The team got back from Mexico, it was an experience they will be talking about for a long time to come.  Just today, a young adult from the neighborhood described his brother as significantly impacted by all he did and saw there in Testerazo.  We had just enough time to wash laundry and head out for the final summer ministry.

About 100 of us left for Kids Camp this afternoon ... up into the cool pines of Arizona.  It has been something we long to do together, about now.

 

• Please Pray for the camp talks ... they're on 2 Peter 1:3-9
• for the camp counselors ... its a 24/7 job up there ... loving, listening, playing, guiding
• for the kitchen, crafts, program, worship teams
• for the kids ... for their growth, their relationships, their discoveries, their adventures

 

Thank you for helping us along the paths we were supposed to travel this summer.  Thanks for joining us one more time, in intercession for the children and youth of Phoenix's barrios.  Love,  Kit

 

2 Peter 1


Growing in the Knowledge of God

³As we know Jesus better, his divine power gives us everything we need for living a godly life. He has called us to receive his own glory and goodness!

⁴And by that same mighty power, he has given us all of his rich and wonderful promises. He has promised that you will escape the decadence all around you caused by evil desires and that you will share in his divine nature.
⁵So make every effort to apply the benefits of these promises to your life. Then your faith will produce a life of moral excellence. A life of moral excellence leads to knowing God better.

⁶Knowing God leads to self-control. Self-control leads to patient endurance, and patient endurance leads to godliness. ⁷Godliness leads to love for other Christians,and finally you will grow to have genuine love for everyone.

⁸The more you grow like this, the more you will become productive and useful in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁹But those who fail to develop these virtues are blind or, at least, very shortsighted. They have already forgotten that God has cleansed them from their old life of sin.