Getting Involved

Today began our third and final week of orientation here at the Missionary Training Center. It seems like everyday Caitlin and I continue to grow in our longing to be overseas and reaching the world for Christ. However, we are asking the Lord to help us minister and serve where we are planted at this point in time and not just have our eyes locked towards what's on the horizon and miss the opportunities we have right in front of us.

We are continuing to get to know the staff and our fellow students through various means one of which is a dance class held once a week taught by a staff couple. We have gone twice now and have stumbled through the Two-Step, Line Waltz, Electric Slide, Dallas, and the 10-Step.
This is such a fun time and an hour and a half filled with much laughter! We've also had a couple game nights, two evenings of volleyball, a brunch potluck with some of our neighbors (as seen in this picture to the left) and so many other great times of fellowship. Caitlin and I have really enjoyed living right on the lake and have taken several canoe trips together and plan to go on many more before winter sets in.

My carpentry skills are coming along as are my demolition ones as my first project was to remove the tiles from a bathroom that had termite damage. It was quite fun breaking them apart. In addition to destroying things, this past week I was able to help put together a frame for a wall. I'm really enjoying this opportunity to learn such a useful skill. My cooking skills are being perfected as well and, to date, Caitlin and I haven't set anything on fire despite setting the smoke alarm off twice but we promise nothing was burnt!

We were blessed last week by our first visitors from my home church! Dave and Lynne Moll were in the area visiting family and spent the evening with us. It was great catching up with them and sharing some stories from our first few weeks here at MTC.

I am going to begin teaching the adult Sunday school class at Lake Area Evangelical Free Church on September 14th and I would covet your prayers! While this is an awesome growing opportunity in teaching, it is also a little intimidating. I have often desired to develop this gift but wasn't sure how since I have never practiced it to this extent. This will definitely be a growing experience but I am excited to see just how the Lord does grow me! Caitlin is also helping our new church by redesigning their website. It's a big and tricky task (computer programs do not always like to cooperate ) and she would appreciate your prayers as she works on this project.

Last night I had the opportunity to serve with a jail ministry. It was very different from what I expected and really brought home for me the reality of sin's penalty. These men are living out their penalties for whatever crime they have committed but we also have a very real penalty for our sin. It was quite an eye-opening experience. I'm going again on Wednesday to meet with some of these men one-on-one and then Caitlin is going to a women's jail ministry on Thursday night. This is far out of our comfort zones but we did ask the Lord to stretch us while we are here at MTC.

Thank you all for your continued prayers, encouragement and support!

United in Christ,

Cameron and Caitlin 

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