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Time for another baseball "OUCH"

Do you suppose it broke his jaw?

It's Sunday night, which means my brain is working over Sunday morning. We'll pass on a critique of the sermon and Foundations lesson; I'm neither objective or charitable when it comes to assessing my own work.
The real news from this morning is the church growth at Pathway. We've now reached the point where, depending on who is there on any given Sunday, we can have more kids than adults. That was the case today. We had 14 pre-schoolers! Do you have any idea how much raw energy there is in a room with 14 children under the age of five?! Hint: it took four adults to run crowd control, and they were stretched to the limit.
I absolutely LOVE that we have so many little ones. I can't think of a better blessing on a church than that God should send it children, children, and more children. (And these kids are all absolutely adorable.)

We watched 20/20 tonight. They did a follow-up segment on a story we missed when it aired a few months ago. Apparently they had profiled two families, one in Vegas and one in Miami, that had been evicted for non-payment, the former renters and the latter owners.
Tonight they revisited the two families and gave an update on their lives since getting evicted. They showed footage from the earlier story, particularly of the family of three who hadn't made a rent payment in six months, that was heart wrenching. Father in tears because he couldn't tell his 10-year old daughter where they would go next. Given only hours to gather their things before the locks were changed, they stayed with neighbors until they, too, were evicted.
The reporter didn't tell us what happened next, but they are now staying in a 2-bedroom apartment. They showed footage of the place; standard apartment from what I could see. But what caught our attention was what the daughter was doing as she talked to the reporter who was off-camera. Most of her attention was focused not on the reporter, or even on the answer she was giving, but on the TV screen in front of her which was responding to the Wii controllers in her hands.
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Pretty clever.
Skilled operator

Tomorrow I'm going to work on an empty rental house. The renters didn't make their rent payments (don't know if they had a Wii) and trashed the place before skipping. They put a 12"-14" hole in a wall 5' off the floor. How does that happen? And how does a toilet come un-bolted from the floor? Have you ever ripped a toilet paper holder off the wall? And you don't even want to see the carpet in the bedroom.

I heard on the news that China now holds more of our national debt than any country in the world. That makes me feel real good.
I also heard an NPR story that the experts are still very concerned about the growing world population. So Pam and I have decided not to have any more children. Besides, I don't think we'd have room for them at Pathway.