Tina's Life as She Knows It

Sunday, October 17, 2004

So I had my first successful youth event, well if you call 5 people a success. But let me break it down a little bit more than that, 2 were members of the church, another 1 comes to Sunday school but not church service, then 2 "guests" one being the pastor's son's girlfriend. It was a super weird combo of people too. I had a good time, it was the corn maze. It was nice to leave the house for something other than going to Wal-Mart on a Saturday was nice.
Today I went to church, obviously, and had someone in the congregation had all these ideas on what to do with the youth group. They were all legitimate ideas it just stressed me out thinking about it. I have so much to do and no idea how to get it all done. Plus how much effort do I want to put into all of this then leave come July? One of the ideas was to try and set up a youth board (which I really want) and have each person be in charge of one section of the youth. Its a different angle on a youth board than I have seen done before. I want to do a bunch of stuff with the youth and have tons of ideas, I'm just afraid of asking permission to do it. Right now I have an idea to visit another church in our circuit but I'm afraid to ask the pastor. He is super conservation and HATES contemporary service and that's what they have at this church. And to be honest I really would love to go to a contemporary service. What is a girl to do?

Sunday, October 10, 2004

I went to Breckenridge the past few days. I had never been there before and it was absolutely BEAUTIFUL! As I was driving up there and the higher we went in elevation it made me so happy. I hadn't had that feeling since I moved to Colorado. The other ladies with me didn't understand it at all. I love the mountains and I have missed them since moving, but seeing them made me love them all over again. It was so good to see people from Concordia, not that they are people I was ever really good friends with but it was still nice to see someone who is somewhere close to my age. Seeing as the closest person around here is 30 and married. By the way that sucks.
I didn't feel well earlier so I went to take a nap at 6:00, I woke up at 10:15pm. Thats not very good. Now it is 2am and I'm not in bed. I really need to force myself to go to bed soon, otherwise I am going to oversleep and miss church and Sunday School. (That wouldn't be the first time, but I really shouldn't make that a habit.)
I have decided that I am going to put my name on the call list for next year. I was informed that a position is going to be opening in Denver for 5th grade next year. But I am going to keep my options open. Now I know what I want so I will just have to look for it and hope for something great to open up.