WHAT'S UP?

So what's up in your corner of the planet? Here, we're doing really great. God is blessing us in so many different ways.
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Yesterday, the 4th was full of good things and good people. We had three different showings of the house and then we spent the evening celebrating Independence Day with the Clear Branch community complete with a country-style parade, a quartet gospel group, water slides, hamburgers and hotdays, snowcones, and fireworks.

Today, we spent a few hours helping with a Mission-Fuge group at We Will Go before getting home just in time for the arrival of company. My brother's wife Stephanie is here with their three kids so our house will be full of loud voices and loud laughter for the next few days.
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And hopefully, we'll have a buyer soon for our home and then our house will be really full of loudness as we whoop and holler high praise to our Lord!
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Please keep up the praying, and as soon as God answers with the provision we need, believe me,  you'll be reading about it right here --- if you haven't already heard me screaming my words of rejoicing!

CHANGE YOUR WORLD

CHANGE YOUR LIFE

My friend Jeff Goins, of Adventures in Missions, asked me to help get the word out about an awesome new opportunity for young adults. It won't just change the participants lives, I can pretty darn guarantee that it will change the world around them as well. Here's what Jeff has to say:

This year at AIM, we've started a new discipleship program in Mexico for
18-25 year-olds who are yearning for something more - an opportunity to live
and grow in community with other Christ-followers who are intent on seeing
the kingdom come.

So, this is a call to all you youth leaders, parents, and disciplers to send us your young people. Before they go off to college or start their careers, getting caught up in the world, we're encouraging you to send them off for the better part of a year to get
discipled and expand their worldviews.

The Journey Missions Program is not so much a program, but
more of its namesake - that is, a journey.

It is a discipleship opportunity - a journey that is shared with others, and led by those who have been traveling it for some time.

The beauty of this journey is the discovery that awaits you. The Apostle
Paul talks of presenting every man and woman complete in Christ, and that is the
goal of The Journey, as well (Colossians 1:28).

We want to teach others to abide in Christ and walk with Him. This is facilitated through one-on-one discipleship, physical labor, ministry, creativity, art, music,
community, and leadership.

Read more about The Journey Missions Program: http://www.adventures.org/thejourney/

Feel free to re-blog this, forward to a friend, etc. Help us get the
word out!