Not so busy weekend?!?!

So the weekend officially started on Friday afternoon for me. I was able to get to St. Augustine High School for lunch and hang out with some of our kids at lunch. I then met with one of the health teachers to see about getting in and doing some presentations there which she seemed very interested in doing.
Then I went back to teh office to complete a little more paperwork and then we were off and running. Tara, Katie and I fed and served the football team on Friday at Pedro, the Bible study was done by Rick the pastor of Anchor Faith Church on 312. Then, we went over and relaxed for about a half an hour before working the concession stand, I fired up the grills and cooked hamburgers and hotdogs for about 2 hours before praying with the team during pre-game and then walking the sidelines during the game. We played good, not great but good. Our defense was stretched out a little bit thin but we won 40-14 so it looks good on paper anyway.
BUt, just before half time I had another situation which really hit me hard. One of my favorite(not supposed to play favorites but I do) kids on the varsity football team went down. He's my favorite for many reasons, he's a great person, he's always smiling, he works hard and plays even harder, he is the smallest person on the field almost every time he sets foot on it, and I haven't met anyone who doesn't like him. Well, he went down and it didn't look bad at first, I was hoping for a cramp or a pull of some sort, but what the doctor said was he believed it was his ACL. A seemingly highschool career ending injury.
Something you need to know about this young man, by the way his name is Jeff Thompson, he was out all of his junior year with a torn ACL, worked hard all off season to get into shape and earn his spot back and did, only to have this happen again to him. Unfortunately, it is his other ACL so it has nothing to do with the injury his junior year. But to see a young man who works so hard, go through so much pain because he knows he may be done playing football is a tough pill to swallow. Maybe one of the toughest things I have dealt with as far as the football team goes.
But, he'll have a good outlook by today and he'll be smiling again knowing that there are better days ahead for him as dissappointing as it may be.
Saturday I went to the church most of the day and scraped on the front porch, carpet glue that was caked on about a half an inch thick in some places. So I scraped and scraped all day long and got the majority of it up, but not all of it like I would like.
Yesterday was a great Sunday with the majority of our people in attendance and a few new faces. We had our prayer meeting last night and we had one extra family show up and they are seeming to enjoy church and wanting to join. They've been in attendance for 3 weeks now and they are ready to move in, that's great. It seems that once people come they stick around, the real trick like always is getting them through the doors.
So all in all a great weekend, and not too busy of one, looking forward to a great week this week in serving and reaching out to the community.
Thanks for reading and have a great day!