Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
The Final Entry (maybe)
Well, we are all home and followed up our missions trip with an intense week of VBS here at are home church of FBC.
I (Pastor Dave) am at Camp Manitoumi in Illinois. I appreciate your prayers as I speak to the SHers here. A number of you had requested the final entry, so here it is.
THURSDAY
Our final day of major ministry work. We were challenged by Pastor Jeff with a pile of 1500(!) flyers to hand out! A smile is crawling across my face as I think about the teams reaction. They went out and canvassed hard and fast. It took just a little over 2 hours to get them all done. Which brings our total up to 3000+ homes reached with information about Oasis Baptist Church. The team was tired, but they had accomplished a lot.
For lunch, we got to go to the Dale's beutiful home and have some GREAT burgers, hotdogs, and chicken off the grill. We also did some relaxing and then went back to the hotel to get ready for our final evening of VBS.
VBS was awesome, our registraion for the week exceeded 50 and we had a BIG group for the last day. Everything went very well. Pastor Dave raced all the kids, we had the GREAT BIG-WHEEL race, and we also had to find out if Awesome Aaron (puppets) won his triathalon. After announcong the winners, all the kids sang and shouted and had a great time. Pastor Jeff then came up and had all the kids line up and give big hugs to all the team. I saw some tears from some unlikely sources!
After that, in the midst of an unusual Phoenix downpour, we cleaned up. The team worked hard and fast getting every thing back to normal. We then headed off to eat at a nice restaraunt. BUT...it was closed, so we ordered Papa Johns and had it delivered to Pastor Dave and Jen's room for devos and food.
FRIDAY
Our trip to the Grand Canyon. Four hours each way, and well worth it. For all but three of us (Jen, Mel, and Kristen) it was our first visit. All I can say is WOW! God has given us a magnificant display of his creation there. We all enjoyed the view, acted like tourists and bought up a bunch of souveniers, and wandered around avoiding Pastor Dave. (because I was a bit grumpy, for some reason - sorry guys)
On the way home, Pastor Dave had figured we had saved up enough to go out REALLY nice, so we had Outback! OH YEAH!.
Once we got home, the girls packed up and the guys got the trailer ready. Most of the girls just threw their luggage in withthe guys so they wouldn't have to check any luggage. The guys got all pre-packed and went to bed since they would be getting up @ 5:30 the next morning.
SPLITING UP
The next day, the guys (with MAJOR help from Mike Griswold who the Lord miraculously transported to Phoenix just for us) made it from Phoenix to Tulsa in one day. WIth quick stops and bathroom/gas/food stops.
The ladies flew home, and got back late that evening.
The guys then had to get from Tulsa to Elyria (with a stop in St Louis to pick up Derek and David Burman) NO PROBLEM! They got in around 1am, unloaded the van, put stuff away, and then headed home to get a bit of sleep then rise for VBS (as I stated at the beginning)
There is so much I want to add to this, but you will all have to come to our Report service this Sunday (July27) @6pm to here it for yourself.
I will try to add more pics later!!
Pastor Dave
I (Pastor Dave) am at Camp Manitoumi in Illinois. I appreciate your prayers as I speak to the SHers here. A number of you had requested the final entry, so here it is.
THURSDAY
Our final day of major ministry work. We were challenged by Pastor Jeff with a pile of 1500(!) flyers to hand out! A smile is crawling across my face as I think about the teams reaction. They went out and canvassed hard and fast. It took just a little over 2 hours to get them all done. Which brings our total up to 3000+ homes reached with information about Oasis Baptist Church. The team was tired, but they had accomplished a lot.
For lunch, we got to go to the Dale's beutiful home and have some GREAT burgers, hotdogs, and chicken off the grill. We also did some relaxing and then went back to the hotel to get ready for our final evening of VBS.
VBS was awesome, our registraion for the week exceeded 50 and we had a BIG group for the last day. Everything went very well. Pastor Dave raced all the kids, we had the GREAT BIG-WHEEL race, and we also had to find out if Awesome Aaron (puppets) won his triathalon. After announcong the winners, all the kids sang and shouted and had a great time. Pastor Jeff then came up and had all the kids line up and give big hugs to all the team. I saw some tears from some unlikely sources!
After that, in the midst of an unusual Phoenix downpour, we cleaned up. The team worked hard and fast getting every thing back to normal. We then headed off to eat at a nice restaraunt. BUT...it was closed, so we ordered Papa Johns and had it delivered to Pastor Dave and Jen's room for devos and food.
FRIDAY
Our trip to the Grand Canyon. Four hours each way, and well worth it. For all but three of us (Jen, Mel, and Kristen) it was our first visit. All I can say is WOW! God has given us a magnificant display of his creation there. We all enjoyed the view, acted like tourists and bought up a bunch of souveniers, and wandered around avoiding Pastor Dave. (because I was a bit grumpy, for some reason - sorry guys)
On the way home, Pastor Dave had figured we had saved up enough to go out REALLY nice, so we had Outback! OH YEAH!.
Once we got home, the girls packed up and the guys got the trailer ready. Most of the girls just threw their luggage in withthe guys so they wouldn't have to check any luggage. The guys got all pre-packed and went to bed since they would be getting up @ 5:30 the next morning.
SPLITING UP
The next day, the guys (with MAJOR help from Mike Griswold who the Lord miraculously transported to Phoenix just for us) made it from Phoenix to Tulsa in one day. WIth quick stops and bathroom/gas/food stops.
The ladies flew home, and got back late that evening.
The guys then had to get from Tulsa to Elyria (with a stop in St Louis to pick up Derek and David Burman) NO PROBLEM! They got in around 1am, unloaded the van, put stuff away, and then headed home to get a bit of sleep then rise for VBS (as I stated at the beginning)
There is so much I want to add to this, but you will all have to come to our Report service this Sunday (July27) @6pm to here it for yourself.
I will try to add more pics later!!
Pastor Dave
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Photos from Tuesday through Thursday in AZ
Here are the new photos. We have added to the old ones as well!!
Another Two Day Blog
It is 11 o'clock on Wednesday night. WE have had a great past two days. On Tuesday we hit 700 houses with flyers about the church. PAstor Benner took us to one of the local pools. It was fun and we all enjoyed the cold water of the pool. We also had a great night of VBS where 2 kids got saved. Afterward we played volleyball with some of the teens from the youth group at Oasis Baptist. They were Isaac, Elian, David, Nacho, Sierra, and Nicole. We then went to Applebee's at 10 o'clock at night. We were there till 11:40, and we had fun fellowshipping. They also helped with VBS on Tuesday.
Today we went canvassing and hit 900 houses with flyers. We then went to lunch and gathered our laundry to make a laundry run. Jen, Carissa, Liz and Dana went to find the laundry mat and everyone stayed and either slept or went in the pool. The four of us went to the first laundry mat closed at 2 and we got there at 1:40, so we found another one. There, Dana stayed behind while Jen took Carissa to the emergency care to find out what was wrong with the spots on her back. Liz went too to keep Carissa company. Dana was left in the very hot laundry mat for an hour and a half to keep a eye on the laundry, but we made it back to the hotel with clean laundry and medicine, and we then went to the church and got ready for VBS. The church provided dinner for us and we had a great night of VBS. We had 3 kids get saved. After VBS, we came back to the hotel and had a pool party. We then had devos and now the boys are playing x-box and the girls are crashed in Jen's room, since the guys won't let us play ='(
written by Dana Kincaid--Psalm 9:1,10
edited by Kelly =p
pics coming tomorrow:
Today we went canvassing and hit 900 houses with flyers. We then went to lunch and gathered our laundry to make a laundry run. Jen, Carissa, Liz and Dana went to find the laundry mat and everyone stayed and either slept or went in the pool. The four of us went to the first laundry mat closed at 2 and we got there at 1:40, so we found another one. There, Dana stayed behind while Jen took Carissa to the emergency care to find out what was wrong with the spots on her back. Liz went too to keep Carissa company. Dana was left in the very hot laundry mat for an hour and a half to keep a eye on the laundry, but we made it back to the hotel with clean laundry and medicine, and we then went to the church and got ready for VBS. The church provided dinner for us and we had a great night of VBS. We had 3 kids get saved. After VBS, we came back to the hotel and had a pool party. We then had devos and now the boys are playing x-box and the girls are crashed in Jen's room, since the guys won't let us play ='(
written by Dana Kincaid--Psalm 9:1,10
edited by Kelly =p
pics coming tomorrow:
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