This was a weird and wonderful week. Early in the week, I taught my son how to hit a golf ball. On Tuesday, we played 18 holes. He did pretty well for his first time out, and I did much better than I thought I would after not playing for four years. I mostly shot straight! It was a fun afternoon spent with my son and a retired couple whom we were paired-up with. I’ll tell you though, I was sore the next day – I guess I’m out of shape! Wednesday and Thursday, my son went to work for the first time, and seemed to enjoy the experience. On Friday, the whole family drove to Placerville to attend the funeral of a friend, and godfather to my son. Brian died early due to complications from diabetes. He was 49. It was a tear-filled funeral because Brian had led such a spectacular and high-energy life. He had hundreds of friends.
On Saturday, early morning, we drove my son and Ralph to SFO and dropped them off. They are going to Ghana to set people up with wheelchairs through Joni & Friends Wheels for the World. It’s a pretty terrific Christian/humanitarian thing that they’re doing. To get to Ghana, they flew to JFK, waited six hours, then flew to Accra, Ghana. 22 hours total from airport to airport. I did not hear from anyone on the team, but I was watching them on my flight tracker, so I knew that they had arrived safely. While tracking them, I also put together a powerpoint for Sunday’s kick-off of “The Story” – a 31 week, church-wide, trip through the entire Bible. It’s going to be massive. I was quite proud of my first powerpoint (Genesis), and it went well on Sunday. We had over 50 people for Adult Ed Sunday School and that never happens! It’s nice to see so many people getting into the concept of a whole church reading the Bible together. Now that week one is over, It’s time for me to make the other 30 powerpoints and find a collection of teachers to teach, so I don’t have to do all 31 lessons.
After church on Sunday, I got to meet up with my friend Jeff. I only see him during football season and today was the kick-off to the season, so far as we were concerned. San Francisco beat Green Bay in a pretty exciting game… and the right team won (San Francisco). Tomorrow is Jeff’s birthday, so we’ll call this game an early present. Go Niners!