We have a young man we are ministering to who has made a re-commitment to the Lord. When we first met him he was filled with pride even though he had gotten released from prison only a few months before we met him.

Over the last couple of months he has been attending leadership classes and hungry to get his life in order. He is much more open to counsel and is coming to us for advice and applying our counsel. He still has a ways to go, but we have seen tremendous progress. He does love the Lord and has a burden to reach the lost, especially the downcast and rejected. He has been helping us in various outreaches.

We will be having to make a long trip for a hearing he has to attend. He does not want to go to his old stomping grounds by himself. Another sign that he is becoming more mature and wise.

It turns out that a woman who we have helped in the past is in jail in the same area that we need to go to the hearing so we are working out the details to visit her at the same time. She wrote us a couple of letters and we talked to her on the phone and she is despondent and feeling suicidal. The good news is that at the jail she is at we know the chaplain for the women at the jail. The have a God's pod at the jail so the chaplain will determine if she is willing to give her life fully to Christ. If so, she can be in the God pod and get some great mentoring.

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Because of our involvement with the Seattle Police Dept Chaplaincy Program we have more opportunities for ministry. We are now working with a program called GOTS-Get Off the Streets. They have been wanting a faith based organization to work with them. But because of liberal churches in the Capitol Hill area, none of the churches want to work with the police dept.

So they are thrilled to have our organization to provide the spiritual side of things. We have already been asked to preach at an event on Father's Day through another organization that has contact with the police dept.

When we went into a tavern with one of the officer's I was asked why I don't start preaching in the bar. I told the guy he better not encourage me or I meant start coming to preach. He said if I did he would get people off the street to come into the bar. Who knows what might happen.

About the time it looks like things are getting better financially, it seems like all hell comes at us. At the time it seems like there is a breakthrough in our ministry, all hell comes at us. At the time Carmi and I are getting really close, all hell comes at us.

Anyone ever felt that way? I am sure there are others. What do you do at those times?

Carmi and I are doing very well in our relationship with each other. God continues to mold and shape us. Like any couple we have our hard times, but we really do have fun as a couple and God knew what He was doing when he put us together.

Ministry can be so draining at times mentally, emotionally, and financially. At times we would like to just move out in the woods in Oregon and hide from people. But we are smart enough to know that we would not be happy. It is in our blood (it is our calling) to be ministers of the Gospel. I guess we are 'addicted' to touching lives.

We have been very busy lately. We have some individuals that Carmi and I are mentoring that are requiring much of our time, but they are growing in Christ. Lately they have been making some great changes (but with their past, it takes many great changes). The great news is that they are staying sober and starting to work on some deep rooted issues.

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Carmi and I are really doing good in our marriage. We had some very rough times (which God has used to mold and shape us), but we have gotten through them.

We really have fun being together even though because of ministry, we can feel very drained at times.