PRAISE GOD FROM WHOM ALL BLESSING FLOW

7th and 8th Graders ---Clayton (2 years ago), Floyd (Tues.), Timothy (2 years ago), Miles (did not yet), Jailyn (Tues.), Kelsey (this summer) and Shania (Tues).

Daniel, Jasper, Rodney, Tyra, Vera, DonShay, and Kelsey

5th and 6th Graders ---- ALL of them asked Jesus into their hearts - plus Matthew (who we didn't get the new full group shot because of our excitement).

It is so awesome being in service for God!!! We are so in awe of what is happening with Promised Land. This past Tuesday we had the older groups. Words just can't tell you what it felt like with the 5th and 6th graders. EVERYONE asked Jesus into their heart. We are posting their photo again just so you can see and pray for each one.

These kids are so serious about what they did. And again it is so wonderful that we will be able to hopefully nurture these young people. Pray for us that we give them God's word in a clear and truthful manner!

The sad thing......we don't have Promised Land next Tuesday because it is an inservice day for the teachers.

For those of you who have been praying so faithfully.....THANK YOU!!! YOU are the reason this is happening. You are praying for the kids and for us and God is hearing and answering your prayers. Please, Please keep it up!!! We can't do it without prayer!!!

Gary and Barb

P.S. If you have been praying for us just "being out here....and all that".... Rest assured that that prayer has been answered too because we are happy here. We MISS our family and friends but we know God is watching over them all and so we are good with that. Winter could prove to be lonely.....we shall see......

Sweet Sweet Sunday

Sometimes God just seems to be extra good :-). We went to pick up the Left Hand Bull children to come to church with us and this morning we had an added blessing......Mark came along. Last year he was one of the kids that I "sat on" (figuratively) for some poor choices I felt he had made (along with 2 other kids). On the way to church we got to talking about what adventure they had had this weekend and they said they had gone hiking again. I said they would have to show Gary just where they went because we needed some trails to hike on...... Mark said "you got time this afternoon?" YES! We made sure we had the time. We went hiking just north of their place - down in the canyons. There are deep washout that we decided must have gotten as bad as they were because of the cows making deep trails and then the rains washing out the sand. We had a grand time - just enjoying the kids' company and letting them show us "their" trails.

On another page.............My Aunt and a part of her family are here with us for about 10 days. She is much more alert and able to enjoy her little great grand twin babies (15 months or so). They sit on her lap, give kisses, and just make life interesting!!

GOD IS SO GOOD!!!

Please pray for our Promised Land on Tuesday. We will be meeting with the 5th -6th and 7th - 8th graders.

Gary and Barb

Promised Land Blessings......God is SO good!!!!

We wanted to share our Roller Coaster Ride with the Kindergartners and 1st graders.....hope you can open it!!!! That was a RIOT!!!! Those kids are about as cute as they come!!!! One little girl asked (as she got into the 15 passenger van) "is this a limosine?" and then someone else had the roller coaster idea......

GOD is SO GOOD!!! We had 8 (eight) K-1 kids ask Jesus into their hearts. And then we also had 7 (seven) 2nd-4th graders ask Jesus into their hearts. And now it feels so good to know that we will be able to nurture those little ones to come to know Jesus more and more as we meet with them week after week.

Please pray for these little ones.

Gary and Barb

Relatives from Michigan and more........

Holly, Vera, Diondra, LenaBella and LouAnnWe had a fun time visiting with 2 of Gary's cousins, Dale and Barb and Sharon and Dwayne. They arrived Thursday afternoon and left Sunday afternoon.

On Saturday Sharon, Barb and I (Barb) drove through the reservation picking up several girls to come to our place and do a craft. We ended up with a good number......5 girls. We worked on a plastic mesh / yarn craft. The girls caught on right away and did very nice work. I really couldn't have done it very well without Barb and Sharon to help. We all kept busy threading needles and so on. Diondra still had to finish her scrapbook and she handled that very nicely on her own.

It's so nice to be able to go to the kids' home and meet their families. Sharon purchased a very nice necklace that one of the moms had made from seed beads.

So if you ever want to come out and visit the beautiful prairies......come on out....we have plenty of room for visitors and we will put you to work. :-)

Gary and Barb

5th and 6th, 7th and 8th graders

These are the 7th and 8th Graders.....

And these are the 5th and 6th graders.....

Today we had the older groups for Promised Land. Once again everything went very good. Time flys when you're having fun and that hour really went fast. With the older groups it's harder to tell whether or not they enjoyed Promised Land.......you know.....they're at that "be cool" age. But we know they heard God's message because they were very attentive. Our message this week (and last week with the little ones) was based on Psalm 139: 14-15. And the Bible Verses were from Jeremiah. The K-4 had Jeremiah 31:3 I have loved you with an everlasting love. And the 5th - 8th had Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. We wanted the kids to know right away that they are unique and special to God.

It's really neat to have a young man sitting in the group who you know has no (or very little) knowledge of God...because his "mom" (she is actually an aunt but to this young man she is mom) sat down at Family Night and told us his story. Pray for this young man.....he seems to be a really nice kid but has had a tough life so far.

Thank you again for all of your support.

Gary and Barb

Another fun Saturday with 4 boys......

We headed out to Grass Mountain hoping to pick up the Gary boys...Joseph and Robert Gary. These boys don't have a phone at their house so we really can't plan ahead. Yes! we found them at home and they wanted to come along for another adventure and "could Shiloh and Lowel come along too". That was just what we wanted --- just 4 boys to build another catapult....a little bigger this time. Well, they got it a little bigger......but not necessarily better. They did get one good 50 foot shot but couldn't duplicate it again. By the way they are shooting zucchini (we are about sick of eating zucchini!!)

Gary said Joseph has "really got a head on his shoulders".....figuring out what had to happen right along side Gary. The other 3 boys grew tired of all the trying, I think, and they were in the house.......Robert asked if there was anything he could help with. So I asked if he wanted to help make pizza for supper..."Yes!" So while Gary and Joseph brainstormed....Robert, Shiloh and Lowel and I made pizza. They pressed the dough out and everything....did a great job and loved every minute of it.

We are finding out that these kids are really different when they come to our house....then what they are with all of their peers at camp. We are liking what we see.... REALLY nice kids!

Promised Land Kids

2nd, 3rd and 4th graders

Kindergarten and 1st grade

Promised Land has begun!!!! Hurrah!! We had a fun time with the kids. They are a sweet bunch. We don't work with Kindergarteners very often so we wondered how that would go. What fun!!! It went great. And the one we were told was trouble with a capital T was just as good as all the rest of them!

Thank you for all the prayers!!! Keep them coming. Next week we will have the 5-6 and 7-8. Many of these kids from K-8 come to Prairie Light Youth Camp and we all recognize each other. It's so neat to hear "hey, I know you."

Tonight the school is having a Family Night and we have been invited to the Sub Sandwich supper. We will be introduced and if there are any questions for us we can address them.

Gary and Barb