TOGETHER WITH YOU, we're bringing people together in Rockwood to ensure that no one is invisible and that everyone has access to food, freedom, and forgiveness. TOGETHER WITH YOU, we envision Rockwood becoming a community of holistic prosperity where children are less vulnerable to being trafficked, adults do not want to traffic kids, and people are becoming followers of Jesus.
In July we asked you to pray because we have been without a team leader for over 2 years, and an interested couple was planning to come visit Portland in view of fulfilling this position. Sharon and Shou Mo came, saw, asked questions, learned, met key people and believe God is leading them this way. They are an experienced and gifted couple, still raising support in order to join us and lead the ministry forward. Thank you for continuing to pray for them. Hopefully, God will get them here sooner rather than later. We really NEED them!
If you want to make a worthy financial investment in their ministry, you can follow the directions below--just substitute their names for the designation instead of our names.
Annual Block Party
As a way of connecting with our neighbors and investing in relationships, we hosted our annual block party on August 28th. With a brand new mask mandate for outdoor gatherings announced the day before, we weren't sure how many to expect. 38 showed up and we had a great time meeting new neighbors, while continuing to bless old ones. We experienced good conversation, Human Bingo, various games, great food, music, and 3 gift card drawings. We have two widows in their late 90's (one will be 99 in October) who came, with a few young kids who also attended. Our hope and prayer is that God will use these events to help us build bridges for sharing Jesus with our literal neighbors.
One of the gift-card winners...said it was the FIRST and only thing she ever won!
Human Bingo
Getting to know new neighbors
Ladderball
Precious widow neighbors--97 and 99 years old
KYLE AND OLGA'S VISIT
We have been blessed to have our son Kyle and his wife Olga visit with us for 4 weeks! They are celebrating one year of marriage and are on a summer break from their PhD studies in Scotland. Among other things that we have experienced, Vicki planned, organized, and implemented a wedding reception for west coast relatives to celebrate the wedding they could not attend in Greece. As of this writing, they still have another week with us and we have THROUGHLY enjoyed our time with them and thank God for this wonderful gift!
With brother Will
Prayer of Blessing
As of this writing, it is UNCLEAR if we will be able to make our SECOND attempt at taking a short-term team from our church to serve at the Helping Hands ministry in Athens, GREECE. It is in God's hands and we will trust His timing. Thanks to those who have invested. If, due to various COVID-related issues, we are not able to leave on Sept. 22nd we will seek the Lord about a new time. Thank you for your continued prayers.
Scott has three YouTube Channels now (big deal)! If you visit them and click "subscribe" (you don't even have to watch them), it will help get them out to people who need the info on them. I am trying to add one video per week to each channel.
1, YouTube Channel #1, Parenting Matters With McCracken (applicable to parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, teachers, etc.): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaPAv4EZvuCAWuWC3h3BkJg
2. YouTube Channel #2, Marriage Matters With McCracken (applicable to people who already are married or who want to get ready for marriage some day):
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-bN1Y1fBq3JL9HdBXcwswg/videos
3. YouTube Channel #3, Story Time With Salty ("Salty" is my nickname at our church, and our Family Minister asked me to make this channel; it is made up of stories, parables, and illustrations that have a spiritual meaning)
If you do not receive our updates once every month or two, it may be that your contact info somehow dropped off our list (it has happened to some people lately). Please let us know if you do not hear from us on a regular basis. You can also find most of our updates posted at: https://www.imccracken7.net/
Because of YOU, we are able to educate others about sex trafficking, help foster a collaborative spirit amongst churches in an at-risk community, disciple others who will disciple others, and take the Gospel to the nations! Thank you for allowing God to use your prayers and financial investments to help this happen!
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Scott and Vicki McCracken
2225 SE 157th Ave.
Portland, Oregon 97233
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