Well, it's been a while since I posted anything so I thought I needed an update. Bob and I have been out of the office for almost 6 weeks. We took 2 weeks of vacation, then we were home for 1 week. We then went to CBLI for 12 days and then another 2 weeks of vacation. We are both trying to dig out of all of the work that piled up while we were gone, but we are making progress.
The Lord blessed us once again at CBLI. He is so faithful and always pours out his blessings as we come together to worship and study the Bible together. Each year we have been amazed at the great outpouring of His love and mercy and power. Our prayer now is that as we all go back to our own corps and the world that we live in that we all would allow the Lord to continue to work through us to further His kingdom.
I was reading a story on CNN the other day about Acquire the Fire. If you don't know about this it is a great concert, teaching, training opportunity for teens and young adults. Thousands of youth attend them each year. The story on CNN was stating that the Christian mindset was taking these vulnerable teenagers and filling them with all of this conservative junk and that we are messing with their minds. As I was reading this I was wondering what the "world" thinks that they are doing to teens? Are they not playing with minds? Are they not filling teenagers minds with all kinds of sex, violence, gambling, perversions, drugs, drinking, etc? Is it ok for them to do this, but not ok for us to present the TRUTH to them? It really blows my mind that those statements were even in this story.
Anyway, I say all of that to say to you, KEEP FIGHTING!! We are on the winning side!!
