This week, our youth are spending five days in the Wichita Mountains in a wilderness preserve, cleaning up, making repairs, and restoring the habitat for all the wildlife that calls it home. Reports we have heard have been wonderful about the can-do attitude of the kids, the new friendships made, and their diligence, even in the face of these extreme July temperatures.

I hope you have kept them in your prayers this week as they experience the transformational power of sacrificing a week of their summer for a mission project. These young people will be on hand this Sunday to lead both worship services. They will even assist me in rounding out the sermon time as we worship together.

Please be there this Sunday to hear about their mission adventures and to support them as they take leadership roles in our service. We celebrate their lives, their families and their contributions to our family of faith and to the outer community!