A Note From Kent

I had a lunch appointment recently. Leading up to the meeting the individual, with the best of intentions, wrote, “I hope your summer has been restful!” Summer does provide a change of pace to some degree, but his message was sent July 14, the day after returning from our Greater U.S. Mission Experience in Laredo, Texas. I wasn’t rested. ?
For many of our youth this summer has provided amazing opportunities to serve the Lord in exciting ways.

Many of our youth have been serving at Cooperstown Bible Camp, Camp Joy, and other Bible camps in our region. Fifteen of our youth and leaders spent a week on our annual Local Mission Experience (LME) June 8-12. Nineteen of our youth and leaders spent a week on our semi-annual Greater U.S. Mission Experience (GUSME) in Laredo, Texas July 5-13. Every Wednesday in June and July many youth gather at a different house each week for Summer K – the K stands for Koinonia which is the Greek word for Christian fellowship.

LME was filled by serving at Summer Blast and doing projects for the Cushings, Adamsons, Cooperstown Bible Camp, and Camp Joy.

GUSME was filled with leading a VBS at Las Penitas Community Center, building beds and making pillowcases for children, highlighting verses in Bibles and handing them out in a local park, praying for people in a park, doing a Prayer Drive throughout Laredo, doing projects for an Immigration Center and interacting with some children at the Center, and doing projects for the ministry that housed us.

Praise the Lord for all He is doing in and through our youth during this summer of “rest.” ?
Pastor Kent