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Happy 4th of July to you! Our God is an awesome God! I am so sorry that I didn't post this weekend. I was trying to catch up on my rest. I somehow caught a summer cold or bronchitis or something a couple of days into the mission trip and it has gotten worse instead of better.  But God is in control both of our circumstances as well as our country. I plan to keep my focus on Jesus no matter what. Even when I can't breathe or can't stop coughing. I hope that each of our team had the opportunity to brag on God or give our testimony at church yesterday of what God did while on the Choctaw Mission Trip. He is to be high and lifted up. He is to be honored and glorified. He blessed our team so much. The last couple of nights Lori's whole class prayed the prayer of salvation as well as 10 from Miss Debbie's class and 2 in Miss Stacey's class.  God knows their hearts. We must pray for those children. We must pray that they will be become disciples of Ch...

Good day to you!  And it is a good day. An awesome day but somewhat of a sad day for our team. We had to say goodbye to each other. Our team, our circle of prayer, will never be the same. In all the years we have never had exactly the same team members. There is always those who come back and those who don't come back for whatever reason. We are always just very thankful that God puts our team together. We have made new friends and seen old friends. But I know that some of us have drawn closer to Jesus because of His amazing grace. This year we tried some things new. We had a young adult/parenting class. We also had an Biblical Abstinence/Responsibility lesson one night for the youth. One night was girls and one night was the boys. This turned out to be an amazing time. And this was something that was really needed. The Choctaw adults who came said that this was something that was really needed. They said that this should be done every year. The teen pregnancy rate  ...