Life seems to be moving more quickly than I can keep up with! Since returning to Indiana from Mississippi, I have spoken in two more churches, my home church and Milan Wesleyan Church. It was a blessing to be with both church families. I have also been in the schools regularly as usual along with spending a lot of time with the students from The Grounds youth ministry. I am really enjoying this particular group of kids and their sense of humor. They enjoy pranking me on pretty much a weekly basis. Today, we had an outreach at my home church. We basically threw a huge block party with free food, games, and prizes for the community. It was a huge success, and several of our youth showed up to help. One of the games for the little kids was a kiddie pool filled with water where they could select a duck from the water and win a prize. After the day became pretty hot, the kids decided it was way better to just go swimming in the pool. Probably a dozen or more little kids were sitting in the water at any given point, tracking in and out of it and doing the normal things little kids do when they go swimming. At the end of the party, boys from The Grounds decided it would be really funny to add some ice water to the mix and dump the whole kiddie pool over my head... Talk about gross... I love working with teenagers. :) I can't wait to tell prank stories from New Zealand!
Tomorrow I'm off to yet another church to cast a vision for the ministry in New Zealand. This week is the last week of school, so I'll get my final days of subbing in before adjusting to a new summer schedule of dedicating more time to phone calls and traveling. Please keep praying for more fruitful connections with churches and individuals who are called to join the team!
