Surf Bum Beached For Now
I can't express how much I love hearing from you - in person, by phone, by email, by blog - and how happy I am to hear of your continuing faith and love for Jesus! Like most of you, I check this thing every day, even though I don't post very often and only occasionally comment. Please keep it coming!
So, after wrapping up many things, moving out of my office and saying farewell to many wonderful people, Sarah and I packed up the Civic, strapped my board on top and headed to Ucluelet. I was kinda happy that for the first few days the waves were a bit too big for me, so I had every excuse to lie on some secluded beach and snooze, or curl up on the couch and snooze, or just stop whatever I was doing and snooze. On the weekend, our boys came up and we surfed a couple days, and I kept surfing a couple days before and after that. So it was a good relax. Then we (somewhat reluctantly) came home, and I caught up on neglected yard work - like 8 inch high grass, lotsa weeds and more firewood for next winter. Plus I kept up the snooze regimen pretty well. So now I am at least relaxed, maybe not fully recovered, but heading that way.
Now I'm back to it, in my dining-room-table-office. I went to Boston Pizza last night with the local K5-ers, which was so good. I'm afraid we were rather loud, but we kept up up tradition of big tips. I was so excited by Jordan's decision about staying on for another year as Intern Plus, and of course you all know the "secret" that the other Kaleo Intern is Jen Lee, who was one of the leaders on your first outtrip in the fall. We are still working on the very big shoes Amanda left us to fill (no Amanda, I am NOT saying you have fat feet - just big shoes!), and we may have news on that very soon. We have 26 Kaleo students registered, and will likely take two more girls to make it 12 guys, 16 girls.
Just a quick thing to mention to you: we are very close to achieving our financial goals for the Ministry Trips, so if you are still short of your commitment, hold off on adding to it until you hear from me. God is so faithful! Seeing the changes in your lives, it was a nearly $60K gift from God, well spent.
Sarah and I want to remind you that we would LOVE to have you come and visit! You always have a place to stay here, even if we have to put you in the bathtub. We hope to have a barbeque later in the summer for any of you (plus past Kaleo's) who are around, and we will send you more details this summer.
"Therefore, stand firm! Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain."
So, after wrapping up many things, moving out of my office and saying farewell to many wonderful people, Sarah and I packed up the Civic, strapped my board on top and headed to Ucluelet. I was kinda happy that for the first few days the waves were a bit too big for me, so I had every excuse to lie on some secluded beach and snooze, or curl up on the couch and snooze, or just stop whatever I was doing and snooze. On the weekend, our boys came up and we surfed a couple days, and I kept surfing a couple days before and after that. So it was a good relax. Then we (somewhat reluctantly) came home, and I caught up on neglected yard work - like 8 inch high grass, lotsa weeds and more firewood for next winter. Plus I kept up the snooze regimen pretty well. So now I am at least relaxed, maybe not fully recovered, but heading that way.
Now I'm back to it, in my dining-room-table-office. I went to Boston Pizza last night with the local K5-ers, which was so good. I'm afraid we were rather loud, but we kept up up tradition of big tips. I was so excited by Jordan's decision about staying on for another year as Intern Plus, and of course you all know the "secret" that the other Kaleo Intern is Jen Lee, who was one of the leaders on your first outtrip in the fall. We are still working on the very big shoes Amanda left us to fill (no Amanda, I am NOT saying you have fat feet - just big shoes!), and we may have news on that very soon. We have 26 Kaleo students registered, and will likely take two more girls to make it 12 guys, 16 girls.
Just a quick thing to mention to you: we are very close to achieving our financial goals for the Ministry Trips, so if you are still short of your commitment, hold off on adding to it until you hear from me. God is so faithful! Seeing the changes in your lives, it was a nearly $60K gift from God, well spent.
Sarah and I want to remind you that we would LOVE to have you come and visit! You always have a place to stay here, even if we have to put you in the bathtub. We hope to have a barbeque later in the summer for any of you (plus past Kaleo's) who are around, and we will send you more details this summer.
"Therefore, stand firm! Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain."
posted by Jim Badke at 1:44 PM
1 Comments:
Ooooh I'm coming back in <20 days! We gotta go to BP again!
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