Elevation continues to gain volunteers, fans and well wishers. We had another 65 people (in addition to the 20 or so at our beach bonfire) show up to our vision night to hear more about the dream.
It's been cool seeing people of all ages resonating with the vision and plan. There is a lot of excitement about the new ministry. We recorded the vision session, but true to form the recording broke midway through. We've been experiencing an uncommon barrage of technical problems in the last 3 weeks, all three of my email accounts have gone down at different times, my wireless at home broke, I lost voice mail on my cell for a time, then I lost text mail and then mobile web puked on another day recently. My Harley (electrical problem) and spa are down too lol...If you have tried to reach me and not gotten an answer I am not ignoring you please try again, I think my communication channels are working again.
What's next for Elevation??? Next step = to hire a youth pastor to replace me and then I go full time in Elevation! Great news ,we have a couple of great replacement candidates already! I am also getting started on interviewing and hanging out with possible Elevation Music pastors too so if you know a world class worship leader give them my number!
I will be out of contact from this Sunday - through the 20th : on the road again , this time to MEXICO with 60 of our students and staff for our annual Mexico mission. We'll build a home for a needy family, run a large kids outreach in a Tijuana condo sprawl and have a team serving at an orphanage too. Strange to think this will likely be my last trip as a youth pastor after almost 24 years dedicated to youth. I still plan to volunteer for youth stuff and even help as staff for trips from time to time and to still feed into youth workers - but this is the end of an era in a way.
Burglar alert : Our house sitter is drinking tequila and sharpening his chainsaw on our couch at this very moment... he looks dangerous.
That's all the news that's fit to print.
