This year has been a great year with the Aimers. I would of never expected that I would of enjoyed this class as much as I have. The Aimers have touched my family and so many others this year.This last week the Aimers went to Childress Texas. I recently got on Trey Morgans website (preacher in Childress) and was touched by everything the Aimers had done. You should check it out.
http://rediscovering-church.blogspot.com/2007/03/adventures-in-missions.html#links

Nancy and I have also decided at this point that this is our last year with AIM. Right now we are looking at a Youth ministry position in Pasadena Texas. Please be praying for us and the church as we try to make the right decision.

Just to let everyone I do not send this out to my supporters (they get personal letters)! I am sorry if you were disappointed in me for not writing but there were a lot more important things for me to be doing. This was just something that I was wanting to do not something that I had a plan for.

First Day of AIM

The first day of AIM has officially started. We spent all day registering aimers and moving them into there apartments. We talked to parents and tried to reashure them that there babies were in good hands. Our staff also had its first chance to see each other in action and everyone did really well. Our staff is extremely hard working. You can see all the pictures of the first day on my Yahoo photo albums.

Staff Retreat

AIM Garage Sale

The last two weeks of July have been very busy. Several of us aim assistants helped organize items that the sunset members donated. The Sunset members donated a lot things they did not want anymore so that we could raise money for the AIM program. The Sunset memeber were so generous that we had to start refusing stuff. We managed this last Saturday to raise quite of bit of money to help out the aimers.

KNOW TRUTH YOUTH RALLY

The Know Truth Youth Rally was a complete sucess. We had about 60 kids show up. We talked about what truth really is and why we should not be afraid to talk to people about God. The class I taught was called Behind the Scenes. I taught about Elijah's insanity for God in 1 kg 18. I also talked about how we find peace in our life. I believe that this is a subject that we misunderstand time and time again. We believe that our lives should be perfect at all times and that we should not have to ever find peace at all. The truth that we should all remember is that peace comes through our redemption in Christ (Rm 5:1). Praise God!

Mexico City

The Mexico City trip was a great trip for Nancy and I. We have

Burlington Church of Christ and a really good friend to thank for this opportunity. Nancy and I had not been on a mission trip for quite some time. It was a needed trip that opened our eyes to so many things that I had forgotten over the years. While we were in Mexico City we handed out food to the homeless, cleaned up parks, handed out fliers, cleaned the church building, and encouraged the church. The Aimers also experienced a new culture that introduced new kinds of foods (that some times made them sick), rides on metros and buses that were extremely quiet (unlike americans). I believe the Aimers learned so much while we were there. They had to speak to people they did not know and that frequently could not understand them. We were all put out of our comfort zones and had to try many new things. What a great opportunity that opened up the eyes of the aimers before they got to there fields.

New Orleans

Sweating!!! The before and after. This house had a layer of about 6-8inches of mud under all of this stuff.
Wow what a trip! I have never seen so much distruction in my life. Everything is destroyed and hardly anything has been done. It has been eight months and people have barely scratched the surface. I had such a hard time understanding why so little had been cleaned up. Many thoughts crossed my mind while working on all of these houses. I was constantly trying to understand what it would be like to be in there shoes. I knew that I would hate to be doing this by myself. Going through all of my possessions which were totally destroyed. Seeing old pictures that were discolored from the water and finding things which were precious to me would be hard. I felt sorry for the elderly people who were unable to work and couldn't come back to there homes. I had all of these thoughts constantly running through my head and knew what we were doing was awesome. I would remember this for the rest of my life and would never forget the people we helped. May God be glorified in their lifes.