Update | Spring 2018
Dear friends and family,
First and foremost, an enormous THANK YOU to all of you who have supported us emotionally, financially, and through prayer over the past three years! We would not have been able to complete this journey with Young Life Military/Club Beyond without you. Because of your faithfulness, hearts have been won for the Kingdom, and lives have been changed among overseas military teens and their families.
Since our last post, all of our energy has been focused on out-processing from Germany, packing and mailing our belongings back to the US, and finishing our time well with teens and our team.
February was filled with weekly club meetings, contact work, and preparing for our final Club Beyond camp in March. We served with our teammates, Olivia and Tyler, as the program team for a weekend middle school camp in Rothenberg, Germany. Program team is one of our favorite ways to serve at camp because it allows teens to laugh at silly skit characters, feel special during up-front games, break down walls, and provide conversation opportunities with their leaders that ultimately lead back to the camp speaker’s talks.
All dressed up as our program characters: Vicki (Meagan), Valory (Olivia), Tyty the Camera Guy (Tyler), and Taylor Drift (Josh).
Working with our high school friends to clean/organize the Ramstein Teen Center baseball closet on Club Beyond Service Project day.
In March, after the weekend middle school camp, we had one week to finish packing up our apartment before our flights back to the US. It was an incredibly stressful moving week since Meagan came down with a stomach bug on our way home from camp. While we already miss our friends, teens, and life in Europe, we are so relieved to be on the other side of that move!
Tschuss, apartment!
Note: acronyms ahead — Josh flew back to the US from Germany on March 25th, straight to Montgomery, AL to report for Air Force OTS (Officer Training School) at Maxwell AFB. Meagan flew out the next day straight to Colorado Springs to visit family during the two months that Josh is at OTS. We will be reunited at his OTS graduation from Maxwell AFB at the end of May! From there, we’ll go straight to NAS (Naval Air Station) Pensacola for Air Force CSO (Combat Systems Officer) school for one year.
We’re slowly becoming accustomed to being an active duty Air Force family, though we’ll get used to it much more quickly once we’re at our first duty station. We have a lot of processing to do about re-entry to living in the US again… reverse cross-culture shock really is a thing!
On Giving
If you haven’t already done so, please remember to end or redirect your online giving. Your faithfulness has been deeply appreciated, valued, and honored. If you would like to continue supporting overseas military teen ministry through Young Life Military/Club Beyond, we would be happy to send you ways to do so—just send us an email.
Prayer Requests
Please pray for:
- Overseas military teens and their families
- Young Life Military/Club Beyond staff in Europe
- Josh during his time at Air Force OTS
- Meagan during her time with family in Colorado
- Our transition from vocational ministry to active duty life
- Our continued physical, emotional, and spiritual health
"Therefore you are great, O Lord God. For there is none like you, and there is no God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears." -- 2 Samuel 7:22 ESV