To Our Faithful Brothers & Sisters

You will not believe what we are in the middle of this week. Wait how did you guess! Yes, that is right a mass of junior high kids! thirty-five to be exact and their fourteen high school, college, and adult helpers. It is Spring Break here at Glenhaven and we are hosting New Life Church's annual G-Life Myspace trip. Their youth pastor, Amber Noblit, faithfully leads them on these annual excersions. This is their second year with us. The kids work very hard to serve us and get the job done. They cook three meals a day for us. They have chapel every night for us. So I want all of you to say a special prayer of blessing, praise, and protection for the NLC crew.

• Scott, director of operations, is working tirelessly to keep them all busy.
• Scooter, water operator - Yesterday a malfunction caused us to deplete our water supply. Scooter worked all day to get it back online, which he did. Still I bet that boy's bunkroom has an odor. I am afraid to go over there. They did not get showers last night. 
• another youth group from a church in Nashville, AR will be here on Thursday for just a couple of days. Remember Scott & Scooter again, because this group size keeps growing. It has now doubled and currently sist at 30 People.
• McNeals returned safely from IL.
• Colorado trips, girl's and boy's
• Moyer family and Swafford family as they interview with us for house-parent positions
• Andrea Caristianos and Aaron Kruse will be our first young adults in the official mentoring program. I will tell you more about them in the future.

Well that is probablly enough and I think I hear the distant scream of a horde of kids. Thanks for partnering with Glenhaven in prayer. We love you!

Soaring with my Father,  

Dwayne

Greetings Intercessors

I'm just sitting here today Praising the name of Jesus. Yesterday we had the wonderful gift of Melody Baker, house-mom, at our staff meeting. You have been praying for her and she is doing so much better. She does not have all of her strength back yet, but she is almost there.
Several of the kids have been sick, but they seem to be all better.
It is a bit cool today but the sun is shinning bright and God is, as always, fathering us with a good hand! Guess what tomorrow Karen and I will have been married for 20 years. So say a special prayer for her. I mean she did put up with me for that long. She should have some kind of a reward.
We are definately taking the girls to Colorado this year. So begin to pray for that trip as well as praying for the boys trip. Pray that the hearts of all the young people will be tuned toward their Heavenly Father for the trip. Pray that we will have insight into each of their needs as we plan these trips.
The McNeals, house-parents, had to travel to Illinois for the funeral of a family member.
We are talking to a potential house-parent couple from Pennslyvania. Please be in prayer for the Moyer family and for our GYR staff during this interview process.
We are currently on the edge of developing another ministry within Glenhaven. As you may or may not know we have had young men and young women serve here as resident instructors. They provide an extra set of eyes and ears for the house. They provide ENERGY for the house. We have lived without this in our boys homes for a number of years now, even though we need them. In order to recruit new people for that role we need to develop a program where we provide spiritual mentoring as well as teaching them to help hurting people heal. a program where we teach the next generation what we do and we ensure that they are equiped, spiritually, to do it.


So it is vital that we drown this process in prayer. I am convinced that God would have us do this. We need prayer support as this thing develops. Pray for our wisdom and our insight into the needs of the young people that we will be ministering to.

Holding on to Jesus
Dwayne

Christ will live in us in a very real way

Prayer Warriors,

Galatians 2:20 (MSG) says, "Christ’s life showed me how, and enabled me to do it. I identified myself completely with him. Indeed, I have been crucified with Christ. My ego is no longer central. It is no longer important that I appear righteous before you or have your good opinion, and I am no longer driven to impress God. Christ lives in me. The life you see me living is not mine, but it is lived by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me."

I read this today with my "Oswald Chambers" moment where he talked about pretense and deciet. We need to be giving all that to the Father. He will give us the righteousness we need. And so that is my prayer request this week... please pray that we will be able to identify those things in our lives, pretense and deciet. Pray that we will also be able to give those things to the Father.

We often like to pretend that we have it all figured out and after all we are relatively good people. Please help us identify where we pose for pretense and pretend to be real. Pray that Christ will live in us in a very real way.

- continue to pray for Melody Baker
- we do have several kids sick

Thanks again,

Dwayne