Kim and I celebrated our 24th wedding anniversary Monday. The kids stayed home and took care of Charlie while we went out to dinner at our favorite place, The Tavern. We enjoyed a delicious meal, uninterrupted adult conversation, and the luxury of lingering over a cup of coffee after dinner. 24 Read more…
Our church wrapped up our yearly sports camp Thursday evening, and I got to invite the 5th graders to join me and the other youth leaders for a few events this summer designed just for them. The parents of all the children were gathered all around the watched the various teams step Read more…
Our eldest graduated from high school Saturday morning along with 600 or so of his closest friends. I thought the commencement speaker (James Houck) was splendid, and even jotted a few notes from his talk. Levi and a few of his buddies were featured in the senior video that showed Read more…
Our daughter Josie turned 17 yesterday. She spent most of the day in a car, traveling back from the US Rugby high school national tourney. Our own State High girls rugby team was scrumming it up. They brought home the 6th place trophy, which is pretty stinking impressive. The young Read more…
I wasn’t going to share this, but I’m pretty proud of Lilly’s work. She wrote, recorded, and edited this piece for one of her classes. It tells the story of Charlie pretty well. This is what we do. This is who we are. Charlie Sublett from Lilly Sublett on Read more…
This weekend promises to be a significant one in the life of Calvary. Not only is is the last Sunday before finals–which means a bag filled with goodies for every student to help them through the week–it’s also a weekend that we’re combining all of the Calvary worship gatherings. Instead of Read more…
Once a year Calvary decides to cancel our weekend worship services, pick up our rakes and shovels and paintbrushes, and go serve our neighbors. It’s really a humongous undertaking. It’s also one of the highlights of the year. This year we decided to throw an overnight party for the youth group Read more…
I had two out-of-the-ordinary conversations today. The first was with some grandparents from our church. They’d been wondering what was going on for youth (they have a few headed toward 6th grade) and had no idea. So they asked me to lunch and plied me with questions. They had definite Read more…
One of the things that I find most exciting about my job is the fact that I am part of the team of people shaping the next generation of leaders. That’s also one of the pieces of Calvary’s OneByOne Initiative that gets me jazzed–being directly influential on the next generation. Read more…
It began with Kim recording “indisputable video evidence” of me snoring. While I failed to see the humor in it, she seemed quite delighted with herself. We spent a good (not really good) portion of the day chasing down expired drivers licenses, renewing expired vehicle registrations, and trying to figure out which Read more…