This past Week's meeting went extremely well, I think that I'm beginning to find my groove.

I'm blessed to be surrounded by great priests. This past week Fr. Creary helped me find a great graduation gift to present to my seniors at the 12:30pm mass on April 20. It's a 4 inch olive wood cross that, quite literally, fits in the palm of your hand, it's something that one could grasp while praying, it's also made in Bethlehem.

Fr. Jolly is going to be coaching the Senior High Volleyball team. Practices are on Wednesdays and games on Thursday. He's given up his time to help me and the group out, God knows that I don't know any thing about Volleyball strategy.

And Fr. Kris is the man, he's always around when I need some help with the group, this Sunday he gave an explanation of Divine Mercy Sunday. It's kinda funny to see him work, because he's just now getting to be comfortable around me and the youth group, so I'm seeing a bit of a different person each time he comes around, less and less reserved.

After Fr. Kris gave his explanation of Divine Mercy Sunday, I started a presentation that got the group involved right away. The topic for the Meeting was "God's Divine Sense of Humor". Basically, it was looking at some famous Bible stories in light of the great irony that shines through them. The stories I used were, Joseph and Potiphar's wife, David and Goliath, and finally Jesus. They seemed to be quite involved in the stories, and they interacted with what I was presenting, asking questions, laughing, and basically just showing signs of life.

All in all, it's been a busy but very productive week and I'm hoping that this week will be similar.

I went to YMCA Camp Ocoee in, that's right you guessed it, Ocoee, TN, and I checked out the lodge that my group is going to be staying in this Summer while we help with Habitat for Humanity in Cleveland, TN. 

This Lodge was AMAZING!!! It houses 30 people, 15 on the top floor and 15 on the bottom floor, it has a view of the lake and both floors have a large meeting area. The Kitchen, like the rest of the lodge is freakin' HUGE, it has two of everything, I guess you kinda need something like that when you have 30 people living under the same roof.

I am super excited about this trip now and I'm counting down the days until we head over there.

See, I already messed that one up, I said what I would like to do, but I hope and pray that it is Christ who is trying to do this through me, for this ministry is not mine, but His.

My plan (I bet God finds this hysterical)… is to be an instrument of God by sharing my ministry ideas with you, the reader. To give you an inside look to what is going on in this ministry, to tell you what worked, to tell you what didn't, and to give suggestions and take suggestions on how to improve ideas, so that "Our power will be in presenting the same old truths in new forms, Fresh New Tone and Air and Spirit" — Servant of God Fr. Isaac Thomas Hecker.