AKP Update - by Eric O'Neal

6/5/10
Our team has turned into a well-oiled VBS machine. Crafts, Bible stories, games and snack took place today without any hang-ups. The weather was beautiful today, sunny with a high of 70. We're still hoping to be bug-free the rest of our time here, especially for our youth group bon fire on Wednesday. Our team had dinner at the church this evening with the pastor and elders from the village. Our great time in fellowship with them was followed this evening with another successful youth group. We had a time of singing, testimony, snack and games (the village's favorite).
Sunday means no VBS. We're hoping to have a number of children and teens come to church in the morning. Pastor Keith shared with me today his desire for VBS and youth group to attract a consistent number of young people to church after Trinity leaves.
God, let our work in AKP bring about fruit long after we fly back home.

Pray for Pastor Keith and Sally's ministry.

Updates from Anaktuvuk Pass 6/3/10 & 6/4/10 by Eric O'Neal

6/3/10

Today may prove to be the longest day of our trip. After staying the night in Fairbanks, our team woke up at 5:30 am to leave for the airport, Wright Air. The team was divided between a morning and an afternoon flight. The morning flight that I was on had to stop in Coldfoot until the fog cleared up in AKP. We fought off swarming mosquitoes in Coldfoot for about 20 minutes before taking off again for AKP. By the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ we stepped off the plane in AKP with no bugs to be found. Each of us celebrated the fact that we could see our own breath in the 40 degree weather.

After dropping off our luggage and supplies, our team joined Keith and Sally for a hot lunch. The completion of lunch marked the beginning of team nap time, which was followed immediately by VBS decoration time. VBS starts tomorrow at 2:00 pm. Youth group, on the other hand, started tonight. It went from 7:00 - 8:30 pm, broke for open gym for an hour and a half and then resumed from 10:00 pm -12:00 am. Putting our need for sleep aside, it has been great to reconnect with our friends in AKP. As the 25 village-youth were filtering out after youth group, I heard one of them tell Spencer Stilwell, "Welcome back home".

Pray for our rest, we're going to need it. :)


6/4/10

Today marked the beginning of VBS. At 2:00pm the small Chapel in the Mountains was filled with about 20 kids, ranging in age from pre-school through fifth grade. A few of the teenagers that met our team at youth group last night came today as volunteer help. VBS was a little hectic at times with crowd control but overall went very well for our first day. Our theme this week is "Heroes". Today the kids learned about Moses and the parting of the Red Sea. And, just like Moses, true heroes give God the credit. That message was good for our team to hear considering all the work that has been put into this trip. God, give us hearts of servants.

Pray for consistency for both VBS and youth group


Stay tuned for continued updates throughout this week!!

Update From General Assembly Prep by Tom Letts

Well, greetings from L'ville! We are in our second day of preparation as leadership teams of the committees of the 2010 PC (USA) General Assembly. THE key web site is pc-biz.org. Start here and just take a look around the site. This year's assembly is paper free (I've received one medium-sized folder of paper as opposed to two or three massive folders of papers in past assemblies). The pc-biz site is the key to all that happens in the Twin Cities this July 2-10. My committee is Church Growth and Evangelism. More to come! God bless you, tl

Lunch for Huffman Teachers & Staff by Megan Holliday

On May 21st Becca Letts, Cameron Cartland, Ryan Olson and I went to Huffman Elementary to serve lunch to the staff on their last day of the year. (Tom and Tammy Letts, Lisa Darnell and Laurie Tweit were at Goldenview Middle School!)

It was a real treat for all of us to share a meal with our neighbors and check in after a long school year, talk about summer plans, and bask in the sunshine for a while!

Serving local teachers and school staff has become an annual tradition here at Trinity. All are welcome to join and it truly is the more the merrier! Check out these photos and we hope to see you at some future school events!

Next chance to join in the fun: Serve coffee to teachers, staff and parents on the First Day of School: August 18th! Stay tuned for more details to come!