With the camps behind us it means your summer is in full swing – summer schedules, family-building opportunities, time away. Thanks to everyone who made Day Camp and Camp Morningstar rock this summer!

With the turmoil and craziness in our country and the world, it is important for us to not give in to fear. “Perfect loves casts out fear” and these are times that call for courage and not timidity. Don’t hesitate to “call upon the Name” of the God of Heaven for your own household’s needs as well as those of our nation.

Please be diligent to pray and give toward the work that our local body is contributing to the Spirit’s effort in Des Moines. It is easy, especially in tough times, to constrict rather than expand our Kingdom vision. Diligence “in season and out of season” produces fruit in the honor of the One who deserves everything from us!

Continue to pray for: those out of work or concerned about their jobs, Julie Richard’s recovery, Jack Benjamin’s medical issues – that the Lord would restore what is being stolen – and the things that come to mind when you think of our brothers and sisters at Fox Creek!

“For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.” – Paul in his letter to the Ephesian