July 16th (Day 63)

Hello all! Sorry for not posting much/anything at all for the past few days. I was at a Guru's Tech Conference in Louisville, KY and didn't get home until 1:45 this morning. It was an awesome trip. Momentum won the video competition and we got an expensive program for free. I won a free mini-maglite to use while I run sound and operate the sound board, haha. There were many sessions that I attended and took notes to get a better understanding of different areas of technology and ministry. I also was very excited at the fact that I was able to hang out with Shawn Maurer, Mike Bennett, and Chase Lackey from back home for various times throughout the conference. I had a lot of fun hanging out with the rest of the Creative Arts team as well. We stayed up till the wee-hours of morning playing games and laughing. For the most part, that was what I've been doing the past few days. I had today off, which is a good thing. I ended up sleeping until 1:15 this afternoon. Then I got up did a little bit of laundry and started to watch a movie and do a few things. I got an email from the Cleveland Indians' organization about them selling tickets to tonight's game to students for 1/2 price. So I called around and got a couple of people to go to the game with me. I ended up ordering 3 tickets. However shortly there after, one of my friends couldn't go anymore, so I tried to find someone else to take the ticket. Tyler and I went on to the game and when I got the to ballpark, just as I was about to enter the gates, I noticed a guy who was standing around and I just had a funny feeling that maybe he was trying to find a ticket. I walked over to him and gave him the ticket and a card for Momentum. He was shocked and couldn't believe that I was giving him a ticket to some pretty good seats for free. I told him to enjoy the game and headed on into the ballpark. It was a pretty good game, filled with a lot of sweet plays and some amazing catches. One of which was a Sizemore catch into the wall, and then Cabrera threw a behind-the-backer to Carroll to start a double play getting an out at 2nd and at 1st. It was AMAZING! The Indians ended up winning the game 4-1, and Lee pitched the complete game. It was an impressive feat. I had no idea that my outing tonight would turn into an outreach opportunity, but it did, and it was awesome. God still works in funny ways, haha. Right now I'm probably going to go read for a little while, pack up all of my stuff for tomorrow, and then head to bed. I have a pretty busy day tomorrow so I'll need my rest. I hope you all are having a wonderful week! That's all I have for you today. Until tomorrow!

Pat