Summer Fruit

Junior High students return from Rosebud Indian Reservation

• 21 students and leaders spent the last week at Rosebud
• each evening they held Kids Camp for 40-50 children and their parents
• Truth was shared, kids were loved, and seeds were planted for future ministry

Cornerstone Kids Camp

• 72 kids in kindergarten through second grade spent the week at Cornerstone
• learning the fruit of the spirit (ask them!)
• having fun, and
• growing to love their Lord and their church.

Windows into Zambia

Picture Pastor Tom teaching 70 Zambians in a cinder block school room with a mud-coated roof. As Pastor Tom teaches, the listeners shout their "amens" with celebratory ululations. And what is the message? The same one Pastor Tom teaches here - the gospel's power to save and free us from bitterness, enabling us to walk before Him in joy.

Picture Pastor Jeff and Teresa, celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary in Zambia, as they reaffirm their vows in a traditional African wedding ceremony.

Picture African pastors listening to Bible teaching from 8-5 and then saying, "Please don't stop. We are not tired. It is God's truth. How can we be tired of that?"

Summer Ministry Begins!

180 and Escape 22 kicked off their summer meetings with God's "rain plan":

• Unable to meet outside for the activities and games due to the heavy rains, junior and senior highers met inside the auditorium for praise and worship
• they gathered in groups in areas of the auditorium to pray for their schools
• and finished off the evening by splitting into 180 and Escape fellowship groups of 120 each!

Internationals welcomed at the Des Moines airport:

• 16 Americans and 2 new Chinese believers welcomed 19 Chinese students at the Des Moines airport at 1:50a this morning
• the 2 Chinese believers had arrived in last year's visiting group as unbelievers!

Westwind has their first church service

• 105 people participated in the first worship service at Waukee elementary on Sunday
• Pastor Troy attended and rejoiced in the authentic worship and excitement of God at work in their midst