Back to the Bush!

Well I guess I haven't updated everyone on what's been going on lately. It's been a while so I'm not really sure where to begin. I guess I'll start with the schedule, since the beginning of May I've been home three weeks, not consecutive. So, needless to say we've been all over the place and have been a little busy, thus the lack of posts. We've been in Atlanta, Chicago, back to Atlanta, Kansas City, and New York. This most recent trip to New York started off with my dad and I working at Pine Bush Bible Camp. My dad spoke and I counseled during their suburban week.

Chapel

Some of cabin listening to the rules of the game

My CIT (counselor-in-training), Nick

Archery

It was a great time to be back at my old stomping grounds of The Bush. I think I spent the first 14 summers of my life at Pine Bush, but because of scheduling problems I haven't been back in 5 years. I had a good group of kids in the cabin and a great CIT to work with. One of my boys I know for sure accepted the Lord that week. Praise the Lord! Please pray for growth in his Christian walk. I hope to go back next year, but that's a long way a way and I haven't layed out my schedule for next year yet. So, we'll leave it up to the Lord for now. Right now we're doing the seminar in New York but I'll post about that later, seeing how it's getting close to my bedtime.

The last few months...in pictures

Well I guess I haven't updated my blog in over a month and haven't posted any pictures that I've taken in an even longer time. So, because things are a little busy I don't have anything earth shattering to report I'll just upload some pictures for now until I get some more time to do an actual report of the summer so far. Hope you enjoy the pictures. :]

The Trip So Far

Well from my last post we were just leaving for our three week trip to Atlanta and Chicago. Now we are almost done with the first leg of our busy summer. Tomorrow or Saturday we will be coming home for a few days. I've tried to take some pictures but for some reason the the rechargeable batteries I bought don't like to keep a charge for very long in my camera. It seems like I use my camera then turn it on later and the batteries are dead AGAIN! Anyways had to get that out of me. :] But I have taken some pictures but not as many as I would like but here are a few of them.Putting it all in

Leaving nice and early

Students of the Advanced Seminar and DLP

Mauldin family, dad, and me
The Mauldin family took the DLP

Today we are planning on going out in the open air to do evangelism with our seminar students in Chicago. Please pray for us that we would have good meetings and that the Lord would keep us safe. Also please pray for good weather tomorrow as it is supposed to rain.

My batteries are charging right now so hopefully I can take some pictures today. :]

Today It Begins

Today our summer traveling officially begins. We head down to Georgia for two seminars and a DLP, along with another seminar in Chicago. Please pray for us as we travel about.

I'll upload some pictures when we get a hard line.

College & Career Group

For the past 6 months or so we of college and career age have been meeting at a local Tim Hortons, which is a coffee/donut chain, every Tuesday night. We fellowship with one another for a while and talk about things in our lives and sometime just about nothing. Then we talk about my favorite book, the Bible! I call it a free-for-all where anybody can share something that they've been thinking about from the Word. I usually try to get it off to a good start and we go from there. There are about six of us that come every week with several others that come when they can. This group has been such a blessing and encouragement to me. Please pray that we would encourage each other in our walks with Christ and also to be good witnesses to the employees that we see every week.
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For the love of the game

There are few things of the world that I really care about. I try to just concentrate on the things of the Lord and His Word. BUT the one thing I do really, really, really like is baseball. My favorite team is the Cleveland Indians. This past Saturday they played the Yankees at the BRAND NEW Yankee Stadium which cost around $1.2 Billion to build. I got a call from a friend of mine saying that the Indians were on TV and I needed to turn it on. When I did I was very pleased. The score at the bottom half of the 2nd inning was 14 to 2 Indians in the lead. The game ended with the Tribe crushing the overspending Yankees 22 to 4. Ah, it warms my heart to see the team with the biggest payroll and most expensive stadium just get slammed. So of all the things to get excited about this one really got me excited! :)



P.S. If any of my readers are Yankees fans...I'll pray for you. :)

Almost Home

As I said in the past post we've been in Georgia for over a week now. Friday we went to a local YMCA and were able to do a kid's meeting there for a day camp which was around 60 kids.

Tom did the story of Barabbas and how Jesus took his place on the cross. He was the first one who could have said that Jesus died for him. Tom did a great job of telling the story and explaining the gospel. We had a lot of good conversations with some of the kids after. I talked to one boy who I think got saved that afternoon. Others on the team had similar conversations. Praise God foer this opportunity.

Lord willing we plan to leave for home tomorrow morning, early. Please pray for our travels that we will stay safe and awake. :] Also please be in prayer for all those who heard the Gospel this past week that the seeds planted would be watered.