Jacob Norman is planting a church in Colorado and recently sent this email…

Hello friends and family,

Things have been exciting here in Fountain. After the last update about baptizing 3 people in my backyard we had the privilege of seeing two girls come to know Christ at our VBS SportsCamp. We also were excited to see our best attendance in a while this past week at church with about 10-12 new people showing up at our service. Although it is not all about the numbers it was exciting to see some new faces. We are currently planning for the kick-off event for our student ministry on August 23. We have put a lot of resources into this event and are hoping it will provide a great platform from which to launch our student ministry so that we can reach teens for Christ in our community.

Pray for us as we seek to connect everyone in our church with a LifeGroup (small group Bible study) starting this September. Things have been exciting and we are anticipating what God is going to do this fall.

Jake Norman

I just got an email from Alexander Chepurnoy, who is one of our missionaries serving in Minneapolis. He’s planting a Russian-speaking church there in the twin cities where there’s a large population. He just sent me this note - wanted to share…

Pastor Brandon,

I want to inform you, that on August, 2, 2008 we had the first baptism in the “ New Life” Church. We baptized 3 persons. It was special event in our church. We had baptism on the Weaver Lake. After baptism we had picnic in a park. I send to you some photo.

Thank you for prayers and the financial support of our ministry.

God bless you.

The church-planter

Alexander Chepurnoy, Minneapolis, MN