Tonight, Forty-One (41) from theBOX committed to live lives that “Go All In” as we finished our 5-week series on holiness.

Each teen made a commitment by standing up in front of their peers, coming forward alone, signing their name to a postcard, receiving a poker-chip reminder, and praying with me individually to accept the challenge of living the Holy life God intends for each of us.

It was a great time of personal commitment as I, too, again, recommitted MY life – in front of my students – to live a life of holiness in a world where holiness is looked at as an impossible lifestyle. We encouraged our students to strive for perfect Christ-likeness because settling for anything less is NOT living up to our potential as Children of God.

I will remember tonight’s service for many, many years!

Pastor J and Janet had a Christmas Open House this afternoon for everyone in the church. Jess and I went as soon as we could so that I could document this world-famous cake that Janet made for the occasion. It was beautiful – and tasted as good as it looked!

Tonight most of my buddies were no-shows for Men’s Group, so Knepp and I hit up 5 geo-caches together. Sadly, I had already been to two of them and two of them we couldn’t find (it was dark, okay?), so I only got to add 1 more to make my total 11.

Had a great lunch with my good friend Scott Greene today. It’s important to me to have friends like Scott in my life!

This afternoon I had the privilege of finding 5 geocaches, taking my total to 10!

Geocaching is pretty geeky, sure, but it’s extremely addicting!

What is it?

Here we go:

Geocaching is sort of a modern-day treasure hunt. On the website, www.geocaching.com I am able to search for hidden “caches” that are in the vicinity of any zip code – or better yet, exact latitude and longitude coordinates. I can then transfer those “cache coordinates” to my GPS and then travel towards to caches and find them hidden amongst public areas!

I was absolutely surprised to know that I could be a part of the geocaching community by merely owning a low-end travel GPS and NOT one of those high-dollar handheld versions that are MADE for trail hiking, etc.

I will continue to seek these hidden caches, which oftentimes have small trinkets, coins, etc., hidden in them for finders to trade. I have yet to trade any items, but have logged my “geocaching handle” (navets) on the paper log at each location.

I started this new hobby just Wednesday when my buddy Jason Knepp picked me up for lunch – we found four on Wednesday. Yesterday afternoon I took my father-in-law out for a walk and we found one. This afternoon I picked up one of my teens, Aaron, and we found three. After I dropped him back off at home I found two more before coming in to warm up.

I will try and keep interested parties updated on my geocaching adventures! I have already tracked a few that I will attempt to find when we travel to my parents’ in Pennsylvania over Christmas.