Glad to hear some good Ranger news! God bless you and your outpost.
Kelvin ----- Original Message ----- From: "djholland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 12:00 AM Subject: [RR] Whatta Month! > Whatta Month this has been! > > In the past month, I've gotten so busy! I've been selected by the pastor > and board to fill an unexpired term left vacated, appointed to a vision > casting team for our church as well as a team of leaders whose job it will > be to scrutinize the various ministries and see if they are in fact meeting > their mission purpose, and if not, what we need to do to help them do that. > > As expected, I've been asked, and appointed, to serve as Sr. Commander of > our outpost upon the retirement of my predessessor. I've since sat down and > come up with a calendar of events for our outpost, including the District > and Sectional events already set. I've had a very long chat with our pastor > and we will be forming, training and implementing an Outpost Council. Since > we only have a few boys, I'm approaching this whole thing, kind of, as > starting an outpost from scratch. We only have myself, a RangerKids > commander (whose idea of preparing is to grab the box with crayons and > pencils on his way to the room with the boys after opening ceremonies), a > chaplain (who for 3 years has given 15-20 minute sermonettes for devotions), > and a Lt. Commander who has just gotten involved about 3 weeks ago. What a > starting point, huh? HOWEVER, I believe in a God who can do ALL things, > with, by, through and completely in spite of me and my efforts. My > intention is to REACH, TEACH and KEEP boys for CHRIST! > > We have 7 boys, two of them are regular church attendees (my son and our > Rainbows sponsor's son) the rest only come on Wed. night for Rangers. In > the mess of leadership change, we got papers from the District office about > a Winter Blast at the end of Feb. We only had 2 days until the deadline to > get the boys registered to go. I asked for and received an extension for a > few days so I could get a head count and mail the stuff later. All 7 boys' > parents said YES, My Ranger can go!!! First event we've even tried to get > to in several years, and we get 100% participation! Praise God! > > All that as well as serving as Sectional Secretary. WHEW!! > > I can't wait to see what else He is going to do. > > Sorry to be so long winded (fingered?), but wanted to share what god is > doing. > > In His Grip, > > DJ > > > _______ > > > List host: http://eBible.org/mpj/ List info: http://eBible.org/rangernet/faq.htm > > To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe rangernet" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > or visit http://eBible.org/subscribe.htm > _______ List host: http://eBible.org/mpj/ List info: http://eBible.org/rangernet/faq.htm To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe rangernet" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://eBible.org/subscribe.htm
