An Outward Focused Week

This week is one of those weeks where the "outwardness" of our church was on display. Let me mention a few things:

• Sunday afternoon our team returned from Mexico. Thirteen youth and five adults spent a week in Reynosa ministering alongside the Alliance church there. They arrived, sleepy and tired after spending thirty hours on the bus. As usual, Joel Nelson's Harvest Ministries did a great job lining up ministry opporunities including a VBS, youth jail ministry, construction, evangelistic Bible studies and more. The stories the team shared are incredible!
• Also Sunday afternoon we learned of tragedy. Nathan Junker, the son of Grand Rapids Alliance pastor Randy drowned on Pokegama trying to rescue a struggling youth. Three women from NAC have volunteered to help with the nursery duties for the visitation and funeral.
• Wednesday evening we hosted A Night of Prayer for Missions. Approximately 60 people attended from several churches. The NAC team outdid themselves in preparing materials for prayer and crepes to fuel it!
  
• Friday night we are allowing people to park in our lot to watch the fireworks. More than a dozen people have volunteered to help with parking and pass out tracts and information about the church.
• Saturday's parade will feature a float and clowns from NAC.
  
• All this on top of ending a week and a half of non-stop prayer in the prayer room! We have some people who simply "make it happen."

Needless to say, I continue to be amazed by God and the wonderful people here at Nashwauk Alliance. In fact, writing an short post about this week is scary, because I don't want to leave anything out and I KNOW that this is just the tip of the iceberg.