Back from Chicago, IL

I left Chicago early Monday morning and made it to LAX by 9:30AM. By 10:30 I was back home with Christine and Jojo in our bug-free apartment. Praise God things are starting to get back to normal. Except Jojo's sleeping schedule was disrupted during our period of "homelessness." So we've been doing shifts throughout the night again. I'm re-watching my Alias Season 3 DVDs with Josiah again.

Sarah, Valerie, Kate and Kristi at Bethany Baptist Church

Here are some pictures from youth group at Bethany Sunday night. We were in the gym playing a game kind of like Jai-Alai, but with milk jugs and a tennis ball. Check out the photo album under "updates" on our Web site for more pics from my trip!

Fellow musicians: John plays guitar. Dave plays drums.

I lead worship with Dave on drums, Tommy on bass and John playing the guitar left-handed. That was cool since they haven't had music for a number of sessions since their former youth pastor left. They just hired a new Youth Pastor, Justin, who I got to meet that night as well. We're hoping he'll eventually come out and see us in Manila with the kids. That would be cool.

Tommorrow I get to go to worship practice and lead worship at JCF again Sunday night! It's way cool to finally be back at my own church after many weeks away on support-raising trips.