Catching Up Part I - Lose some….gain some.

Some time has passed since my last posting and so much has happened since Acrofest. And despite the incredible experience of Acrofest, the school year continued to produce blessing after blessing.

I was so looking forward to Christmas break. Fall semester had been a rewarding semester for the Gymnics but a tough one considering the long hours required by the team to host Acrofest 2007. I don’t think myself or the team was prepared for the unpleasant surprise that greeted us when we got back from the break. The Gymnics lost five of our team, some to school, some to injury, and some to jobs. Normally when you lose five athletes you absorb the positions and try to fill in with other people but we were only 26 strong to begin with and some of the talent Gymnics lost would take months to train someone else to perform. Very discouraging. Hand in hand with this situation was second semester tryouts which had the possibility of provide some solutions. After praying about the situation as a team and with my captains I held tryouts. Once again God showed His hand in the redevelop of the Gymnics program and gave us EXACTLY who we needed.

Second semester tryouts produced six new additions to the Gymnics. Lorren Hickman, Joe Brown, Tiffany Mckinze, Keven Burdorf, Stephanie Wilson, and Tito Sanchez. To the person we gained an athlete comparable to the athlete we lost. The six new Gymnics were quickly adopted by the rest of the team and continued to enhance our program throughout the semester. Truly, are we not stronger when we are on our knees giving up all our worries to Christ?

Yes.