McKinley Indian Mission Trip

June 25-July 1 2006

12 of us from New Hope Christian Church went to the McKinley Indian Mission this summer. We had 7 youth (5 high schoolers and 2 jr highers) and 5 adults go to experience an outreach to the children of the area.

We all worked together for NBC (Neighborhood Bible Club) to show the kids how Jesus is our greatest treasure. We did crafts, snacks, games, songs all related to this theme. They had a great time learning and we had a great time teaching and playing!!!

Everyday, Tues Wed Thurs, we would take vans to pick up the kids from their housing developments. Then we would take them home afterwards. As you can see...their time was well spent.

On Monday and Friday of that week, we worked on Ben's house. He is the intern there..and the house was in need of scraping, scraping, more scraping and painting. Since Travis is a professional painter, this worked out great!! It was pretty hot but we went swimming one evening after a hard days work. We got the whole house scrapped and primed. We left the actual painting for the next group who had time to do it.

We also developed a relationship with the Coffmans, who run the Mission. Since this was in Yakima WA, only 2-3 hours away, we can do more service projects on long weekends and day trips! What a ministry God is working through!!

Winema 2006

Winema Christian Camp is our yearly 'vacation'! We get to camp and visit with friends from college. Rachel also gets to visit with people from her old church, Milwaukie Christian. Rachel has gone to this Week of Missions family camp for several years, starting in high school when she lived in Oregon. Now we both go as a couple. And we will bring our kids here too :) !!

by the inlet at the Winema Beach

The Columbia outlet store had these on sale for only $10, so of course a ton of us got them. Tons of fun!!
Plus here is a pyramid we did!!! Crazy girls!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3gN2fzkad8

Rachel and Travis...what a cute couple!!

Travis, Anthony & Matt...accessing the waves, water temperature & whether to go in or not!

you can visit Winema Christian Camp's website www.winema.org

CIY Christ in Youth Conference 2006

From July 31st to August 5th we took 10 youth to Oregon State University for a summer youth conference. There was about 850 teens there total from churches all over the NW. Travis and I were the leaders and there was 4 boys and 6 girls, so we had our hands full. God really blessed our time there and 4 of the youth made 1st time decisions to follow Christ. Another 2 made some decisions to go into ministry too!! Wow-what an amazing God we serve. I know all the youth grew in their walk with God and were encouraged and motivated to seek Him more!!

The girls!!!

Our incredible Dodgeball team!!

Church Campout August 2006

We went to Warm Beach Christian Camp for our annual campout. Travis went on the high ropes course while I cheered him on from the ground. We also went horseback riding with some others, led by a trail guide (for 1 hour). It was nice to hang out with friends and just fellowship and visit.