It’s been a marathon couple of weeks for me. First my parents were moving to Battle Creek, Michigan, then they weren’t, then they were moving but they weren’t sure where, and now they are moving to Columbus, Ohio. At least now a plan is set and their house is on the market and ready to sell. Want to see the house I grew up in? You can check it out here.
And on top of all that we had our 175th Anniversary Celebration at Mayfield Church this past Sunday. The entire day was the result of months and months of planning, and more recently weeks and weeks of hard work. The day was a huge success and I couldn’t be happier with the way everything turned out. Spending some time in a dunk tank and getting to play music on an outdoor stage are both activities I would highly recommend you try. 
They day kicked off with an incredible worship service featuring all of our music groups, several former pastors, and a great message from Pastor Dave Scavuzzo, Superintendent of the UMC district my church is a part of. Our auditorium was so packed that even after expanding the capacity to over 500 we still had to set chairs up in the hallway outside of the doors. God is good.
I’ve been describing my life as being a “healthy kind of busy.” It’s not all work and no play for sure. This past Saturday I was able to take the time to throw a birthday barbecue for my roommate Bryan and my best friend James (bottom of picture). Of course I could not have done this without the help of my friends James, Kellie, and Sean (top of picture). It was just an afternoon full of all kinds of crazy fun and childish antics. Incidentally, if you have never played Kan Jam, then you have not lived.
And of course I’ve spent plenty of time with my fiancé Kristen, who in the midst of running charity races and starting youth group season, has managed to put up with me in all of my busyness as well. We even had a great engagement party a few weeks ago put on by our amazing friends James and Kellie Dziemianzuk. I absolutely cannot wait to marry this girl in 242 days. It’s starting to feel very real. We even start Premarital counseling next week with our good friend Kathy Dickriede, who is performing our ceremony.
Those are the things that have been consuming a lot of my time recently, which has left other parts of my life unattended. My apartment desperately needs a good cleaning, I’ve got some wedding plans I really need to attend to, and I need to get some posts up on this site. For those of you that have been following the Q&A series, it will resume tomorrow. I’ve got all the posts just about done, but with posts like these editing is important, so I’ve sat on them until I have enough time to go back over them. Now that I’m able to focus a bit the rest of the series should roll out rather quickly and consistently.
KAN JAM!!!
