Dear Friends,

I hope you are doing well this spring. Pam and I just took a trip to the Grand Canyon with the kids, David (16), James (14) and Anne (12). We borrowed a friend’s RV and covered 2,750 miles through Arizona to the Grand Canyon and Spring Baseball Training and an amusement park in Las Vegas.

The really exciting news has been happening in the church. As you may know, we ended 2008 with 6 baptisms in our church. In only the first 3 months of this year God has blessed us with 5 people baptized! Not only that, but we now have 20 members in the church and are praying to grow to 30 by the end of this year. 2 of the people baptized were men studying at Southern Oregon University. We also baptized a young couple who are planning on getting married in May. Our fifth baptism was a young single woman named Casey.

We are planning a special contribution Sunday on May 17^th. We are hoping to raise $17,000 for another year’s part time salary for our powerful campus minister, Chris Schwartzenberger. We would like to invite you to come and visit us on that weekend. We appreciate your support over the years and would like to celebrate our four years as a church together.

Much Love,

Rob and Pam Skinner