May Happenings

The month of May has really flown by!  As usual it has been a full month with lots of excitement and lots of projects.  We'll walk through the journey with pictures...

We joined many other people at Rosa Parks Circle for National Day of Prayer.  It was a wonderful time of crying out to the Lord on behalf of our city and nation.

We made it out to Tulip Time in Holland.  It was the first time that we went on one of the weekends, and we found out why: because it's so busy then!  We went and had a picnic lunch at Window on the Waterfront, the park where the test plantings of tulips are.  It was a gorgeous day but we decided not to drive down tulip lane because it was so busy!

We finally had nice weather to work outside of the house, so we did some landscaping and gardening.

We worked on the back yard a bit too, a friend came over and trimmed some branches off of our neighbors huge Maple tree.  This might have been the first time for sunlight to reach this area in quite a long time!  It also really opened up our yard, since some of the branches were hanging almost all the way to the ground!

I found that our local neighborhood park is a very nice place to spend a morning in prayer.  You wouldn't even know you are in the city!

Rebecca enjoys holding our friend's daughter Ember at church and when we visit them.  Ember is almost always smiling and being cute!

We were able to take our middle school youth group on a reward trip to Sky Zone.  This was a smaller group than normal because some of the kids had school camp and others a concert.

We all had a lot of fun jumping around on the trampolines...

...dunking basketballs...

...jumping in the foam pits...

...and playing dodge ball.  The youth really wasted the leaders, we were heavily outnumbered and we couldn't match their ninja-like moves!

This is how we felt after about about 15 minutes there! 

We did make it to the end of the hour alive though!

Things are going well with our youth group.  We are in need of some more volunteers though.   Rose (on the left) and Ben (in the red) have been faithful volunteers since we started.  This fall Rose will be going to grad school out of state.  Ben will be studying abroad in the Netherlands this fall.  It has been a pleasure having these two on our team, and we will pray for them in their new endeavors.  We are praying for more workers!

Oh, one more thing, starting this Sunday, Evergreen Ministries will be supporting our ministry through their Corners Offering.  This will go on for four Sundays: May 29 - June 19.  We will be there to share about our ministry on June 12 at both the 9:15 and 11:00 services.  We are very thankful for this opportunity and are looking forward to seeing many familiar faces there!  https://egm.org