that was a good September!

hello all i hope things are going good for you! i wanted to shoot out a post so that you can be up to date with what we have been up to. this has been a very good month for Younglife. josh our area director and myself have been meeting with G.R.I.P. " gang reduction intervention program" it is a law enforcement board with 4 district attorneys and 8 sheriff officers and many other state programs. we are on board as the " faith based" organization. in the meeting they expressed a need to have an adult presence at 2 bus stops for the jr. high school. the problem was that the gangs were jumping kids into the gang at the bus stops in the mornings because of the lack of adults that where there and it also served as a good venue to show all the kids that the child being jumped in is now part of the gang. so with all that said. when we heard that was a need we jumped at the chance to hang at the bus stops. so i have been waking up pretty much every morning at 6:30 sometimes with other leaders or just my self. we are very happy to be doing this because not only do we get to help grip but also we get to meet kids! also we just got back from a leadership weekend down at one of our younglife camps in san diego. needless to say god is doing some awesome stuff! i brought 4 Junior leaders and I'm so so proud of them. 2 of the leaders are from our high school club and are at the place where they want to start serving god and pouring into other kids younger then them. if you could please pray for them . their names are kyle and austin.im so exited to see god use these boys this year in wyldlife, they just have the best hearts! i will keep you up to date on how their walk is going and all the awesome stuff god is doing. thanks for being a part of this ministry! please be praying for us as wee are praying for you and for this community that so desperately needs Jesus

love, dustin martnick

Update

Greetings all! I pray everything is going well for you. It's been a while since my last blog. Camp was so very amazing. Our kids are growing in so many ways it's so exiting. We had close to 10 kids come to know Christ in a real way for the first time in their lives! Praise god for that! Also I have 4 high school boys and 2 girls that are going to be seniors this year that are going to be junior leaders for wildlife san Juan! These kids are actively seeking Jesus and there personal walk with him and also will be walking through the young life leader hand book so that they grow in Christ and as a leader! So with all that said it's safe to say god is doing amazing things. I myself have been gone pretty much for the past 2 months serving at camps as staff and also as a leader with our kids. Please be praying for leaders , open doors with the community , Marco forester middle school , support finical and prayer and also many other ways to support Please fill free to contact me for any reason any time I'm here for you. Thank you for being part of this ministry and all that you do!

Love , Dustin Martnick

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