Beach Re"Tweet"

Beach Retreat began on Sunday for our High School Ministry as they rolled out to Gulf Shores, Alabama with almost 800 people from the West Campus. Junior High will be headed to South Padre Island, Texas this Sunday for our week in the sun.

We've been keeping up with everything that's going on at Beach Retreat on the Beach Retreat Blog, through Email Updates, and on Twitter...and you can too! Just click the links to read the blog, sign up for email updates, send notes from home, and read real-time updates from the staff and volunteers. This will continue next week for Junior High as well-so be sure to send me a note from home!

Obviously you know what a blog is if your reading this and you probably know how to work email, but if you don't know what Twitter is...it's a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read each others' updates, known as "Tweets" (Hence, the title). You can check out my "tweets" by reading the "Play-by-Play" over on the right column of my blog or clicking on the link.

Beach Retreat is one of the biggest highlights of our year...and we're excited that more people get to be a part of it this year simply by sitting in front their computer...technology is a great thing!

My Muddy Feet

I don't always blog about my personal spiritual life. Maybe because it's too personal or maybe it's because I'm not spiritual enough. But anyway...God hit me with something literally in the middle of the night and I feel like I'm supposed to share it. I know it's David's story, but it's mine too. As I read through these words last night, I identified with each verse in a very real way.



I waited patiently for the LORD;
he turned to me and heard my cry.
He lifted me out of the slimy pit,
out of the mud and mire;
he set my feet on a rock
and gave me a firm place to stand.
He put a new song in my mouth,
a hymn of praise to our God.
Many will see and fear
and put their trust in the LORD.
Psalm 40:1-3

Those who know me well may not even know every detail of my story and that's okay, but God did something big in my heart and my life this past year. I truly feel that He put a new song in my mouth, not because there wasn't a song before, but because there was a need for a new, fresh song. I hope that it's been evident to others, and I hope that "many will see and fear and put their trust in the LORD" because of what has done in me.