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August is winding down! Which means I'm about to be a father! Crazy crazy crazy!

Youth, yall are doing a fantastic job of inviting friends to come check out the church. I'm extremely proud of you for reaching out to your lost friends! Don't forget that the 27th (Next Friday) is game night! Daniel and MariaLe Watson will be there hosting the event, and depending on whether or not Ania has given birth we might be there as well. Bring your friends, and whatever board/card games you want to play and be ready to have some fun!

Also, I'm going to need to know if it will be at all possible for you guys to start saving for a spring break ski trip. The cost will be around 400 which means you'd need to start saving money now. I don't want to take 2 or 3 people, and I don't want 20 people telling me they can do it just to try to back out later. If I can get enough of a response then we'll set a time for deposits and stuff like that... just need to know within the next few weeks.

God has been showing me this week that I absolutely 100% have to rely on Him for my strength and well-being. I'm realizing just how frail and meek I am in comparison to Him and how easily he can bring me home.

You see without knowing it, we like to make ourselves seem extremely important on this earth. At times we wonder why God can't or won't do things the way we want them done. We think our way is better than His way. Those words may not be the exact ones we think, but thoughts like it often occur. I'm humbled by what God says to Job in Job 38-39. God is in control, and He knows everything that happened, is happening, and will happen. It's amazing and humbling.


Yet Jeremiah 29:11 also comes to mind for me. "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."God wants to do great things in our lives... but first we have to step out of the way and let God do them.

Monday, Monday

Hey guys and gals! So Ania and I have hit the single digits on our baby countdown! 9 more days til her due date... I can tell right now our little baby girl is stubborn, like her daddy, so she may not come on time. My guess is that she's comfortable and happy just chillin inside Ania. Too bad she's got to come into this sin filled world...

Anyways, I'm very glad to see our youth group slowly starting to pick up in numbers. It's encouraging to see so many people coming to learn about God. At least I hope that's what you guys are doing! I've always said it's never about the numbers. I still say that, but for your sakes I know seeing a few more people makes you happy. So I encourage you to invite your friends. If you can get them to church then Ania and I will do everything we can to encourage them to stay and continue to return.

You start school this week. My prayer for you is that you will continue to live your Christian life at school the same way you live it at church. It won't be easy, but you have lots of people praying for you. And if you ever need any help, Ania and I are just a phone call away!

Love yall,
Brent

2 More Weeks

So tomorrow there will be 2 weeks left until our baby is born... if she decides to come on her due date. It's extremely exciting and extremely nerve-wracking all at the same time. Wow.... crazy how fast 9 months went by.

Youth!!!! I am so proud of you guys and gals. You are really starting to understand what it means to be a Christian and what it means to desire a life devoted to following Christ. It makes me extremely happy to see and hear your eagerness to dive into the Word and learn about what God wants to do in each of your lives.

Are there any topics that you feel like would be good for the youth group to study? I'm getting ready to start a study in the next couple months but before then I want to take time to go over some things that yall want to learn about. So now's the time to sound off and tell me what you want to learn!

Morons

So I'm here to say that there are certain times where I find it extremely hard to love moronic people. I totally know the Bible on this one guys and gals, I'm just saying.

So how do you deal with moronic people? What's your strategy when it comes to someone who seems so hard to love that you just can't do it?

A Quick Reprieve

So I'm off of work this week... (except on Wednesday night when I WILL be teaching!) I'm trying to go through everything that happened last week. It was indeed an amazing week and I cannot wait until next year as I'm sure most of you are thinking. God did some wonderful things in our lives this past week and I am very thankful for that.

So, we're moving on. August 6th is our back to school lock-in. It will be the first event that our new 6th graders will be allowed to attend! As we get ready for school to start back up I hope everybody is keeping to a regular schedule of reading the Bible and praying. Everybody enjoy this week and I'll see yall Wednesday!

BUSY!!!!

Hey guys and gals! I am so sorry it's been so long since I've had a blog post. I have been extremely busy getting ready for camp and well my time is just pulled between places... yet Ania will tell you I can still find time to sneak a game or two in now and again. For those of you not going to Falls Creek you can skip this next paragraph.

Falls Creek is coming up next week!!!!!!!!!!! I am extremely excited and cannot wait to see what God does for our group. The theme for the camp is SENT. Jesus was SENT to save us, we are SENT into the world to spread the love of Christ. The theme for the in cabin devotional during the evening will be titled "What's holding you back." So I hope you come hungry for spiritual food, because we're going to be dishing it out like crazy!

Ok, so August 6, we're having a back to school lock-in here at the church. Invite your friends!!!! It's going to be awesome :) It's going to be 9PM - 9AM. So get ready for that! Don't forget about Sunday School starting at 9AM!!! Daniel Watson and Jamie Mediak are doing a great job teaching, so come back to hear them teach some more! Next week Daniel will be teaching Wednesday night, so if you can't or aren't going to camp then please come to youth group to hear him speak!

Be praying for the youth group for this week. Pray that God will open the hearts, minds, and souls of all the youth going and please pray for Ania as she will be very pregnant in a very hot town!

July

Well, fireworks was pretty fun even though it was extremely rainy. Thanks to the Robison family for making Ania and I's 4th pretty darn fun! Ania mentioned it felt like we were on vacation, and I'll have to agree. Sam, Kyle and I got some much needed card playing in, and Daniel got to cheat and beat me at SSB Brawl....

Tomorrow is back to work and that means preparing for Falls Creek. It's coming up so fast and there's still quite a bit left to do!

Question for the week: Why do Christians tolerate so much sin?