Sunday kicked off a week at our church that we have never experienced before here in Quitman, TX. The Army has invaded and taken over our facilities for the week. Starting Sunday afternoon and continuing on through to Saturday morning we are hosting a UM Army work camp in our new J.O.Y. Hall. For those of you who may not be familiar with this, it is the conference youth mission trip. Each summer, from early June through late July/early August various churches throughout the Texas conference (and other conferences as well) host mission trips in their communities for other churches. Our camp this week is I believe a total of 58 students and adults doing various projects throughout Quitman and Wood county. It really is a great ministry opportunity, and I know that our congregation is uber-excited to be hosting this event. It is amazing though just how much they take over when they come into a church for the week. There are people sleeping in The Well (our youth area), in Sunday school rooms, the nursery and there is even one person sleeping in the youth kitchen.
This coming Sunday Roni and I will headed out with a group of 17 youth from our church plus three other adults for our second annual mission/mystery trip. We will be putting on a VBS for inner city kids in the mornings (the mission) and then doing some fun things at night (the mystery). We are very excited about this trip for a few of reasons: 1) We have 17 youth going!! Last year we took a total of 7 youth, all boys. This year we have 7 GIRLS going (Roni is very excited about that part of it). 2) The focus of the trip is on the ministry opportunity and we really feel that this will give many of these kids a chance to put into practice this thing we call faith. 3) We are possibly going to get a chance to spend (at least part of) the week with one of our former students. We are pretty much always excited about spending time with former students. Please pray for us as we travel and minister this next week.
Finally, Little Bull is finally out of the baby bed and into his "big boy" bed. When I say he is in a big boy bed, I mean that at 2 1/2 he is already sleeping in a full size bed. I didn't start sleeping in a full size bed until I moved away to Canyon and even then it wasn't until the end of my first semester...and I was 21 then. There are only a few things that concern me with him being in this new bed: 1) We can no longer contain him in the bed at night when we put him down. He tends to wander around his room and drag out EVERY SINGLE TOY before finally crashing. 2) He has fallen out of bed about 3 times now in the 2 weeks he's been in it, and that is a bit of a rude awakening for both him and his parents. 3) It means that he is getting bigger on me. I will admit that I'm not quite ready for my baby boy to be getting as big as he is. Tonight I was laying by him trying to get him to go to sleep, and he finally told me "You go your bed." I was officially kicked out of the big boy bed and sent to my own room to sleep. That usually is the other way around it seems.
Both of the girls are awesome as always. All three will be spending the week with Gran' maw and Daddy Bill while Roni and I are gone with the youth, so keep Mom and Pops in your thoughts, as well as the Wild Things that they don't eat McDonald's too much while we are gone, and that they get the special attention they need from the grandparents while they are there. It's going to be a good week for us, but as always we will miss our Wild Things.
Thanks for indulging me and reading along.
Peace, Love and Grace y'all.
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