Back to school!

Yes, we went back to school! CEF's Summer Missionary Training School, that is, along with 51 eager summer missionaries and a host of staff. We had a wonderful time getting to know the high-school and college-age students who are fanned out across Pennsylvania this summer teaching 5-Day Clubs. Each day we explained our ministry to the students so they would be able to tell children across backyards all summer about us as missionaries and how they, too, can be missionaries. Amy and Chris were treated like royalty, the food was great and it was an honor to work alongside some great people. On Tuesday, Brent had the privilege to accompany Mark Wyland, the State Director for CEF in PA to the other training school held in Bucks County. Brent was blessed getting to know Mark and his heart for the children.

Back to childhood

We had the wonderful experience of being the camp missionaries at the CEF® day camp in Rock, where Jen went to as a child. The children were excited to hear someone from their backyard is areal live missionary! We started out the missionary time on Monday with Jen running from seat to seat, checking them out as I tried getting started. She was looking for where she used to sit! Amy was able to take part in the camp, too, being on the yellow team. Besides learning about us as missionaries, the children learned about the names of God, heard the Gospel each day, played games, had devotion time and learned memory verses. They loved having Christopher around and he loved the attention. We helped in the afternoon by making snow-cones, which gave us funny-colored hands in the end. We're excited about another week of camp in Valley View from July 6-10.