Our orientation has been lengthy and it  involved team building and training. Last Monday the team went to a petrified forest and and a place called Ancient Lake which involved a nice hike back to waterfalls and 4 lakes.

 We arrived on a Wednesday and the Friday following we were  at Hope Fellowship Church with their youth group. They have almost 80 kids in their youth group which would be the envy of any youth leader. The kids in youth group are a lot of fun and full of energy. On Sunday we had group devotions at Chris and Mary Granberry's house. On Sunday evening we had church at the Longhouse in White Swan . Before church we fed about 85 people then had church and youth groups met again. The kids love their youth group. It's a safe place for them to experience a sense of church community.

We starting getting our supplies together to take down to Warm Springs. We don't know what we will be doing so we take a little of everything. Our team headed down on Saturday afternoon.
Meanwhile, Deb and I had a wedding commitment in LA so we left our team and flew down to Orange County last Wednesday. We will fly back to Portland Monday and drive down to Warm Springs and re-join ou team. We will be there through Saturday and then drive back to Yakama next Saturday.

Once our team week starts there is scarce time to email or communicate with the outside. We go from 0600-2200 everyday. So from Los Alamitos, CA I will sign off and jump back on in a week.
Have a safe week everyone. Please keep us in your prayers.

Rob