Youth Camp & Missions News

Dear Update Readers,

Youth camp begins tomorrow. Please pray for Bro. Stroup as he ministers to the young people and for Bro. Doug Derscheid as he leads the camp. Oh for an outpouring of the Spirit of God on these great young people.

Here, too, is a great note from Becky Keep in the Philippines.

Blake Jones

Hi Bro.Parker,

Hello, This Is Becky here. Tim is still in Isabella
with the Team. I drove home last night over the
mountains with the kids. They have school today.

The medical mission was a smashing success. We treated
1266 people in three days. It was grueling and hard
but so much fun and so rewarding. We started here on
Campus on wed and along with 9 doctors from Manila we
treated over 400 in 5 hours. We were up and gone by
6am the next and traveled to Balaaban. We hiked in
there and that afternoon treated another 350. We left
there at 7am on Fri. and traveled to Umilog where we
hiked in and treated over 500. We had a Dentist a
surgeon two adult doctors, and four pediatricians. All
the nurses had tons to do and we even had to teach
some of the non- nurses on the team how to take B/p's
and give shots. Tim assisted the surgeon in removing
cysts and doing circumcisions. I took pictures knowing
that no one would ever believe it.AFter treatment we
had a prayer room where we had people to pray with the
patients about any needs that they had.

The team will be doing two more "nursing clinics" as
the docs had to go back to Manila. They'll be giving
out vitamins and de-worming medicines, taking b/p's
and treating minor illnesses and infections.

This was such an awesome experience and so needed!!! I
hope that we can do it every year.

I know that Tim will want to update you when he
returns.

Please pray for the team.I know that they are
exhausted!

Thanks and God Bless!
Becky

Rev. Sams mother passes away; Bro. Tomes update

Dear Friends,

Rev. Clair Sam's mother passed away on Monday evening while her family was gathered around her. The funeral is Friday. Please pray for Bro. Sam's, his father and each of the family.

Also, below is a note from Bro. Tomes. Please pray for all involved.

Bro. Jones

Death in Oaxaca

I received a phone call just this morning with the sad news that Bro. Antelmo, pastor of the Bible Methodist Church in Bugambilias, Oaxaca, MX. lost his life yesterday, Monday 6, 2005, when his big truck overturned in the mountains of Southern Mexico. He died at the scene of the accident and another young man from our church is in a coma and they don't give him much hope.

We would like to ask for the prayers of the Bible Methodist family for Bro. Antelmo's wife and several children.


God bless!

In Him,
Edwin Tomes

Conference Report - May 31

Bible Methodist Connection of Churches

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Blake Jones, Conference President bejones@nethawk.com Ph. (989) 427-3178

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Dates to Note:

End of Conference Year for Reporting - May 31

Camp Ground Work Days - June 10-11

Youth Camp - June 21-24 with Bro. Jim Stroup as Evangelist

Annual Conference - July 14, 2005

Rock Lake Bible Methodist Camp - July 15 - 24

WELCOME TO THE CONFERENCE

Rev. and Mrs. Sam Lindahl have agreed to pastor the Ironwood Bible Methodist Church where Rev. Blankenship was pastoring. Welcome back to Great Lakes, Sam and Debbie! God bless you and your ministry in Frankton, Indiana.

Conference President Report

I was privileged to share a weekend meeting at Muskegon earlier in May. Do you remember Joe who came to camp a few years ago? He was a brand new convert then. I wish you could have heard him pray and watch him as he welcomed folks to church. Wow! God is establishing His people at Muskegon. I was able to stop and get some pictures of the property that the Muskegon/Sparta Church family is hoping to purchase. It is located on Apple Ave, (Hwy 46) near Revenna and across from a lovely golf course. It has 10 acres and a beautiful Cape Cod style house. The house has a meeting room that can be used until a church building is built.

The conference pastors met at the camp grounds for a Love and Respect DVD series. The presentation was very informative and soundly biblical in it approach to Christian marriages. We enjoyed a special time of fellowship and learning. And, we are blessed with lots of little parsonage children. WHAT A BLESSING!

Carl Imhoff preached a youth revival for us here at Rock Lake on the second weekend of May. He preached a series of messages on Christian love. It was so good to have his family here -- and, of course, some of his relatives blessed us with their attendance.

Our family traveled to GBS for Seth's graduation. We have gotten to know so many young people there and we delight in "parenting" them while we are on the Hilltop! Saturday evening was a special tribute to Dr. Avery for his ten years of service as president. That was one impressive meeting! Sunday we drove to Bro. Faulkner's in Stanton, Kentucky, and preached in the morning service. His people are so warm and expressive. Why don't we all pay them a visit sometime. We'll just flood them with Northerners and smoother them with Yankee love! We were back at GBS for the closing service of their camp meeting.

We stayed in Cincinnati until Tuesday to attend an insurance luncheon where the possibility of forming an umbrella insurance group for church buildings and liability was discussed with Global One. Then the long trip back home later Tuesday afternoon --but now bringing Cherie home for the summer.

Last Sunday evening was our 5th Sunday Rally and was held here at the camp tabernacle. A lot of work went into preparing the building for guests after the winter. But, it was a wonderful time! Even with many people away for the long weekend, we had a great crowd. Rev. Adrian Rosa spoke to us about the mystery of Godliness and how we "speak" that mystery to a watching world. Thank you for your message Bro. Rosa.

Our family was all home for Memorial Day. That was fun. We played games and ate and napped. I was not able to attend my Grandma Unsworth's 106th birthday party last weekend and I missed that special day.

In two days Kenny and Derek will leave for "Touching Lives for Christ" (TLC) bootcamp in Florida. From there they will fly to Alaska. The first week of ministry will be a VBS near Fairbanks/North Pole. The second week is to be home ministry, testimonies, singing and visiting in a village inside the Arctic Circle. Matt Johnson is arranging the details on the Alaska end. Bro. and Sis. Brian Bailey (assistant pastor here at Rock Lake) are leading the Alaska Team. They will be traveling by van to Florida and taking seven young people and their two little girls. Please pray for all of them -- for safety, for wisdom, for shining spirits, for radiant faces, for spiritual blessing and for, perhaps, a personal call to ministry!

And camp meeting is just around the corner. Please, please pray for the workers and for God's mighty moving among us!

DOES ANYONE NEED CAMP BROCHURES??????

GOD BLESS YOU ALL!

Blake and Saundy Jones