Full Swing Mission Adventures

We are entering our third week of our busy summer Mission Adventures season.  So far, it has been amazing, filled with the faithfulness of God.  We have seen students lives transformed in unbelievable ways.  I think one of the highlights so far, was when a young 15 year old kid named Ethan surrendered his life to Christ after being involved with the church of Satan.  One day he was dabbling in Satanism, and the next day his life is transformed and he carried a wooden cross through our city!  I'm blessed with an amazing staff team who all put in 15 hour days Monday through Friday.  Its tough, but so rewarding.  

The Gospel Guy Office has been a tremendous blessing for our briefing times

Crosswalk--This is the last thing we do with our groups on Friday morning.

Students are very challenged to know what others believe and what they believe through our "Take Your Pick" outreach.

Gospel Guy Network Appreciation Breakfast

In May we hosted our first Gospel Guy Appreciation Breakfast.  We invited people who are involved with the ministry, cooked them a great breakfast, and showed our gratitude for their partnership.  It was a great, fun filled time.

What more could one ask for!?

Aidan was up bright and early to give us a hand. He ate a ton.

The Library

 

This past month we looked at hard scriptures that people often use against Christians to try and attack God, and the Bible.  It was a great time, and these times are encouraging and growing. This is another thing the Gospel Guy offers monthly to our partners.  This month we will be looking at the Jesus Seminar...what it is..what it teaches...and how to respond.

Summer Time Gospel Guy Style!

Summer is here in Oregon which means we are hitting the streets five days a week, doing all sorts of creative outreaches.  The Gospel Guy Network continues to grow, and we are so blessed by all the people who are involved.  The above picture is of some people from a local church doing our "Coffin" outreach on a college campus here in Salem.  Our summer will be very busy with all our Mission Adventures teams coming. Each team will take part in the Gospel Guy.

We Do our "Take Your Pick" outreach at the Wednesday market in our city

Spring Break Mission Adventures

The past 2 weeks we hosted around 35 high schoolers for our Spring Break Mission Adventures.  The two weeks were amazing.  Every year around this time, I begin to ask myself if I am getting to old for this type of ministry, but then I see what the Lord does in the lives of the students and I cant imagine not doing it.  Our theme this year is "Exhale/Inhale", and is based off of Titus 3.  Plain and simple, lives were changed, and not just the students lives either. 

The Gospel Guy Office downtown has been a huge asset for our briefing and debriefing times

Taking students on our Temple Tours.  Always an amazing eye opening time for them.

Students with their bus tickets rite before we took them to preach the Gospel on our city buses!

The last evening of the week we had students and leaders proclaim the Gospel on a stool in our city park.  Great time.

It was great to do our Crosswalk Outreach on Good Friday!

Our MA students had tons of evangelism opportunities, and spoke to people of all different worldviews.  This is the hand of a guy named Dillon who our students spoke with.  First time any of them spoke with a professing Pagan.

Spring Time in Oregon...Time to Get Hiking

Recently the weather has let up with the rain which means the Walter family tries to get outdoors and hike as much as we can!  Oregon is a true paradise for the outdoors, and we look forward to the weekends so we all can enjoy this beautiful land!

The kids enjoying a hike

Alistair likes the new addition to the family....Thumper the bunny.

Anders Walter....Magician?

When Anders was around 8 years old, he saw a slight of hand show by a man named Jeff Martin who is a professional slight of hand magician from our church.  Ever since then, Anders has always been interested in slight of hand.  Fast forward to present day...Anders has been getting mentored by Jeff and has really taken a liking to slight of hand.  So much, he has already performed at some birthday parties, YWAM events, and his latest was doing a show for one of our Mission Adventures teams.  He is getting really good at it, and it is so awesome to see him grow in confidence!  We are real proud of him!

One of our MA students wondering what in the world just happened!

Anders amazing the audience yet again!