Until The Nets Are Full: Our First Missions Teams!

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Greetings friends and prayers warriors!

The first 10 days of August are going to be exciting and busy days in our ministry! First, the Glogower family, Craig, Melissa, Craig Jr., Colin, Cameron, and even their dog Josie, arrived on Sunday the 31st of July to partake in a week of service with our ministry. They wanted to see "hands on" what our ministry was about as well as to provide an opportunity for their children to learn how to lead a missional and servant life. It has been a rewarding week for their family and a time of encouragement for our family all the way around. On Monday, Craig, Daniel, and the boys spent the day replacing a broken toilet and installing some handicap support bars in the bathroom of a couple who are currently struggling with physical disabilities. This will allow them to move around safely in their bathroom. For the past 3 days, everyone has spent time out at the storehouse working on various projects that were in desperate need of being done, including building a shoe rack to display shoes so that people who are in need could be able to more easily identify them. Time was also spent organizing clothing, working on grounds maintenance, and putting in a fan to help cool the storehouse which has no air conditioning. Today is the Second Harvest Food Bank food distribution and it was an awesome time! Over 48 families in need were given boxes of food! The gospel was shared and we were able to pray with many. We are so thankful to the Glogower family for giving of their time, talents, and energy to serve with us this week, encourage us (they even gave us a date night!), and for wanting to teach their children how to lead missional lives!

Also going on today through next Tuesday, a mission team of 12 people from Mt. Moriah Baptist Church is in town. The 7 men on that team are doing an "extreme makeover" on the bathroom of a lady who is disabled. She has had to take sponge baths for over a year due to being unable to access her shower because of her disabilities. The 5 ladies will be working hard at our storehouse continuing the organizational process and helping as we prepare to transition out the summer clothes and transition in the winter clothes to be given away. It will be a busy but exciting week of ministry!

Things you can be praying for this week:
1-Pray for safe travel and arrival of the team from Mt. Moriah. 5 members of their team are already in town but the remaining team members are traveling tomorrow.
2-Pray for unity of purpose for the Mt. Moriah team and that they will be able to accomplish the project in the time they have to do it.
3-Pray for the team from Mt. Moriah that as they learn more about our ministry and see it first hand that they will develop a love and heart for Appalachia and a passion for the great mission needs here and take that passion back to the rest of the congregation.
4-Pray for safe travel home for the Glogowers and that their sons will be excited about living a missional life from their experience this week.
5-On a personal note, pray for Lily this week as she is cutting more teeth and thus not sleeping well or feeling well.

Thank you for your prayers and support! We love you and miss you and could not be here without you!