r e v o l u t i o n 9.24.05

r e v o l u t i o n

is our youth groups once a month saturday night ... invite your friends ... play sweet games ... win awesome prizes ... make new friends ... listen to the sweet ol' revolution band!!! ... and hear a great message and testimonies .... here are few pictures from last weekends revolution!

SMALL GROUP GUYS

SWEET PIC'S OF MY SMALL GROUP GUYS!
nate, erik, ethan, thomas, josh, brady .... (I dont have a pic of Richie yet but as soon as I do he'll be up!!)
... these guys rock!

GVPBS FOOTBALL

It was homecoming night for Grandview Park Baptist Schools Football team!

they won the game like 70 to 35 ... yeah it was a blow out!



My cousin Erik #11 had 3 touchdown catches and about 140 yards reciving!
The whole team played pretty well!


Here are a couple of pictures of Erik (#11)! Enjoy!







Here is a picture of my good buddy Justin Carlson #24 ...

Hurricane Katrina and Faith in Action photos

Here are a few more photos from Biloxi, MS


The Palace Casino sitting half on land and half in the water.
in the picture is Drue Wolfe, Brian Trainer, Mike Gittins, Jonathan Bunjer, Corey Ott, Chris Humberg and Ryan Lundquist.



This man sits on his porch with most all of his possesions sitting on the curb.


A typical shot down most streets of Biloxi. Total destruction.


Another man sitting on his porch, contemplating his next move?!

Operation Faith in Action - Hurricane Katrina Relief Trip

I just wanted to make a quick report from my trip to Mississippi. We arrived back home (Ankeny, IA) at about 12 midnight Friday Sep. 16th after spending 8 days down in Ocean Springs, MS on the Gulf of Mexico.
Grace Independent Baptist Church and Academy, Ocean Springs, was our base camp for the week.

We worked in there gym/ "warehouse shopping center" sometimes a lot through the week and mostly when they needed an extra hand. The picture below is just a portion of the gym.






The other time was spent handing out supplies, cutting down trees, removing appliances from homes, cutting out drywall and insulation and in some cases gutting the whole house.





At right is just a typical scene on some of the streets near the gulf.

It was quite and experience seeing first hand the devistation of the area. It is late and have been traveling for almost 18 hours in a van so I am going to keep this one short. I will add more content and pictures later!








Thanks for all the prayers! drue

Hurricane Katrina "Operation Faith in Action"

Well I sit here with much to say and very little time to say it in. The last 24 hours have been somewhat of a whirl wind. I was in a advisory board meeting Tuesday and in that meeting an opportunity was presented to go and help with clean up and relief efforts in Louisiana and Mississippi. The initial idea of it peaked my interest but I figured there would be no way I could make it work.
Then at least 2 other individuals I came in contact that night and then the next morning suggested that I should seriously consider going. So I got back in contact with Brian Trainer and he gave me the details of the trip. You know it is so cool to see how the Lord opens doors of oppurtunity for service, and then makes our schedules work to make it happen ... It is only of the Lord that I am able to go on this trip. I made the decsion to go at about 3:30pm on Wednesday, and we leave at 2:30pm on Thursday the 8th. We will be gone for about 10 days.

I think God wants me on this trip to teach me, and grow me and help me understand just how much we have been given in this life! I believe it will be an incredible adventure.

Adventure becasue in some sense we dont know axactly what we will be doing once there. We have been told mostly demolition and clearing of trees and debri. a lot of hard manual labor.

We will be working with and orginazation called Operation Renewed Hope, that is directly involved in cordinating such relief efforts. Follow this link to there web site Operation Renewed Hope.org

I am traveling down with a team " Operation Faith in Action" that consits of Brian Trainer, Vice President of Faith Baptist Bible College, Ankeny, IA. who is the guy that put this all in motion. 10 Faith Baptist Bible College male students, and 5 local area church pastors. including my Church, Saylorville's Pastor Kevin Thomas. I believe there will be updates on the Faith website as well.

I am excited to see how God is going to work in this group. I am also excited to see how He is going to use us to minister to the Churches and People in the two towns we are going too.
The first town is Slidell, LA and the second will be Golfport, MS.

I also was asked to bring my camera. There are a few local media outlets, and individual oraganizations that would like coverage, plus to document our time and efforts. so I will be doing my best to do the work called there to do, and to also serve as photographer!

I think the last thing I will add is to PRAY! Pray for everthing you can think of to pray for. Also thank you to those that are sacrificing for me, so that I can go be a part of this ministry for the Kingdom!

I will update you all as it is available! Until then...

sports night

Well tonight was a night of sports action, and it was actually a good night ... I first watched my cousin Jordan play soccer for Faith. They won there game 3-0 which I think might be there first win of the year. So great job Eagles!

After that I went and help my Mom do a couple of things ... Hey Mom if your reading this, glad to help anytime ...

I then travled to the sweet new athletic complex at Grandview Park Baptist School in Des Moines!
Watched a couple of my youth group guys play Eighth and JV Football!
They did awesome ... Great job Bret Funk in the Eighth grade game ... I think they won 64 -0!

Nathan Boresma (his in my small group!) and Hor-hay along with Robbie Urich played in the JV game. They all played really well tongiht as well! They won there first ever game 25-0!
Great Job Guys!

and now I am home ... jsut doing a few work related items and adding this note to my blog!
Well thats all for now .. until next time ...

24hr. Mt. Bike Race Review

Meet Team Crash!

Adam Welch, Drue Wolfe, Abe Miller, Lucas Bair ...

Well the pain and agony is over for this year! I am not sure why I chose to do this again to my body this year .... it takes about 48 hours to recover from a 24 hr. Mt. Bike race... but I guess it was for the fun and fellowship of hanging with these guys and there families!

Well we had really good weather this year for the race. No Rain!! so that made the course really fast! sometimes to fast for me ... which made it easy for me to well wreck on the down hills ... I only had a couple of really good ones ... so that isnt to bad.


The most challenging part of the race for me is when about a quarter of the way in on my third lap my biking shoe decided to explode on me. so as to not let my teamates down on this lap I kept going! So I finished that lap in my stocking foot. here's a picture of my shoe! donations for a new pair of shoes will be accepted! :)


Well this year we didnt have anyone get sick so we were able to stay through the whole night and race through the morning ... well I guess I have to tell the truth here ... the other 3 guys raced through the morning ... I only went 4 laps which took me into the early morning hours of 12:30am ... Lucas did the most with 7 laps and Abe and Adam did 6 each. I just couldnt get my body to physically do it Sunday morning! I was exhusted and cramping pretty good!

Well we did do better this year than last ... I think we finished 8th out 16 Four Man Teams!

I am still undecided about next years race .... at this point I would say "no way jose" .... but you never know once next summer gets here!

Thanks to all of those that came out and supported us ... especially Abe's Mom and Dad who came down from Wisconsin!

Well I think that brings you all up to date! Check out all the photos on www.druewolfe.com ... later on ...

24hr Mt. Bike Race

Well the 24 hour Mt. Bike race starts tomarrow at 12 noon. We will be heading up to Boone about 8:30ish to drive the hour it takes to get there, and then set up camp and get checked in and all that pre-game stuff! :)
I am looking forward to it this year from the stand point of doing much better than we did last year! I have actually rode the course a few times before the race this year ... last year the first time I rode it was when I did my first lap! so this year I should at least know the course a bit better! Plus we have trained more! However I am not saying that I am in shape at all ...

I am on a four man "relay" team again this year ... the same team as last year ... so we are seasoned veterans! :) The team "Team Crash" consits of Abe Miller, Adam Welch, Lucas Bair, and myself.

Well I plan on taking a few pictures and posting as soon as we win the darn thing! ha ... like that will happen ... anyway ... If you think of it, pray for us ... we will need it!

until next time ...

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"I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, form whence cometh my help. My help comes from the Lord, which made heaven and earth."