Brothers and Sisters:
It’s quite a funny thing that during the summer things don’t slow down but actually SPEED UP around church. I don’t know how your lives are during this time, but it’s quite counter intuitive for me. Between visitors coming to Des Moines, church staff on breaks, and conferences and the like it’s really easy to get mixed up.
This is something that happened to me.
At the meeting last week (which was great, by the way) I made mention of being gone this week for the National Youth Gathering. Silly me. I was actually off by a week, meaning that I’m here today and gone next week. So here’s what’s going on, then. We’ll call off young adults for this week (as planned) and next week as well (I’ll be gone). This means that the next time we meet for Young Adults is July 28th. This will give everyone a break (I remember that quite a few weren’t going to make it tonight anyway if we did have it).
While I’m gone, here are some pictures from previous National Youth Gatherings. Pray for us, it will be a great trip but a long one.



Shoot! Wendy and I were planning on going tonight. Good thing I checked the blog! I’ll let her know…
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