Divorce Care

Our church has a Divorce Care program for adults they offer to help people who have gone through or are going through divorce to better cope.

There are area churches around us that offer this for students. We have several kids from our student ministries who attend these program. I came up with the thinking that we should offer this out of our church for middle and high school students.

I got the info from the church who to talk to in order to get this going so we correlate with the adult programs. Upon emailing said contact they said they have a curriculum for the kids already but need someone to teach it. I go to pick up the information and it appears that this stuff is for little kids.

We really don't want to do a program for children. I even told them upon initial contact we wanted to do a program for the older kids.  Also, the person I am speaking with keeps mentioning a need for child care.  I don't want to do this in order to be a child care provider. I know that sounds terrible because we are all one body of the church and should help each other out but I want to lead someone not sit on them.

We have a meeting to go over the curriculum. They found someone who may take care of the younger kids so we will see how this goes. I'm hoping they are receptive to the plans the hubs and I have for this program and are willing to listen to our ideas and what our vision is.

July?? Already!

I can't even fathom the fact that it's already July.

This year has FLOWN by. The Hubs and I are more involved with our church than ever. Right now we are on a break from youth and our regular grown up couple's LifeGroup. However, we each have our own Bible studies we each attend during the week.

Kevin has been given the opportunity to lead the youth worship during the Saturday night services. This is super exciting for us. It gives us a chance to do service in our own way.  If you had asked me 5 years ago if I thought I would have a relationship with a large group of tweens and teens I would not have believed you.

I spend HOURS texting with one of the girls. Let's just say I guess I'm way cooler and more interesting than I've been feeling lately.

We were supposed to go on our first ever family mission trip to Questa, NM this month but due to conflicts we couldn't go. We are sending strong prayers to our church family who are leaving this weekend. Kevin went on a youth mission trip last month to Austin. I'm just saying.....I'm a weenie without my husband. That was a miserable yet fulfilling week for him and a lonely week for me.

Witten is on the cusp of walking. This fact both elates me and makes me incredibly sad. Why do our kids never stay little like we want them to?  I think Rylan turned 15 this summer. She's a tiny diva in a me look a like package.

We haven't seen Kaleb all summer. We haven't heard from Kaleb all summer. I've emailed him and have gotten no response.  The few occasions we've been able to talk to him on the phone he's hung up on us. I know we didn't raise him to be the way he i acting but you know what happens when kids are in environments without proper structure. We had an ugly phone call with Bio last night which was your typical baby mama drama. The Hubs stood up to her though and I was so proud of him.

This concludes my essay about my summer vacation so far.