Air softing

Last night has to be the funnest night I've had all year, and here is how it all begun. My roommates had previously explored a awesome park called Alt Park up in the Hyde Park area of Cincinnati, and said how it would be perfect for an air soft war. So we made plans to have a little air soft war up there in the middle of the night. We needed some more guns and ammo, so we started out by going to Wal-Mart at 2 in the morning. On the way there, Jeff was speeding and sure enough we got pulled over by a cop, who asked what the h*** we were doing at that time at night. Jeff looked like he was sweating; i was just about to bust out laughing, but thought better of it considering the situation. The cop ended up letting us go without giving us a ticket much to Jeff's amazement! Nothing exciting happened in Wal-Mart, although i felt like we were getting a lot of weird looks considering we were all wearing all black. Most likely thought we were Satanist or something of the sort. As we entered the Alt Park area we pretended not to see the signs that said park closed from 10 pm to 6 am.....(it was already like 3 in the morning). That kinda freaked me out because i didnt really wanna get in trouble, but figured the risk was worth it. We had an incredible time while at the park, and we finally left at like 5:30 am. On the way back from the park i spotted some deer wandering through peoples yards, so one of us got the bright...or not so bright idea to start shooting the deer with our air soft guns! It was pretty incredible!! I spotted some pretty large bucks and wished that i had brought more then just the air soft guns! =( After i encouraged the guys that we prolly out get outa that area before the cops got there, they finally conceded and we headed to McDonald's......the inside was closed so we went through the drive through and then went to a different park that overlooks the city and watched the sunrise. It was a pretty incredible night and i didn't get to sleep until 7 this morning. So if this post is written a little sloppy give me a break....I've only had a couple hours of sleep. ha! What a STUD!!!!!!! HA
Def not a team player! lol
Tyler in his last moments
What's your game plan????
Check out the rack on that farthest deer

The road named after me in Cincy

Bad Guys
Tyler had enough and we didnt really care
A little fun before the game Some of the deer we were shooting at
Jeff doing the speed limit after we got caught by the cops=)

Youth Camp, etc.....

Since i last blogged so much stuff as gone on, but nothing really extremely exciting or dramatic, which could be a good thing. I guess getting attacked by bees, and having encounters with snakes at work is about it. I did have one other thing that was kinda scary happen to me. I was on Main Street in downtown Cincinnati where i was just about getting ready to get out of my truck when i felt like i shouldn't, so i looked around and seen a black guy approaching my truck. He came to the passenger side window and indicated for me to roll down the windows, so i rolled it down just about an inch....just enough for me to talk to him. He asked what i was doing down in the hood, and i refused to answer him. After him repeatedly asking me what i was doing down there, i told him i was working at a church. He then proceeded to ask me to take him somewhere in town, and i told him no for fear of him stealing my truck. Finally he asked me if i had any money on me and i said no, so he eventually left. I think i was sweating when he finally left! =( Thankfully nothing came of the ordeal! This last week has been one of the busiest weeks I've had this summer. I took 6 six kids from the inner city church i attend to Heartland Youth Camp. It was a blast, and God really helped some of the teens, as well as me. I was disappointed that i didnt get to play a lot of sports, because I was a sponser, but i had fun connecting with old friends, and meeting new friends as well! The night is getting late, and i must work tomorrow............

Main Street Giveaway

Here are some pictures from our clothes give away last Sunday. We also fed the people that came in off the streets. We served somewhere around 300 hundred hot dogs and 600 cookies. Most of the people where from right there in the local area but we also picked them up from a homeless shelter here in Cincinnati and brought them over to our church for clothes and food. It was alot of fun and i enjoyed helping all the needy people.

MySpaceTV Videos: Matt Video Channel

MySpaceTV Videos: Matt Video Channel


Here is a link to some videos Matt Hallam my pastor took while at our church. Go to this link and check out my video called Gangsta Wanna Be

This is a picture from this past week of some of us at Main Street Chapel getting ready for a giveaway were having this Sunday

hey! just thought i would provide a quick update to some of the things that have been going on in my life lately. I finished school in May and because their wasn't very many good possibilities for a job back in NC i decided to spend the summer here in Cincy with some of my friends. An apartment worked out for us and there are five us living here. I also was able to get a job doing contracting which i had already had two years experience in, and it has turned out to be really awesome and i love it! Some other things I am currently involved in.......I'm am still involved pretty heavily in my church here in Cincy, doing such things as playing the piano, guitar, and drums, picking up people for church as well as being an assistant kids Sunday School teacher. So my life is not at all boring right now. I was also appointed as a basketball team captain for a church team here, so my Saturdays are usually spent playing basketball and working with the inner city kids. I'm sorry i haven't updated my blog in a while but I've just been so busy and tired.....i will try to update it more often in the future.

Joseph

P.S. Living here in Cincy can be quite interesting at times, especially living in this part of town. In the last several weeks i have seen several drug deals take place on the street i live on and have also had several people on this street try to stop me and buy drugs from me because they think I'm a drug dealer because I'm a white kid living in a black neighborhood.