It has once again been a completely consuming week.
We have had a mixed bag of weather with cold and warm and a lot of rain.
Brian's work had to be mixed up because his main project is outdoors.
We picked up our "new" travel trailer on Tuesday. We are very excited as the new one will meet our needs much better this winter
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We spent Friday night camping with Nathan, Amanda and Peggy. The campground we stayed at had us enter from the back emergency exit since the main entrance was flooded by The Yellow River, which very, very high.
This camping excursion overlapped the Nightmare and Andrew's Cub Scout Chuck Wagon event. It gave us all a chance to spend the day together as well as try out the R.V. We wanted to use everything before setting out on the major winter trip.
The Nightmare has been very good. Brian, Nicholas and Joshua are serving this year. Brian had seriously considered turning in a resignation after this year's production but after being involved again, the motives for being involved have not changed. What an opportunity to bring approximately 10,000 people to the foot of the cross to examine their lives and to seriously consider what Jesus did for them. The production has remained potent and powerful as in the past and we know many lives will never be the same. This weekend, the middle weekend is usually the busiest, and once again we had over 2000 people per night. We, the leadership underestimated the potential of this outreach from the start 10 years ago planning for 5000 per year. We are limited by our own lack of capacity to 18 people to enter every 3 minutes. This causes long waiting lines and our having to work long hours. Last night we got the last group through at 2:00 A. M. Most attendees wait 3-4 hours for their chance to see the Nightmare.
We were at North Ridge Colby at 7:30 A.M. We set up and led the church in worship. We had a great service. We believe we had the most powerful worship service so far. This is so much fun!!!
On Sunday night, the Colby youth met for their fall festival. Much fun was had with costumes, pumpkin carving, bobbing for apples, music, contests, games, food and more.
Thank you for checking out the blog. We invite everyone to The Nightmare this last weekend. If you come, ask for Brian and he will treat you to special VIP priveleges. We also invite everyone to North Ridge Colby 9:00 A.M. at the Colby High theatre.
In His service,
The Haines family
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