Flagler College Women’s Basketball Team Retreat

On December 27th & 28th NE Florida FCA hosted Flagler College Women’s Basketball for team camp. The retreat was intended to be a team building experience and proved to be just that as the team worked on team building activities that challenged the student-athletes to see that each was a valuable asset and has a key role to play in the team. FCA staff Justin Black serves as the Chaplain for Flagler basketball and continues to sow into the spiritual development on the Flagler College coaches and athletes.  Thank you to Good News Church of the World Golf Village for leading chapel and feeding the team.

One Word

Here I am December 26, 2011 looking back on a year that has experienced much CHANGE. There is not a better word that describes it as I have experienced this change from the very beginning of the year all the way up until now. Just to share some of that change. On January 1^st 2011 our foster daughter was reunited with her family; On August 1^st I resigned from my position at the Boys & Girls Club to join an awesome new team, Team FCA. Perhaps the biggest of all the change is the news that my wife, Shelli, is pregnant again!! (Yes it was planned) Some of the other changes are smaller in nature but have been more impactful; like the change in my priorities, habits, and thinking. As I was thinking about all this change and the theme of this past year, it got me thinking about next year and what I want the theme to be.  The word that came to me was GROW.  I have experienced change and now I want to be able to GROW positively from that change. The word change has been thrown around so often and as I was reading the devotional Coach WOODEN ONE-ON-ONE there was a saying that stuck out to me from Coach and it was this “Although there is no progress without change, not all change is progress.” So how do we make sure that my change produces progress? I believe it starts with a game plan and for me that game plan is first identifying the things that I want to GROW in 2012. I want my relationship with my Savior to GROW, I want my relationship with me family to GROW, I want the ministry of FCA to GROW. These are just a few of the items on my game plan but the question I have for all of you is what’s your game plan for 2012? I know mine do you know yours?