BIG UPDATE!!!

so its been almost two weeks since my last post so we're going to have to play catch up. to stary with, we just got back from our middle school camp to atlanta georgia and it was absolutely amazing. my good friend Ryan Fitzgerald was our worship leader and he did a great job! i spoke for the wednesday and friday night session and we had a couple of special guest on thursday. it was encouraging to me to hear that most of our kids rededicated there lives for christ on the nights i spoke. its really cool to see how God can work through you, thats totally His doing and not mine!!! our theme for the week was "renovate" and the message was that God is the author of a grand story, and somewhere along the way, we tried to write our own. in stead of writting us our of His story, God fixed the problem through Jesus and "renovated" our lives. it was awesome to see our kids experience the true grace of God for the first time. the kids were also able to expereince the majesty of the great city of atlanta as we went to whitewater, the world of coke, the cnn center, centennial olympic park and the georgia aquarium. it was truly an exciting trip and the kids did not want to leave.

keep praying for allison and i as we continue to share the grace of God to the students of muscle shoals alabama. we only have 4 weeks left in our original agreement as we are finding ourselves torn between two worlds. one is atlanta, our home and what we believe to be the best city in the world. the other is here in muscle shoals, the sleepy, quiet little town with great people and amazing kids. it will be hard to build something and then have to hand it over to someone else. also, as church politics continue to drive the church's search for a new pastor and youth pastor, it will be difficult to leave these kids without a leader. please pray that God will show us what is right.

alex