BMX ROCKS !!!!

Ok, not a month and a half this time.  Here’s the deal, as many of you know, we are a bmx family, and what could be more exciting for a bmx family than racing at the local track??  Going to race the Grand National BMX race in Louisville, KY (our former home).  Yeah that’s right..The Grands Baby!!.  This is kind of a recent development.  Don’t get me wrong, for the last year I have been looking forward to taking the “Kids” (of which I am the biggest) to this race, however, about a month ago things were looking pretty grim on the financial side of things.  We decided to step up the homeschooling curriculum we use to the tune of over a $1000.  This really put the grands on the back burner, but a couple of weeks ago I actually woke up in the morning thinking about that race.  Not obsessed or anything (I had already let it go), but just thinking.  Well that led me to pray about it and just offer it to God. 

So as I thought and prayed about it it dawned on me that a great deal of the expense of taking this trip was in the lodging and entry fees.  Therefore I figured I would just go to the boards at the website for our old track and post a request for someone to host us there..now this may not seem like a big deal, but we are a family of eight.  I just left a post and my email address, so as not to be putting anyone on the spot to post on the board.  The next day one of our friends and fellow riders at Derby City Bmx www.derbycitybmx.com sent me an awesome invitation to stay at their home for the weekend.  Is that awesome or what? (Thanks Keith)

Then I was relating this to a guy I see at the gym everyday… I don’t even know his name…  a few minutes later he came up to me and said he wanted to help sponsor us for the entry fees.  Is that cool or what… He offered to bring me a check for $50.  God is so good all the time.  So I am getting fired up now.  The problem is now that I have to get ready to race.  We have been a little hit or miss lately, and this is a big deal. 

So that is all I have for now.

Wow…a month and a half?

Boy am I a total slacker… I had no Idea it had been so long since I blogged.  Oh, well, better late than never.  The worst thing is that there are actually a few of you out there who visit.  It’s easy to talk about blogging and kind of flirt around an play with it, but then when someone actually reads it everything changes.  Ya see, I always have neurons banging together in this 16lb cavity attached to my neck, but I just haven’t been very good at putting it down.  So, like a good Baptist should do I am “re-dedicating” my blogging life.  For those who don’t know that’s what people do when they wander away from the Lord.  At many churches there are basically 3 decisions that are maded at the altar of the church: 1-get saved, 2-Re-dedicate, 3-Surrender to ministry.  Though this is the tradition of the churches with whom I have been affiliated its not exactly biblical.  It’s all about faith and repentance.

Anyway, enough with that.  Life has been very busy since the arrival of another kid with my last name.  So last month I briefly mentioned our church plant here in Calera, Alabama.  God has been working in us doing some great things, but we have also learned that not everything is what you expect it to be in a new work.  we have a good core group of people, basically like 7 faithful families involved so far, and God has sent a few people to us who have had significant finacial and spiritual needs.  Some times we don’t know where the money to pay the bills is going to come from, but God always provides.  Our heart is to reach out to the culture around us with the good news of Jesus, but sometimes its easier said than done.  We thankfully have gotten to a place lately where we have had some visitors. Great right?.  Well Yeah!  but we now realize that we need to provide something for visiting crumb crunchers so their parents can participate in worship and bible study.  So now were trying to implement something.  We need to define the leadership of our church and make it official..you see, when one starts a church, the church planter is basically the pastor, but in a sort of apostolic way, in other words, he is not officially recognized by the church, because there is no church…get it?  So then once you build a core group and have a church then you have to make it official.  The biblical pattern for leadership is a plurality (more than one) of elders, so not only do we have to basically ratify the church planter, but also install any other men whom God has called to the office of Elder.  I could go on, but don’t want to be the blog that never ends.  If you want though you can pray for us.  You can also check us out at our website www.sevenspringschurch.net. We have all our sermons there too.  Speaking of which here is my latest.

Every two years?

A strange and magnificent thing seems to happen at our house EVERY TWO YEARS. Yeah.. you guessed it somebody shows up with my last name.  It is quite the perplexing thing.  This year another boy, number five for boys, number six overall.  Six little St. George’s, what a gift.  I actually do know where they come from too, for those of you who may be thinking of asking THE question.   Its rather a simple thing I am a dude, and I have a hot wife…..nuff said.

I sure am amazed at how helpless kids are when they are born.  When I look at the eldest (11) and the new baby it just blows me away to think that he used to be that small.  I am also always blown away by the mothering of my  wife.  She spends hours every day holding, feeding, changing, and caring for the baby and also finds time to raise the other five.  Props to Tara, I Love you.

Oh, by the way, I turned 35 years old last week…. it was much easier than 25…I had a midlife crisis at 25 I think, not the cheat on your wife get a Mazda Miata kind of crisis, but a crisis none the less.   35 is a breeze so far.  I have been thinking about long term and short term goals and planning the next 20 years or so of my life… I am getting fired up to see what God is going to do with our church plant here in Alabama, and how I can help lead us to reach a people to the Glory of God.  Maybe I’ll talk more about that later.

Ok…Ok already.

I know that I am a total slacker when it comes to this blog thing, but some new stuff is forthcoming.

Thanks for the encouragement to you who have commented.

On the road again….

The title says on the road again, but we haven’t been on the road in a while.  It just doesn’t sound the same without the Willie Nelson reference.  Any way we are having a little mini vacation/work trip.  Ya see, I still service some personal customer’s pools in Kentucky even though we now live in Alabama.  It is a long trip for work, but it pays pretty well, and any reason I can get to race on the Grand National BMX track in Louisville is bigtime for me.

So, although is was quite chilly here in Louisville, the Boy’s and I raced the local race here.  I have officially determined that the track is actually silk or something, you want to talk about smooth, I mean baby’s butt smooth.  I walked away with a first place, Woo Hoo, and had a super time with the boys.  Tara in the meantime was not up to sitting out in the cold 9 mos pregnant.  She and doodles and boo went shopping, yeah they headed to Target to spend some of that hard earned money on some girly clothes for doodles.

So,  BMX rocks, God is Good, My Wife is Hot, My Kids are Freaks, and I Love MY Life.