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Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Global Impact Celebration - Beach Style

A couple of weeks ago, our church celebrated our annual Global Impact Celebration.  This is a time when missionaries we support from all over the world come to our church for several days.  We are able to learn more about what they do and see how we can pray for them during the upcoming year.

Saturday night each Fellowship class had a get together with a missionary.  Since we assist with the youth, our get together was at the beach for an afternoon of swimming, volleyball, food & the Goombi's from Kansas.  We had a great turnout - about 65 kids.  Here are a few pictures from our afternoon.
 Of course a couple of the girls had to do some planking.


 Jason getting in on some volleyball.

 Dan Goombi talking to the kids about their work in Kansas.

 The missionaries sweet little girl - her first time seeing the ocean.



One pretty exciting thing happened while we were out there.  The weather wasn't looking so great and it really looked like we were going to get flooded right as we were to start eating.  Bro. Todd, our youth pastor, said the blessing, he prayed that God would just hold off the rain until we left.  The clouds really went right around us and as we were leaving the clouds were on the other side of us - literally went right around us - What an answer to prayer.  See the sky below - this is as we are ending the night.

Brody was so excited to hang out at the church that night because they had huge blow up water slides for the kids.  Unfortunately, the bad weather hindered them from enjoying the fun slides but Brody said he still had a great time.

Since we were at the beach a little later than the pickup time at the church, Janan picked up both the boys for us.  She too has 2 boys the same age as ours.  She is so calm with everything and definitely doesn't sweat the small stuff - I wish I had more of that.  They even had the singles class at their house but she was still so sweet to pick up our boys as well.  When we showed up, the boys were having a blast especially Trevor because of the stairs - would have given me a heart attack to watch.  Here's the Back Seat boys as Janan called it as she picked them all up from church.


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