I apologize it has been so long since we have updated our blog! These last two months have been a roller coaster ride. We got to go home to Washington and see our amazing family and friends, attended a week long biblical counseling conference, and are over half way done with our Lifeline basketball season.
I have been staying very busy running our sports program. Coaching basketball has been a blast. We have two full basketball teams with a great group of guys! Our Black team is 5-0 and our Blue team is 4-2. We are gunning for a MYSL championship and I believe we have the talent to do it! In the process I have been able to develop some good relationships with some of the players. Jeremy and Elijah (brothers) have been two of our most reliable players, always showing up at least 30min early to practice or games, so we get time to just hang out and talk, which has been fun. Junier Lopez is another guy I have spent a good amount of time with, if you can pray for him and his family. As I have gotten to know him, he has shared about his family situation. His dad was shot and killed about a year ago, which has left him as the man of the house with a younger brother and sister. And just this last week he told me his mom was just diagnosed with breast cancer. I can not imagine what they are going through. So pray we can minister to them in their time of need.
Elementary clubs have been going well. We are going through the Armor of God series and it has really led to some great discussion with our kids. I have been in a small group with three 4th grade boys and it has been great to be able to talk about who God is and what it looks like to follow him. All three of them just recently have told me that they do not have a Bible and want one that they can take to school with them and read during reading time. So it is really exciting to be able to get them their very own bibles! Please continue to pray that the gospel will penetrate the hearts of our students in a very real way.
Here is a video about some of the things that we do at Lifeline. It is one that is made specifically for the church of our director here at Lifeline, so it does not have us talking as much, but it is still a great picture of what we do. Hope you all are doing well we miss you and love you all!
http://vimeo.com/36422479 (The best way to view it is to copy and paste this link above.)
God Bless, Caleb Stanton
