Love in LoCo

Anyone else feel like they’re in a season of anticipation right now?  As someone who has essentially operated on a school year schedule since the age of 5, the transition from July to August has always seemed to be a time of expectant waiting: for a new school year, for my birthday in mid-August, for football season to start back up J …so much to be excited about!  Add to that the fact that I am about to become an aunt for the second time and this sense of anticipation seems almost overwhelming at times.  Although I no longer work as a teacher, my schedule is still very much dependent on the school calendar. So with camp season officially wrapped up for our Loudoun FCA staff, we have all started the process of ministry planning for the upcoming school year.  Here are just a few of the things that we’ve been planning and are excited about for the 2017-2018 school year: 1) New huddles at Mercer Middle School and Brambleton Middle School 2) New female athletes’ Bible study at Potoma

Last Saturday, July 1, I planned to leave my house by 8am to head down to Richmond for FCA’s University of Richmond multi-sport camp.  My role for this camp, like Watermarks Leadership Camp, was Huddle Leader Coordinator, which meant I was traveling down to Richmond a couple of days before the rest of the staff to train and encourage our huddle leaders for the camp.  I knew I was picking up two huddle leaders along the way, in Manassas and Fredericksburg, and was concerned about 4 th  of July traffic heading South, so when I was ready at 7:40am, I decided to go ahead and leave then.  One problem: I couldn’t find my keys.  Let me clarify by saying this never happens.  I am not one of those people who misplaces her keys all of the time and has to go digging through the trash to find them on occasion.  My keys only ever travel to a few different places: my purse, gym bag, backpack, or dresser.  I knew they had to be in my house somewhere, because I had driven home from hanging out with