Category: Kids in Missions
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New Total for Camp Rhino – Over $80,000 Now
This past week my family was privileged to be a part of Worth Baptist Church’s missions conference in Fort Worth, TX. Pastor Tyler Gillit, his staff, and church people put on a spectacular conference. The Saturday night Foreign Food Festival was unbelievable. I’ve never seen so much involvement in a dinner like that, and I’ve…
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Just shy of $79,000 for Camp Rhino
First Baptist Church of Judson, TX and Pastor Tim Smith recently decided to partner with our family. It’s always an honor when a church chooses our family to be their representatives in South Africa. First Baptist also surprised us this month by sending an extra $1500 for Camp Rhino. With this great offering our total…
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The Wilds
When deciding to start Camp Rhino, I knew there would be an enormous learning curve heading into that area of ministry. Since our arrival to the States, I’ve tried to visit different camps and meet with their directors in order to gain as much knowledge as I could about camp ministry. Last month, when visiting…
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Breaking the $70,000 Mark for Camp Rhino
On Sunday and Monday of last week, July 23-24, I had an opportunity to preach at the Summer Family Bible School hosted by Liberty Baptist Church in San Jose, California with Pastor Stan Smith. This is the church where my good friends Ross and Sue Pyle now work. They previously were missionaries with us in South…
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Wolf Mountain Camp in Grass Valley, CA
I want to first apologize for the duplicate emails that occasionally come out. I’m trying to fix that on my blog and will hopefully have that squared away this week. Amy and I arrived back from our trip to California late Tuesday night. We had a great time visiting three churches and spending time with…
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Last Week of Camp
The past few weeks have been very busy with camp. We started off for our mission orientation at Sand Mountain Bible Camp from May 29-June 2nd. We then helped out at Fort Bluff Camp during their junior week, June 5-9. We then went back to Sand Mountain Bible Camp for our home church’s week of…
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Over $60,000 has now been given for Camp Rhino
It’s been an amazing week and a half for Camp Rhino. One minute I’m informing folks of a special offering, and the next minute another offering was coming in. -On Thursday, June 29th, my home church, Vision Baptist Church, gave $760 for the Camp Rhino. This was the day after I announced that Northside Baptist…
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$1500 from Pembroke, GA
Yesterday, Luke and I drove about 4 hours over to the small town of Pembroke, Ga to report back to one of our supporting churches. Pastor Spencer and the great folks of Northside Baptist Church have been faithful partners in the ministry from early on in our deputation. It was great hearing about the new…
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Check out the Initial Design for Camp Rhino
Now that we have passed the $50,000 mark in our fundraising goal (only $50,000 more to go:)), I wanted to give you a glimpse of what the future Camp Rhino site will look like. Below is the initial design for the camp based on the first 5-year plan. Once we actually buy property, we’ll have a…
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American Children Reaching South African Children
🎶 🎶 I’m glaaad to be here at Vacation Bible School….Vacation Bible School… Vacation Bible School. 🎶 🎶 It’s about that time of the year when VBS starts up all over the country. This is turning out to be a special time for Camp Rhino. Many churches announced they plan to donate their VBS offering to help purchase…