(sola)s hattiesburg

Hello friends,

Missions Hattiesburg is quickly approaching (July 6-10) and I am trying to get a final count of who is going to be plugging in. If you are planning on helping, or if you are interested and would like some further info, please email me PRONTO (solashattiesburg@gmail.com).

Basic info:
- We are working at 3 different sites Mon-Thurs from 7am-2pm.
- The cost is $30 – this includes lunches each day, supplies, and dinner at the church (Temple West Refuge). If you need help with scraping up the money, as always, let me know and we can help out.
- You are invited to be a part of worship each night after dinner: Codie is leading in song worship and Phil, Pfaff and myself will be breaking open the Word.
- The youth are staying at the church, and if you’d like to, you are more than welcome to stay too.
- Friday the group is going to the water park in Collins. If you’d like to go it’ll cost an extra $20.

If you would like to help but you can’t work every day, no problem, WE STILL NEED YOU. Just let me know which days you can work.

This is an opportunity to live your life for the kingdom of God and to meet needs right here in Hattiesburg.
Love your city!
Love your Savior!

Here are a few things happening within the next month:

- 6/18/2009 – summer bible study @the pfaffs house, 7pm (see the post below for directions). If you are following along in the book, read chapter 5.

- 6/26/2009 – lighthouse work day. Whoever is interested is invited to go with us downtown to lighthouse ministries to do some manual labor. If you’d like to be a part, email me (aadkison@tbclife.net). We’re meeting in the temple east campus parking lot at 8:45 on the 26th.

- 7/10-16/2009 – missions hattiesburg. The student ministry is doing a local service/missions project this week and they have invited us to be a part of what they’re doing. Interested? email me (see above). The cost to be a part of this is $60, which includes your food for the week and supplies for the work you’ll be doing. If you need help with the cost, let me know and we can work something out.

So we just finished an exhausting and fun weekend of Disciple Now + Student Life Conference here at Temple.  As a middle/high school student, these type of events had a major impact in my spiritual development.  I vividly remember going to my first Student Life Conference as a ninth grader.  Louie Giglio was the speaker and he talked about worship – about how all of life is worship of something.  Disciple Now’s were a means of God’s grace in my life as well.  I was pushed and challenged so much through these weekends by getting to spend time with an older, “cooler” guy and observing how he was walking with God and growing in the faith.

Now that I’m on the other side of things, acting as a leader, it’s heavy to think about the impact that I could potentially have on a student’s life.  God is obviously the one who works in the hearts of students, but he did so in my life many times through D-Now leaders.  I hope and pray that God spoke through me and the other leaders this past weekend.  

The theme of the weekend was Live Love, and to all of you who gave your weekend away hanging with students or helping with the conference you did just that.  You lived love.  Thank you.  You’ll never fully know how God chose to use you, despite your inadequacies, for His amazing plans and for His glory.