Update!

Well we’re getting closer to the day I leave and God is working wonders.

I have purchased my plane ticket so I have an official arrival date. I will be leaving on May 16 at 6:30am and arriving on May 16 at 11:30 am. If you all could pray for safe travels I would greatly appreciate it.

One last thing that has happened since I last posted is that due to some of the summer school scheduling and what not, Jacob Trimm, the young man who was going to be interning at Kamiah, will not be going this summer. This is both a blessing and a disappointment. It’s a blessing because we are able to focus on only one intern. Since this is such a new idea, a project that has never really been tested things are bound to go wrong, and it will be much easier to fix the things that go wrong with only one intern making the mistakes. We will be able to focus the trip’s scope and be much better prepared when another student does what I’m doing next year. It is a disappointment though, because it means that Kamiah won’t get the experience of having a youth intern, and the youth there still won’t have a solid foundation in Christ. However, I’m sure that this is all according to God’s plan, and if He wanted Jacob to be in Kamiah, then He would have made it so.

Those are all the updates I have for you now. Thank you so much for being with me as I do this! God bless.

Spring Retreat

This past weekend the youth group had their spring retreat. We spent a weekend at the church just working together and loving God. Brian Aaby came down and led the weekend in teamwork and confidence building exercises. It was a total blast. Not only did we all get better at sharing our faith with others, we also grew closer as a group. From the crazy whiffle ball games, to the “speed evangelism” to writing and recording testimonies to be played at the larger Youth Mark spring retreats. We definitely got to know the people we were going to be working with this summer and now we can play better to each other’s’ strengths. I’m really excited now; it gave me an extra motivation to really get some work done before the group gets to Idaho, so that they’re work will yield even more results.