We had a great week of camp with the youth! As always I want to thank you for your support of our young people. You have always been very generous with your giving. Your faithful in giving to the budget pays for the cabin, your faithfulness in providing food items enables us to keep cost down for the kids and of course you’ve always been good about providing scholarships for those in need. You are a giving people and I’m so grateful for your generous spirit.

Dan and Tina did their normal outstanding job in putting things together and running a very good camp. I appreciate their leadership, devotion and sacrificial commitment more than I can ever say. Mark Dix and Liana Deason made sure the troops were well fed, and are much appreciated. Thanks as well to Taylor Dix, Nathan Foote and Bob Lowery for serving as sponsors and excellent role models. We are blessed to have such caring and quality people serving Christ by serving our youth. Finally, thanks to our youth. You were a pleasure to be around and I’m proud of you and the way handled yourselves all week. Thanks for letting me hang out for most of the week.

In the weeks to come you will be seeing the fruit from the week. We have several kids who made professions of faith and a few who rededicated their lives. We also have some who are wrestling with issues and are on the verge of making commitments. Pray for Danny and Tina as they work with those who’ve made decisions and those who are working through issues.

I’ll see you Sunday.

Rod

Continue to pray for our nominating committee and our committee on committees as they finish up their work for the new church year. In talking with them Sunday, they are very close to finishing up their work. Speaking of Sunday, I forgot something very important. We had sign-up sheets for helping with the football dinners this fall. They were on the front pews but how were you supposed to know that when I didn’t announce it? I apologize and they will be available next Sunday. Marie Taylor is heading up this ministry. If you would like to help please sign up on the date or dates you can help. We appreciate your faithfulness.

The other big opportunity is the Good News Club at Robertson Elementary. The club will meet on Tuesdays from 2:50-4:30. This is a great opportunity to minister to the children of Robertson, their families and the school staff. We will have an informational meeting on Sunday, August 21, at 4:30 pm in fellowship hall. We’ll see a brief video giving an overview and talk about the program and the ways you can be involved. This is open to youth through senior adult. If you have a desire to minister to children and see them come to faith in Christ, this is an opportunity for you!

I look forward to seeing you and your family in Bible study and worship this coming Lord’s Day.

Rod

We had a great meeting Sunday afternoon about the Good News Club for Robertson Elementary. We need more volunteers to join our team. You may not be able to make it every Tuesday but you could once a month or a couple of times a semester. We also need members of our prayer team to pray for students, their families’ and for faculty and staff at Robertson. There are several ways for you to be involved. Keep watching for details as they become available.

We’ve also have had good response for the football dinners but we have a few spots to fill. If you are interested in helping you can sign up on Sunday or you can talk to Marie Taylor. This is another great opportunity to serve our community and partner with our local high school.

For years we’ve prayed for opportunities to increase our evangelistic efforts and to impact our community. We’ve faithfully and persistently done what we could to be available to the schools and community and now we’ve reached the point that they are coming to us and asking for help. With the Good News Club we’ve been handed the opportunity to walk into a local elementary school for an after school program and teach a Bible lesson and present the Gospel once a week for 28 weeks during this school year! We must not fail to take this step. We need your involvement. This is your opportunity to love the children of this community and bring the Gospel to them. Will you join us?

I’ll see you Sunday.

Rod

Several have asked about our trip. We leave Tulsa on the afternoon of August 31 and return home the evening of September 15. Below is our itinerary for the next two weeks:
Aug 31 depart Tulsa and fly to Washington D.C. Catch a flight to Rome.

Arrive in Rome on Sept 1 a day to relax.
Sept 2 - full day tour of Rome

Sept 3 - Depart Civitavecchia (Rome)

Sept 4–5 - At sea – Lectures on the early days of the church.

Sept 6 - Haifa arrive 1 pm – tour Caesrea, drive across Mt. Carmel to the ancient city of Acre, dinner in the courtyard of Knight’s Hall.

Sept 7 – Tour Galilee, Mount of Beatitudes, Capernaum, boat ride on Sea of Galilee. Depart 10 pm

Sept 8 - Arrive Ashdod AM. We will spend the 8th and 9th touring the Jerusalem.

Sept 9 - Depart Ashdod 10 pm

Sept 10 - At sea. Lectures/Bible Study.

Sept 11 – Ephesus. After a reading of the book of Ephesians in St. John’s Basilica we’ll tour the city.

Sept 12 - Mykonos, Greece a day free for sightseeing.

Sept 13 - At sea Lectures/Bible Studies.

Sept 14 – Naples were we’ll tour Capri and Pompeii.

Sept 15 - Arrive Civitavecchia (Rome) start the trip home.

We are so grateful for this unbelievable gift. Thank you is so inadequate! We can’t wait to get back and share with you what we see and hear.

See you on the 18!

Rod