How can you have an influence with your friends? Can your life really impact someone else's? Is it possible to actually have an influence on our culture, instead of the other way around?

Make sure you're here tomorrow night for UVR. We'll start with pizza at 6:00, have a time of worship and talk about influence. Hope you can make it.

Watch for details...

Summer fun begins...

Our summer series of backyard barbeques will be called "Life in Context". We'll meet at various places throughout the next few months, have supper together (so don't eat before you come!), and roll through the book of Acts - looking at what the church was like in the first century and what that has to do with us now.

Make sure you don't miss this first week, when we say hello to Dan (who'll be doing an internship with us all summer long), and say goodbye to Dani & Mackenzie (who leave soon for their new home in KS). We'll be having the going away party at the Thomas' house just east of Mitchell. You can meet at the church building at 6:00 for a ride.

Bite Back Follow Up

Our talent show to raise money for Compassion's BiteBack program went pretty well last night. We raised just over $600. I was a little disappointed that we didn't have more of an audience, but this is the first time we've done anything like this. Maybe word will get out about how good it was and next time, we'll have more interest. The students did a really good job.

We had everything from pole vaulting to "A Whole New World" to a "Popular" song/skit to dance to train building (which was a favorite of the kids in the crowd) to video editing & several piano solos... We even had a McDonald's drive through for a few minutes! The two students who had the most stage time ended up leading the "vote count" with Teresa (dance, rap, piano, & vocals) just edging out Sam (piano, jokes, & MC). Thanks to every student who shared a talent and to those in the audience who generously "voted".

I was stressed with a number of last minute switches and glitches on the computer, but in the end, over 60 kids will soon be protected from malaria, so it was well worth it. We made a difference. And that was the point.
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On a personal level, if you'd like to make even more of a difference to one child in particular, check out the link in the sidebar of my blog to sponsor a child through Compassion's child sponsorship.

Don't Forget...

Prayer Trip

Nevermind this last post. Once again, we are snowed out of Laramie! We'll reschedule again this summer.
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Anyone interested in going to Laramie to pray for White Water Christian Church (the church plant that will launch this fall) needs to be here at 6:00 Saturday morning (this Saturday, the 3rd). We'll be gone until 6:00 or so Saturday night. Be sure to dress warm and bring a coat, your Bible and a notebook and pen (or prayer journal).

Please call me to tell me you're coming if you are.