Our First Newsletter Online!!!

Hello Friends and Family!

Well here it is, finally and at last, a newsletter via the internet! Yeah! We’ve been promising this for like two years now and I think that some of you had probably just completely given up on us, however, we’ve done it! And now, we will try to keep our blog updated on a monthly basis (try….). We’ll also throw some pictures on here and try to keep things interesting.

So what’s new?

Nate

School here doesn’t end for the summer until July 22nd. So summer holidays are about to begin! Not really for Nate though. Currently, he’s keeping very busy getting his clubs and youth group wrapped up for the summer. He’s also been making his few last trips into the local high school Magna Carta to hang out with the kids and build relationship with them. Just before Easter he had the opportunity to teach some Religious Education classes there and has made more young “friends” as a result. (Many of the young people who attend Magna really look up to Nate and even go out of their way to say hi to him in shopping centres.) On top of that, Nate is getting ready to take a group of young people to Bible camp, preparing for some day camps later on in August and hoping to get some well-earned time off!

Erika (and Baby)

I’m doing very well. For the past 10 months I’ve been teaching, part time, parent/toddler music and movement classes for a company called Jo Jingles. As of yesterday, my summer holidays began and I’m off until the second week of September! Yeah! However, my schedule is still looking quite busy. I’m still sitting on the leadership team for the West London Boiler Room and currently helping put together a prayer school. Of course I’m helping Nate get things ready for Bible Camp and just getting my hands stuck in wherever I can.
Our baby seems to be doing well and, every time we’ve been for an appointment, seems to be moving around quite a bit. I’m currently 20 weeks pregnant and loving it. The best part is that I’ve just started feeling the baby once in a while which is great! I now have ladies coming up to me asking me when I’m due (December 3rd by the way), so my bump is protruding quite nicely!

Other News

Nate and I are in the process once again of applying for visas. It seems as though we were issued the wrong kind last year, a kind that you can’t renew! Ah! So we’re trying to have them issue us the correct one this year so that if need be, we could renew with out all this hassle. Please pray that we get the visa we need!

We were back in Canada for a couple of weeks from the end of April to beginning of May for my brother’s wedding. We had such a wonderful time! The only problem was that it didn’t feel long enough! We did enjoy getting to see many of you though, which was great!

As Nate does get a few weeks off during the summer, we’re hoping to get away and do some camping. We’d also like to see if we can get into Italy for a week for one last holiday before kids!

Ministry

As mentioned above, our Impact on the Green clubs and exodusonfire youth group are stopping over the summer holidays, ministry however, does not.

In November, Impact on the Green successfully split into 2 clubs per week and we’ve been continually building relationship with those young people. East2West is running some summer day camps for their non-church youth clubs, which will include Impact on the Green. Nate will be helping out and we’re hoping that many of our young people turn out and get yet another chance to hear about Jesus.

exodusonfire has grown in numbers as well as spiritually over the past year. At the beginning of June we took a group of four young people on a four-day missions trip to Dublin! The trip went very well and the kids were really excited about all that they got to do and about what God did through them!
Last year at this time we took three of our young people to Activate Bible Camp, this year we’re taking 10! We’re praying for all of them to meet with God in a new way. In August of last year, Nate had the opportunity to baptize three young people and this year he’ll be baptizing some more! So it’s all very exciting!

Prayer Requests

• For all of the young people who attend Impact on the Green to be able to make it to at least one day camp. That they’d stay until the evening meeting so that they can learn more about who Jesus can be to them.
  
• For all of the exodusonfire youth that we’re taking to Activate to meet with God in a new and deeper way. That they’d leave camp changed and impacted (for the better)
  
• For Nate and myself to be issued the correct visas quickly and easily
  
• For a little more financial support this month (we’d like to go on holiday and our extras have gone towards the Dublin Mission trip and Camp)

Thank you to everyone who supports us either prayerfully or financially (or both)! We couldn't do what we do without you!

You are very much appreciated!

Pictures: 1)Nate and Erika, 2) The Dublin Missions Team