Step 1

The blog has been on hold recently due to a lacking in ability to do the blog at home. Thankfully Sarah and I have been blessed with a new computer that was more than reasonable financially. The Soli study will continue but since there was a break I am going to share what God has done in my life this last week.

I recently had the privilege of participating in the Step ministries summer mentoring program. It was one of the coolest things to get to have three evenings with a young man playing games, eating, teaching a lesson. and just spending time together. The first evening we got to meet all the kids and hag out for a bit before going into a mentors meeting where we learned what was going to be happening over the 3 night program. A sheet was given to each mentor that told their kids name and what they liked. My kids name was Xavier who placed on the form that he's 8 and loves to draw, swim, and wants to be a police officer. Which is cool to me because I would most likely have filled the form out the same way as an 8 year old. We got to meet the kids after that and it was quite funny to see my kid when he first saw my name tag and then looked up at my face realizing that I alot taller than him. The immediate challenge was that little Xavier or Xia Xia liked to talk but he liked t be quite with it. The height difference made talking a back braking exersize to lean in and talk. But that was ok because eventually we compromised and he spoke louder and I leaned half way.
During dinner I realized that there was no way that this kid was going to eat and talk in the amount of time given so we ate and went to see the KKA (Kids Across America) who put on a little demonstration. Shortly after that we had bible study time (there was a game some where in the mix). Xia Xia and I went up stairs and started the lesson which much to my suprise was on Genesis 34... Dinah and the Shechemites. I'm not sure if your aware of this scripture but luckily the word circumcision was replaced for ceremony that made you hurt for 3 days. nobody else seemed to have an issue but little Xia Xia couldn't let go of that until he understood why you would be in pain for 3 days. We got through that without to much information and moved on to the memory verse where I found out ephesians is not a word that every kid can say immediately.
So all in all the little guy was fun and I was very much looking forward to the next day. Especially when before I left he made sure to say goodbye several times.

That was day one with Step. If you want to know more about Step visit www.stepministries.org. If you can see if thats something you think you can get into.