Subject: The Sergeants Club | June 2022


Hello,

 

Things are pretty busy here on campus for it being furlough. The battalion returns for training on June 25, and the Quest students show up on July 4, so summer furlough is basically over for us already. Three weeks isn’t much time to reset everything and start over, but Lord willing we'll be ready when they show back up.

 

Thank you all for your prayers for the online situation I mentioned last month. God was kind and nothing happened over the weekend of Advancement. There was some online traffic the week after the event, but nothing disrupted either the on-campus event or the live stream. The focus of the blogger is mostly off ALERT at this point, but if you think of it, pray for the truth to be known in each situation she posts about.

 

Also, thank you all for your input on the letter we released to the alumni answering questions that came up after the video; the response to the final product has been really positive. Please pray for Major Boulden as he goes through the one-on-one follow-up conversations with the alumni; they are proving to be pretty emotionally heavy conversations (he clocked close to 2.5 hours straight on the phone with one guy this week). We know we won’t be able to repair every relationship or make everyone happy, but Lord willing we can make some progress and rebuild a lot of relationships with our alumni.

One final prayer request comes from our recent grads. We asked each guy how we could pray for them as they finished the semester of training, and here are the graduates and what they asked for prayer for:

  • Josh Bardin - stay strong, focus on the right things

  • Nathaniel Batten – wouldn't lose the vision of what God wants and that he wouldn't be complacent

  • Caleb Buczynski – that he could help others even when he is in his darkest moments

  • Nathan Clark – be a missionary here in the US, that he would thrive away from home

  • Christopher Combs – pray he doesn’t become complacent

  • Luke Finet – clarity and peace/direction for the future

  • Joshua Gillespie – patience to wait for God's timing

  • Joshua Larson – keep the things he learned

  • John McConnell – example to those around, grow and mature

  • Chason Mesinar – direction and that he would seek the Lord

  • Jadon Schnell – boldness to stand for/do more for Christ

  • Brinson Thomas – that the trajectory of God's work in his life would continue

  • Ian Walker – moral purity back at home

It seems like the longer the year goes on the more things come up to pray for, but then I remember the God who we serve, and who loves and cares for us. He is doing His work in our lives, and in the lives of the men in training, and we can trust Him to accomplish His purposes, no matter the opposition or our failures.  In times like these, I am so thankful that God is God and I am not. Thanks for all your prayers and support; it is a huge encouragement to us.

 

Posteritatis commodis servientes,

2nd Lieutenant Samuel Winkler | Unit 42

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