Mercy and Missions

Community Supper and Additional Local Needs

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Zion Lutheran
5:30-7:00PM

River Street Church
6:00-7:00PM
Newberg Christian Church
5:30-7:00PM
St Peters Church
5:30-6:30PM
301 South River Street715 South River Street2315 Villa Road2315 North Main Street

 

For further assistance within Newberg, we encourage contactingat (503) 537-3999 or visit their website.

 

Domestic Mercy Missions, Evangelism, and Church Planting

As you are aware, summer is the busiest time of year for Sacred Road. We are currently at the end of our last team week this summer. In fact, today is the last day of worksites and Kid's Club for summer 2022. Please pray for the Sacred Road staff as we wrap up our work this week. Pray for safety as we work on worksites for one, last day. Pray for the Lord to be working in the lives of each child who comes to Kid's Club. Please pray that the Lord would continue to build relationships with our communities in White Swan and Warm Springs.

You can see the team videos if you go to our Youtube Channel. We're thankful for everyone who has been praying for guidance and safety during those weeks!
We also have a group of high schoolers from our Youth Group who are heading to Young Life Camp today! We have partnered with Young Life for several years now and each summer we can take a group of students from our Youth Group to both the Middle and High School Camps. Some of our Sacred Road staff are going along as chaperones. Please pray for the students to have fun and be encouraged this week! We are praying that they have an opportunity to make good memories with each other this week, as well.

In the first week of July, we had a group of young adults return from the Warrior Leadership Summit. The Warrior Leadership Summit is a discipleship conference for Native youth and young adults. On top of the lessons and worship, they also offered sports tournaments, swimming, a talent show and more! Joshua and Ruth Tsavatewa took a group of young adults from our church, most of whom are on part and full-time staff with Sacred Road. Our group was able to worship, learn, and play alongside other Native believers and they came back feeling excited and refreshed because of it! We are so grateful to everyone who sent specific donations in order to make this possible. Each young adult who went as part of the Sacred Road group had a full scholarship provided for airfare and the conference cost. Thank you!

If you'd like to learn a little more about their time at the WLS, you can read a letter from Kiana Castilleja HERE. Kiana is on part-time staff with Sacred Road and runs the Sacred Road Store for us.

Over this last month, we were able to host more "Special Kid's Club" events on other reservations and in Native communities. For example, last week we had another Kid's Club at the Boys and Girls Club in Lapwai, Idaho (on the reservation of the Nez Perce tribe) as well as a Kid's Club in Celilo Village (a Native, fishing community on the Columbia River). For Kid's Club in Celilo, we had a handful of BYGE youth who practiced a puppet show and incorporated it into our story time that day!

Earlier in July, we were asked to have special activities for children attending a Celebration Powwow on the Columbia River that was hosted by Georgeville, another, small, Native community on the outskirts of the Yakama reservation. A group of Sacred Road staff drove down with crafts, games, snacks, and more and were able to connect with a small group of children who were there for the powwow.

We also offered one special kids event in Yakama this month! The last couple of weeks have consistently been over 100 degrees. In an effort to cool off the kids in our community, we hosted a Water Day at our church. We had a bouncy house, a slip 'n' slide, a splash pad and more! The kids had a lot of fun playing and eating lunch together!

We are so thankful to everyone who financially partnered with Sacred Road in the month of July! It is through donations, like yours, that we are able to host short-term teams, take youth to Young Life Camp, have Kid's Club in other communities, and more! We are continually blessed by the generosity of all who give, visit, serve with, and pray for us.

 

Boise and RUF

Campus Ministry

The purpose of RUF is to build a community on the college campus that reaches students of divergent beliefs and doubts with the message of the gospel and equips them to love and serve Jesus and His church.

Regardless of your beliefs or doubts (whether you’re convinced, skeptical, curious, burned-out, or whatever), RUF encourages all people to come check them out & join them as they examine what the Bible teaches, with the expectation that as we all grow in our understanding of who Jesus is and what he has done, it will necessarily lead to a changed life.
From Alex

We have had three RUF large groups this semester, and so far they have each been in a different place! Our first was outside, our second was in a classroom, and our third was in the room where we have been in the past. We are excited to get to be there for the rest of the semester. But even as we were moving all over campus, students came to spend time together and to hear Drew preach from Ephesians. So far, it has been a great time of meeting new people and seeing returning upperclassmen.
We have played games in the park and had a lot of coffee meetings with students. We have given out so many popsicles, granola bars, candy bars, and pizzas. We got to take a group to the Spirit of Boise hot air balloon festival to see the balloons at night. All of these ways of spending time with students have been encouraging as we see them connecting with each other as well as with our staff. We hope to continue to create a space for them to find a community that ultimately encourages them to connect with God.

I would love prayer for what we do each week and for some upcoming events:

Our upperclassmen community groups are studying the Psalms this semester and I am preparing those studies. Please pray for me as I plan and lead the leaders, and pray for the groups as they are gathering together to study God's word.
Mondays at 6:30 mtn time
Wednesdays at 7:30 mtn time
Large group is on Tuesdays at 7:30 mtn time
Freshmen Bible Study is on Thursday nights at 7:00 mtn time and we would love for more freshmen to get involved in that and be able to connect with each other as we see what the Bible has to say about life.

Upcoming:

Night at the Farmstead is on Friday 9/16. Pray for students to have a good time getting to hang out and do fall things together like a corn maze and a bonfire with smores.
Fall Retreat! We haven't been able to do a Fall Retreat since Fall 2019 and we are really excited about this one coming up! Pray for us as we plan and for safety and for God to work in the lives and hearts of the students who come!
September 23-25

Drew Burdette and family

Alex Bosgraf

International Missions

RCE happenings

  • The County of Arad notified RCE on Feb. 15th that we will begin receiving funding for Sunshine School – including the first quarter of this year! This is an amazing answer to prayer – thank you for standing with us until this support - that we have been qualified to receive since 2014 - has finally been approved!
  • Covid cases are going down in the country and our children have received their boosters & now all are well.