More Paintball Trailer Pictures

Just a few more pictures of the paintball trailer. Looking good!

Spring Has Sprung

In Wisconsin, spring has sprung. Actually, more like summer and last I checked, it was March! ( I know it is now April, but it took me a couple weeks to get this out) We have had 12 days in a row of record breaking highs and most of them have been in the 80’s. Leaves are coming out and flowers are filling the flower beds. It is a relief from the mild winter we had, where we struggled to provide winter activities for our campers. Praise God though, we had just enough snow and just enough cold temperatures to make the winter camps possible. Our new broomball rink was in use and our tubing hill got a face-lift. More importantly we received so many reports, from the youth leaders, of God’s moving in the hearts of the students.
As we move into spring, things will pick up for John. He has just finished up a climbing wall addition and we had a fun time testing it out. He is also working on building new bunk beds for the cabins so we can dispose of the old, creaky, metal beds. Something I am sure the campers will appreciate. Even though it is only March, our summer season is right around the corner and we have a lot of prep and cleaning up to do to get ready. Along with our usual summer preparations, the State has changed our license and we fall under different regulations now. What this means is, to be in compliance with the new regulations, we need to eliminate some of the beds in each of the cabins. We often fill all of our beds at Camp, so to continue serving the number of campers we do now, we have to build some more cabins.
Despite the changes and work to be done, great things are happening. Our staff is growing in unity and just got back from the spring CCCA (Christian Camp and Conference Association) conference. It was a time of great refreshment and encouragement through classes, fellowship, and Bible teaching with other Christian camp staff from Wisconsin, Iowa and Nebraska.
We are settling into our home gradually and excited to start working on a garden and the long awaited tree house. John is still working with his Doctor and Neurosurgeon, trying to find relief from his back injury. We were able to purchase a new mattress with the generous donations from several of our supporters. This has been so helpful but it doesn’t completely eliminate the back pain at night.

Partner with us!

PRAY for healing for John’s back. He is struggling to do everyday tasks that his job requires.
PRAY for Expeditions as they adjust to the new regulations and find ways to keep our numbers up.
PRAY and CONSIDER if you might be able to partner with us financially. We are in great need of monthly supporters. If this is something God is leading you to do, please give us a call or send us an email. johnandbrookewright@hotmail.com

All in a day's work

One of John's current projects at Expeditions is a new paintball trailer. Looks like a pretty sweet set up!

Pictures from this weekend's retreat

This Weekend At Expeditions

Looking forward to a great weekend of training, paintball and high ropes with New life Community Church of Baraboo and Trinity Baptist Church of Reedsburg. Keep us in your prayers! John will be in the kitchen cooking for this crew.

Prayer Request

Last week John met with a neurosurgeon to go over his MRI and see what can be done about his back pain. 2 of his discs are severely deteriorated with one of them pretty much gone. There isn't much they can do about that. He also has a lot of nerve pain with it that goes down his leg. Looking at the MRI, it seems to be one or two culprit nerves. Today, we will go back to St. Mary's to get injections into those 2 nerves. I guess it is a little different than an epidural steroid injection as they are actually putting the injection directly into the nerve. Sound like it will be very "uncomfortable". Please be praying for John and the Doctors today.

A quick note

Thank you to those of you praying for us! There were a couple things we asked you to pray for in our last post and I wanted to give you an update. First of all, John had a doctor appointment yesterday and I think he is encourage that we are finally being proactive again. He will be scheduled for another MRI soon to see if things have worsened. He is also back at the clinic today having some X-rays done and blood work. It is always possible that there is something completely different causing the pain, for example, Lymes Disease. We hadn't thought of anything like that and we would like to rule anything we can out before we resort to drastic measures.

One other exciting thing concerning John's back, we've had some money come in the mail to help us with the cost of a new mattress. PRAISE GOD! Please pray we can come up with the rest of the needed funds.