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These three crying emojis are for the sadness we feel when we remember that the interns are leaving soon! Nooo!!

This summer, Bro. Alex and Bro. Jace have been a huge blessing to our church, and two weeks from tomorrow, they fly back to finish their schooling at Heartland Baptist Bible College. We wish they could stay, and that’s NOT something we say every year, believe me!

Not only has their work ethic been great, but their preaching is edifying and their spirit to serve is contagious! I love that they’ve thrown themselves into everything going on around here, invested themselves in people as though they’ll be here their whole lives, and seemed to enjoy the process, too! I love to see young men serving God and producing fruit, and theirs is the kind of fruit I want to invest in.

Because we’ve gone back to two interns, our expenses were higher this summer, so we’ll be taking a love offering to apply to their school bill. They’ve given themselves to serve us spiritually, and we can give of ourselves to serve them financially.

This has been a great, great summer. God has been blessing our church broadly, and I am so thankful for the part that these men have played in that work.

Let’s savor the last two weeks with these godly young men.

Oh, and pray for Bro. Alex to find himself an incredible wife this year!!

–Pastor Ryan