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Here is some new news...we are still trying to find a field for the sport camp this summer. Due to the fact that they are tearing down the old high school where we have had camp for the past 4 years, we decided that it would be best for us to stay away from the demolition. Pray for us that we will find a field that all the youth who desire to come to the camp will be able to. We do have some great news about the arts camp, we will be holding the arts camp at Center for Hope in Ambridge this year, CFH's building is a former school with large classrooms that will be perfect for camp.

I am meeting with 3 middle schoolers now once a week, we are studying the book of Genesis. We just finished the book of Nehemiah . The youth invited one of their friends and it has been great spending time with all of them. We meet at the Brighton Hot Dog Shoppe in Ambridge, they have some great food there and its cool to sit and pray and read the Bible with these 3 guys in there too.

I think we may have found a field for the lacrosse team to practice on this summer, its a fairly small field (too small for sports camp) but its open and right in the middle of town, pray that it works out...

Its been a crazy year already and its only May...

Spring time is coming

Who is excited that pitchers and catchers report this week?
If you don't know what that means, its ok here ya go;
Spring Training is starting for baseball

If you live in the north you understand that anything with the word spring in it is a good sign; especially when temperatures are in the single digits today in Ambridge, PA.

As spring time approaches we are preparing for our 5th summer of ministry to the youth in Ambridge. Five years is a long time and its crazy to me to remember that all of this started from an idea we had in the summer of 2003.

I wanted to let you guys know that we are changing our name to
Ambridge Youth Ignite (because we are becoming so much more than a camp). We'll have a new web-site in a few days called www.ambridgeyouthignite.org

This is a really exciting time for us and we are really happy to see things moving, Shea and I truly believe that this is why we are here in Ambridge to push this ministry into the school year and continue the relationships that were created during the summer.

With that I have been meeting with two youth each week, in effort to start a mentoring relationship with them. We are studying the book of Nehemiah, we eat together and we pray together; its a lot of fun.

We are starting to recruit summer staff, if you know anyone who would be interested in helping us out this summer please e-mail me at ambridgeyouthignite@yahoo.com.

It's 2008

Time has really flown by recently for us. A few weeks ago, the Ambridge Sports and Arts Camp had a storyboarding session where we decided on 4 initiatives that we are pursuing in 2008.

1) Facilitate Mentoring relationships

2) Launch a leadership initiative

3) Establish a Youth Center

4) Field a lacrosse team


Each of these initiatives are being headed up by a different person, which is really exciting. We have also started recruiting for leaders for Ambridge sports and arts camp 2008.