Tulsa State Fair Cookie Stacking Champion: Hannah

Hannah won her heat at the Tulsa State Fair for the Cookie Stacking Contest with a total of 24 stacked cookies: AWESOME JOB HANNAH!

Bear Fight at MORPH: Caleb vs Nick

MORPH Weekend: Group Shot
This picture didn't turn out that great, but it represents the coolest group of students who gave up their Fall Break to Love Out Loud.
I am very proud of them for the selflessness! God used them in incredible ways to bring hope to the hopeless.
Our students were exhausted by the end of the weekend. I played too much football and felt my age all the way down to my feet.

Ridgeway Students are AWESOME!

--A Huge thank you to our adults who weathered the whole weekend: Megan, Bethany, Kristen, and Ray! You guys are fantastic!

--Thanks to Scott, John, and Chris for leading the morning devotionals!

--Thanks to Lisa Hamilton and our wonderful Senior Adult ladies for making the desserts!

--Thanks to Bob for cooking and for cleaning up after us--also to Aimee, Jeremy, and Christian--you guys are such a blessing!

--Thanks to Sarah and the Dobrinski's for cooking the Friday night meal!

Day One: MORPH Weekend: LOVE OUT LOUD

What a great day! This morning Chris B. really set the tone for us through the Word! Thanks so much Chris!

Our students did an incredible job of helping a lady and her neighbor with some much needed yard work that they couldn't do. One thing we want to accomplish is to love our community out loud. I'm hoping that Ms. Sherry sensed the love of Christ from our students! Thank you students for setting an incredible example!

We had a great lunch of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and ham sandwiches! We then headed to Shannon Valley to love on people in that community. We essentially are asking each household if they need anything done around their house like mowing and weedeating as well as inviting them to the playground to just play soccer, football, etc. It was great to see our students and adults make those much needed connections with the children, students and adults of this community. Please pray for us as we go back tomorrow!

We closed the evening with a hot dog cookout at the Reed's house--thank you so much for your hospitality. Patsy is battling cancer so we got a chance to encourage her through prayer! What a wonderful couple the Reed's are!

Thanks to Jeff J. for coming and leading us tonight in the Romans vs Christians game! The kids loved it!

MORPH Weekend: LOVE OUT LOUD

We start today our ministry projects in our community! We have about thirty students who are excited about getting out into our community. Brent Higgins challenged us last night in the Word and got us off to a great start. He talked about COMPASSION! Brent will be here again on Friday night at 7 p.m. so feel free to join us!

Through our weekend, we are wanting to teach our students two things:
1. Serving One Another Unselfishly
2. Being sensitive to the prompting of the Holy Spirit in ministry. So many times we are so scheduled that there is no room for direction from the Holy Spirit. If God prompts one of our students or adults to meet a need in our community as we drive or as we serve, then we hope immediate obedience to the Spirit's prompting will be learned this weekend.

As I write this, a group of our students are preparing breakfast--biscuits/gravy/eggs/sausage! Our students are pumped....they are sooo pumped a few of them got up around 5 a.m.(a little tooo early for me).

This weekend we have partnered with the Code Enforcement Officer, so we will be going to homes who have received complaints about their lawns and we will do somewhat of an extreme makeover to their lawns so they don't get a ticket.

We are also partnering with a community down the street from our church where we will be doing random acts of kindness and playing games with the kids. Our whole goal in this is to LOVE OUT LOUD--presenting Jesus through actions and words. My prayer is that people do not see us, but they see Christ and through that they would desire a relationship with Christ.

Thanks to the parents who are helping us this week: Ray Teague, Scott Hamilton, Brian and Melissa Shepard, Bob Alexander, and Tim and Sherry Dobrinski. Thanks also to Chris B. and John W. for coming to lead our morning devotions.

Please pray for unity among our students. Please pray that the people we minister to will come to know Christ. Pray that our eyes will be opened to the lostness of our community.