The warmth of the afterglow of the "Purpose Driven Church" Campaign was in full shine. Members were excited, families were visting and becoming involved. Inactive members were becoming active and scarred relationships were healing. Everything was comfortable.
In life away from the church, my position with the Board of Trustees for Lakeview Baptist Encampment was also exciting. The debt for the worship center is almost gone, a new maintainance storage building has been built-debt free, attendance at the encampment is setting records and lives are being changed weekly through the use of the facility. Additionally God has blessed with $250,000 being donated thus allowing us to break ground on a $.5 million dining hall.
Another dream is also taking root as NET Xtreme Youth Camp kicks off uniting three weeks of camps for students 6-12 under one leadership group. This vision was born from a meeting of the Lakeview board and area youth camp directors to assist in combining both financial and volunteer resources. This first year would prove to be tremendous as one week sold out, a second almost filled and the third doubled the privious years attendance.
Who would have thought that in the midst of all this that factors were in place to move my life in a new direction in the year to come. God was blessing mightily and I was getting to be a part of it. Hallelujah.
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