Three Week Checkup

Week three on the job!  This week is VBS so the mornings have been quite active with 200 kids running around learning about Jesus.  It's pretty exciting.  Also exciting is that I've been wearing the same shirt each day this week for VBS.  Don't worry, I'm washing it now.

I've gotten so good at watching planes.  I know the exact point in my drive where they turn around to enter in the landing line.  I know the exact point where they put their landing gear down.  I get nervous when they don't put it down at the normal spot!  I pass just feet under landing planes on the highway.  I watch them take off when I'm at the south end of the airport.  And I watch all of this in reverse on my drive home.  I could seriously watch planes all day.

I've gotten more interesting comments about my name this week.  Yesterday someone addressed an e-mail to me as "Dear Mr. Scheuch."  I've gotten that before, but never has that person called me and immediately go "oh wow, I thought you were a man.  I'm sorry!"  Another lady asked me if my last name was German.  I said yes and she asked me when I moved here...

Next Sunday through Friday I'm going on Catholic Heart Work Camp with 6 teens and 2 other adults to Oklahoma City.  I went on CHWC in 2005 and it was my first mission trip experience!  I'm excited to return with my own youth group!

I decided I'm going to model my youth group's service activities after the Corporal Works of Mercy for this upcoming year.  I started working out the calendar and getting ideas and I'm super excited about it!

One of my co-workers the other day was talking about the vision of faith formation at our church and she said "spirituality is when life and faith collide." I really liked that.

Reflection:  I'm realizing more and more that being a youth minister requires the perfect balance of assertiveness and humility.  I'm still working out exactly how to make those qualities work for me.  But those are two words that keep coming to mind when I pray about it.  Assertiveness and Humility.

Lesson Learned: The best Catholic churches will always have free food.  Always.