Jeff Nelson comments; OX ROAST 2009 a big success!

Well, this is my first official post to our ministry blog.  After a fruitful ministry with the Projeto Resgate street childrens ministry in Brazil, my wife Tiffany and I, along with our four kids Caleb (12), Michaela (10), Joshua (8) and Samuel (6) have settled back here in Springfield.  You can check out our family blog to learn more about that.

I am really blessed to be a part of SCYM, and see the exciting things that God is doing and has done in this ministry.  I run the STARS after school program, as well as Wise Guys mentoring groups for Jr. High boys, and Kid Can! Summer Day camp.  We have some exciting things planned for this year.  Next week STARS will  begin at Westside Christian Community and at High Street Church of the Nazarene.  We hope to have about 25 kids coming from Snyder Park Elementary to Westside, and about 32 coming from Kenwood Elementary to High Street.

Today we had an answer to prayer regarding transportation for High Street.  The church bus only has seats for 21, and I have been trying to figure out how we were going to get the remaining 11 or so students to the program.  After checking into a few options, I talked to my friend Captain Steve Carroll at The Salvation Army, and he said they would be happy to partner with us and let us use one of their 11 passenger vans on Wednesdays.  God is good!   

Our annual OX Roast is now history, and was a big success.  We had about 300 donors and other friends from the community join us at Faith in Christ Lutheran Church for some great food, good music, a cool Buckeye Hunt and other activities.  Thank you to all who participated and gave to help us this year.  Look for OX Roast pictures in my next post.

Jeff Nelson

Associate Director SCYM