Our Roanoke team departed on Sunday afternoon and will be in Roanoke all week serving through the Baptist Community Center in the city.  This is the same place that we went last summer.  We have sixteen people on this trip.  The team will be leading Vacation Bible School for the children at the center; evangelism and service projects on some homes in the area.  Please pray for the safety of the team, encouragement, strength, and a willingness to share about Jesus' love.

 Thanks again for your prayers for our students here in Philly!  They are doing a great job serving the Lord on mission here!

Philadelphia Skyline as we drove for cheese-steaks

Thanks for your prayers for our youth team at MFUGE Philadelphia this week!  Our students have been doing a great job.  They are making our church family real proud.  Please continue in your prayers.  Blessings, Pastor Bob, Pastor Derek, and the rest!

Pastor Derek gets ready for our worship time! MFUGE ROCKS!!! PRAY FOR OUR STUDENTS AND LEADERS...

Our students, volunteers, and Pastor Derek and I will be traveling to Philadelphia today for a week at youth camp.  It's MFUGE and will be a great week for our students!  We hope to keep you updated through this blog this week.  We will be returning on Saturday the 26th.  So please uplift our coming and going and serving.  Pray for safety for all.  Pray for lives to be transformed, in the students, volunteers, and those whom we encounter.  May we be the hands and feet of Jesus.

Listen to several of our missions volunteers give testimony from recent missions opportunities supported by New Highland Baptist Church.

Tuesday of this week, four members of NHBC and I were among over 100 Baptists from the Metro-Richmond area who helped in Affordable Housing Awareness Week.  Habitat for Humanity was one of the regional partners and we worked in a new subdivision of 17 Habitat homes on Angus Rd. in south Richmond.  

Last summer we sent a team to Roanoke, VA where we spent the week leading Bible school at the local Baptist Community Center, working on homes, and sharing Christ's love.  One of our students who went on the trip sent this picture today for the blog.  One evening we had some fellowship time and here's me racing Go-Karts in the 97 car.