like I have a good handle on the subject from my undergrad. Basically, the class could be called “Church History and it’s ramifications on Education.”

I am really looking forward to being in Huntington. It will be a good refreshing time and I like being in an academic environment. H-town definitely has the small college town vibe going.

Sex! That’s always an attention-getter. For the next month or so we’re talking with our students about relationships and sex. Here’s some links to research projects in adolescent sexuality. (For you casual surfers… This is research, not kiddie porn!) Lost Children of Rockdale County (Frontline Report)

National Study of Youth and Religion (UNC-Chapel Hill)
National survey of young teens sexual attitudes and behaviors (NBC/People Magazine and Princeton University)

I watched the Katie Couric NBC special last night called, 411: Teens and Sex. As “an expert” in the field of adolescent culture I would say that I didn’t learn much new but it was good stuff for parents who are largely in the dark. More on my thoughts about this later.

Northern Ireland: Two team members sent out a gaggle of letters last week and we are daily getting reports back. This week we’ve received about $250 from supporters outside of the church. We’ve also accumulated another 5-6 prayer partners. That doesn’t seem like a lot compared to $16,000. But it’s a nice bit of change. 1.5% is 1.5%!

We will need some big hitters to write big hitter checks though. It’s still early and I know there are plenty of people holding off until the date gets closer.

More… More… More… At the risk of posting an ungodly long entry, I’ll stop here and post more later.

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