First week in the green acers..

Hey Everyone Happy Friday!

It has been agreat week, very busy but truly full of blessings. WE have realy gotten to know alot of the community. We met the Mayor, Ealin flemming and she gave us a tour of the city. We truly got to see the real need in the community. There is a lot of poverty that you do not see until you go back into the side areas. Joe our works projects man has a wonderfully long list of projects all lined up for the summer and Karen has kids already wanting to start Kids Club right now! We have one more week until we get all the youth groups in. We move into the High School tommarow morning and we are so anxiuose to get everything in order. TOday was realy just a chill day before we have to really get our hands dirty this weekend. Our staff has been getting along great no major conflicts, although we all have very different personalities...Last night we shared our life stories and I think that realy broke down some walls and allowed each of us to understand eachother a lot better. THrough teh week we have been running allo over town in ans out of visits with the importan figure heads of the city. I had an interesting experience yesterday, I was at a youth development meeting, what this is, is a group that comes together once a week to discuss what they are doing in their differnt communities to get their youth involved in. Well I was a guest speaker and that went well but the interesting part was at the beggining of the meeting, they passed around some kind of incent kind of thing to each member, I soon began to understand that it was an incent it was tobaacco, I got stuck with it at the end and finnaly the man in charge of the meeting took it from me. Lets just say I had the worst headache all day! But I enjoyed learning about each of these communites and tribes, and I look foward to building some great relationships over the summer with them. Tonight we are attending the Cass Lake Graduation so we can meet some youth and get oriented with the place we will be staying at for the summer.

Prayer requests: For my Staff to be constanly encouraged and strengthened, I just prayt aht we have a lot of energy threw the hole summer and don't grow weary and lose heart. For this next week of hard work, that we would accomplish what the Lord would have us get done by being productive and staying on task. And for the Youth that are coming uo next week, I pray that their hearts would be broken for the things that break God's heart.

Thank you everyone!