Riders on the Storm

Pastor John and Carla spent the last several years riding storms.  When we arrived in Hawaii, much like Job they were exhausted.

Job 6:11-13   “What strength do I have, that I should still hope?  What prospects, that I should be patient?  Do I have the strength of stone?  Is my flesh bronze?  Do I have any power to help myself, now that success has been driven from me?"

Since we were there in July, Carla took a refreshing trip home to Florida for her parents’ 50^th wedding anniversary.  The children went back to school.  The roofing project was completed except for the gutters that the church is paying to have done.  Pastor John was accepted into an online Master’s program out of Point Loma.  The new youth ministry is flourishing.

Their strength was gone, but God in His mercy sent workers, friendships, family, and resources to lift them up.

Continue to pray for their family.  God is not done working, and we are not done being used.

Bonnie Young

2x10 Removal Complete

Does the rain here in Colorado remind you of Pastor John’s hanging off the church in the hurricane?  Well, I have terrific news.  Last Saturday several men showed up to remove the 2x10’s that were put on the roof before the roof replacement started in July.  The men safely removed the boards.  Now, other people can put up the new gutters.  God has His timing.  He is never early or late.

Psalm 37:7  Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him;

Bonnie Young

Children and Youth

Just a few days before the Crossing team arrived in Wahiawa a new family from Colorado Springs began attending Pastor John’s church.  Rachel the wife, had been active with the youth ministry in Colorado.  She told Pastor John that she would start a new ministry for the youth of the church.  What she found was a church family in need of ministry to both children and youth.  She recruited two other women and two weeks ago they started an active program.  Sunday morning, September 1 the church had 10 new people, and they all said they were there because the programs for their children.

Matthew 19:14   But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.