Soul-Winning Spectacular

Had a blast today with Ayslyn Jayd=) So thankful she was willing to go with me on my bus route=)

Anniversary Week

In Celebration of South Haven Baptist Church's 23rd Anniversary, we take any and all kids skating for free. Several bus routes take their regular riders and plenty of visitors skating per night. We also hold open air services and nursing home services. Throughout the week thousands of people hear the gospel and hundreds believe in Christ for salvation.

This is the Roller Skating Rink we went to, and no it wasn't anywhere near to this empty!!!!
We had over 300 people there=) It was great!!!
286 people all together, not including the many many workers!
We also saw 85 people saved!! Praise the Lord.

I want some of these=)=)
jk=)

23rd Anniversary Sunday!!

Sunday at South Haven=)

This morning the Stewarts were out of town so Mrs. Barbara Buck taught my class.
Sadly it was my last sunday in the youth group! I can't believe it!
Anyways the lesson was about "Spiritual Umbrellas" that God has put in our lives to protected us.
God is our main umbrella but beneath Him we have many others.

A) Parents
B)Pastor (and wife)
C)Teachers
D) Youth Pastor (and wife)
E)Godly Friends
F)Grandparents

If you are blessed as I am to have these godly umbrellas in your life appreciate them!
They have a boundary and we aren't safe unless we are within that boundary!
Boundaries=Protection!

Pastor and his family are on vacation so Bro. Mickey Austin preached this morning on "God's Formula for Peace"

Most of you were there so i won't get to in depth, but here are some of my favorite parts from that message.

The formula is
Being Careful for nothing + Praying and Supplicating + Being Thankful in everything + asking God = The Peace of God
(taken from James 1:8)

"Don't let your problems get between you and God, Let God get between you and your problems!"

Prayer- Me going to God with a situation and asking for intervention

Supplication-to bind yourself to others and help them take their burdens to Jesus, can't take it, but can help carry it!

"When I carry a burden, i get stronger!!"

Then tonight Bro. Fay preached on Obedience.
Once again, you were there but here are some quotes.

"Concern yourself with what you can do, not with what you can't!"

"God has wisdom and a plan far above mans, and all we have to do is OBEY!!!"

There you have it...other edifying day at South Haven.
I am so thankful for my church and all the servants that make it the great ministry it is!

Till Then,

Volleyball Camp

So yes, volleyball camp ended on Friday.
We had so much fun and learned a TON! (and still have a ton more to learn or at least work on applying what we learned;P)
And as Shivangi told you we only got one pic=)
So here it is..

Coach Green awarded 6 People with metals.

Jill Edmondson-Best all around player
Erika Boardman-Best all around player
Kelly-Sportsmanship Award
Kailyn Stewart-Most aggressive player
Shivangi Soni-Most Encouraging player
Rachael- Leadership Award

We also each received a certificate showing we completed the camp.
It reads:
Athletic Achievement Award
2009 "All for Him" Volleyball Camp
Rachael Campbell
Has successfully completed and intensive
five-day volleyball camp at South Haven Christian School
and has achieved:
423+ Forearm passes
76 Overhead Sets
80% Serving
39 Shuttleline Passes
Carol S Green, Head Coach - Scott Rhein, Assistant Coach

To explain some of that, intensive is a little harsh a work...lets just say concentrated volleyball camp=)
and the 423+ as im sure every1 will say doesn't count cause it was with scott...but i remind you he didn't do it all by himself=)

We all had a lot of fun learning and getting to know the visiting girls.
Hope it will help us in this season and that the rest of the team can learn and apply these things too=)

Till Then,
Rachael

Wordless Wednesday

Homeschool Banquet is friday. =) Can't WAIT!!

Societies Almost Over=(

The Alpha Omega Watchmen are almost to the end of their reign.
The society competition will come to an end this Sunday. Hopefully we will come out on top, but regardless of the outcome we have all had fun and come together as a team and competed well.
It's hard to believe that the 13 weeks is up, and though i haven't posted about the competitions and such, it has much consumed my time...from Rush Night to the society outreaches to totaling class sheets for Ms. Sarah.
And the big moment we have waited for will soon come. Individual scoring. I'm so excited that almost all my friends will make the scoring trip, but even more anticipated is the result of who took first and second.
I think Kailyn and I can do it....I hope!
Even if we don't I know we worked our hardest and I'm proud of all my friends that took the time and effort to keep up with their points...the memory verses haven't been easy this year.=)

I also want to individually thank Evan Stewart for the encouragement note he wrote me. It meant a lot to me, and remember the younger influence the older as well! You are almost like the little brother i don't have=)

Till Then,
Rachael
S.S., Lynn, Scout,
and all those other nicknames

Teen Soulwinning!

God is SOOO Good to ME!!!
Yesterday was teen soulwinning and i was blessed to lead 6 people to the Lord!
Jessica
John
Erica
Daniel
Jose
&
a little girl.
(i have her name written down but its unique and i can't remember it just now)

The part that amazes me though is that i asked God a question...and i said Lord if your answer is yes, then let me see someone saved today...but God answer wasn't just yes it was yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, YES!!
We have an awesome God that wants us to know His will LOUD and CLEAR!!

Also Kailyn Brooke saw one person saved and we knock on a ton of doors!

Pray for the soul winning spectacular and God's blessing for that day.

Till Then,
Rachael

Art Class

So this is what i started painting...it was 3 irises in a clear pitcher with water in it.
I didn't like it.=(

So i painted this, it was suppose to be looking through a window at a garden, but we were running out of time and i was running out of talent and patience, thus i colored the squares random colors...coolio eh?

Here's Justin and Dustin, they make it fun, especially when Ms. Tina walked in to find Justin pretending to put on makeup with the paint brush=) haha

Evan and Ethan, apparently thinking, idk...blank paper and a world of possibilities!
Let's just say they did better than me! =)

Some more peeps in the class.

Art has been a lot of fun, though i must say i think i am better at pencil and working with the ruler and perspective stuff=) Thanks for teaching Ms. Cassie!

Till Then,
Rachael

TSW

Hey Peeps,
Yesterday was Wednesday, obviously, and the teens went soulwinning!
Praise the Lord it didn't rain and the girls got to go door knocking.
We headed out to whites creek area, where we had gone the past couple times, got 10mins away from the church and realized we forgot tracts!
Ms. Jenny shouts "girls, do any of you have tracts?" I check my bible, i had 5....Kailyn had 4, Erika had 6 (i think, she kept pulling more out from somewhere) but Holly, Holly had 8! Yes she won...but sadly that still wasn't enough tracts. So we headed back to the church got more, but by that time we'd never make it to whites creek and back in time for church.
So after a call to Bro. Mickey to see where we could go locally, we headed to Sleepy Hollow, behind the YMCA (also on my bus route). Mr. Sattler drove around the neighborhood to scout where he wanted us to go, and as we observed from the windows there were tons of children in this neighborhood! (I love talking to kids) A play ground full and several walking down the street.
Kailyn, Megan and I walked up to the first door, knocked, and praise the Lord a girl named Chasity got saved!
Then Mr. Sattler sent us to the playground. There were two kids a boy and a girl walking away from the playground so we decided to talk to them. The boy's name was Caleb and the girl was...oh i know it started with a "B" help me here kay! Anyways Caleb accepted Christ as his Saviour, and i don't know about the girl cause if she didn't she didn't pray out loud...but i pray she did or will.
Then, we knocked on several more doors, Mr. Sattler talked to a boy Bo Hill who wants to ride my bus on Sunday, and i wrote down all his info on a tract...accidentally gave it away...talked to a Vietnam veteran, that's had heart surgery, a brain tumor, plays basketball with my pastor, nicknamed "Duck", has 3 sons, one daughter, 6 grandsons, and a granddaughter named Jaylyn and he sang "Somebody Prayed for me" for us and apparently it was his mother =) he was a joy to listen to.
We loaded back on the bus and the girls had a total of 9 Salvations! Praise the Lord!
Our Group saw 2 saved, Rachel Panas saw 2 saved, Thu saw 4 saved, and Brooke saw 1 saved!
Wow God is good! and all for forgetting tracts!
Till Then,
Rachael
God Bless!

Sorry

No everyone for once i don't have any pictures=( but i wanted to post about something, so i decided to tell you about my yesterday, even though most of you were there, i'll give you my perspective=)

I got up waaaay to early to take a shower because i wanted to make sure i was done in the bathroom before Daniel got up. Then i went to bus, froze a bit, had fun, took my five year old to his class, but had to wait a minute Mr. Boardman wasn't there yet, was pleased that my bus was back 30mins earlier than usual, said my memory verse to Ms. Stacey, Enjoyed watching the guys sign Derek's foot, learned from Ashleys sunday school lesson on Prayer, Prayed with the ss class for trey, rode up to church with Kay and Ash and the boys, laughed as Ashley made Kailyn tell me what the were to sing last night (though i understand why you wanted to surprise me kay=), Screamed when i heard the title of the song, played Precious blood with the choir, listened to Pastors message out of Acts 21 about Paul, went to ....somewhere... to get shivangi and kailyns valentines presents, went home and tallied CLASS Sheets, GOT MY SACRED NAP, then went back to church for orchestra practice, went to pastors prayer team, was rerouted to a different room because Mr. Rush told us they were knocking out the wall, listened to the second part of pastors message, learned i need more patience with people, said "AWWWW" at the baby dedication, clapped when a little girl got baptised, went to the bathroom in the nursery to let sammy linn look at my dress, laughed when a little girl walkin in and seeing me in my dress asked me if i was getting married, marveled when the other said that i looked like a princess, and wondered if she needed glasses, jumped for joy with sam when my mother told me we were invited to a masquerade ball, took shivangi home, read my book, went to bed....wow, i thought this would be a short post....oh well

Till Then,
Rachael

Pictures from Friday of Missions Week

To see more pictures and a video about this past week click here:
http://southhavenbaptist.org/shbc/19th_missions_conference

These are the missionaries from Missions Conference 2009 (From Left to Right)
Dr. Earl Jessup, Bro. Mike Morrissey, Ms. Ruth Morrissey, Ms. Nancy Grove, Bro. Mike Grove, Kelly Grove, John Grove, Stephen Grove, Abby Gross, Bro. David Gross, Ms. Stephanie Gross and Caleb Gross.

Here are some pictures and video from the Missions Parade and The Banquet.

Sorry about the red eye i didn't have time to fix it.
Enjoy=)

This is only one half the gym...we had tons of people!

Lauren the Ballerina


Boots the Clown

Marcy Mouse

Yep...lots of confetti=)

Throwing confetti on the missionaries was fun! This is a video of us doing just that=)
First Bro. Mike and Ms. Nancy Grove went by, next is Bro. Mike and Ms. Ruth Morrissey, then Dr. Jessup and the Spanish missionaries, and finally Bro. David and Ms. Stephanie Gross.


Dr. Jessup Preaching at the banquet...don't ya like the blue and white backdrop with the snow flakes? I got to put that up. (along with the help of Dustin's heighth)


Mom and Rebecca at banquet.


Ashley..obviously not paying attention..and Justin's Arm.

This is Shivangi's class's skit...intelligent don't you think??
Make sure and check totally brilliant if you think the SR. and JR. Class skit was just that.

Till Then,
Rachael

Missions Banquet!

Tonight was sooo much fun! I am soo tired i can't go into details...well actually today as a whole was fun. First we had the skit..it went well....grand total of $2247.00 raised by the homeschoolers and over$16,000 by the whole school!

Then i help set up for the banquet, the theme was Winter Wonderland....boy that snow was no fun to clean up!

Then...the banquet took place....Dr. Jessup taught on Faith Promise and how we don't commit because we don't have enough...but he said explain it to the people around the world that we have a house for our car but can't afford to sent the gospel to them....the same people that don't have a house or shoes....the rest is all a blurr...just imagine it beautiful and fun filled...that is all i shall say.

Till Then,

Rachael

"Build an Altar" Dr. Earl Jessup

This morning i was privileged to go to the Missionary Wives Luncheon. It is suppose to be for ladies 18 and up (a new rule made this year) so asked if Kailyn and I helped if we could come. The exception was made and i think we were a help to Ms. Tammy and the other ladies. Ms. Denese Stewart taught the devotional on Prayer.
P-Problems
R-Responsibility
A-Anxiety
Y-You
When you have problems, pray.
When you have a responsibility that seems impossible to complete, pray.
When you have an anxiety that seems impossible to get past, pray.
When you get down and satan tries to defeat you, pray.
Ms. Denese told us of specific situations in her and her family's life that they have needed the power of prayer in each of these four points.
Thanks Ms. Denese it was a great devotional!

Tonight Dr. Earl Jessup taught on "Build an Altar". He read from I Kings 18, the story of Elijah and the 450 prophets of Baal. And how God proved himself through fire.

Elijah, unlike most people, wasn't afraid to start something only God could finish. Most people today will not build the altar because they do not have the faith that God will start the fire!

So why did Elijah declare the contest between the Almighty God and Baal?
1. Because of the problem they were facing! The people had forsaken the commandments of the Lord and followed Baalim!
2. Because that is what leaders do! Elijah had a lot of faith! If God had not set the altar on fire Elijah's life would have been lost! He was a leader willing to sacrifice to see the people bettered.
3. Because he realized there was going to be a lot of people that would not build the altar!
Under this point Dr. Jessup stated that in the present day there is only 1 fundamental, bible believing, kjv church for ever 40-50,000 people in America! Unbelievable! In our past there was 1 for ever 500 people. We need to send people to tell the world about Christ, but what about America? We are commanded to tell all the world of Christ...all the world includes our beloved country!
He also said that many people believe in God, but only in theory...how sad...i am blessed to believe in my God because i have seen His works, and Miracles, and Blessings, and His Presence!
I have a God in REALITY!!! He is real!
4. Because God will honor those that step out on Faith.
We cannot ask God to send the fire if we do not repair/build the altar. If we are not right with God, we cannot ask Him to bless our lives and use us.

This Missions Conference has been such a blessing to me! I've seen Christ work in the hearts of our people and my heart as well this week.

Also Praise the Lord for Derek Sattler who committed to be a Missionary tonight! Please pray for him and God's will to continue to be done in his life!

Till Then,
Rachael

Wednesday

So i told you all about the service tonight but also before hand the teens went out Soulwinning! Since it was so cold the girls went to an assisted living center and sang for the residence. It was so much fun and a blessing to me just to see their gratitude! One gentleman that Rachel, Shivangi, Shannon, and i sang for was so happy he started crying and he wanted to "make our picture". He was very sweet. Then we went back to the main living room and sang with all the girls. We then split up and visited with the residence. Shivangi was able to lead a dear lady to the Lord! Amen! I was able to talk with a very sweet lady who was already saved and happy to proclaim it!

After we go back to the church some of the girls and myself got out the salt and pepper shakers and filled them up and wiped them off. As well as getting out the little boats to put sugar and creamer packs in. It didn't take us long and i'm know Ms. Cassie is thankful we helped her out in that area...it is one less thing that will have to be done on Friday for the Banquet! Can't wait for it!

Till then,
Rachael

Bro. Earl Jessup

Tonight the Missions Conference continued with Bro. Earl Jessup missionary to Canada. He taught on reaching the world. How to do it and why it's not being done. "If our world is to be reached it will be done by a few that are willing to start something only God can finish" He used the true story about the men that took the paralyzed man to see Jesus and lowered him through the roof. Because the bible doesn't mention their names, Bro. Jessup named them these evening so he could refer to them Specifically. So it goes like this, George and Harry wanted to go see Jesus and decided to take their friend Matthew. But when they got to Matthews house to invite him they discovered that he couldn't walk! So Matthew said "go to walmart and get me a cot and you can carry me there" So they did, loaded him up and walked to joe's house. Once they got there the place was so packed they couldn't get Matthew in to see Jesus, and the people that were there wouldn't move to let them in. So George sent Harry to home depot to get some rope, an axe, a ladder, and a few other supplies, they were gonna lower Matthew down through the roof! He would see Jesus if it was up to them! Harry was in a hurry trying to get checked out and get back to Joe's house and the cashier asked him "so what is so exciting? What you gonna do with all this stuff?" , Harry joyfully replied in a frenzy and told the woman about their plan to get Matthew in. "Why don't you just wait?" The woman exclaimed. "Surely Jesus will be done there and then your friend can see him" After Harry's conversation with the cashier he got back to Joe's and the set up the ladder. Somehow they got Matthew up the ladder and onto the roof...then they started making their hole. They lowered him down right to Jesus' feet! Then...the most miraculous thing happened not only did Jesus make him walk! He saved him from his sins too!!!! why? Because of "their faith". Mark 2:5 There are several morals to this story.
First, If we are going to reach this world there must be the preeminence of Christ. To walk by faith we must be all about Him!
Second, If we are going to reach this world there must be the presence of people. Your presence at church and following Christ is important because someone is watching you to see what is most important to you. Hopefully they will see it is Christ.=) (the most important thing to George and Harry was to get Matthew to Christ)
Thirdly, If we are going to reach this world there must be the preaching of the Word! It is the only truth! (Jesus was Preaching the Word)
Fourth, If we are going to reach this world there must be perserverent soul winners. (George and Harry)
There were several other examples Bro. Jessup used. Such as there were the people at Joe's house that weren't willing to move to see Matthew taken to Jesus to be saved. Are we willing to move to take action to see people saved?
Also the Woman at the check out asked why not wait? What if Matthew had died between then and when Jesus left Joe's house? The economy is "Bad" right now, so why don't we wait to send missionaries to the world...because people will die between now and then and never have the chance to spend eternity in heaven.
George and Harry were willing to start something that only God could finish. They could get Matthew to Christ but only God could save him!
We need to be willing to start the process send the missionaries or better yet be the missionaries and tell people about Christ he will finish it and save them!

Praise the Lord for missions conference! Such a blessing!

Till then,
Rachael

Cottage Prayer Meeting

Tonight was the cottage prayer meeting! It was so much fun and a blessing to me. My mom and I went to the Randolph's house where Bro. Mike Groves and his family were the featured missionaries. Bro. Mike and his wife Ms. Nancy have 3 children. John 17, Kelly 15, and Stephen 13. Bro. Mike taught us tonight that in order for us to be stable in all our ways we must die to self and forget about our wants and live for God in the way He designed us to live. Bro. Mike's 3 main verses tonight were Psalms 37:5, Proverbs 16:3, and Romans 12:1. The first two talk about "committing" our ways and our works which is basically our whole being. And Romans 12:1 states that we are to present ourselves sacrifices for Christ to use.
Also Bro. Mike and his son John sang "When God is Near"...and i recorded it for you all to see here because it was a blessing to me. I only caught the second verse though =)

Also Maegan, Brittany, Ashley, and Kailyn sang "Not for Selfish Gain" and did a very good job.. I think i like it better A Capella =) Here is the whole song...the reason Kay grins every time she looks at me is cause i couldn't help grinin at her =) Good job girlie! (even though it was short notice=)




After Bro. Mike taught us and some singing, we had the prayer part of the meeting. Bro. Steve Carter prayed first, then Bro. Mike Wright, next was Bro. Tom Fox, and last was Bro. Michael.
Some of the requests that were on the hearts of people tonight were of course for the Groves and their mission to go to New Zealand, for Baby Trey and for the Lord to heal his little body, for Bro. Mike Campbell, Ms. Barbara Austin, and unsaved and sick loved ones.

Then of course it was time to do what Baptists do best...EAT!!! =) there was a lot of people there tonight but there was even more food! hehe. Then Kailyn knocked over Jills drink just to see if Mr. Randolph would catch her (he didn't=) and we made the missionaries clean it up. Just kidding, Kailyn's flowy skirt knocked it over and the missionaries hurried to help us clean it up before Mr. Randolph saw it=) I think your safe now kay=)

Lots of laughing and eating and talking and now i am here blabbing about it=)

Can't wait till tomorrow when Missions Conference continues!

Till Then,
Rachael a.k.a "Scout" right kay?

Rush Night 2009...Alpha Omega Watchmen on the rise=)

We survived rush night and i only broke down crying 3 times..=) only because i didn't think the walls would look good and we wouldn't have towers or watchmen...which was the whole purpose of building the castle. But in the end God taught me again that i should just trust Him and that if it is for His glory it will all come together. It did take the better part of an hour to get the walls standing and while the guys were working on that there wasn't a whole lot for us to do. But once they got up i didn't have time to breath.

We were judged on:
1. Best use of wall space
2. Best use of floor space
3. Best us of overall space
4. Most Artistic
5. Stayed best with color theme
6. Best Drink
7. Best Treat or dessert
8. Tastiest food choice
9. Most Creative setup
10. Harmony of mascot and verse
11. Best Display of verse
12. Most consistent with theme
13. Most effort in putting together display
14. Best overall display
15. Which team would you most likely join

I am proud of my team and glad to announce that we received first place in all but four of these categories! ( #'s 1,2,5,6)

We also won best skit! (THANKS MAEGAN!!!!=) Watchman and Wobin....=)

and we got 1st and 2nd in the frozen t-shirt competition.

It was the most stressful thing i have ever done in my life but i can gladly look back now and say that is was one of the funnest things i've done and a great accomplishment.

Here are some pics of us setting up.

Workin on the walls.

Miranda and Ashley Spray Painting to improve the appearance of our walls.

Daddy and AJ working on my beloved drawbridge.

Megan and Bailey...my brick brigade. =)

Dustin, Jacob, Ms. Denese, and me putting up the interior of the walls.

The walls not going up very fast in the first hour.

Me...doing something...

Justin stapling cardboard to make our castle look awesome.

Jacob doing who knows what.=)

The castle starting to look like a castle =) yae.


LOOK AT OUR WATCHMEN....aren't they AWESOME!!!! Thanks Ms. Tina for making them!

I don't have pics of the final product but i will have some later this week.

2009 Missions Conference Skit

Hello all, yes i know it's been awhile...i have been quite busy. Lets see what i can come up with.

Today was the first practice for our South Haven Baptist Church Homeschool Group Skit, that will be performed after the Missions Parade. We are having a beautiful feet competition! Evan Stewart and I are hosting the competition! It is gonna be pretty cool! Dustin Lassiter is Sasquatch, Nathan Mann has stinky feet, Lauren Wilson has Ballerina feet, Megan Threlkeld has duck feet! and there are many others. All the quite shy kids are judges, and the little girls are all cheerleaders, and Kailyn Brooke is the Cheer leading Captain! GO KAY! KEEP THE PEP IN YOUR STEP! Go big feet go! ok...i'm done now....sure i'll get a comment on that one =) COMMENT PPL!

We didn't go thru any of it yet...Ms. Melissa has to email me my script. I think it will be awesome!

After that Kailyn, the boys, and I went down to the school and watched the MTC tournament for a bit. It is a basketball tournament the school hosts every year.

After we got back from that, Rebecca, Brooke, and I were taken on a fancy date to cracker barrel with our Grandparents =) It was fun, and when we returned we went and worked out. yeah all that stuff we ate had to go =) Then we stopped back by the school to see a group of ppl from Pensacola Christian College, where brooke goes to school. Some ppl she knew were there and she wanted to introduce us.

And now...i is here....typing cause i knew someone MIGHT read it....=)

Nite,
Till Then,
Rachael

The Alpha Omega Watchmen!

Hello All,

Last night the chosen seniors and a few Jr's. met at Bro. Frankie's house to pick SOCIETIES!!!

The Leaders are Team 1: Jesse Davis, Herbert Hildalgo, Rachel Panas, Rebecca Morgan and Team 2: Justin Lassiter, A.J. Rodefer, Kailyn Stewart, and of course me.

We went back and forth picking individuals from the youth group. First both teams were sorta picking all the athletic people because we have a lot of competition that relies on athleticism. Then, we started picking the faithful because we get points for that. =)

My Team, the Alpha Omega Watchmen is pretty well planned ahead.

We have our Name, Mascot, Colors, Verse, Foods, and what we are going to do for our station.

We still have to come up with a cheer/skit.

Our verse is 1 Samuel 14:16. And the watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked; and, behold, the multitude melted away, and they went on beating down one another.

AWESOME RIGHT??? Basically the other team is just going to self destruct! hehe, yeah we watching for em....cause we are the ALPHA OMEGA WATCHMEN!!!!!!!! WHOOOO!!!

Alright, i feel much better now that i got that out.

Till then,

Rachael