Every summer each of the centers (Gano, Fletcher & Joy) spend an evening together away from the work environment to go do something fun. There is a spending limit; this summer it was $15. Basically, the group has two options. Eat at a nice restaurant and do something really cheap or eat fast food and do something expensive, like going to play laser tag or to the movies. However, if you go to a restaurant you have to remember that the drink and tip is included in the $15.
The Fletcher and Joy teams were told what they were going to do. Fletcher went to a honeybee concert outdoors and to Chilis. Joy played putt-putt. The Gano crew decided as a group what we wanted to do. It was kind of a long process, but we
finally decided on eating at Red Robin and going to James' house (the Gano director) to swim and play games. We had a lot of fun!
The Gano group (from top left --> bottom right)
Joy*, Clayton, James, Lyndsey, me, Noemi, Keith, Chris and Haley)
Ms. Dora the Assistant Director was also there.
*Joy is James' wife; and Clayton is their son. Clayton is 6 months old and Joy is 10 weeks into another pregnancy! They would like to have 5 kids by the time she's 35, and adopt 2 to have 7 kids altogether.
Chris just turned 22 on the 15th. We celebrated his birthday at Red Robin. Noemi and Kieth smashed his face into his ice cream, birthday dessert. It was funny!
I'm sorry that this announcement is not personal, but I do not have enough time to call you all.
*Joy is James' wife; and Clayton is their son. Clayton is 6 months old and Joy is 10 weeks into another pregnancy! They would like to have 5 kids by the time she's 35, and adopt 2 to have 7 kids altogether.
Please pray for the kids who come to kids club and the community that we minister to. I have seen some things and heard some things that have touched my heart. We have been told to expect things like this; but it's not real until you have first hand experience with it. Please pray for protection over the kids and that through everything that we do we can show them love. By showing them love we are wanting them to see that we are loving because we know Jesus as our personal savior and that they can be loving too through excepting Him as their personal savior.
Salvation has already began to take place this summer. Yesterday one of our preteens, Jackie, prayed The Prayer with Lyndsey. After accepting the Lord, we gave her a Teen Bible. She was VERY happy! This week has been very hard but God blessed us with a happy ending!
However, I was not there in the afternoon. My husband came to visit me! After a very long trip, he finally made it to the BMC Saturday morning. On Sunday, Titus came to church and lunch with us. We visited Sagemont. During Sunday school Noemi and I talked to the single adults about the BMC. After the 15 minute talk we went to the college Sunday school class. This church is huge! It had a greyhound bus that drove to the youth building across the street. We attended the 10:30 service. After service, the church took us out for lunch to a steak house. That evening some of the Critters went to a coffee house church and others went to the park and played in the mud. I spent the evening with Titus!
The Critters went to an Astros game. They lost to the Philies; but we had a great time! Ms. Glenda and Mr. Wayne (our house parents) made eggs, bacon and biscuits for breakfast. Every morning we have cold cereal, poptarts, etc. so that was a real treat! At noon we left for the game. They gave us free mini flags at the game. We were really high up in the nose bleed section. The Astros baseball field is called Minute Maid Park; the stadium has a retractable roof. Unfortunately, it was raining during the game.
