The highs and lows of being a pastor

Yesterday we stood on the sidelines at Steelers training camp. It was amazing. We were so close that at one point we had to move back to give the tight ends room to practice 4 feet in front of us with a blocking sled. We got the special VIP on-field passes from a congregation member who goes to college at St. Vincent, where the Steelers train. He works as Steelers training camp personnel, being a gopher for players and coaches, controlling stupid fans, etc. We were so close that Lisa had to step back to take this picture:


In other news, we woke up this morning to no hot water. Our water heater, leaking for months (if not more) before we got here, finally died. The previous pastor never told anyone it was leaking, but when I got here I immediately alerted the trustees. They made a plan to replace it at the last meeting, which was almost a month ago. Nothing was done. So now they have to do it tomorrow. It kinda stinks because if we were in charge of this stuff, it would have gotten done. But it's also kinda nice, because when something breaks, we just have to make a call to the chair of the trustees, and they're supposed to make sure it gets fixed or replaced without costing us anything. It's just a matter of keeping on them to get it fixed.

If you want to see more pics of our training camp trip, here's the album link: http://picasaweb.google.com/erik.hoeke/SteelerTrainingCamp

There's also an album of photos of our house and photos from our honeymoon.