So you may have noticed that Mike has not posted a blog in a looong time because he says no one's reading it due to lack of comments! Anyway, I know you are out there keeping up with our lives and saying prayers when we ask you to so I will give you an update about the church. Everything seems to be going well....the summer people are slowly arriving and all winter we had visitors every Sunday. Although they haven't joined officially, we have at least 6 new adults that come regularly, we had a salvation experience Sunday, and a baptism coming up from someone who has been saved but not baptized. We are averaging 8 children every Sunday so that is awesome! This small growth has taken forever because we of course want to see fast results but we will be patient and wait on God's movement.
We are currently preparing for a VBS kick-off where we will do one in the Forest Lake neighborhood (located between here and Bayfield and has 750 homes in it) and one here on two separate days. We will have the bouncy houses, carnival games, cotton candy, cook out, etc. Then we will conduct a VBS session every Tuesday for 10 weeks in hopes to incorporate campers that come in during the summer. We are doing Gospel Light's SON ROCK KIDS CAMP and what's sad is that we only have about 4 people besides us in the church that is willing to work with the kids....but God will supply and provided as needed.
Tonight we are meeting with two other couples to talk about small group hosting which will be starting up soon. On June 5th, I will be assisting Amy with starting a Teen night every Friday night for the teens in the Valley. Pray that God will prepare the hearts of the teens in the Valley and draw them to come and find out more about HIM.
While you are praying for that, PLEASE, PLEASE say a prayer about the sell of our house. We are getting pretty desperate and need for it to sell. GOD CAN SELL OUR HOUSE IN THIS ECONOMY....We can't but GOD CAN....we just really need for HIM to do it soon!! Thank you Shane and Bonnie Bowman for all your help in our house and for checking on it for us....you are the greatest!
Mike's mom and dad are coming tomorrow to stay a week and we are so excited!! We plan to go to the Grand Canyon for a couple days while they are here. Pray for a safe flight for them!
By the way, these picture were taken from our deck.....
4 comments:
I think the Tuesdays during the summer is a good thing. When I was little my mom always made sure even though we were camping, we always found a little church to attend....Great Idea.
Tell Mike that some of us are keeping up with the blog.. I love finding new postings..:)
Sounds like when summer campers get back, ya'll will have a busy time. I know that ya'll will reach even more people once everyone is back home. Stay faithful and God will supply you the people that you need to do all the activities... We love you and can't wait to see ya'll again..
I check the bloog EVERYDAY so tell Mike we want to hear from him too!
Just checking... Please know that I am lifting you up in prayer this week.
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