Volleyball Mission's Trip

Julie Muse and Grace Komis (Sommer Rodolph and Jen Adam in the background) at the church in Erlange, Germany - June 2006.Many of you know that this blog began as a result of the men's and women's soccer team's missions trip to Germany last summer. You can read about that trip and view pictures by clicking on the May/June/July 2006 links to the right. This summer the Maranatha Volleyball team is taking a mission's trip to Germany and they will minister in a few of the same places. Two weeks ago, Julie Muse, a member of our women's soccer team and a good all-around athlete was asked to be a part of the volleyball trip. Before she know where the money would come from, Julie agreed to go.

Julie will have a great opportunity to minister in a place that will be more familiar to her than anyone else on the trip. An even greater blessing is that many of you were so generous for the soccer trip that we had a surplus left in the account. (I wanted to spend it on warm-ups for the women's team but that would not have been a wise use of the money that had been donated for mission's work.) We decided the best choice was to keep the money in the account until the next time we took a mission's trip - until we found out that Julie would be going with the volleyball team. The surplus was enough to cover Julie's trip this summer.

All of us who participated in last year's trip are a little jealous of Julie but we wish her the best. I hope all of you will remember the volleball team in prayer when they leave for their trip at the end of May. It is a great blessing to see the hand of God work.-C

...and if anyone is interested in helping the Maranatha women's team purchase new warm-ups for the upcoming season, you know where to find me. :)