Wow! What an incredible summer! We hope you enjoyed the summer as much as we did! We spent the month of June at Camp Bighorn  getting to know the staff, attending staff training and exploring the area around Plains. Yes, we finally got to see some Bighorn Sheep this time out there as well as the elusive Mountain Goat! Montana is sure a beautiful place!

While spending this time at Camp we found, despite the scenic beauty, Montana is a very lost place. A place where people go to try to hide from their pasts, where people try to hide from the future (doomsday preppers) and local kids walk around without purpose. The Plains area is wide open for ministry opportunities and we are excited to be a part of sharing the Gospel to this area through Camp Bighorn!

        The tables have turned for us because we are moving this fall to begin our ministry at Camp Bighorn! We will be making a trip mid-September and putting the rest of our belongings in storage until we find a home there! Looking online, there are multiple homes for rent that are available starting this fall!  

        As we stand right now in financial support, we are at 51% long term support. Including the special gifts given to us, we now have enough to work full time at Camp Bighorn for almost a year. We have a few churches to visit here yet and a few churches out west that would like us to come and share our ministry with them! How exciting to see God working! It has been 11 months and we are just over 50% of long term support! We were told it may take many years to earn the financial support needed. We are thankful for our financial supporters and are blessed to have you backing us up with prayer.

A few ways for you to help would be to continue with financial support and prayer! Some specific prayer requests are for the rest of the long term support would be raised, safety and ease of travel, finding and moving into a house quickly, and good health along the way.

We pray for each one of you on our support list and we love hearing from you! Let us know if you have any specific prayer requests we can add to our prayer list. We are going to start writing monthly updates and can send it via snail mail or email. We also have an online blog at: www.townsendlodge.blogspot.com so you can follow us online as well.  Don’t forget to check out Camp Bighorn at www.campbighorn.org too! God is doing great and mighty things! Goodbye to Wisconsin and Hello to Plains, Montana!

           Following Him, Eric, Krystle & Kids