Greater Portland Baptist Church

Keith and Donna South: July 2007

Bless the Lord oh my soul!

A quick thank you to all of our faithful prayer warriors & supporters.

Praise the Lord for a fantastic Summer Bible Time (SBT)! In case you didn't hear, we ended up registering 68 kids this year with our attendance increasing each day from 33 on Monday to 50 on Friday! We had three young people ask the Lord to save them! PTL! We had three others talk to counselors about assurance of their salvation. What blessings the Lord gave for our week of SBT. We must now all pray for the follow up work that last week produced. We had several new faces this year which is also a praise. Pray that we will see kids added to our regular ministries.

Family camp at UTIBACA starts today. We've had two awesome weeks of Leadership & Staff Training. Please continue to pray for our camp ministry. We have several kids signed up and are working on adding some more. SBT provides an excellent pool from which God can touch a heart to continue from SBT right into camp.

We have an intern with us this summer. He is Tim Feldman from Faith Baptist Church in Sellersville, PA who is attending Northland Baptist Bible College. He has already been a blessing to us. Pray that we will be some type of help to him. What a thrill to be a small part of a young man's training whom God has touched and called.

The family is doing well. Please pray for Donna as we will be cooking for family camp and she still plans on cooking at Jr. High week. I'm concerned for her overall energy level. It's not what it should be but we are both claiming Deut. 33:25, "...As your days, so shall your strength be."

Keith, Donna, & the Boys