Base Camp @ Berrien Center Bible Church

Berrien Center Bible Church

Berrien Center Bible Church is our location for the next 4 days. This is the first THIRST Conference of the 2011-2012 travel season. I'm staying with a family with 3 kids---a 3 year old, 1 year old and a 3 month old (nice to be with kids again). My roommate for the week is Anna Bommel whose from Jefferson City, Missouri--my team held a conference at her church in April 2010. Getting to know her has been fun...she plays the ukulele so of course I loved that.

We are hoping to have around 43 kids in Base Camp tomorrow. A few weeks ago all 3 team's Children's Ministers were there for a 3-day Vacation Bible School....we are looking forward to seeing them again. This week we are teaching lessons on Obedience, Sin, Pride & Humility, Prayer, and God's Word. And of course we have our mountain climbing theme so Mountain Man Jack and Molly will be doing skits all week too.

I am hoping to remember to take pictures so I can post them for everyone to see.

Staff Training 2011

Today is Day 4 of Staff Training! We have had our opening sessions and are in the swing of CM training (Children's Ministry Training). The Worship teams are practicing 3 times a day as the CMs meet for sessions as well.

God will do amazing things this year and I am looking forward to hearing about it and being a part of it. Our Ministry's mission is to ignite movements of authentic Christianity and as we discussed it I couldn't help but think about what an authentic Christian life would look like. I was challenged to look at my own life and evaluate whether or not I was living my life according to His Word. Hypocrisy is something that some people would say characterizes today's church... my prayer is that this year we would see more people turn from living a double life and live their lives as Christians. Not just in word but in all they do. Be ye doers of the word and not hears only.....

What is your desire? What is your burden? What do you want to see God do? Pray to that end!!!!

Life Action Camp

This is the Weeks Family....my first family this summer. We had lots of FUN!!!!!!

Life Action Camp is one of the ministries of Life Action and we are down to our last 2 weeks of Family Camp. In June I was in Wisconsin for a month break and am back in Michigan until the beginning of September.

This month I am teaching in Base Camp as well as being a Family Assistant. Every family that comes to Family Camp gets an assistant for the week. We help them mostly with their kids and just to hang out with them too. In the past two weeks I have been swimming, blobbing, tubing, and boating with my camp family. In Base Camp we have had almost 50 kids my first week and about 30 kids my second week.

Right now I am waiting for my new camp family. All I know is that they have 4 kids and one is 1 years old. So it will be a different week. Pray that God would do a work in their lives and transform them into His image.

Sasha with her camp kids

Catie (one of our Base Camp kids) and I before.....

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Catie and I after...... :)


Yes I got pied because she said all 10 verses for the week



A great family from Holland....that's Holland, Michigan!!!!





On Tuesday night we have Pretzel night where everyone makes their own pretzel!


My favorite pretzel of the night...A NINJA!!!

Luke and Sarah Johnson's Wedding

On July 2, 2011 our team was able to celebrate the marriage of two of our teammates. Luke is our team's Youth Revivalist and Sarah is our Business Manager. And yes they will be traveling this year! Here are just a few pictures from the wedding.

End of Year #3

I just got to Wisconsin this weekend. Looking forward to reconnecting with people and getting some rest. This summer will be very busy: Wisconsin in June, Michigan in July and August, back on the road in September.

Pictures from September 2010-June 2011