Pictured here are the eight members of First Baptist Church of Pine Island, Florida, who came to South Fork Community Church on a Mission trip. They spent the whole week with us. They helped us do some light construction and landscaping on our new building as well as nightly Family RoundUp worship services in various locations. Also pictured is a puppet show preformed by the mission team as part of the Family RoundUp in Western Hill on the beautiful C-Bar-L Ranch.

Here are some members of the mission team installing skirting to the bottom of the new building.

We had our VBS July 12-16. This year's theme was Saddle Ridge Ranch. We had a total of twelve children, most of which were first and second graders. Pictured here or some of the children jumping in the bounce house we borrowed from the Northeast Baptist Association.

This month, another man and I drove up to McDermitt, NV, to ask the Nevada Baptist Mission Foundation for an extension of our current loan that we used to purchase the lot. They agreed to extend the loan amount. With the money we are purchasing a Nashua manufactured home to use as a parsonage and a Church. This home has a 15 x 30 family that will be used as a sanctuary for the church. Also, an office and a bathroom will be for the church as well. It should be ready to move into by August. This is an answer to prayer.

Spring weather has put me in the mood to plant a garden. I began hoeing a piece of Nevada dirt that has never been cultivated before. The soil was very hard and compacted, not to mention extremely dry and dusty. With each swing of the hoe I dung up more and more rocks. I tossed the rocks aside knowing that my vegetables could never grow good roots in rocky soil. As I was hoeing I tripped over a rock and fell on what looked like some nice grass. Unfortunately, like most deserts plants, it was thorny.

Now that we have a place to put the people we reach, we have really filled summer with evangelistic events. July 12-16 we will be doing Backyard Bible Club (VBS) on our lot.
July 26-30 the First Baptist Church of Pine Island is bringing a team of eight to ten to help us with our many projects. Their puppet team will keep busy with shows in South Fork (both Lucky Nugget and Western Hills) and Spring Creek. They will be helping us with a Family RoundUp (revival). They also hope to do some servant evangelism projects helping elderly people with minor projects.

On April 24 our church hosted the Elko County “Take Pride In Your Community Day.” This is an annual event held in Elko, Spring Creek, and a few smaller communities in Elko County. This was the first time the event was held in South Fork. Our Church picked up trash along Lucky Nugget road. Eleven people came out to help. Ten of them were from our church.

On May 7 I will be going to McDermitt, NV to meet with the Nevada Baptist Mission Foundation (BMF) to ask for an extension of our current loan so we can purchase a large double-wide trailer to use as a house church. It will have a 15 x 30 family room that we will use for a sanctuary. It will double as a parsonage for Pastor Les and his family.