This is the first post since I got this blog correctly configured on line.  I had it on a server on my laptop and transfered files and today, I got everything fixed and running on the web (thanks to a LOT of help from a good friend who knows what I should have been doing).
Well, that earlier post about “going to spend the next two years working at Camp Joy” – those two years have begun!  I’ve been up at camp for a little more than a week now.  Most of what I’m doing is working on the new website (www.campjoy.org).  It’s already built (mostly) – I’ve been updating and adding pages, as well as some optimization work to get it loading quicker – it’s a fairly graphics-intensive site.
While I’ve been working up here, I’ve been seeing first-hand the pressure of full-time ministry.  It is definitely challenging work!  But the Lord is greater than the pressure or the work!  His grace is sufficient and His strength is perfect when I am weak and insufficient.  It is so good to know that His plan for my life is perfect.  Even already, the knowledge that He led me here to Camp Joy has been a source of strength and encouragement when things are going roughly.  The ministry here is a joy as I serve the Lord – a busy joy sometimes, but a joy all the same!  It is good to serve a great God!
“Your way, O God, is holy; What god is great like our God?” ~ Ps. 77.13

Yes, I should be studying a little harder for my Systematic Theology exam.  But I haven’t posted for a bit and thought I’d stop in and drop a quick note.  Only one exam to go and I’ll have my M.A. – an exciting thought.  The fact that I’m graduating hasn’t really registered yet, but hopefully will soon.  Probably when I put on the fancy suit :^) But I better make sure I pass this test – I do want to wear that fancy suit on Saturday!