Special Camp is underway and God is blessing big time!
Monday evening we welcomed 3 into the family of God, new brothers & sisters!!
Tuesday gave us our first full day of activities including the pool, lake front activities, the snack shack and gift store. The camper love all of the opportunities of stuff to be involved in. the campers stay very busy!
More updates to come with pictures as soon as I can get them!
I Remain,
Pastor Steve
Wednesday, June 06, 2012
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
What A Spring!
Things in my life have been going at a break neck speed! The Spring has been incredibly busy. Here is the update...
Graduation: We had the honor of attending the graduation of both Philip and Susan from Faith Baptist Bible College. Philip graduated with an Assistant Pastor's degree and Susan graduated with a 2 year Executive Assistants degree. We are very proud of both of them and are excited to see what God will do with them in the future!
Bus Driving: I have been driving for three different groups: Clear Lake School District, Ventura School District and the Redeemer Lutheran Day-Care. This past few months I have been driving almost everyday. Keeps me busy and brings in a bit of extra cash & I really enjoy driving the different routes and events.
Turkey Hunting: I took three days and drove over to Northeast Iowa for a turkey hunting trip with a couple of good friends. Left clear Lake on Sunday evening after the evening service, slept in my van and was in the timber at 4:30 AM Monday morning! Due to the warm spring weather, the hunt did not go very well. because of time constraints and schedules I could not go over any earlier. That being said ... we did not see any birds and heard only a couple. To top off everything, I got sick on Tuesday morning and was driving back to Clear Lake by noon on Tuesday and spent the rest of the day in bed! Oh, well!
Fishing: The fishing this Spring has thus far been very good! we have bee n able to land some really good fish. On Clear Lake there is a slot limit on walleyes, you may have three fish per day, all fish must be over 14 inches to keep and you may only have 1 fish over 22 inches. I have landed a couple of 18 inchers and 1 that was 20 inches! Susan caught a 17.25 incher and was very proud of her catch! For Memorial Day we thawed all of the fish we caught to share with our church family at a picnic,we had nearly 10 pounds of fish between us! Good time and good eats!
Ministry: We have been incredibly blessed at our church with a number of visitors, both individuals and families! As well as some major projects being accomplished. New windows, and new handicapped restroom upstairs and a ramp for the outside of the building. The ministry of the Word is such a blessing, we just concluded a walk through Joshua and Judges and are poised to begin Ruth very soon!
More to Come!
I Remain,
Pastor Steve
Graduation: We had the honor of attending the graduation of both Philip and Susan from Faith Baptist Bible College. Philip graduated with an Assistant Pastor's degree and Susan graduated with a 2 year Executive Assistants degree. We are very proud of both of them and are excited to see what God will do with them in the future! 
Bus Driving: I have been driving for three different groups: Clear Lake School District, Ventura School District and the Redeemer Lutheran Day-Care. This past few months I have been driving almost everyday. Keeps me busy and brings in a bit of extra cash & I really enjoy driving the different routes and events. 
Turkey Hunting: I took three days and drove over to Northeast Iowa for a turkey hunting trip with a couple of good friends. Left clear Lake on Sunday evening after the evening service, slept in my van and was in the timber at 4:30 AM Monday morning! Due to the warm spring weather, the hunt did not go very well. because of time constraints and schedules I could not go over any earlier. That being said ... we did not see any birds and heard only a couple. To top off everything, I got sick on Tuesday morning and was driving back to Clear Lake by noon on Tuesday and spent the rest of the day in bed! Oh, well!
Fishing: The fishing this Spring has thus far been very good! we have bee n able to land some really good fish. On Clear Lake there is a slot limit on walleyes, you may have three fish per day, all fish must be over 14 inches to keep and you may only have 1 fish over 22 inches. I have landed a couple of 18 inchers and 1 that was 20 inches! Susan caught a 17.25 incher and was very proud of her catch! For Memorial Day we thawed all of the fish we caught to share with our church family at a picnic,we had nearly 10 pounds of fish between us! Good time and good eats!
More to Come!
I Remain,
Pastor Steve
Friday, March 30, 2012
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Ranting About FaceBook
If you are a user of Facebook, you have not doubt received the message that is some sort of a declaration of complete love for and devotion to some cause.
It could be about your relationship to God, your love for Jesus or whatever cause that your "friends" deem important enough to send on to you.
What really fires me up is that after reading this post you have just received, it ends something like this ... "90% of people do not have the guts or nerve to re-post this, if you REALLY love ... (whatever) ... re-post in your page." Through manipulation and shame many are pressured in to re-posting this junk.
It may be true that I'm a poor excuse for a Christian but I refuse to re-post any of those kind of posts! So, all that being said I saw this on Facebook today and just had to laugh. I'm pretty sure that God has better things to do than monitoring Facebook posts!
This is a great cartoon:
I Remain,
Pastor Steve
It could be about your relationship to God, your love for Jesus or whatever cause that your "friends" deem important enough to send on to you.
What really fires me up is that after reading this post you have just received, it ends something like this ... "90% of people do not have the guts or nerve to re-post this, if you REALLY love ... (whatever) ... re-post in your page." Through manipulation and shame many are pressured in to re-posting this junk.
It may be true that I'm a poor excuse for a Christian but I refuse to re-post any of those kind of posts! So, all that being said I saw this on Facebook today and just had to laugh. I'm pretty sure that God has better things to do than monitoring Facebook posts!
This is a great cartoon:
Pastor Steve
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
"Random" Wednesday
Ah, Yes! Today was my first "random" day of my life!
Perhaps I should explain ... I have been driving a school bus for nigh unto 20 years and TODAY I was randomly selected for the DOT Drug/Alcohol testing.
Here are the results so far .... I passed the alcohol test!
I will hear about the drug test in the next few days/weeks ... I'm not to worries! Oh well!
I Remain,
Pastor Steve
Perhaps I should explain ... I have been driving a school bus for nigh unto 20 years and TODAY I was randomly selected for the DOT Drug/Alcohol testing.
Here are the results so far .... I passed the alcohol test!I will hear about the drug test in the next few days/weeks ... I'm not to worries! Oh well!
I Remain,
Pastor Steve
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