The Powells

Thursday, May 12, 2016

April & May with the Powells

If you're looking for our Needs Gear-up List you can find it HERE

We are busy! It's been a great couple of months in our house. We spent Easter in East Tn with Lindsey's family. We went on a family camp trip. And we took the youth group on an overnight canoe trip on the Mississippi river. Our sights are on the summer now! We have been preparing for months and will continue to prepare these next few weeks for our summer mission trip. Alice can now say "Costa Rica" and "Hola"... so we are set! Mitch is sleeping great at night and is such a happy boy.

Here's what's been going on:

We were in 3 handmade canoes

with Quapaw Canoe Company

Selfie John Ruskey and the group

Campfire dinner

Quapaw creator John "Driftwood" Ruskey

Hard work paddling but totally worth it

We passed dozens of tugboats/barges

Floating break

Great weather

EASTER TRIP

Papa holding great-grandson Mitch...

didn't get photos of the rest of the Bham crew!

My sweet daughter

After church with Mimi and Poppy

Alice loved her some egg hunting!

With 2nd cousin Coston!

Uncle Bryan and the girls

On a walk

Family camping trip

Hike in the woods

Swinging bridge

Mitch was there! haha

Holding Dada up

Annual YoungLife ham fundraiser

Papa with Harper,

Alice and Mitch

YL dodgeball tournament

Last youth group of the school year

Youth Group fundraiser

Spaghetti dinner and dessert auction

Alice loves the high school girls

Happy 21st birthday Chandler!

Sweet Mitch

Aubrey and Alice in her new

"Dorothy dress" from her aunt and uncle!

Mitch and Toto

Alice and her bestie Lilla

Youth group fly swatter hockey

Love my small group at youth group

Anna Christian's last home tennis match

Mama daughter date

Good job Boyce on 2nd place in the

National College Improv tourney

Like Dada like daughter

Noah and Alice out for a ride

Last Campaigners gathering with these seniors.

It's been an amazing 4 years with them.

Loves his bounce seat

JJ and Papa and the 5 grandbabies

Juke Joint Festival 2016

Alice loved the petting zoo

On the train with Maggie

We had a great time!

Saturday, April 30, 2016

Gear-up Needs List

This summer we are leading the Costa Rica mission trip with our ministry Royal Servants! First, we head to Wisconsin for training camp (tent camping for 4.5 weeks), and then to Costa Rica (for 4 weeks). Our students will be discipled and grow in their faith. Our team will be sharing the gospel through soccer matches, relationships, and street performances. We are very excited to see how God will move in Costa Rica!

Help us gear-up for the summer. If you would like to bless us with any of these, email Rainer or just send them our way. Thank you!!! rpowell@reignministries.org
Until May 25th:
Rainer and Lindsey Powell
324 Bobo Street
PO Box 251
Lyon, MS 38645

Thank you for being a part of our ministry! Click the red text for the link to the item

• Backpack for Alice: size- Pre-K... monogram & patch not needed
• Sleeping bag for Lindsey: regular length
• ~~Sleeping bag for Alice~~
• Packing cubes for the family: 4 Piece Sets- Black for Rainer, Lime for Lindsey, Blue for Mitch, Pink for Alice
• Ziplocs for packing: 1-Gallon and 2-Gallon
• Walmart gift cards: for food & supplies
• Financial support for our extra baggage fees: $180 (to/from Costa...babies require a lot of equipment :)

Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Flooding, birthday, youth group and spring break

A couple weeks ago we had a long and terrible storm that dumped 17" of rain on Clarksdale. Our town flooded. We are fortunate our home was fine, but around 300 homes and businesses were flooded. The waters have finally gone down and now a lot of recovery and cleaning has begun. Please pray for the victims as they are going through a trying time.

Alice turned two this month!! She had a "Wizard of Oz" party and loved all the friends and family that loved on her. We are beyond blessed with a fun, smart, sweet and kind little girl. She loves to dance, play outside, experience new things with her Mama and Dada, love on her brother Mitch, and talk!

Youth group and our other ministries are in full swing and we love hanging out with students. Rainer held a "Royal Servants' Day" to recruit for our mission trips. Last week we took a couple days and had a "Spring Break" mini trip to Memphis!