GPS Anyone?

I have a global positioning system (GPS) in my truck to help me find my way around places I am not sure about. I am just about at the point of attaching a GPS to my body to make sure I find my way home. It has been a busy summer already with more great things to come.

As I write this article, we are at the closing of Vacation Bible School. Saddle Ridge Ranch has been the theme and the children have loved seeing the adults dressed up in their “cowboy/cowgirl” attire! We have had a wonderful week and I know many seeds have been planted. Now we must take the time to water and prepare for the harvest.

Last week we had an incredible time at Super Summer challenging our leadership students to go deeper in their relationship with Christ and learn how to lead others to Him. It was a great week for Les as he had the opportunity to get to know the students a bit better!

In a few days we will load up our teenagers for youth camp at Riverbend in Glen Rose. Later in July, Dorothy and her helpers are taking over sixty —that is right sixty!!!!— to pre-teen camp at Latham Springs in Aquilla. There is just something special about getting students to camp. They are away from parents, TV, movies, computers, and other things that often get in the way of them hearing from God. I ask you to be praying for both of these groups as they take time to draw closer to our Lord!

In between those two camps Shelly and I, as well as twelve others from our church, will be going to the Holy Land. I cannot express enough my gratitude to you all for this incredible opportunity. I anxiously await to walk where Jesus walked and have the Bible come to life in a way few have the privilege to experience. I pray this is truly a trip of a lifetime and will enhance my ministry as a pastor!

The last week of July we will head out on our annual church construction mission trip. Plans are still in the final stages but it looks like we will be heading to Albuquerque, New Mexico to help a small church in their building process. What an incredible opportunity for us as a church family to minister to another church family! If you have the opportunity to go and help, let me know ASAP so we can get you details. The dates are July 24-31. Everyone is welcome to lend a helping hand.

It has been an awesome summer so far, and as you can see we are just beginning. So I say get your GPS ready and join in the activity. If you haven’t been to worship in a while, you are missing out on great things. So program your GPS for 401 E. Criner St. and be here at either 8:30 or 11:00 am on Sunday and see what God is doing in our midst!

“Re-calculating,”