Jamaica and Kidney Stones!!

I have been in Jamaica since Saturday, I am here leading a trip with a group from Cornelia, Georgia.  Unfortunately, I have been a little under the weather, I have been hurting for several weeks but it finally got to the point I was unable to do anything.  So I went to the Dr. here in Jamaica, which was an adventure in itself.  Come to find out I have Kidney Stones, the first time I have ever had them.  Not to fun.  

So Clark and Josh are helping a ton, being that most of the time, I am unable to move.  We will be leaving Saturday to fly back to Atlanta, and it will be my first days off in about 6 weeks, before flying to the Bahamas.  I am going to have to get some test ran, and see what can be done so I can be back in full swing.  Please keep me in your prayers.   

Arizona!!

I landed in Arizona around 3a.m. eastern time on Friday morning.  I am on my way out to the reservation, and stopped in Camp Verde, Arizona to check some last minute emails and make some phone calls.  It is so drastically different out here. I had almost forgotten how hot it gets too, it got up to 99 yesterday and people were talking about it being chilly, and the water in their pools is to cold to swim in.  The scenery is breathtaking, I am going to drive through Sedona, on my way to the reservation.  Sedona is home of the red rocks, it is pretty amazing.  Tomorrow Casey Whitaker flies out so I will be going back to Phoenix to pick him up.  

Just finished reading Andy Stanley's book The Principle of the Path.  It was a good read and reminder that direction determines destination.  

I have been reading a lot from scriptures lately about Peace and Patience, because God is really trying to teach me those two really hard to grasp concepts.  

Off to Reservation, hope to have some great stories of amazing people I meet and seeing God move.  

Summer time..Traveling

Well I know it has been forever since I have posted a blog, I have been doing a lot of office work over the past month or so, gearing up for this summer.  We just finished staff training for TEAMeffort, and all the staff headed to their locations where they will be serving for the next 8 weeks.  I fly out tomorrow for Phoenix, Arizona, where I will drive 5 hours onto the Navajo Indian Reservation.  I will be there for 3 weeks of camp before flying to Jamaica to run a week of camp.  I am really excited and torn all at the same time.  I will not get to see any of the staff even at staff retreat, because I will still be gone overseas. But I get to spend 8 weeks in Costa Rica, Jamaica, Bahamas, and in Arizona.  I will also be getting to spend it with a couple of friends Josh Pearson and Casey Whitaker who will be coming to play music at some of the camps for me.  

I have spent the last two days at the Copperhill camp, helping them get ready for summer.  It has been a great time, the camp is incredibly beautiful settled up in the Blue Ridge Mountains on the border of TN and NC.  

This past week, I really feel God is trying to speak to me, and I have had this heavy burden, a feeling of a weight on me.  Not sure what it means yet but if you could be praying for him to reveal that to me, and what it is he would have me to do.