GNJ June Update

🚗 June Ministry Recap | GoodNews Journey

This month was packed with evangelism, training, ministry, and mission mobilization!

🗓️ 16 Ministry Events
🧍‍♂️ 400+ People Reached
🙏 Students Saved at Camp

📍 Ministry Impact:
• OKC Juvenile Center (mentoring on June 2, 4, 9, 16, 18)
• Community Baptist Coweta (youth, camp, midweek, leader training)
• FBC Chattanooga (Youth Sunday preaching)
• Trinity Baptist Wellston (Sunday message and Evangelism Training)
• South Tulsa Baptist (Evangelism Training)
• Open Door Blanchard (Discipleship Night)
• Networking with leaders at Woodland Hills, Falls Creek & The Hope Gathering
• WatersEdge partnership meeting

🏕️ Camp Impact:
Helped lead youth camp for Community Baptist at Green Country Camp (Disney, OK) with 4 GOODNEWS breakouts—several students trusted Christ! Preparing to speak at Cimarron Youth Camp in July for the Cimarron Baptist Association.

🌍 Missions Prep:
Actively planning group trips to Guatemala, Portugal, and Cambodia. Developing missions mobilization strategies for Cimarron Baptist youth camp.

⚾ UNITE OKC Planning:
GNJ is leading 2 evangelism trainings and recruiting a 200-person invitation team for the City Night of Worship at the Bricktown Ballpark. Help us mobilize the Gospel at this massive event!

📞 Behind the Scenes:
Countless calls, texts, coaching sessions, and a NXT Move Zoom call with North American leaders.

🙌 Thank you for praying, supporting, and going on the Journey with us!

This was the first time that Brian shared publicly about GoodNews Journey! Glad it is finally "officially" out there!

No More Wisdom Teeth for Mackenzie

Mackenzie had all 4 of her wisdom teeth removed at the end of June. This is something that we have needed to do for a while, and I'm so relieved for her that it is done! She was pretty giggly on the way home, but didn't have anything too crazy to say. =0) I couldn't believe how fast the process was...from the time we left her and they started, to the time we were back with her, it was less than 30 minutes. She was definitely in pain for 3 or 4 days, but she bounced back pretty quick. 

You did it, baby girl! Good job! 

It was freezing in there, so I wore Kade's hoodie for her.

Three is apparently a hard number to say...lol! 

A HOT Day at theTinker Air Show

Kind of last minute, we decided to go to Tinker to watch the Thunderbirds fly at the Air Show on Saturday. We have watched air shows before, but never actually on the ground at Tinker. I have to admit though, that I wasn't at all prepared...somehow we got there with no sunscreen, no hats or umbrellas whatsoever, and very little water. I'm not sure what in the world I was thinking? I clearly wasn't... #momfail

Thankfully, we ran into my friend Cheralyn and she saved the day! She works from TFCU and she was working in a tent at the air show. She had several cooling rags that she let us borrow, and she even let Jack wear her hat! She really was an answer to prayer! We bought an umbrella too and managed to not get just scorched...it was hotter than Hades out there, not even kidding! 

The air show was amazing and I'm so glad we went! It was so cool to be right there where they take off and it was LOUD when they did their fly by's right over the top of us. Minus the melting and what felt like miles that we walked to get in there, this was one of my favorite summertime memories! 

Coolest picture ever!

We really were TFCU's #1 fans, thanks to Cheralyn's generosity! 

The long

long

long

long

long

walk back to the car...

I feel this, buddy!

Took all of about 10 seconds for him to shed his clothes in the car! 

So many cool videos!