Blogging Shall Resume!

So I just finished a whirl-wind of a month:

Salem Art Fair, packing our stuff to move, preparing for youth camp, moving all of our stuff to Canyonville, running youth camp, settling in at our new place, and beginning a new and exciting ministry!!!!! Needless to say, we are exhausted.

I put in two weeks of very hard physical labor preparing the dorms here at CCA for the student’s arrival. Then on Friday, August 30^th the students began to pour in. It was amazing to say the least!

We have 53 boys in our dorm. They come from South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, Japan, Bolivia, Mexico, Belgium, Russia, The Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Israel, Rwanda, California, Vermont, Washington State, and even one boy from Salem! I thought I understood culture before arriving here, but boy was I wrong. Compared to America, these kids seem like they are from another planet. What a great learning experience this will be for our family.

I was looking at all of my new student’s files yesterday and hands-down the majority of them are not Christian. Please pray with us that God will use our family and the wonderful staff here at CCA to win these lost souls for Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit. 

Hopefully within the next two weeks we will get into somewhat of a routine. I have been working long inconsistent hours and have not been able to keep in touch will all of you as I hope to do. That should be changing soon though and I will be calling all of you more and more and hope to visit all of you when we return to Salem on my days off.

Please be in prayer with us so that Zion and Kylie will continue to adjust well to our new living arrangements. 

I am making a commitmnet to all of you and to myself to blog everyday for the next 7 days so stay tuned.