Reaching out…

First is first. God is good! We have Young Life leadership tonight for the Port Townsend team and it will be good to be together and my prayer is the same prayer Jim Rayburn said 50 years ago… “Good Lord, give us the teenagers that we may lead them to Thee. Our hearts ache for [...]

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I know that this has been long in coming and many of you have been asking. We have a lot of ground to cover, we’ll start with finances and then get you caught up over the next couple of weeks as THERE ARE GREAT THINGS GOING ON! Lets see, YL updates sort of stopped right [...]

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Yesterday we talked about SIN. It isn’t a fun topic, nor is it a topic that we should just skip over lightly. It is going to to create tension in camp. Yesterday in the leaders meeting the group was talking about the pranks that are happening, which are in response to students confused about how [...]

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Young Life has called out a Mission Wide Day of Prayer. Please Join in praying over Olympic Peninsula Young Life. We have a lot of things to pray about… Good things to praise God for, and things to ask for. Let’s start with the AMAZING Olympic Peninsula Young Life has a house, one for now, [...]

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We had a our discipleship weekend last weekend out in Ocean Shores, and it was Fantastic. It is really fun to see kids are broken come with us and have an incredible weekend. Our goal for this camp was this. Where ever the person is, we would like them to be a step closer to Jesus Christ.  There [...]

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Monday night as a fun night at Young Life, I spent four hours on an bacon and egg costume for a four minute bit about green eggs and ham.  I have attached the picture to this message… The backstory on the egg costume. I had this idea that it would be pretty fun to make [...]

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It is with great sadness that I write this email. My friend Andy Palmer died fighting a forest fire in Northern California, getting hit by a falling tree.   http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/2008/07/rookie-firefighter-olympic-national-park-killed-falling-tree-california   Andy is one first students that I met when I got to town. I wrote the following about Andy days after this event took [...]

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The subject of the emaill should be pronounce malib-Boo-yeah! I have been wanting to send an email out to update you all on the kids as I know how many of you were praying. In some ways I have been seeking God’s direction on what to share, I will start with this. It was really [...]

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Hey all,   We just finished up the school year, and I have been wanting to send out an update.   Good things are happening, heavenly, amazing, mysterious things are happening.   Things that we call the “mystery” of ministry. That mystery is cool, really, really fun and cool. There is a teenager whom we [...]

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Friends, Many of you are turning on the news and seeing the fine city of Port Townsend featured on the news because on of the students of Port Townsend High School has contracted a deadly form of a staff infection. The virus is called MRSA, short for “methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus”. The idea is that it [...]

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