Imagine Christmas outreach

Merry Christmas to all.

Christmas is "the most wonderful time of the Year." This was the theme for the "Imagine Christmas" outreach hosted by Hosanna Assemblies of God in Morrero, LA.

Louisiana Rangers provided the outdoor games enjoyed by hundreds of kids in the greater New Orleans area who came to the event. It was a great experience with a great church and pastor and wife - George & Sonya McLean.

Ammie and I never get too old to enjoy a trip to the North Pole and stop in to visit Mr. and Mrs. Santa Clause.

We were reminded of the Royal Rangers outreach at the Baton Rouge State Fair we spear headed many years ago before I became district commander. We love watching families have a great time while we present the love of Jesus through our lives and written word.

I was given the opportunity to minister this morning at Hosanna where I preached on "The Manifestations of Inexpressible Joy." The message of the angels was "Joy to the World" because the Lord has come. It is Joy unspeakable and full of glory. Living for Christ is indeed the happiest way to live. The joy runs so deep it can not be completely explained.

Enjoy the pics

David L. Craun
Louisiana District Royal Rangers Commander

Executive Staff Meeting

Our Louisiana Rangers Executive staff met this weekend. Friday night the committee on development of a Louisiana Ranger of the Year program met to bridge the lack of anything offered from the national office. We will be working on guidelines that will be announced right after the first of next year and will be listed on the 2009 LARR CD which will be in the charter packets and given out to ministers who pastor our Ranger based churches. Loren Klein stayed over for the staff meeting to be our recorder of the meeting minutes.

We are blessed to have such an outstanding staff for Louisiana. Some wonderful creative ideas were placed on the table and will be implemented as the year develops. We will be sharing them with commanders in January at the Regional meetings we will be scheduling and later at the end of February at the Leaders Conference.

I am adding a photo of the group where we met at my home.

Merry Christmas

David L. Craun

David Jenkins' visit

Hi, I am at my office with missionary associate David Jenkins assigned to Royal Rangers International. David is going to be our FCF Trace speaker for Saturday night. He is traveling in the south right now raising support for his call to work in the international side of Rangers.

You learn more about David's ministry by going to http://www.senddavid.org/ I am attaching a photo of us at my office.

I trust you had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday.

David L. Craun

Camp site development

We have been looking at the prospects of developing camping sites between the two lakes at Twin Lakes Campgrounds here in Woodworth. The area has been undeveloped for more than 30 years so it is grown up with brush around the lake.

Last week I started the process of clearing out the beaver dams that had the lake level raised too high to get equipment close enough to clean off the edge of the lake. I had our neighbor take a picture of me working on the backhoe. We had rented this equipment to clear out the gravel and silt that had been washed into the outfall of the lower lake causing the water level to rise too high flooding out the dock. While we had the equipment, we cleared off the edge of the lake front there as well.

Enjoy the pics.

David L. Craun

Chris Verrett's GMA Ceremony

As promised I am back to blogging so I can share right away the photos of Chris Verrett's GMA ceremony. Wow! Rocky Branch did it up right - the whole back platform filled with RR related props, opening flag ceremony, GMA candidate sword escort, and to top it off after Chris received his GMA medal the church presented him with a full set of outstanding golf clubs.

Enough of chatter: enjoy the pics

Good News

Friends,

While I was in the middle of the Ranger of the Year testing, I received a call from Alton Foster our district training coordinator. Alton gave a good report on his heart surgery - they placed a stint in one artery. He sounded strong on the phone and thanked all those who were praying for him. Keep Alton and Nelson Jones in your prayers. Nelson had a 45% blockage in one of his arteries, but it will be treated with medicine.

Well, I am putting last minute preps on my sermon for tonight's GMA at Rocky Branch where we will be honoring Chris Verett. I will place some photos on the blog soon after I get back.

I'm back! We just finished the Louisiana District Ranger of the Year testing. Andrew Klein will represent Louisiana for Adventure Rangers and Joseph Reynold will join him at Regional competition as our Expedition Rangers candidate. Enjoy the photo of me with these two great Rangers.

Getting in the Groove

Well, it looks like blogging is the thing now; so I guess I will be posting updates to this blog each week or so.



I want to make an easy way for our Ranger leaders to be able to keep track of updates and recent activities on the Louisiana district Ranger scene.

In the process of getting ready for Ranger of the Year, I found out today that Bro. Alton Foster, our district training coordinator, just had a mild heart attack while taking a pre-op test for a scheduled shoulder surgery. Let's keep Alton in our prayers. He was planning on being our coordinator for the Ranger of the Year this weekend so we will have to re-group.

I will update this blog site with some ROY photos early next week.