In observance of Lent, starting tomorrow Stevan Sheets will be fasting from all carbonated beverages until Good Friday.
There, I made a public statement – hold me accountable!
(and still send me your PEPSI cap codes for iTunes!)
This morning from 8 until a little after 11, I was going through 4 huge storage trunks full of magic tricks. These four trunks were owned by Brother Bill Larned – a man that attended Warsaw Wesleyan Church and a man that I had the joy of getting to know in my first two years here at WWC until he passed away.
Mr. Larned was a minister in the Salvation Army and part of his ministry was Gospel Magic.
While he was still living, we would talk about his “magic days” and he would tell me how he wanted to go through his magic again and give me whatever I would find use for. I never got that chance while he was living.
His daughter, Judy and her husband Paul still attend our church and today Paul and I went through those four trunks. It was amazing.
I saw tricks today that I’ve never seen in my life. I also saw tricks that I had seen dozens of times. I was able to salvage an entire trunk-full of magic that I will now add to MY collection of tricks!
What an amazing gift!
Today here at church the wallpaper has started going up! The foyer looks absolutely amazing with the new wallpaper and the oak. I can’t wait to see it completely finished!
Bible study tonight at Helfrich’s. Looking forward to that.
Blood donation tomorrow. Hurray for me!
Tonight’s Super Bowl Party at the church was a HUGE success!
Even though the wrong team took home the championship trophy, it was still an absolute blast.
With 80+ people watching the game on a 14.5 x 10-foot screen, eating all the food we could fit in our mouths, drinking more soda and sports drinks than anyone should, and with a chance to win one of about 50-food prizes, you would call such an event a success, too.
I’m tired. It’s after eleven and I want nothing more than to sleep off the loss of the Philly Eagles and wake up to a new morning tomorrow.
| Stevan Paul Sheets of Warsaw, Indiana is the 601,655,887 richest person on earth! |
School was cancelled this morning due to fog, so I started the morning by taking my wife out to breakfast at Bob Evans. Good stuff.
After breakfast it was off to the church for a full-day. I’ll be back in the office tomorrow morning and all-day – tomorrow is theVINE worship service!
An update on the foyer upgrade:
New signs!
Carpet is DONE (in the foyer!) and the wallpaper gets put up starting on Monday!
After work this afternoon, Jess and I were invited to spend the evening with the Stivers – for Bailey’s birthday we hit up the Ft. Wayne “Chuck E Cheese’s” for some birthday-fun!
I love that logo
Bailey – Chad and Mary’s son.
Malorie – Chad and Mary’s daughter.
Of course I had to play some games after eating my pizza!
After playing 100-tokens worth of games, each kid has a cup full of tickets. This new-fangled machine is INCREDIBLE! It actually “eats” the tickets and counts them for the kids and then prints out a receipt that is redeamable at the counter for hundreds of kid-toys (most of which I would’ve been happy to own).
Story about this picture: the boy in the front of this picture is unknown – his noises and facial expressions while “trying” to play this game (he had no coins) were hilarious. Hilarious enough for me to snap photos of him and hilarious enough for the kid behind him to actually put a coin in for him to play!
