Dear Friends and Family,
Greetings from the North! And when I say north, I mean Adrian, Michigan! The email finds me sitting in my fourth host home, enjoying one of our rare (and much needed) rest days. Let me start this out by saying that I need to apologize to a lot of you on this list. I have been trying my best to keep up to date on my “blog” online, and whenever I wrote on it about a summit; I would post it to my Facebook page. However, I realized this summit that a lot of my supporters either don’t have a Facebook, or just don’t get on it that much, and in that, I have not been able to allow to enjoy all that God has been doing in me and through me at these last four churches. So from me to you, I sincerely apologize. I have taken a different route now, and instead, I will be sending out an email update instead. This is actually much better because if you have sponsored me at all, it shows up on my private page of the ministry website, along with information such as email address, that way I won’t be missing anyone.
Let me start by showing this link. This is a web address to my first blog posts about our first three churches that we have been to so far, along with other musings from before the year started:
So now, hopefully that you are all caught up, let me go ahead and tell you a little bit about what is going on.
The Church
Right now we are serving Ogden church; it’s a church of about 750 and it is right outside the city of Adrian, Michigan. We have had some really cool stories come out of this church, but please keep praying that God continues to give this church “Ah-ha” moments as they learn more about him.
The Ministry
God has been using music and signing in some really cool ways at this church. Ogden is a much more contemporary church than ones we have been in, and so we have gotten to break out some of our more “energetic” songs, which has been a lot of fun! Our host home (Jerry, Wendy, and Paul) have nothing but incredible to me and Clay Debolt, and I know that he and I will miss them greatly. I had an elderly man come up to me one night, and talk to me a little bit about signing, and how much he appreciated it, so I take that as a confirmation that I am still totally in God’s Will for doing it in worship.
The Team
You all can be praying for the team. As we get closer to the winter months, more and more of our team members continue to get sick, and right about now we normally have about 4 or 5 people feeling really under the weather. It’s going to be really hard saying goodbye to the team in December, but on the plus side, we get to spend Thanksgiving with them, so that’ll be nice. In fact, we are getting ready for our Christmas Party as we speak!
My Life
God has been using this summit to teach me that I can learn so many things from those who are older/wiser than me. Throughout this summit, I have gained more wisdom from older men on the team than all three previous summits combined, and I am so grateful for that. I hope and pray that it becomes a reoccurring theme and that I will continue to seek counsel from Godly influences in my life. I would like to ask for prayer. I am getting very homesick. Don’t get me wrong, I am going to miss my team so much, but I have not been home in almost 4 months, and I really do miss my parents and family. Please pray that God can work through me, so that I can finish with a spirit of Excellence and bring Him glory, so that I can then rest in Him during my month off.
Thank you all so much for your prayers, and I look forward to seeing you all soon!
In Christ,
Josh
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