SMITE & Cows...

Hello all!  Well, we made it back from S.M.I.T.E camp safe and sound!

It was a fun and profitable week!  The Lord really worked!

There were 447 kids that received Christ as there Saviour this week and almost 2,000 that heard the salvation message!  Praise the Lord!

Caleb graduated from S.M.I.T.E this year which was exciting.  And James went for the first time and loved it!  Jordan taught a short class which she enjoyed and Ben passed the hardest level with flying colors!

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We all LOVED all the suggestions for the cows!  They were so fun!  Thank you!

We ended up naming the mama cow Adalaide , which means 'Noble, kind'.

And the baby; Guess.  That way when a certain 'event' happens and someone asks, "What's for dinner?" we can say, "Guess!"  ;D

S.M.I.T.E Camp!

Sorry all for not posting last week! Caleb, Ben, & I were at S.M.I.T.E camp down in balmy Louisiana all last week! We had a GREAT time! S.M.I.T.E camp, for those of you who don't know, is a camp were "fun goes to die" as the director, Uncle Jerry, says. :) It's a place were they train you to lead 5 Day Bible Clubs and to lead kids to the Lord! A 5 Day Bible Club is like a 1 hour VBS in someones backyard or at a town park. We do songs, a memory verse, and Bible lesson and a missionary story. Plus a game or two here or there.

S.M.I.T.E stands for Summer Missionary Institute for Training and Evangelism. It has four levels that you pass by taking tests at the end of the week. The 1st level teaches how to use the wordless book to lead someone to the Lord. Level 2 is how to tell the Missionary story, level 3 on how to tell the Bible lesson and to write your own outlines, and level 4 is on teaching in general. After you pass level 4 you "graduate" from SMITE, which I (Jordan) did this year! Caleb passed level 3 and Ben passed level 2.

So the schedule (just so you can see what it's like) is... you get up at 6:00, eat breakfast, then you go to your classes til lunch. After lunch you have a study hour to get ready for your club then everyone goes out to there assigned club and practices what they have been learning. After that everyone gets back, gets ready for evening services and goes to dinner. After dinner the service starts at about 6:30, with a 1/2 hour sing time, and doesn't get out til the Holy Spirit lets us! :) Which this week was about 11:30 each night! It is so cool because there is such a sense of revival in that place that is just awesome!

This year there were over 1,000 kids enrolled in the clubs and over 400 saved!!!! This is a camp to definitely look in to! Hope I didn't bore you all! Now to the pics...

On the way down we stopped at Lamberts!!!!

We had a little wait so we bumped a volleyball on the grass to get all our energy out from driving.

On Sun. after church we went to the Bass Pro Shop down there!!! COOL place!!!!

(Love this truck!)
Here's Britt and Jenny in one of the services.

Here's Ashley! She's so cute!

And Natalea, she's so fun! And there's our guys in the background.

This was one of the preachers.

And some of you may know this one! "I love my pastor!!!" :D

This is a movie of one of the songs we sing down there. The song time is just incredible!!!!!

Please keep us in your prayer this summer as we do Bible clubs around our area! For safety and the Holy Spirit to convict and change lives!

5 Day Club Report

Hi all! Thanks for all your prayers this week! We had a GREAT Club! We were NOT expecting that much in the town we did it in but we had over 10 kids each day! Prasie the Lord for the work He did. We had 28 kids come over the whole week but not all at once. 5 kids got saved and we gave two kids assurance! Next week we are doing two clubs back to back so please pray for strength and enthusaism on our part. Hope you all have a TERRIFIC weekend!

(These are pics. of last weeks club.)

5 Day Club Report

Today was our last day of club at Brainards Landing because they are closed tomorrow. By the grace of God we had a total of 7 saved at this weeks club! Which is sooooo encouraging compared to the last two weeks. Next week we are planning to do one in a town close to ours. So if you all could pray that the Lord will open the hearts of the children there and that He will give them a desire to come next week. We'll start canvasing tomorrow. Please also be in prayer that the kids that got saved this week would start coming to church and that their families would get saved as well. Thanks to all of you who have been praying for us. You all have a part of this too. :)

5 Day Clubs

This week we are meeting at an apartment complex for club. Yesterday we had 5 kids and one got saved! Praise the Lord! It's kinda funny, when it's not very hot outside, we get to do club in an air conditioned building! :) Here are some pics. of the last two weeks clubs. Please be praying that more kids will come and MANY more will get saved. Thank you for all your prayers already! Praying you all have a VERY blessed day!

Girls making a 5 Day Club sign.

Talking over the days schedual.

Ben doing tic-tac-know game.

Jenny telling the Bible lesson.


P.S James made lunch today, so more of that later! Stay tuned! ;>

5 Day Club Report

Today was our last day to do Bible Club for this week. We hadn't had any kids all week so we were getting kind of discouraged but we were still trusting the Lord that He knew what was best. So prasie the Lord He sent two kids from another town that came to play baseball at the park. They stopped and finished the club with us. And the little boy, about age 10, got saved!!!!!!!! That made it worth the whole week. Please pray that he will come to church and grow in the Lord. His name is Jalin.

Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth. Luke 15:10