I am on the eve of being completly transitioned off the Student Ministry team at Fellowship. It makes me both happy and sad. I am sad for all the obvious reasons. I have given the last 10 years of my life to this ministry. I have bled sweat and cried for this ministry, so it is not the easiest thing in the world to give up, but on the other hand, it is getting harder and harder to leave my family for extended periods of time.

I have to explain that I am coming home at the end of the day every time I leave for work, compound that by a factor of 7 or sometimes 14 when I leave for camps. It is just not something that I am able to do anymore.

For the past 4 months, I have been doing two jobs at Fellowship. I have completed my tasks as FSM Student Worship Pastor while taking on more and more of the responsibilites of my new position as Director of Communications.

The communications thing is exciting because I don’t have all the answers. We are attempting to do some things that I am not completely sure if we will be able to pull off and I am sure some things that will fail spectacularly. Another thing that makes me excited and a little anxious is how hard it is to explain to people what I am setting out to do. It is going to shake some things up, but I am convinced that by the time I am done, we will have made an impact and it will be ministry.

MurDog OUT!!!

Despite my best efforts… the Cubbies did finally win. 7-2!!!!!

Go Cubbies

…for the Cub victory..

DANG IT!!!! The Astros just scored another. It is now 7-2. This blog is bad news!!!

OUT

This has been a really fun game to watch. I like it when the Cubbies really put it to a team they are playing. Right now it is the bottom of the ninth with one out. All we need is 2 outs and we shutout the Astros. I know this probably jinxes them, and right as I was typing this an Astro just got a basehit. Go Cubbies.

Oh no there goes the shutout. I am jinxing them. I had better shut down this blog before I inspire an Astros come-from-behind victory. Right now it is 7-1 in the bottom of the ninth.

Sorry Cubbies

MurDog OUT!!!!

Will car-bombs ever become such a common place occurence in Iraq that someone doing something nice becomes news?

The first thing I throw away when I buy a new box of trash bags is the empty previous box of trash bags.

The Razorbacks just won their super-regional and they are going to Omaha Nebraska to play in the College World Series. They were pretty commanding this weekend, and they sent the Florida State Seminoles packing…… Sorry ‘Noles!!!! You are Outta there!!!!

That is soooo exciting. It may be a long time before we can revel in an exciting Razorback team in any of the three major sports. The football razorbacks graduated almost everyone, I am afraid of what they are going to look like next fall. The only person returning from the starters last year is our quarterback Matt Jones. It could be scary. You can post a comment to this blog with your thoughts.

MurDog OUT!!!!

Listen to my first audioblog. We were watching the second game in the Super Regional between the Razorbacks and the Florida State Seminoles on ESPN2.

I thought this audioblog was lost forever. I didn’t have all the settings correct when I called it in and I thought it was gone. That is why I called the other one the first audioblog. It was actually the second. Riveting… isn’t it…