WE have Lift-off!!

Wow - what a week! For those of you that follow here and don't know -- several months ago my wife and I began working toward developing a ministry dedicated toward providing relevant discipleship to today's teens in our online world. Well, after a lot (I mean A LOT) of development, a couple of sleepless nights, some unbelievable meetings with people, and a test group of almost 70 the first phase is done.

Bo (one of those unbelievable encouragers you meet in life) stopped me in church last week to let me know that he was waiting patiently for LAUNCH, but he was not going to let me quit on it. Thanks, Bo -- I was ready to quit that day for about the thirtieth time that week. Renee showed up on the site (about 3 hours after some final edits and about 3 hours before some final final edits) at about 6:00am the other morning with positive energy and a few words that pushed me all day long that day.

Several others of you have encouraged, listened to me complain, waited, bounced new ideas off me, and everything else from just praying for strength for me and all involved to a couple of well-timed hugs when I probably looked ready to pull my hair out. Anyway - thanks to all of you.

If you want a peek at what we're doing check out www.launchme.org. Feel free to register and jump into the COUNTdown: I'm a Youth Leader/ Worker group. (It's not just for youth leaders - it's for any adult wanting to see what LAUNCH is about.) Anyway, at the moment I am exhausted, but definitely looking forward to seeing what 2009 holds.