Ministry Village

Last weekend, our pastor, Brent, me, and 4 others from our church made the trek to Leesburg, Florida. FBC Leesburg was hosting a mission conference. The Lord has used this church to reach out to their community in an amazing way. FBC Leesburg has what they call Ministry Village. All this was started in the early 80's. They have women's, men's and children's shelters/homes, a medical clinic, a pregnancy center, and a thrift store. I think there are a few others that I cannot remember. The purpose of the conference was to show others ways to reach out to the community around their church that is effective.

It was freezing in the chapel!

On the tour

First ministry house

This way to the medical center

Viewing the Children's Emergency Shelter

Wanda talking about the pregnancy center

Dinner table at the Residental Home for Teens

Brent has new sear-sucker pants

(also known as man-capris!!)

They were bought at the thrift store

Way cool youth center -

used for mentoring and tuturoing and Saturday Sunday School

Life-Size Connect Four Game! Are you kidding me?!?!

Destin's First Picnic

On Saturday, my mom, Brittany, and I took Destin to the park for his first picnic.

Our First Week

Well our first offical week has come and gone...in a flash!! This was such a fast week!
Brent set up his office (it's still a work in progress): Wednesday night Brent did his strength presentation at the church.

Thursday we went to our first pep rally and high school football game!

The school's mascot is the Warriors. The seniors were sooo pumped about this pep rally. (or the fact that they are seniors!)

The football game was quite exciting! We won - 21-14!

However, it was not as exciting as the high school football game our friend Tim went to in Houston, TX. There were 7 overtimes!!! The game lasted 4 hours and 45 minutes!!

We also went to the girls volleyball game on Friday. Our girls played their hearts out, but were defeated. Maybe next time!

I will add more pictures later. At the moment this internet is incredible too slow and my patience with it has run out! I don't know why Alabama has to have such SLOW HIGH-Speed Internet!!! Isn't that an oxymoron??
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