10 of our students are leaving with my family and I as we head to Indiana to run a VBS program for my dad’s church, Brown County Community Church.
I hope to send pics and updates through out the week. Pray God uses us to transform the village of Helmsburg, IN.
As we sit here in the middle of the summer, sweating from the humidity and I am sure filling full from all the family cookouts and get-togethers, I think it is important to ask ourselves, "what have I gotten out of the summer so far?"
What do I mean by that?
Some of you have the goal of just sit back and relaxing for the summer, which in not entirely bad, but if that is all you hope to get out of it, you have missed the mark,
Some other goals of most people during the summer:
1. Play as many video games as possible
2. Sleep more hours than awake
3. Change the color of their skin (and possibly add to the medical bills due to skin/sun disorders)
4. Do as little as possible in the most amount of time
Instead our goals should be a little higher–and when I say higher, I mean more toward what God would desire of us. Here are a couple that I am evaluating my summer on:
1. Meet at least 2 new people a week and begin developing relationships with them.
2. Know the needs of my neighbors
3. Do something loving to someone I don’t know, each week.
4. Since I seem to have more time, spend more time with developing my relationship with God.
I am sure you can come up with many more. This is just to get you thinking about what you have done so far and what you are going to do with your summer!!!!
I just want to start off by saying, "BRAD GOT PULLED OVER!!!!"
We had the luxury of renting a 2008 Cadillac CTSv for the week which was a lot of fun. Brad and I were the only ones who were on the contract to drive. This morning he asked if he could take the car out with some of the students. The result–a greeting from the local law enforcement.
Today was an exciting day for other reasons as well. Today, we finally went to beach to evangelize. Jacob suggested we get some "slip and slides" and lay them out and invite people to join us. GREAT IDEA Jacob!!!
The result was a lot of kids stopping by and taking runs and the opportunity for us to share with them the love of Christ.
Today was also a day that I will never forget as Anna and I had the opportunity to baptize 5 of our students.
Thank you so much, Katie, Kate, Eva, Sarah and Melody for letting us be a part of this every special event in your life. We will NEVER forget it.
That evening we went out to Fudrucker’s where most of our guys and many of our girls (go GIRLS!!!) ate the pounder (a 1 pound hamburger). And then it was off to Barefoot Landing for some shopping together.
What a GREAT day to just hang out with those you love!!!
