Nathan Neighbors
Follower of Christ, Husband, Father, & Youth Pastor
Back in the day I had strep throat every year as a kid – sometimes multiple times. It’s hard to remember a winter when I was growing up without that familiar soar & nasty throat feeling. But one year it just stopped. In fact, it’s been a few decades since I’ve had it. Well, it’s back. It started with Ashley on Tuesday, then on to me and now Anderson has it. The doctor put Ellis on the medication tonight to help prevent him from being the fourth victim in the family.
This weekend I’m “on call” for the church. Being on call means I visit the members who are in the hospital and take care of any emergencies that come up over the weekend. I guess this weekend I get to be on call for my boys too – thanks to my old friend – Strep Throat.
Last night we were supposed to do a neighborhood outreach event in Duncan Park, but it was rained out. We had over 30 teenagers prepared to host a great outdoor festival to share their faith with the community, but the weather caused us to make a “Plan B.” The students quickly changed plans and pulled off a great outreach to over 50 AWANA children at Morningside last night. Check out this quick video I made. It’s no Mark Alexander film, but it will have to do. (By the way, if you’re reading this blog as an email through an rss feed, you have to actually visit the blog on the web to view the video)
I’ve been told that I do a great job at documenting the lives of our boys. Anderson and Ellis are precious to Ashley and I. Ashley loves to scrapbook and I love to share with you about my family on this blog. I guess Ashley and I are alike in our love of remembering – we just use two different platforms. I’ve added a new tool to my blog platform. The other week we bought a Flip video camera. This thing is really cool. The image resolution is not that great, but it’s as small as my cell phone, simple to use, and it has an underwater case that I can use (that comes in handy with preschool sons and teenagers). Rather than using video tapes, it has a 1hr internal memory and plugs directly into my laptop through a usb connector. I hope to use it over the coming months and years to document not only our family, but also the church/youth events. My previous post (Snow Day in Fernwood) was created on this camera. Here’s another great video of Anderson singing with the preschool choir at Morningside on Sunday.
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