Category Archives: Prayer

May 10 2012

teen lock-in chaperones needed…

This Friday night we will be holding our annual end of the school year teen lock-in at the Rec Center.   We are expecting between 100 to 130 kids to attend.   Currently we are running lower than normal on the number of chaperones that we have for the evening.   If you are college age or older and would like to volunteer to be a chaperone we would lov to have you join us.   This is a great time for you to get to know various teens in our community and build relationships with them that can lead to chances to share the Gospel!  Please let me know asap if you are able to join us!

Also, be praying for me as I will be giving the devotional to the students half way through the night.   This is a great opportunity for us to have a captive audience that includes many teens who don’t attend church.  Pray that I will clearly explain the Gospel for our unsaved students and that at the same time I might be able to challenge our Christian students to be bold in their faith.

Hope to see you at the Lock-IN!!!

May 9 2012

whew what a week so far…

This week has been a fast paced game of catch up for me here at the Rec Center.   On Friday I finished up the school year with my home school student and so this week I have been busy catching up on some office work, website stuff, and various other things that I had fallen behind on.   A high point was that on Monday night my student and his family came out and we had a mini-eighth grade graduation for him.  It was a really good night where all of us who helped with teaching this year were able to offer words of encouragement and challenge him to succeed in high school next year and most importantly to rely on God.

Yesterday, we also held a weekly meeting with our FCA students that are going to Leadership Camp this summer.  We are preparing to share about camp at both Bear Track Bible Church and Idamay Bible Church over the next couple of week to hopefully raise the needed funds for taking our students.   We also had a Bible study where we are going to be going through various character traits of a Christian Leader over the next few weeks.  Yesterday’s topic was Trust, and how we need to put our total trust in God and at the same time be the type of person others trust.   If you are interested in possibly sponsoring a student come out to one of our sharing services and here about camp and ask the students any questions you might have!

Today has been pretty much a snack bar day at the Rec Center making lots of food orders from morning throughout the afternoon.   We also had a small group of 2nd grade students come in from Owsley County to bowl.  I always like working with the younger kids and just seeing their excitement over hitting any number of pins, whether one or a strike!

Tomorrow promises to be another busy day, but ending with some major excitement.  Tomorrow night my bowling team will be bowling for the Men’s Bowling league championship.   Personally, I am just hoping I bowl well enough not to hurt my team!

Lot’s going on this week, but God has blessed with lots of opportunities to build relationships and share Christ.   Very thankful for the opportunity to sow seeds for God!

May 2 2012

FCA Leadership Camp fundraising update….

We are still working on reaching our goal of raising enough money to take all 6 of our FCA students to Leadership camp at the end of June.  Currently we still hope to raise about $1,300 total, but have to have $600 raised by the 14th of June when I send in our registration forms.

On May 13th during the evening service our students and I will be presenting at Bear Track Bible church at 7pm.  The very next weekend on the 20th at 7 pm we will be presenting at Idamay Bible Church.  If you aren’t sure about what all the students will be doing and getting from attending this Fellowship of Christian Athletes Leadership camp, please try to come to one of these services and here straight from our students about what camp means to them.

I know we have a great God who can help this needed funding come in!  So pray that it would come, and come soon, and what your part in this might be!!!

May 1 2012

cradle cap…

For the past week or so, Erin and I have noticed that Judah has had some dry skin/rash type stuff on his forehead.  Then in the past weekend it spread into his eyebrows, cheeks, and even a little around his ears.  So today Erin took him to the doctor to make sure he didn’t have any major skin issue.  The good news it the doctor said that it is just cradle cap and that he should be fine with some basic treatments.   The even better news is that cradle cap doesn’t really last past the first four months of life, so this will not be a life long battle for Judah.   Even though this is just a little something it was awesome to see how God has answered prayer and protected our baby boy when we were worried.   I am thankful for my Judah, and so very thankful for my powerful God!