It Has Been a Really Good Month!!!!!

Last month I wrote in my newsletter article about how excited I was to see what God was going to do in the month of July with our children and teenagers as we headed into camp and Vacation Bible School. I would like to tell you I believe it has been a really good month!

During Vacation Bible School we had six children ask Jesus to come into their heart and trust him as their savior! That is awesome and those children’s lives were forever changed! A by-product of the week of VBS was watching our people work so well together and in some cases even get to know someone they had never met before! It was great watching the church be the church in so many ways from cooking, to teaching, to doing crafts, to recreation, to doing music, to cleaning up!!! Thanks to everyone for helping 6 children come to know Jesus and many more know more about Him!

The next week we loaded a charter bus with 40 teenagers to go to Highland Lakes Baptist Encampment for a youth camp. Each night I would get a text from someone telling me about more students giving their lives to Christ at the end of worship! By the end of the week the numbers had totaled 10!!! Ten more names written in the Lamb’s Book of Life! The angels rejoiced, and as a church family we should as well. Thank you to many of you who gave money to sponsor a student to go to camp and to the leaders who took a week out of their lives to love students!

On July 17th we loaded a charter bus and our church bus with 58 preteen students (4-6 grade) and headed to Latham Springs Baptist Encampment. On Monday night I got word that 6 children had given their lives to Christ from our church and 62 total had made that decision!!! Seventeen from our church by the end of camp!!! WOW!!! Again thanks to all of the people who donated to help some of these children get to camp, I would say it was worth it!!!

Are you seeing a pattern form here? It looks like God is hard at work among our church family! We had two young men come forward and publically profess their faith in Jesus during a worship service a few weeks ago. I know my math is not very good but I believe that adds up to 24 new Christian during the month of July!!!! TWO DOZEN!!! I can only say, “Praise the Lord!! Thank you, Jesus, for the things you have done!” I also want to thank you all for praying for these activities! You were obviously a force!

I am convinced God is only just beginning what He wants to do among us as a church family! On July 31st we are going to have an awesome day of baptism. I hope the place is packed to encourage these that have made decisions and to be a part of an awesome worship time!

Don’t forget it is not too late to sign up for Supper 8 or Life Groups!! We will be starting them up in September!! Details coming soon!

What a great month . . . I wonder what August has in store???