ABS newsletter

Update from Mark

Happy Thanksgiving!

I am approximately 30 minutes from venturing into a Thanksgiving holiday and a wonderful time with my family. As I prepare to ease into a few days of food, football, and peace I wanted to write a group of people that I am deeply thankful for during this season. I am truly blessed to be on this ministry and mission with you all and I cannot tell you how grateful we (my family and I) are that God has placed us in this place at this time for His glory. Happy Thanksgiving! We are truly thankful for you. We are deeply thankful for our God and for what He is doing among us. I hope that your days away are filled with peace and rest and family.

I will keep this note brief, because I am guessing that all of you are thinking about Turkey, Travel, & the Tide (or Tigers) these days. But, God is at work among us and I want to keep you posted about a few things to be thankful for:

- As I baptized folks on Sunday night, I just cannot get over how amazing it is to seek to grasp the complete and present and ETERNAL transformation that God provides for us. He is good! His love endures forever!!

- It appears that God has provided two amazing couples who will be working with our students! Within the next week, we will be introducing our church to our potential Middle School and High School Ministers. Praise God!! It has been a remarkable experience to watch as God moved someone that we all dearly and deeply loved (Hank) to a new ministry field. Then, to see God raise up a two couples who will partner with what God has been doing among our students has been overwhelming. Our personnel and our staff team have met extensively with these couples and we cannot wait for you to meet them as well. More info coming SOON!

- Our fellowship is working toward a multi-phased Master Plan that will be an exciting and WELL-THOUGHT process. It will be fun to share with our fellowship as things become more clear.

Pray & Expect!

There are so SO many things to be thankful for and to be expectant of from our God. Join with me in praying for our student ministry… in praying that God moves in Spirit and power among us… in knowing that Christ is resurrected from the dead, therefore we are HIGHLY expectant. ‘ I thank my God for you, in all my prayers for all of you I always pray with joy because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now, being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.’ – Paul, in his letter to Philippi I love you guys! Happy Thanksgiving!!

By Grace… For Glory,
Mark