Catching up
Hello Everyone!
Well it has been quite a while, and I was going to start reading a book but then I felt I should write on here. I tried to make an excuse saying I wasn’t ready and didn’t know what to put and well ya, I knew it was excuses so here goes. I want to catch you all up on my life. For those who I haven’t seen…I did 6 weeks at Qwanoes, which were amazing. Three weeks of counseling and one week of assistant head boat driver. It was so cool to see everything I learned come into practice and I can honestly say right now looking back that I love those boys I had. I don’t think I have ever felt the same looking back as I feel about those cabins, I love them so much, maybe it’s because I only had three cabins…but maybe it’s because of what I learned about love this year with you guys.
At the end of July I left camp, had one week to recover, and then started work at church. Work at church has been incredibly amazing. It has been so stretching and yet so good for me (when is stretching not good, eh?) It was so hard sitting in that office from 9-5 every day and just planning things. Not a pleasant switch from camp ministry to office youth ministry!! But now things have gotten rolling and today I hardly spent anytime in the office at all! The youth pastor I’m working with (by the way I got named assistant instead of intern, booya=) flies home from Africa this weekend and I am so excited. It will be amazing to catch up and start catching a vision for this year together. As much of an introvert as I can be when I have work to do (not that you guys would have seen any examples of that), these past weeks were super hard. Next Monday I head out to Abbotsford to register at Columbia Bible. I am so excited to sit in class and absorb!! I don’t know how you guys have felt but I have missed it so much. There is lots of stuff though to keep my mind running as I think and pray about new ideas for youth group. It is also really exciting recruiting new leaders and seeing their excitement for working with Middle School Youth.
Also new that I’m sure all you guys at camp know, but that Bethany and I are no longer together. I’m not really sure what to write about this, it wasn’t my decision, although I can definitely see the good in it. It certainly does hurt though. If you guys could be praying for us both that would be awesome. It’s not easy going from full on relationship to nothing!!
So that’s life. I’m excited for what’s ahead. I have this sense that I’m not going to be in one place for long. I don’t know if this is for my whole life or just for the next couple years. If you could be praying for that, I want to be kept at the point of reliance on God and yet it feels like there is this plan just right there, so close, and yet I don’t know it yet. Does God want me to simply know and trust in Him that He has a plan, or am I to know what it is now… that I don’t know.
This feels like a lot of rambling but I wanted to get all this written down and out to you guys because I love you all and miss you so much. It was amazing to see so many of you at the Kaleo BBQ.
Hey do any of you guys have some sweet texting plan?? I’m looking at getting a fav 10 plan with nationwide txting…let me know, that’d be awesome!!!!!
Take care guys
Doer Downey
Well it has been quite a while, and I was going to start reading a book but then I felt I should write on here. I tried to make an excuse saying I wasn’t ready and didn’t know what to put and well ya, I knew it was excuses so here goes. I want to catch you all up on my life. For those who I haven’t seen…I did 6 weeks at Qwanoes, which were amazing. Three weeks of counseling and one week of assistant head boat driver. It was so cool to see everything I learned come into practice and I can honestly say right now looking back that I love those boys I had. I don’t think I have ever felt the same looking back as I feel about those cabins, I love them so much, maybe it’s because I only had three cabins…but maybe it’s because of what I learned about love this year with you guys.
At the end of July I left camp, had one week to recover, and then started work at church. Work at church has been incredibly amazing. It has been so stretching and yet so good for me (when is stretching not good, eh?) It was so hard sitting in that office from 9-5 every day and just planning things. Not a pleasant switch from camp ministry to office youth ministry!! But now things have gotten rolling and today I hardly spent anytime in the office at all! The youth pastor I’m working with (by the way I got named assistant instead of intern, booya=) flies home from Africa this weekend and I am so excited. It will be amazing to catch up and start catching a vision for this year together. As much of an introvert as I can be when I have work to do (not that you guys would have seen any examples of that), these past weeks were super hard. Next Monday I head out to Abbotsford to register at Columbia Bible. I am so excited to sit in class and absorb!! I don’t know how you guys have felt but I have missed it so much. There is lots of stuff though to keep my mind running as I think and pray about new ideas for youth group. It is also really exciting recruiting new leaders and seeing their excitement for working with Middle School Youth.
Also new that I’m sure all you guys at camp know, but that Bethany and I are no longer together. I’m not really sure what to write about this, it wasn’t my decision, although I can definitely see the good in it. It certainly does hurt though. If you guys could be praying for us both that would be awesome. It’s not easy going from full on relationship to nothing!!
So that’s life. I’m excited for what’s ahead. I have this sense that I’m not going to be in one place for long. I don’t know if this is for my whole life or just for the next couple years. If you could be praying for that, I want to be kept at the point of reliance on God and yet it feels like there is this plan just right there, so close, and yet I don’t know it yet. Does God want me to simply know and trust in Him that He has a plan, or am I to know what it is now… that I don’t know.
This feels like a lot of rambling but I wanted to get all this written down and out to you guys because I love you all and miss you so much. It was amazing to see so many of you at the Kaleo BBQ.
Hey do any of you guys have some sweet texting plan?? I’m looking at getting a fav 10 plan with nationwide txting…let me know, that’d be awesome!!!!!
Take care guys
Doer Downey
posted by Chris D at 8:35 PM
1 Comments:
dude, so good to hear from you! i espeially loved your 2nd last paragraph, about God's plan and stuff... it was sweet.
so sweet to catch up on your life! thanks man
also, i have unlimited texting, so holla! (204-362-4970)
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