We had a wonderful day again yesterday at the Juvenile Detention Center. We had a new set of guards and so once again things were done differently. We were ushered to our "purple meeting room". And met one on one with one gal.... Pray for her! She also has been raised in the traditional Lakota way and enjoys the "ceremonies. Not the Pow Wows but "ceremonies" where we pray". So you can about imagine how we struggled with that one. We didn't want to make her pull away from us so we went very carefully. She was one of the first who prayed to receive Christ. So as you can see there is a conflict going on there.
I have decided that I will not put the kids names in here anymore.... We want to protect them too..... God knows who you are praying for.
But then we also had a group of 4 girls come in and there was a totally new face in the group. We visited with them --- just small talk :-) -- and then we shared a scripture verse and prayed with them. When we got done praying --- the new gal had tears in her eyes. I asked if she was OK.....and she shared some things about visiting her mom (or could it have been NOT visiting--- I couldn't get everything she said). But she really started crying....but "was so glad we had come". She hugged us when they left...and we told her we hoped to see her that evening for church (she hugged us after church too).
Church went very well. We were only the 6 of us, and about 8 of the boys were busy making drums so they weren't there but we had a room full!!! We sang some songs (Pastor Tom had his "bongo" drum along which the kids really enjoyed), Pastor gave a short (but good) message, his wife read a poem and then we had refreshments. The kids seemed to enjoy it all.
New PRAISE GOD!!! We will be going to the Rosebud Treatment Center (alcohol and drug abuse). Several of the kids we have been meeting with at JDC will be going there the 15th and we wanted to stay in contact with them.....Talked with the JDC director --- he contacted the director at the treatment center ----- he talked with us ---- and so God has opened another door for us. If we feel that we want to we can even go when they have adults. The treatment goes for 45 days.....with youth and adults alternating. Please keep this new ministry in your prayers!!!!
And then for today. My two cousins, Dwight and LeRoy Logterman are having a big bull sale on Wednesday. 55 black angus bulls (one year olds) and 40 hereford bulls (two year olds). Today the bulls had to all be loaded into 2 semis......and wouldn't you know it.....it has been raining since 4 a.m. (or there abouts). But God is concerned even about that and the semis have made it to the paved road --- through about 3 miles of mud!!! So once again we say THANK YOU LORD!!!! I haven't heard the full story of how the loading went but there were stories of other years in the past...... looks to me like this year was a much better loading process.
Tomorrow is Release Time with the two older groups. We are telling the story of God asking Abraham to sacrifice Isaac. Gary and I said to each other that this seemed to be a hard story.....but we heard it when we were little and so we felt these kids could hear it too.
It was so nice to talk with 2 families from ORC yesterday. We love all of you! Thank you so much for such awesome support!!!
Gary and Barb
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