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August 2009 Newsletter The AVP is coming to Muskegon this weekend!! Junior's: • FREE CLINICS!
Our first was two weeks ago and it went great! The next one is August 24.
Register online to reserve a spot! • Fall Club Teams! This will be our 7th year having a
High School Season Team. We are now expanding this year to have Middle School teams. Come to
the meeting August 24. • Come play for free at
Holland State Park! Tuesday and Thursday evenings, beginning between 6:00 and
6:30, there is ‘open play’ for all ages! Playing in the sand is the BEST
training you can get for indoor volleyball! Not only do you touch the ball
every other contact, you also learn how to move better and strengthen your
muscles and joints! GREAT work-out to strengthen ankles and knees! • Beach
Tournaments – Thanks to all who participated this year! What a
GREAT season!! • Private lessons are an option
for anybody! We are available for boys and girls, men and women and entire
teams! Contact Michelle to schedule a time. Adults: • Fall Adult League schedule is
out. Get your team ready and sign up
soon! Fall is going to be here before
you know it. • Beach
Tournaments – Thanks to all who participated this year! What a
GREAT season!! Extras: • Follow us on Facebook – Search Carpe Diem Volleyball • Follow us on Twitter - @Carpediemvb • Carpe Diem Volleyball
is a non-profit organization! As you look at our needs you will be able to
write them off as a tax deduction! • If you have any
prayer requests please feel free to share them with us! Be sure to let us know
if you'd like your request included in the newsletter or kept private. Thanks
to those who have trusted us and presented their requests – what a privilege to
carry those to God in prayer! • Pray for a Carpe Diem
family that has had many trials this year. They have had two deaths in the
family and a close friend also passed away. A business partner was hit by a car
and is finally home, but will need to learn to walk again over the next year.
Along with this, their daughter Rachel was diagnosed with cancer (Large B-Cell
Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma) and is undergoing treatment. They feel it is curable,
but the chemo is taking a toll on her 20 year old body, as it does with all
cancer patients. It is difficult for them to see Rachel going through such
things and not be able to ‘do’ anything about her pain and sickness. They are
doing well, have amazing attitudes and are quite a testimony to others going
through such diagnosis! She is responding to the treatment! Pray for complete
healing and comfort as they travel this path together. • Continue to pray for
Shirley, one of our moms, who suffers with an inner ear disorder. Pray for
healing without radical surgery, and pray that her other ear is not affected as
the doctors seem to believe. • Pray for Gary; three
years ago July 30 his beautiful wife went to be with her Lord and Savior, and
he just underwent surgery for cancer on his liver. Pray for a miracle healing
and comfort during this time of trials. • Thanks to you who
prayed for Nathanael after he broke his nose a few weeks ago! It is good – just
a hint crooked! • Pray for all the
players who just went through try-outs. It can be a VERY stressful time in the
lives of young people! • PRAISE that Bill’s cataract
surgery this past winter went well. Please continue to pray for him. • PRAISE for Bill and
his upcoming wedding to a wonderful woman, Judy! • PRAISE for answered prayer!
Dillon, a professor of evolution, has been going to church and a Bible Study! Please
continue to be in prayer for him, as he still claims to be an atheist. His
friends see God’s hand in so many parts of his life! Pray that the scales
are continued to be removed from his eyes and heart, and that the Lord
surrounds him with more and more Godly people who will love him as Christ
Himself loves us! • Praises for another
season of club volleyball. Although trying at times (and insanely busy!), we
wouldn’t want to be doing anything else! Thanks to all the parents who
entrusted their kids to us and took time out of their busy lives to chauffer
and support their children! Thanks to all the players who were SO incredible;
what a wonderful group of young people we got to ‘hang out’ with! Thanks to the
coaches who worked so tirelessly; we had an amazing staff and are excited for
next year already! And thanks to God for
allowing us to use our passion and love for volleyball and youth! We are truly
blessed! Facility Update: CARPE DIEM SPORTS AND
WELLNESS CENTER!! • Praise God for His
guidance and provision, and thanks to all of you who have made these past 2+
years so memorable and exciting! • Come see our new lighting! YES! No more yellow hue and lights
hanging down! White light, fluorescents and UP IN the ceiling! We cannot thank two
families enough for all the help and support they have given us these last
couple months! Tim and Mick have been amazing helping us with marketing and
publicity-type things! They and their families have sacrificed for us and we
are incredibly grateful that God placed them in our lives with such giving and
generous hearts! • We tore up all three
courts and put more ‘padding’ down! (It is what we wanted when we opened, but
at that time we couldn’t afford it! After saving up, we were able to make this
huge purchase! God is good!) Thanks so much to the people that came in and gave
their time (and sweat) to help us! • Thanks SO much to
Brice for donating all the carpet squares! The place looks GREAT and we get compliments
on it often! • If your business is
interested in advertising at our place, contact David. We have a great amount
of wall space for banners!! Cost for advertising is: 250.00/year and you supply
the banner. 350.00/ year and we will get a banner made for you. • Help us fill up
the facility: renting out courts for parties, running basketball teams,
bringing in inspirational speakers, exercise/Pilates classes, AAU tournaments,
and eventual tutoring programs/after school programs and Bible studies, along
with the ‘normal' stuff we do! If you have ANY other ideas for us, please let
us know! We need to keep this place filled for financial reasons, but we also
need to use it to minister to all people! If you are interested in renting out
the facility, please contact David . • THANK YOU to all
those who have donated their time, money and ‘stuff'!! We sure appreciate you
and would not be near where we are without your support! PLEASE continue to
pray for us, as we need every kind of support you can think of, especially
prayer and financial! This is a huge step of faith and we know God will provide
for all of our needs! Knowing that God uses people to fill the needs of others,
we are letting go of any earthly pride and asking for help in filling some of
our needs: projector, financial assistance, any connections with local
businesses and especially prayer! God’s Blessings to you, David and Michelle
Vander Meer “Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we
have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have
gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in
the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, but we also rejoice in our
sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance,
character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us, because God
has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given
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