We are excited to say that August 17th is our sign-up to volunteer for Judgement House.  If you have never heard of Judgement House it is an awesome ministry that is designed to reach out to the community.  This will be our 9th year to do Judgement House and last year we had over 400 volunteers sign up to help us with this ministry.  Judgement House is a walk-thru drama that portrays how the choices people make in this life affect their eternity.  We need volunteers to help with drama, security, concessions, registration, counseling, prayer, tour guides, technical, runners and much more.  This event is something the whole family can be involved in.  Our sign-up will be Sunday, August 17 after the 11 a.m. service in the Worship Center.  The meeting will start 5-7 minutes after the service.  Please pick up your children first and then head back to the Worship Center.  The meeting will only last about 15-20 minutes. 

JH is a ministry based on prayer. Every tour group, every scene and every invitation is bathed with prayer.  Will you start praying right now for the ministry of Judgement House and NewSpring Church?  We don’t want to do this without the power of prayer.  Pray that God will bless the script and that hearts of people will be open to the gospel.  Pray for good weather during the 8 days that we will do Judgement House and also for the health and safety of the cast and crew.  Last year alone, over 1400 people accepted the Lord and many are now members of NewSpring and excited about being part of the team this year.  What is the Lord telling you to do this year for Judement House?

It is always fun to ”catch people” being early to their ministry at NewSpring Church.  Andrew helps in Rt 252 with some high energy boys.  Amy helps in the Kindergarten class and showed up extra early to make sure she was ready to welcome those little ones to class.  Keep up the good work everyone and maybe someone will catch you being early to minister to kids.  

Amy

bus

We are so excited about the face lift that our NewSpring bus received over the last month.  Brandon did a fine job painting the bus white for us with the help of a couple of great volunteers.  Then I took it down to Signs Now and they laid the graphics on it.  Lance did his part by creating the cool graphics.  It is a great way to advertise NewSpring and it looks cool as well.  There are several community outreaches we will be doing this summer so it will come in handy as we promote NewSpring Church.

A week from tomorrow Debbie and I will be taking a total of 60 people to Centri-Kid  Camp in Bolivar, MO.  We are excited about all the kids that are coming; this is the largest group of kids we have taken to camp.  Pray for us as we work with these kids and as God works in each one of their hearts.  Special thanks to all of you who helped sponsor a kid to go to camp.  May God bless you “super-good” for having a heart for kids!

    We had a great family time at NewSpring this weekend.  The kids joined their parents in the Worship Center to learn about the virtue of humility. The KidzWorld Praise Team led in worship and the puppets were there to help teach the kids about humidity, er, I mean humility. The pictures give you some idea of just how much fun we had this weekend as Bubba learned about the importance of putting others first.

Special thanks to all of the volunteers who helped with the program and to Andy Williams & Sarah Kubish for doing such a great job with the technical end of things. Next week everyone will be back in their own environments but will continue to learn about the virtue of humility. I am excited about the whole family learning to “put others first by giving up what you think you deserve.” Our bottom line yesterday was “God wants you to remember it’s not about you” and we told the story of the Tower of Babel. Our church, family, and work place will be changed if we all practice a little humility.

We had an awesome time we had with all the kids who joined in the Bike Rodeo!  They all did a great job and had a lot of fun riding bikes and eating hotdogs and sno-cones.  A big special “KidzWorld Thank You” to all the folks that came and helped!  A a super big “KidzWorld Thank You” to all the security folks who came to make sure all were safe.  We couldn’t have done it without you.

The family went to Portland, Maine, to see some lighthouses and to hang out on the beach.  It was sunny the first part of the day but cloudy and rainy the second half of the day. This picture was taken in front of Portland Head Light, the oldest lighthouse in America.  It was fun to see it in action and also see the big ships come into the habor using that lighthouse for a guide. 

The drive back to our hotel was about 2 hours, so after a busy day the whole family fell asleep on the way and as the sun was setting I was listening to Sarah’s ipod. The song “Glorious One” by Steve Fee came on.  As it was playing I was looking at the sunset God painted for me and the words just were perfect.  The song talked about the ocean and it reminded me about what we saw that day.   Sarah took these pictures for me and I wanted to share them with you.

Today we drove along the Connecticut River which is on the New Hampshire/Vermont border and saw this cool covered bridge. The scenery has been fantastic and we had a very enjoyable day.  Tomorrow we are going to Maine to see some lighthouses and enjoy the ocean. On our way back to our hotel, Debbie and I were enjoying listening to the hits from the 70’s on the rental car satellite radio. Our kids were just thrilled about listening to the oldies. They kept telling me to turn it down!  Life is sorta funny sometimes.

 Darren & Becky Hamilton were caught being 20 minutes early to Adventure Avenue on Saturday.

Brian & Barb Tozer were caught being not just 20 minutes early for their 11:00 class, they actually came at 9:15 and helped with the 9:30 class before teaching their 11:00 class.

Thanks to every volunteer in KidzWorld this weekend! Karla sent some pictures showing all the fun.