Summer's Here

Things are going well. Summer ministry is in full swing even though it's cold and rainy today. This is pretty much the last quiet week for a while. Upcoming we have a high school Sunday school overnighter July 9-10, the Jr. High Seattle Trip July 14-17 and our High School Wildhorse trip July 23-29, with Movie Nights, and BBQ's thrown in there. It's nice being busy. This past weekend went really well. I finally got a chance to do some stuff with some guys outside of church. We went and expereinced the A & W! It's great stuff! Yesterday we had a jr. high golf tourney and it went really well. We had 12 kids, which is the biggest number in a while. Alot of new 7th graders came, so that was good. It's looking like it will be a girl dominated group this year, with a lot of the guys moving up. Sunday school is also going really well. We're going through the group of Philippians, and yesterday went really well. The passage was 1:12-26 and the jr. highers seemed to really relate to Paul, and were amazed with his attitude through all the trials he was going through. They asked good questions and seemed really into it! I was really encouraged.

Praise

• I'm no longer sick! I still have a small lingering cough, but it's much better!
• I finally got to do something with students outside of church!

Prayer Requests

• Pray for our upcoming trips: (Overnight, Seattle Trip, Wildhorse) that the planning will all come together and that those trips will have a big impact on what happens when they get back.
• Pray that I can make an impact on the college group. Pray that I can step up, lead and encourage, and have an impact on my peers. Pray that the group will be united and not be separated.
• Pray that I can continue to do events outside of church activities especially with the high schoolers that have been harder to reach
• Pray that our Philippians study will be more than just giving the "right" answer in Sunday School but that they'll put things into practice in their everyday lives.
• Keep Praying for the Alaska team, updates sound like things are going well so far. Again to keep update with them their blog page is http://www.harbor-alaska.blogspot.com/

Hope to update more frequently, as things happen!

BRad