on the road again

A group of us from Happy Valley are headed to the ATL for the National Youth Workers Convention. We leave tomorrow, and I am pumped. This has become a yearly pilgrimage for many of us youth workers. It's a combination of training, resource pre-viewing, and tank-filling. The convention is put on by Youth Specialties, and they get those of us who work with students, mostly (I think) because they are/were us.

Expected highlights:
worship with thousands of Jesus-hungry youth workers
conversations with other veterans of student ministry
coffee with Marko
seeing new leaders catch the vision for how they can influence this next gen to follow Jesus
being shaped by others involved in leading students and leaders
experiencing God along the way

Of course, the freebies and promo stuff YS gives away is pretty cool, too!

I come back home Monday night, only to load the van and head off for the homeland, sort of. We'll be going to Durham, NC for the Sublett Family Thanksgiving Christmas. We celebrate Christmas at Thanksgiving with my family every year, since it's difficult to get away during the Christmas season with church responsibilities. I am looking forward to seeing my family! My brother absolutely rocks! And you can tell him I said so.