March 2006 APC update

Ancient Paths Church Happenings...
We have decided to begin a new phase at APC. We have been doing great outreach projects and will continue to, but we feel God calling us as a church family to focus on friendship evangelism. We will be planning ongoing events; such as parties that will give us the opportunity to build relationships with those we live and work around. We want to know non-believers better and want our friends who don’t know Jesus to get to know other Christians. Please pray that we could build redemptive relationships and see people won to Jesus.
Sunday, March 5th we had two people from C.C. Vail Valley (who know the Dokes) come down to help us with a trash pick up/Prayer walk. The weather was great and we got into 3 groups and picked up trash around the church we meet in Sunday nights.
Pray for our March outreach…a group of 15 students and adults from Canyon City E.F.C. (3 hr drive south) will come up for a 2-day outreach in the hood on March 24-25th. We will do a prayer walk on Fri. and have a BBQ with games and fun at Curtis Park on Sat.
We have started a new curriculum for the kids of APC, which is wonderful. The kids will end up going through the Bible in 3 yrs and all ages will be learning the same verses and stories. We have 3 classes with 9-12 kids weekly.
~Desi Starr

Family Happenings...
What a warm month it has been! Spring is in the air and we love being outside! The kids are doing well, and enjoying the new member of our family, Bedhead. We adopted him March 1st and he is just the most gentle & sweet 2 yr old kitty ever!
We got some sad news last week: Our favorite neighbors (Steve & Ed- 2 doors down) are moving out to the suburbs in April. They have a dog --Cheyenne that we play with almost every day. They are great guys and will be missed. So, that brings me to a prayer request. Please pray that God puts the right people in that house! We’d love a family with kids since there are no other kids on our block. Also, pray that our family would find a way to regularly meet with and get to know our neighbors. …. Friendship evangelism if you know what I mean! ~Rose Starr

Prayer Requests
*Raul-Desi is his mentor- Over the 4th & 5th, Raul downed $400 worth of crack cocaine. Desi got him into detox and
he ended up in jail for a week after getting in a fight. Pray that God frees him of his addiction, and that he comes to
faith in Jesus.
*The right new neighbors in April.
*Friendship Evangelism to Grow among APC’s members.
*Unity in Vision, maturity, and faithfulness for the leaders of APC.
*March outreach Fri 24th –Sat 25th
*Health for our family
~Thank You!~