Looking forward to it.

...the service at Newnan was well attended, and I am gratefut to Tommy McNeal for sharing his evangelistic testimony. I am pleased to say we had 11 attend.

Again I thank Tommy for speaking to our group and please know that I am open to sharing our time together any way that will glorify God and help a fellow believer draw closer in his or her walk with our Savior, or help to begin their own relationship with Him if that choice has not been made.

Be blessed out there, see y'all at the T.T.C. next month.

The rain stopped for Sunday morning in Sequatchie, we had the service with 17 in attendance. I was encouraged by the amount of children there. I wish some of their parents would have come along...

Be blessed out there!

`As we all bask in the summer's heat, and are anticipating the fall season's weather change as well as the start of the second half of our '09 competition season, I want to let y'all in on a change with the Trials for Christ ministry.

After six and a half years as the leader of the services, I will be following God's leadership and move on to a new mission field. Ian and I are becoming involved with the whitewater kayaking scene once again, and I will be working in that sport more and more both as a paddler and as a minister like I have been in trials.

I will not be leaving the trials scene all together, nor leaving the TFC without leadership. Tom McNeal will be taking up my slack at the services when he is able, and between us and whoever God is dealing with out there to help he and I, we will be able to still have chapel services available at all the events.

I am grateful to all those that have supported the TFC without wavering, as well as those that sporadically attend. You have blessed me, and helped me grow spiritualy as a teacher and a representative of God here on the Earth.

Please be prayerful for this ministry, the only one of its kind continuing regularly in the world as far as I know. If you have any doubts about the significance of this ministry please check out the amount of views this thread has generated over the years (over 15,000 of them). God's presence is still as strong in the world as ever, but man's acknowledgement of God is waning more and more every day. This is a chance for us to keep God's hand on our club and our members by continuing to gather on Sunday mornings at our events, and in turn for us that are called to His purpose to be light to the world (Romans 8:28 - Matt 5:14).

Looking forward to Cornelia, and to seeing how God's children in the STRA will respond to a change in leadership with their unique built in opportunity to worship and serve within the club, and how we represent Him to those that yet remain strangers to Him within our club.

Be blessed!

Jeff

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Looking forward to seeing everyone at the event and hopefully at the service.

See you soon....

Had a good service at Cornelia. With me being the new guy, I wanted to see if a time change would help on Sunday morning. I know Youth runs at about 9 or 9:30 and event starts at 10 or 10:30. With many staying in hotels it is tough to make it that early.

Anyone have any suggestions? Write back here or email me at tpmcneal@southernco.com

I regret the fact that I will not be offering a Trials for Christ service at Monroe, N.C.
As much as I would like to be there, the travel distance round trip of over 600 miles is a determining factor, I will be ministering on the road that weekend in the Nantahala gorge with a 300 mile round trip.

I pray that someone who is directed through God's Holy Spirit will be available in Monroe to offer a 15 minute service like so many have been accustomed to over the last 6 years. I realize attendance at the events is slipping and that fact is reflected in the service attendance too. God will be in the midst next weekend and I am praying some of the faithful will gather as usual and study his word, worship and pray.

In Christ's love... Jeff

The trial Saturday at the good 'ol T.T.C. was a blast, yes that's right, I can say that now as an actual riding member of the STRA. It had been most of four years since I had ridden between the ribbons and it's good to be competin' once again along with my young son. Ian's Sherco had been hibernating so long it would not run without the choke activated, so he was following me on the loop on Josh's CRF 150 and we were both riding my Sherco in the sections. When we arrived at section 6 Brian Robison offered Ian the use of his Beta, and he and I are extermely grateful for that selfless act, thank you Brian!

The Sunday service was frosty and cool yet clear and sunny and there were 10 faithful gathered.

We will wrap up the season next month in Gadsden, hope to see y'all then both on the loop and at the morning service.

Be blessed out there...

Jeff

I am posting this note here to let y'all know what is happening with the Geisens relating to our involvement with the S.T.R.A. After a ten year run as off and on competitors, promoters and dedicated club members we are about to begin a hiatus from trials competition and our beloved club. The main reason for this change in direction is to allow us to get back into whitewater kayak persuits. That was our primary chioce for recreation in the '90s before we began riding trials together. The padddling is quite a bit easier for Ian to afford for his family and best of all now my daughter (Ian's elder sister) is enjoying the river with us as well after a long absence, so both my kids and two grandsons are runnin' area rivers together. Playboats have evolved over the past ten years as much as trials bikes and everything is new & exciting again.

As for the Trials for Christ minisry God blessed me with a seven year run as your "pastor in the pits" and for that I will always be grateful. As well, I am grateful for those of you that attended services over the years and I will continue to lift you guys in my prayers. I believe God already has someone hand picked to take up the leadership for the services, it is merely up to that person to do what I did so many years ago and step out on faith and trust God's leadership, and His willingness to help your spiritual life grow through service to Him. I have been re-assigned by God to the Paddlers for Christ ministry and look forward to opportunities there to continue my service to His kingdom and furthering the Gospel.

Our best to all of you, we will not be around trials events much for a while but Ian and I agree we will be back with y'all sometime in the future for sure.

Be blessed!

Jeff

Please be in intersessory prayer for the family of Mike Helstrom as they are dealing with the accidental death of mike's 2 year-old nephew.

I do not have details to offer here, only concern for a family walking in one of the darkest valleys I can imagine.

God is with His children always, and has a plan that will sometimes gratify and lift us up and at other times crush us to the core and make minutes seem like days. Just remember that nothing He allows us to either enjoy or suffer through surprises Him. Those of us that have a personal relationship with the Savior must accept His will in our lives. The bible tells me He is God in the good times as well as God in the bad times, always God and always good. David wrote in Psalm 37 about injustice and how to deal with terrible and troubling circumstances and how God will work out our spiritual future based on descisions and reactions we have to life's injustices with regards to Him. (if you don't navigate the bible too often, find the book of Psalms in the very center)

Life's short, pray hard and try to live close to Him.

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