Terrific Tuesday

Last night was our first night reuniting and meeting with our Kid's Club families. There were several long-awaited reunions!! We can't wait to spend the rest of the week with them. We also met several new families and are excited to spend time getting to know them.

Today we were slow to get up after a late night of amazing devo's but ready to work after lots of caffeine. We had an tasty breakfast and got to work. We are eating a wonderful meal made up of Chinese cuisine and getting ready to head out to Kid's clubs yet again!

We will continue to update you of our adventures here serving God. We are definitely feeling your amazing prayers...keep them coming!

P.S. A special message for Mr. Jim Foster...Happy Birthday Pop! Hope you feel respected, appreciated, loved and celebrated today - because you ARE!! We love you. Love, Natalie and Jason.

Monday means Work-day...

We arrived at Immanuel Mission late on Saturday night safe and ready for bed. We went straight to bed after unpacking and we were rested and ready for our time on the Reservation to start on Sunday morning. We woke up and went out to Green Valley for our traditional Outdoor church and communion. We found a wonderful spot (in the shade this year) to have our service.

We woke up this morning ready to go to work. We currently have four teams working offsite doing things like roofing, painting and building a shed. We also have four teams working on projects around the mission such as

cleaning out the cattle crossing, weeding, trimming trees and building a retaining wall.

We are also leading a basketball camp for the Navajo children. They are already working hard and learning lots of new skills. There are about 24 children attending and I am sure t

hat number will grow throughout the rest of the day and evening!! It should be a lot of hard work and fun for that team.

We are all very excited to get to our Kid's Club sites tonight to reunite with our Navajo families.

Thank you so much for your prayers. We can really feel God moving and motivating us to work hard for Him!!

Arizona Outreach Day 2

Hello again everyone. Glad to see so many comments on the previous post. As tradition would have it, the team dined at one of Boron's lovely rest stops for lunch yesterday in the balmy 111 degree heat The team arrived in Kingman, AZ in record time and had dinner at the church. Jason Moog led the evening devo's and surprise guest, Ryan Weber, led music. Then it was off to bed. Today a majority of the group went on one of Tim's secret errands to the Cracker Barrel at around 5am. It was a long night's sleep for Tim. Then it was time to hit the road. In Flagstaff, heavy thunderstorms awaited. Pat Brown met up with the group but the weather sort of nixed the lunch plans. Luckily Devon Dodgen's brother owns a ranch nearby so the team headed there for lunch. The group should arrive on the Reservation around 7pm tonight. Tomorrow will be a pretty laid back day as everyone recovers from the drive and adjusts to the mile-high atmosphere. On Monday the work projects and basketball camp will begin. We will try to update the blog as much as possible so keep checking back for more pictures and updates. Thanks for the comments and prayers.

Cracker Barrel (no sound for some reason???)



More driving.

A giraffe and GPS are essentials.

Some Flagstaff shots.

A mission trip essential.

Arizona Outreach 2008

Welcome to the ever-changing VBC blog. We promise we will not change the web address (URL) again. The team is on their way to Kingman and then will head to the Reservation near Four Corners tomorrow. Everyone is enjoying themselves so far and we will continue to update the blog with pictures and stories as time and internet access allow. Thank you all for praying for us!

Sarah Burns asleep on I-5.
Ashlee & Aspen's first mission trip.
Brent...can you see him?
Gotta love rest stops.
The Ton Face Cruiser.
Senioritis.

Day 12

Day 12:

Lyon's Gate

Bethesda - St. Anne's

Leaving Jerusalem....

Tomb of Samuel

Emmaus

Looking for smooth pebbles in the creek where David found his.

Last afternoon in Joppa

Goodbye Israel....

Day 11

Day 11:

The picture on the left is from the current street level (~30 ft above street level at the time of Christ)

While visiting the Temple Institute, we were shown the components of the Menorah. Spike is holding a reconstruction of the top of one of the seven candles. The actual 6 ft. version is shown on the right!

We visited the Western 'Wailing' Wall. Visitors can place their petitions to God on a small piece of paper & tuck it into a crack.The prayer area is divided into men & women sides

Below is a video clip of the Wailing wall on Shabbot. The Jewish worshipers are nicely dressed for this festive evening.

The narrow streets through the Muslim district of Jerusalem are lined with shops that display their colorful wares. This was along the Via Dolorosa.

The Church of the Holy Sepulcher, is one of two sites thought to be where Jesus was laid to rest.