Recap of the Summer

I wrote this for an online publication for TTW, and figured I'd share it here. Enjoy:

God has been active and working in Kunkletown, PA, there is no doubt about that. After an amazing summer of hanging out with students, mentoring them, and building deeper relationships with them The Barn has been a little quiet. We had an awesome year of events and discipleship: we had three bands came out to fill the Barn with their music, for our Silo Youth Café; we dedicated a day to service in the local community and to worship; we rented The Barn couple of youth groups for their events; we had a community wide yard sale, to connect with the community and raise money for a new Ping-Pong table; we had a booth at the local West End Fair to reach new students, and we had an awesome end of the Summer BBQ – which 4 churches brought their youth groups to. Overall, it was a noisy and exciting summer, but now The Barn sits quietly in wait.

August was our month to reenergize and cast new vision. We spent a lot of time doing behind the scenes work, and taking some vacation time as well. (The Sheagley’s went to Canada to visit their daughter Joyelle and I went with my family to our cabin). But now, everything is about to start back up, and we are more than ready to go. During August we formulated new ideas and are now ready to implement them for the new 2011-2012 year at The Barn. September 15^th is our start up date and we are so excited. We have already started back up our guys mentor group at Faith Christian, and connected with students about coming out to first Barn of the school year. Who knows where this year will lead us, but we already know it is going to be exciting. Already, we plan to have a Mystery Night at The Barn on October 29^th; we plan on helping out at a local camp retreat in the next few weeks; and we started a youth workers breakfast to connect local youth pastors to each other. One only has to come here once to know that God is working. It is so awesome to see him at work here in the tiny town of Kunkletown, PA and all for the kingdom of God.