Things are kicking into high gear. Wednesday night kicked off our youth programming. I will be assisting with Thunder in the Desert our ministry to 9-12 graders. I am leading a group of excellent young men - I am very excited for this year.
Next Tuesday, the 7th of September, we will run a simulated coffee house for Wartburg students. We will start that outreach for real that following Friday. Coffee House has a special place in my heart because I was a Freshman the year it started. I volunteered to help wash dishes and that is where I found my connection to the Vineyard community. We have been praying for this new "crop" of students for months, I can't wait to see what God has in store.
Speaking of Coffee houses, my friend Jason and a couple of area pastors are opening a coffee house/ice cream shoppe in Waverly. They are hoping to be up and running October 1. Please keep them in your prayers. This is a wonderful (and much needed) business for Waverly and the potential to build relationships with people of all sorts is astounding. God, truly, is on the move.
I am also going to be preaching this weekend. My text is Ephesians 2:4-10. Please pray for me. How can I address such a deep passage of scripture in such a short time? This is, after all, that passage that changed the Western World as we know it through a drunk monk named Martin Luther. Woof. I ask for grace, wisdom and clarity of thought and speech. Amen.
And finally, I get to go to camp EWALU this weekend! I was there last weekend to marry my friends Kate Berry and Matt Jansen and now I get to hang out with my in-laws and wife. If you have followed this blog for a while, you will understand how much EWALU means to me.
As I said, life is crazy! I hope future updates will be a little more in depth, but this is a high intensity season right now. May God bless you all on this Labor Day weekend. Amen.
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