If you have read this blog for any length of time, then you would know that I am a huge basketball fan. I think that it’s the best sport to watch and love so much about it. It’s also got it’s problems as well.

I’m a huge Lebron fan. I think he’s incredibly talented and at 25 has a pretty awesome head on his shoulders. “I mean he hangs out with Warren Buffett” as my friend Julio told me yesterday! But during this whole free agency spectacle (which I absolutely love) I’ve had to ask myself the question, “Is Lebron an egomaniac?”

Now for most reading this, you think basketball is just a bunch of thugs, getting paid millions to play a game. Some of that is true, but there are basketball stars that really desire to make a difference in their community. Lebron has always been one of those guys. Athletes have always been a special type of people to me as well, because they make most of their money before mid 30s (if they’re lucky) and then have to live off of that for the rest of their lives. It’s definitely a different profession.

But with all the frenzy going on right now and Lebron just announcing that he’s having a special on Thursday night to announce his decision, I was definitely skeptical about the reports that he’s just a jerk milking people for money. But then I saw this story on ESPN about Lebron giving all the advertising dollars to the Boys and Girls Club of America. An organization that he has been heavily involved in since he entered the league. Now I don’t think he doesn’t have a huge ego, cuz let’s face it, he’s gonna be a billionaire and probably the greatest basketball player the world has ever known. But I definitely rethink my egomaniac vibes I was getting temporarily.

What do you think about all these shenanigans with free agency?

Xbox 360 buttons, originally uploaded by A Hermida.

I’m limited in space and time and funds… (more emphasis on space and time). I’m trying to put together a few video game stations for a new ministry at Brookwood.

Anyone know of a place of have some pictures of video game stations that are portable. I need to be able to roll them around and put them in storage.

If you don’t know please help me out by retweeting this post. Thanks for all your help =)

So this week, I’m finally going to get to my “VBS” posts or as we like to call our VBS on steroids at Brookwood, Adventure Week. It’s always a blast and I can’t wait to cover some of the topics that are somewhat controversial in the church world. Especially talking about them on cmconnect.org. Just so you know a little bit about our program:

• This is our third year of Adventure Week.
• We had over 650 kids and 250 volunteers this year.
• We have a program from 9am-2pm with options for before and after care.
• We charge kids to attend.
• We provide meals, crafts, t-shirts, and lots of other fun stuff
• This year we raised money for Haiti.

And there are lots of other goodies as well. I love talking about this big win for us and this week I’ll tell you a little bit about what we do, but I’m really excited to hear about what your church does for VBS as well. So stay tuned for a super fun series on a big #kidmin topic.

[365 Toy Project: 160/365] Pirate Versus Ninja, originally uploaded by nhussein.

So I thought this one would be really fun to debate? Who is better pirates or ninjas?

Miss Grace – Cinemashoot, originally uploaded by Jonathan Selwall.

So I’m going to see Toy Story 3D tonight with my wife. She doesn’t know it yet. I don’t think anyways.

Anyway, I’ve really been into the 3D movies that have been out lately? Tell me what you think? 3D or 2D? What’s your fave?

Ok a few things you need to know about me as a person.

1. I love to read
2. I love listening to people that have something worthwhile to say
3. I love to read
4. I love to have intentional conversations with people
5. I love to read

Did I mention that I love to read? I read a lot of books every year. The kindle has really done all kinds of awesome to my book reading time. But one of the other tools that keeps me refreshed is Google Reader.

I subscribe to a lot of blogs that deal with an arena of things such as: Family Ministry, Pastors, Marketing Agencies, Communications gurus, blogs about writing and sports blogs. The tool that keeps these things in line is google reader. You can find a ton of posts out there about this particular Google product so I won’t bore you with the basics. But one of the things that I think is the coolest feature that I wished more people took advantage of is the sharing options.

Ever read a blog and think man wish I could just email this out to all the people I think it would help? Well you can. By following the list in google reader you can see everything that a particular person shares for the world to see. I’ll give you an example.

I read everything that Michael Hyatt does. I think he’s brilliant. He also has a google reader account and regularly shares items. They are not written by him but are written by blogs that he follows and he shares them on his reader account. He will also add notes to particular items of interest. If you would like to follow his shared items here’s the link.

Anyways, if you want to get started with Google reader click this link. It’s free and super easy to get started, like most things google. And last but not least click here to follow my shared items in google reader.

Anyone following someone on Google Reader that we should be?

So Family Worship is something that you are going to be seeing a lot more of in the future. I saw this post from the Resurgence on some music from The Rizers. They specialize in making scripture easy to learn and memorize by putting it to music. The songs are pretty catchy and in a new school pop format. You can test drive a few songs here by giving a little bit of information.

You can also buy their full album from Amazon for only $7.99 by clicking this link:
Meet The Rizers

You guys know of any other music like this out there?

Hi Res Reedy Falls, originally uploaded by RandomConnections.

I’ve been not blogging for the past two weeks, purely out of busyness and lack of internet. My iPhone is jacked up and has some issues when I go out of town. And as much of an Apple fan as I am, it really upset me and it has nothing to do with AT&T at all.

Done with that soapbox… The week of 14th-18th of June was our Adventure Week program and last week I was on a mission trip to Bluffton, SC with our high school ministry. It was a great opportunity to learn about leading trips like this, and also a great chance to see students being involved in ministry. It’s been a beautiful two weeks.

Anyway, glad to begin getting in a routine again. And I have a lot of posts coming up this week trying to recap and go over a lot of our “VBS” thoughts and processes and a few things that have been on my heart that we talked about on the mission trip or in general in my life.

A lot of stuff going on. Hope your summer is going well and that everything is kicking this summer in your ministry and family.

Our Week long Adventure Week/VBS/Day Camp for kids starts today! I’m pumped. We’ve got a few kids and volunteers that will be here this week.

I plan to post a little bit about our Adventure Week Philosophy and hope to talk about some of the things mentioned in a cmconnect forum mentioning VBS Alternatives, Paying for VBS, and Does VBS still work? I’m sure it will be an interesting discussion for sure.

But with all the fun things that we talk about I hope that you will join us in prayer this week. Pray that kids experience life in Christ as they go thru this week with a volunteer, and that for this week they will associate Church and fun together.

Those are the two goals that we have for this week. And we’ve done a lot to accomplish these goals, but nothing happens without God intervening. Pray that He does and the glory ONLY goes to Him.

So this should get interesting…. But I really wanna know, who are you backing and why?