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Oregon Trail Baptist Association - serving South-Central & western NE

Children's Camp!

Doug Lee, Associational Missionary

First, I want to thank all the churches that send their children to Children's Camp this year. I want to say thank you to all the Adults, and Camp Missionsaries/Jr. Counselor's that made this camp a sucess. I want to thank the churches of Oregon Trail Baptist Associaiton for providing this camp experience for Children. The camp this year was a younger group of kids but God still worked in their lives. We saw 4 professions of faith, 2 girls ask how one knows if God is calling them to missions, and we had children that asked to be prayed with for a varity of needs. The temps were high so the waterslide was a popular place everyday. By the way we had 55 campers this year, one of our larger camps. Another added blessing was seeing some of our former campers coming back as Camp Missionaries.

I am hoping that our churches will put the Children's Camp down on their calendars as a high pirority for 2010. We would like to have more children, camp missionaries, and adult sponsors. I would like to see us fill up the camp, it can hold 100 campers, and we have the protintial for it to happen.

Praises!

OTBA Children's Camp - We prayed for God's will to be accomplished in all the campers and we are hearing of reports of campers responding to His will.
Trinity Baptist Church, Benkelman - had 21 children enrolled in their Vacation Bible School in June.
Keystone Baptist Church, Hastings - Experianced God's hand in their outreach last week. They had over 65 kids particpate in their two Kids Bible Clubs seeing 3 professions of faith. The Block Party was a sucess also, the best count they could get was having over 50 not counting the Keystone People and mission team people. We discovered 4 prospective families and had one of them attend this past Sunday.
Trying to start a Place of Light/Church Plant, Aurora - Experianced a good week: The mission team did various acts of kindness in the community in the mornings, door to door survey in the evenings, and a Block Party on Thursday evening. They had 1 man accept Christ, and located number of families open to a Bible Study and possible church plant. This week people are still contacting Jo about the upcoming Bible Study. By the way a family from a neighboring community ask Dave McDonald if they opened their home for a kids Bible club in the future if we would be open to coming to lead it.
Crossroads Church in Kearney and Tri-city Fellowship in Grand Island - Dave McDonald lead both congregations in doing a prayer walk durning their regular worship times to see the needs and where God might have them reach out into. Both congregations see protentials for Places of Lights and church plants! (Vision Casting).
House Church, Gering - God seems to be connecting them with some new families!
Grace Community Church, McCook - Did a Meet Your Neighbor outreach event at a local mobile home park. Sence they have done that event one of the families has attend church every week. Also, they have the protential to start a Home Bible Fellowship on Wednesday nights with families that they connected with.

Requests:

Bethel Baptist, Scoutsbluff - Will be starting their VBS on Sunday Night. Pray for the workers, a great harvest of souls, and new families for their church.
Kimball Baptist, Kimball - Has a VBS this week (have not heard the results yet) pray for the follow up, that lost people will come to know Christ as Savior and new families will be found for the church.
New Hope Fellowship, Lodgepole - Has a mission team from KS come and help them put on a roof. Have not heard the results, but pray that God will use this ministry of presence to help the church reach families in the community for Christ and the church.
FBC Valentine - Is having a "Youth Retreat at the Lake" starting tonight (Friday). Pray for a safe retreat and for God to accomplish is will in their lives.
Christmas In August - Every year our churches take up a back to school supplies for the kids at the Jeremaih House in Scoutsbluff. These supplies open opportunities for the J.H. staff to get into the homes and share Christ. We also encourage our churches to bath this ministry in prayer through the month of August as this ministry perpares to restart for the new school year. You may want to pray for Brian Hale and his wife as they lead the JH ministry.
OTBA Disaster Relief Ministry - Keep praying for our volunteers and for God to call out move volunteers to be trained. As you know we have had a "twister" or two almost every week for the past 2-3 months. Pray that we will be ready to responded if needed and will be a witness for our Lord Jesus at that time.
Ogallala Community Church, Ogallala - Pray for next weeks outreach events. Sunday they will be leading services at the Christian Truckers Ministry at Big Springs in the am, Afternoon pormotion, worship with the Ogallala church in the evening, Mon-Thur in the am they are hosting a VBS in the park, Mon even will be helping Ogallala with a Block Party, Tue-Wed. leading
Brownlee Church, Brownlee - Pray for John and Carol Lewis as they lead the church in their VBS that is coming soon! Pray for people to be saved and new families added to this "country church". [For those of you asking where in the world is Brownlee? It's 50 miles south of Valentine on Highway 83].
Trinity Baptist Church, Benkelman - Will be having their annual Church Camp Out this weekend. They will have some people at the church for those who cannot go to the camp out. Pray for this to be a time of reaching out to new families, fellowship building within the church bodly, and relaxing.

OTBA Vision Statement: We envision all people of Western Nebraska having the opportunity to experience a life changing relationship with Christ and to fellowship with other believers.

KNCSB Church Planting Goal: To plant 410 churches by 2010

Church Definition by KNCSB: A Church is a group of people who meet regularly for Bible study, worship, and witness, and see themselves as an on-going fellowship of believers.

Place of Light: A place of light (POL) is a on-going ministry beyond the local church that is reaching people for Christ that may or may never become a church.