Summer!!!

Well, looks I might have some free time this summer. With the one week I'll be spending at church camp in June and the two weeks I'll be spending in Brazil in July, I don't think there's much reason for me to try and get a summer job, which is fine by me. I would have taken some summer classes - try to get some stuff outta the way - but that would have interfered with church camp.

Anyway, I was thinking that those of you who will also have some free time on their hands might wanna get together for some simple day-activities. Of course, we don't know what's gonna happen with the youth director position. There's a good chance that it will be filled before long, and that person might make plans of his own. But in any case, I thought I'd throw this out there:

Be thinking of little things we can do this summer. Simple things that don't require much money or travel. I for one would like to do some swimming. I haven't done much swimming over the past couple summers - just didn't have the time. I figured this summer would be a great opportunity for that. I know that the Hope public pool isn't exactly the most desirable place in the world...or the most sanitary. But, hey, it's something. There's lots of little things we could think of if we tried - the video game idea that Greg mentioned before, movies, softball, water gun wars...I had even thought about figuring out the steepest hill we have access to and setting up a homemade slip'n'slide. We might even think about a Bible study. I remember back when Jon McClure was youth director, during the summer, we would go to his house one day a week and hang out, play video games, eat, then eventually we would have a Bible study. It was cool.

Like I said, I’m sure our new youth director will have ideas of his own (the Bible study idea would probably be better for him to carry out). But we can still look for little opportunities to hang out. Just be thinking. Let me know what you come up with and we'll see about putting them into action.