All the cool people have blogs

Well I never thought I would start writing a blog, but it seems like all the cool people are doing it so why not! I will tell you I have the worse spelling and grammar in the world so if you start reading my posts it maybe a little like trying to decipher a puzzle.
Man, things are way different in my life then they ever have been before. This time last years I was the youth minister at Memorial Rd. thinking that is what I would do forever. A few months later I had resigned my position at MRCC and I was looking for something different to do. I knew from the minute I resigned that getting out of youth ministry was a mistake most of you know that feeling. You know that God has other plans for you, but your to stubborn to listen, that is me in the worse way. Well I ended up a roofing salesman for about 4 months man was that a mistake! Not because it’s not a good job it just wasn’t me. For the first time since I became a Christian I felt like I had completely lost my way.
Until one day when my beautiful wife said something that I will never forget. She said “you’re a youth minister that what you are and you’re not going to be happy unless you’re doing what God wants you to do so go do it you punk I love you!” Only Amanda can say that to me no one else. So here I am 8 months after I walked out of MRCC crying wishing I could change what I had done; now I am the youth minister at the Alameda Church in Norman. Man how things change!
So I am really excited, and really worried about a lot of things. I am excited about my new group I am working with they really are a great group of students. I am excited that they seem to really be starting too warm up to me. I am excited to see what the Alameda church will look like in a few years I really think some truly awesome things are happing here. Oh yeah I am also really pumped about moving to Norman I saw Sam Bradford in a deli the other day it was so sweet!
I am worried about a lot of things right now. I am worried that I still really miss my MRCC students. I think about them everyday and I hope they know how much I love them. I am worried that the Alameda families won’t see how great of a youth ministry we can have. Not that it hasn’t been great in the past it has, but I just see the potential of what can be! I worry about our house selling I am ready to move! I worry about my son Derek making the transition to Norman. He is still pretty convinced I am destroying his life. Oh did I mention I worry a lot!!! So the only way to stop worrying is to give to God man I need to do that more.
Finally we are trying to come up with a name for our ministry at Alameda so if anybody actually reads this I would love your ideas. Especially all you youth minister types.
Well my first blog entry is done that was kind of fun! Peace

Jeremy