Hopefully most of you stevansheets.com visitors had a chance to check out tonight’s premier of THE AMAZING RACE.

This Sheets family is cheering for the Weaver family from Florida – they have been filmed as being outgoing with their faith thus far in the program!

Of course we also enjoyed the latest episode of NCIS on our Tuesday Night TV watching, too!

Today was a pretty emotional day for ‘ol Stevan. I had a hospital visit after staff meeting this morning where an 81-year old Christian woman is near death. She has been unable to speak for a couple of years now and as I was praying with her and the family, she would point heavenward and then place her hands over her eyes in an attempt to show us that she is SO ready to be home with the Lord. After I said my goodbyes to the family and to this dear lady, she wrote “later” on her notepad.

What hope we, who know the Lord, have at such an unimaginable time like that!

In the last two days, Jess and I have been treated to two meals by two different families in our church.

Yesterday we were taken out to lunch by the Freemans and tonight at Pizza King, our bill was paid-in-full by the Earle family.

These two acts-of-kindness have really made Jess and I realize how blessed we are to be loved so much by a group of people here in Warsaw!

Thank you, not only to those who treat us to meals – but to those who continue to lift us up in prayer, those who send encouraging notes, and those who take time out of their day to let us know they care!!!

This afternoon I had lunch with three of the youth pastors that were involved in last night’s See You AFTER The Pole event. We had a good time chatting about how exciting things were and such and began the initial brainstorm of another similar event in the future.

Tonight I was at a “District Zone Meeting” that was held at our church. It was good to see a couple of my ministry-peers – Jonathan Light, solo-pastor at Silver Lake Wesleyan (and a faithful stevansheets.com reader, I found out tonight!) and Don Baine, Senior Pastor at New Carlisle Wesleyan Church. It was also funny that Pastor Chuck McCullum (our Assistant District Superintendant) walked in tonight and said, “Stevan Sheets Dot Com” when he first saw me. I haven’t been called that since “the college years” when I was the first one “on the block” to get my own domain name. Back then it was geeky (maybe it still is?) to get your own “dot-com” – now if you don’t have your-own-name.com, you run the risk of having someone else buy it and charge you a couple thousand down the road!

Tonight, 400 500+ students from the Warsaw-area gathered with their peers, youth pastors, and sponsors to worship Jesus Christ – TOGETHER, as ONE body!

It was an incredible thing to witness.

As far as we know, never before in the history of Warsaw, has this sort of thing happened on a United front.

It was a service that had to be experienced to understand.

Warsaw Community’s youth pastor, Scott Greene dreamed the dream, brought it before theNETWORK – our area youth pastors – and the dream came true.

What an event.

What an experience.

I would love to be one of these teens walking the hallways tomorrow at school!

Check out the 53 pictures of the night’s event here.

No pictures tonight – I actually decided to leave the camera in the car (after we were 3-blocks from the car, that is)

We had a great visit with Jess’ Grandparents tonight before hitting the fair.

At the fair we used our “Fair Money” – money that Jess’ grandparents give us each year to eat some supper and spent some great time visiting with the Bluffton Wesleyan Church folks. Pastor Lyle Breeding was there with his crew selling “Son Buns” – amazingly tasty sticky buns that weighed atleast 17 lbs. each!

It was a good night.

The drive back was made pleasant by Switchfoot. Jess nodded off and is already in dreamland. I got my second-wind once we arrived home and decided to do some more work on the indyouth.com website – which, by the way, launched the other day.