ON THE ROAD WITH THE GLEISERS

Summer, 2010

I suppose many would say that summer is now over—but wait! As I write these words I have to fall back on my early childhood structure of thought: Summer doesn't officially close until Labor Day! Isn't that written in the Constitution somewhere?

Nevertheless I do "feel" like summer is over due to the fact that I have now finished out my weeks of preaching at several Teen Camps across the Country. I cannot tell you how thrilled I was to have the privilege once again of preaching to literally thousands of teenagers all summer long. I was privileged to preach in 10 different Teen Camps: Grandview Camp (Alpine Arizona); Southland (Ringgold, Louisiana); Amazing Grace Baptist Camp (Ottawa, KS); Camp Joy (Whitewater, Wisconsin); Wilds of New England (Deering, New Hampshire); Venture of Faith Camp (Lake Park, Georgia); The Wilds (Brevard, North Carolina); Camp Chetek (Chetek, Wisconsin); Camp Northwest (Mossyrock, Washington)and Ironwood Christian Camp (Newberry Springs, California).

Seriously I don't know where to start to try and tell the various stories of lives changed and teenagers coming to Christ. I can't remember a summer that had so many teenagers confess the matter of their personal battles with suicide, cutting themselves and struggling with life issues in general. Many of these problems are due to a poor relationship with their parents and of course, a weak relationship with the Lord. What an absolute joy to see the change in their countenance when they surrendered everything to Christ. IN fact, I wept in more than one week of camp when speaking to the teenagers about the obvious changes that were taking place in so many lives.

We now turn to the fall Church Revival meetings and we look forward to seeing souls brought to the Savior and God's people being strengthened in their personal walk with their Lord. Remember to pray for the Gleisers. Lynn and I are so grateful for the opportunity to serve our dear Lord Jesus in our ministry.

AND IN CLOSING,
as I often like to do (which means every time) I show you two recent pictures of the grandest of Grand-kids—