Hebrew, My First Sermon, and a New Cellphone

Well, now that the summer is almost over I thought I should post and update you all on what has been going on in our lives. We have been quite busy this summer. Kathryn has started a new job teaching ballet at the Day Spring School for the Arts, I went on a trip with the Middle School and had a blast.

The biggest project for me this summer has been an attempt to teach myself Hebrew. Yeah…that’s right, me the language-tard trying to learn an utterly alien tongue. It has been hard and the progress has been slow. I doubt I will be able to test out of the Hebrew class like I had hoped but at least I will have a good head start on the vocabulary and some of the grammar.

I also had an opportunity to preach for a real live congregation for the first time in July, and it was a wonderful experience. I preached from Psalm 44 for the people of Hope Community Church here in St. Louis. The majority of the congregation is Korean speaking but they have an English service as well on Sunday mornings. Our neighbors, Trent and Emily Casto are in charge of the English service and Trent invited me to preach one week while he was on vacation. The Lord and the people there were very kind to this preacher-noob.

I also finally broke down and got a cell phone. Exciting.