David 2006 Update

David Drury had a great year of fun with family and friends. He did some of the following things in 2006:

• David is now the venue pastor for the lobby, the third worship venue at SLWC, which is an interactive “coffee shop” style gathering that meets on Sunday nights. [launched weekly in May]
• Because of staffing shortages David also helped out as the Interim Junior High youth pastor at SLWC in the summer transition which he really loved doing. [Summer]
• David has been leading a retooling of the small group ministry at Spring Lake Wesleyan Church, focusing on deeper Bible study and teaching in the groups.
• David decided to keep up with the rest of the emergent church crowd and had his hair tipped, so now he looks like he’s from California. [September]
• He taught the class "Power, Change and Conflict Management" three times for the Masters in Ministry program at IWU.
• He taught the class "Leadership in a Vacuum" for Asbury Seminary which was an intensive one week course. [September]
• He taught the class "Methods of Bible Study" for the BBC extension program for the West Michigan district. [Summer]
• Dave’s continues to write frequently for his website, www.drurywriting.com/david, which was nominated for the Page One Herchzel Award for excellence in rising above the blog fray in 2006. Though nominated he lost the award to www.drurywriting.com/keith.
• David and Kathy took a long awaited Caribbean cruise which they both absolutely loved! [November]
• Dave finished writing a new emerging church spirituality manuscript titled Mahogany Messiah: Nonreligious Reflections on the Religious Life. It’s been picked up by a publisher and should be out within a year.
• He traveled with his father, Keith, to climb Mt. Elbert in Colorado which had the deepest snow he had ever seen on its slopes. [January]
• David took up martial arts a few years ago and just this October he passed his test in Konigun Ninjutsu to earn the rank of Kagebushi (Black sash and gold tiger with red medallion).
• He traveled to Costa Rica with Kathy to speak for the Unidos Por Christo parachurch leaders retreat and to see family friend Andrea Bermudez. [May]
• Dave and Kathy now plan a late December trip to Russia to catch up with his great-uncle, Mikhail Gorbachev, after they learned of his declining health in November.
• He started in June as Max Lucado's researcher as he works on his upcoming book about John 3:16. He took about 10 days off from work to complete the research. [June]

[This has been a pseudo-fictional account of Dave's life in 2006 written in the traditional third person form used for such. Every other one of these bullet points is true, and the others are false. Do you know which is which?]

[Pictured above: A pretty darn good day in Coco Cay. Pictured below: too much caffeine that day]