Wow! So people do still check this! That's great!

Heidi and I will be getting married November 27, (the day after Thanksgiving)

I am beyond excited!! She is the most amazing girl I've ever known! I love her so much!

Hey there
I don't know if anyone checks this any more.. but I figured that I'd post something..
We just had this event at my church called "the Meeting of the Masters" it's the big, yearly, Gospel Martial Arts Union conference. The last thing that they do for the conference is to have a mid-evil banquet. It's amazing! Everyone gets dressed up! Even me! Here are some pics of me and my friends.

I found out last night that if i go downtown Indy after midnight the roads are clear enough that I can just set up my camera on a tri-pod and I don't have to worry about getting hit by a car. Here's what I got.

  

 
 





  

So, I've got about 2000 pics from our trip to Ukraine.... if you wants some from the wedding, i would suggest just checking out my dad's site or http://www.medlong.com
I think what i'm going to do is just show you some of the other random things that we did... maybe i'll even get to some pics from the Calvary Chapel Ukraine national conference... hmm..



I love this pic of my Momma and me!! isn't she so pretty??


this my Momma and Diana's Momma Luba(sp?) they were fun to watch together


Nato and Diana's Dad...


Seffa sleeping..



and finally for now.... Johnny looking scary!!!!
I'll be posting a lot more pics on my Picasa web album soon as well.
God bless

Hey there!! So if you're wondering what I do at my new "job" at Kids Inc. I'll tell you... or show you rather..
I mostly just hang out with kids! It's awesome! Tuesdays I go to Manual High school and hang out with kids during their lunches... talk to the social workers that know the kids... stop in on classes that i know kids in talk to them... Pray for me! I'd REALLY like to be able to start a Bible study. There's only a couple of months left in the school year, so it might have to wait until the next school year. oh well. We'll have.
 Later Tuesday night have "Boys Night" which is time for guys only to hang out and play basketball, skateboard... whatever they want. They do whatever they want in that time. Sometime in the middle of that time I give them a little snack and make them listen to me talk to them for a half hour or so. Right now I'm doing a series on the lives of King Saul and King David and what it means to be a man. David was a man man after God's heart.... Saul wasn't.
   I visit a Jr. High on Wed. and hang out with a couple of other kids that I know during their lunches as well.
   I lead worship for our Wed. evening Bible study which is held up in Horizon Hall. that's awesome! That's one of my favorite places to lead worship!
   Thursdays I spend the entire day studying the book of Hebrews to teach a class at Calvary Chapel Bible College of Indianapolis(the school i graduated from). I have to say that teaching this class has been one of the biggest challenges that I have. I love it though!! A little something that I've learned so far though; no matter who teaches the book of Hebrews, there will always be a student that thinks the teacher is a heritic!!!
  Fridays I like to try to go back to Manual High school and hang out some more...
  THEN..... (one of my favorite times in the week) we have Hang Time!!! Hang Time is the main event in the week were we have kids come in and hang out in the building! we can have anywhere between 35-100 kids! This is the event that i started volunteering at to get involved. We, well... just hang out. a lot kids are there just to play basketball, some play pool, a lot of them come to skateboard. Those are the kids that I mostly hang out with! I love those kids!!! they're so much fun!! Some time in the evening we make them all sit down and we talk to them about the Lord. THIS IS THE AREA TO PRAY!!! We've been teaching through the book of Matthew for a while now. I have to say that I KNOW that the kids are listening! I've had so many conversations with kids saying that they've never known a thing about the BIble until they came here. what an awesome thing! We give the gospel every week as well. a bunch of kids of responded to it as well.. but to be honest.... very few with follow through though. please pray for this. One of our biggest prayers is for 3-5 guys to truly follow Christ with their whole hearts! we've seen this with some of the girls, but almost no men! please pray!
  ok, so there's more that i actually do in my week. but I just wanted to give a quik overview... HA! i jsut said Quik overview! Everyone knows that no Medlong explains anything quikly!!
  now for the moment that everyone's waiting for!!! Pictures of high flying skateboard action!!!
















have fun!