Upcoming Ministry Schedule

June:
• Jamaica – From June 13-20, a team from Westwinds Youth Ministry will travel to Montego Bay to work with the Caribbean Christian Center for the Deaf (CCCD).
• Jamaica – From June 16-24, a team from Jackson Christian High School will travel to Whitehouse to work with KBM.
• Jamaica – From June 16–25 a team from Rivertree Community Church will work ½ a week at KBM and ½ a week with CCCD .

July:
• Guatemala – From July 12-19, a team from Shiloh Community Church will work in Guatemala City, Guatemala, with Global Soccer Ministries (GSM). Their focus will be working on homes in the slums, repairing soccer fields, and ministry with children.

August:
• South Africa – From August 12-19, a team from Westwinds Community Church will travel to Johannesburg to work with various ministries.

September Prayer Calendar

September is a here and there is a lot happening for us. Last week Jackson Christian called me to see if I was willing to teach 11th grade Bible for the first semester because the teacher they had lined up was unable to fulfill that commitment for medical reasons. I accepted and will be teaching one hour of Bible each day at the school along with setting up the chapel services for the middle school and high school. The school is graciously working around my travel schedule as I quite a bit going on in the next few months.

Next week (Sept. 10-12) I am teaching and leading worship for the Lansing Christian Middle School retreat. I will be doing four talks during those three days and will also be serving as the MC.

On Sept. 18, I'll head to Guatemala with four other guys on a preview trip. We will be meeting with several ministries there who are potential host sites for short term teams. My hope is that at least a few of the guys going along with me will gather teams to head down to one of these sites next summer. That's the game plan anyway.

On top of all that, Austin starts first grade tomorrow!

We sincerely appreciate your prayers this month as we look for God's care and provision in all that we do.

Peace,
joe

August Prayer Calendar

We've got some exciting things coming up this month and next month. Here are the things we need prayer for:

• Chapel Point Orphans Ministry will be in Jamaica August 13-20.
• Joe will be in Jamaica doing ministry development and leading Chapel Point team August 11-20.
• Joe will be teaching at Lansing Christian Middle School's annual retreat, September 10-12.
• September 18-23 is the Guatemala preview trip: Joe will be taking some guys down to Guatemala to preview two different ministry opportunities. We still need a few more to sign up.... Anyone interested?
  
• Fund raising needs: We are still quite shy of our initial budget goal. Pray for more supporters that will partner with us financially so that our vision can be accomplished.

Thanks for your prayers. We need them!