Today as I write this, the snow is falling. What a beautiful picture of God's grace falling on us. Christ's blood blotting out our sin. I am thankful for the blood of Christ and His willingness to come to earth and be born in very humble circumstances, live a holy life, and ultimately go to the cross. We all need God's forgiveness and to walk with Him daily. Thank you, Lord, for 1st John 1:9. “That if we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
In the Bushnell ministry the past month, we have had a couple of answer's to prayer! We have a new female volunteer for CL M and 2 female VIT's! Melinda Treadway is a local parent of a Jr. High teen and is a real blessing when it comes to working with teens. She had prior experience as a camp counselor and a real heart for Jesus. In addition, a couple of our Sr. high girls have filled out applications to help with the jr. high teens. Courtney and Chelsea began observing at the end of the month and will be serving as Volunteers in Training in the coming months.
Speaking of Courtney, a senior at BPC high school, she shared her testimony at the 20th Annual YFC Banquet on Nov. 11. Courtney has been involved since she was in jr. high, She attends 1st Baptist on Wed. nights and is regularly fed spiritual food by Donna Williams (Donna has volunteered several years with the YFC Jr. High ministry and much longer with her church). It's great to have other youth workers in the community that care and love on teens!
The jr. high girls have been waiting a long time for this. They just couldn't take it back in the fall when the boys got to do a “boys only campout.” So, Dec. 2 they had their very own, girls only, overnighter at the local Community Christian Center. A good time was had by all, thanks to the many brave female leaders God has called to invest in these young ladies. After speaking with a few of the leaders, here is what they said about the night. “It was great fellowship.” “Leaders were giving attention to kids.” “I got to share about how much God cares about each one of us according to Psalm 37 and how each of our hairs are numbered on our heads.” “Kids were connecting with me.” “Trust was developing.” “We had God talk time in the middle of the night.” Praise the Lord for the walls being broken down! It is going to be neat to see how God moves these teens.
Thank you for all of your faithful prayer support! We couldn't be doing this without it. We LOVE all of you that help this ministry to happen in Bushnell!!!
Prayer items:
• truth to be revealed to the teens we are working with
• teens that have the wrong view of themselves to get God's perspective
• for leaders to be effective ministers while in contact with the teens
• for spiritual strongholds to be broken down
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