We
are now done with our second week of class and our first weekend working with
Mission Adventures. It was such an incredible week!
This
week in class we learned about faith and finances. We talked and learned about
how the Bible views and talks about raising support. Some of the scriptures we
looked at where: 2 Chronicles 31:4, Deuteronomy 14:22-29, Acts 18:1-5, Nehemiah
13:10, 2 Thessalonians 3:8 and 9, Galatians 6:6, Romans 15:20-24, and 2
Corinthians 1:16. We also learned about how to best write an effective
newsletter to our supporters. It was a really good week in which we learned a
lot that I know we will start using now and will continue to use for many years
to come. We had class only on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday this week.
We
had Wednesday off to celebrate the 4th of July! We were able to
spend the day with some of Julianne’s extended family. She has lots of family
that lives close to us here in Minnesota, and they were having a family
reunion/picnic on the 4th. We spent Tuesday night over at her
grandparents’ house and went to the picnic the next day. We had a great time
talking and, for me (Nate), meeting lots of her family. We drove back to the
base that night.
We
also had Friday off this week to work with the Mission Adventure students. So
you might be wondering what is Mission Adventures? Mission Adventures is a
program that is run by some of the Youth With A Mission bases. It is basically
a program to help prepare and send groups of people on short-term mission trips
around the world. Local churches (and churches from all over the US) will
gather a team of middle school and high school aged youth that want to do a
mission trip. They will come to our base on Thursday evening and spend Thursday
night through Saturday night preparing for their mission trip. Some of the
staff at the base here give lessons, play team bonding games, and just help
prepare the teams for their trips. Then Sunday morning the teams will set out.
A couple of our staff will go with them to help lead them along the way. This
weekend we had two teams from two different local churches. One team is now in
Haiti, and the other is actually working in downtown Minneapolis. One of the best parts of this weekend
was that both Julianne and I got to each be a part of a different team that led
worship during some of the worship sessions. We each sang. It was a pretty big
step for both of us to get up there and sing into a microphone in front of
everyone, but we did it. It was really awesome.
Next week we are learning about
spiritual gifts and strengths. We are very much looking forward to this week
and everything we will learn from it.
A couple prayer requests we have
are for wisdom in determining what God wants us to do for our outreach and for
what He has for us after this school. We are also looking into buying a white
32GB iPad. We currently only have one computer for both of us, and its battery
is dead. We always have to have it plugged into the wall. If you know anyone
who is looking to sell one or have any leads on a good iPad, please contact us
at julianneandnate@gmail.com. Thank you so much!
We want to thank you so much for
praying for us and for following us and our ministry. We are so blessed to have
you as part of our team.
Love
in Christ,
Nate
and Julianne Gibbons
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