The Friesen Family: Proxy Launchs

When Dan, Halle and I moved to Cedar Falls and joined the Glad Tidings Church family, there was actually no student ministry within the church. Glad Tidings church went through a rough stage with the last pastorate and lost 100 to 150 people and that was all with in two to four years. Pastor Joe and Tonya Henson accepted the position as Glad Tidings' lead pastor about one year ago and started revamping everything within the church. They are great servants of Jesus and really love His Bride. They love the city and the church and have grasped Jesus' vision for the future of Glad Tidings. Jesus has grown Glad Tidings now by 100 in the past 8-10 months. Even greater thing is that many are new believers and have made the decision to follow Jesus and serve in His church. We are so excited to see the amazing things Jesus is doing inside His church. We are looking forward to all that is ahead. Dan and I moved to Cedar Falls as Dan accepted the worship/student pastor this past April. With no student ministries in place at that time, Dan decided to put all his energy into helping on the administration, small groups, leadership groups, web site and worship for the past 5 months and start up the student and college ministry this fall when school began. This past week Proxy Student Ministries of Glad Tidings Church met for the first time and it ROCKED! THERE WERE 60 PEOPLE there! PRAISE JESUS! The night went great. Granted there were alot of mess ups and alot of holes but still rocking.

Dan preached JESUS and what Proxy stood for and was about.

Deb Corkery did an amazing job leading worship for us. She is extremely gifted and talented.

Many of the students came out to hear the guest band, "Short Notice."

Beautiful Katy!

We spent all week on signs to go up all over the room and only one of them dried in time. The Valley Cafe. Dan and I were BLOWN away at the help we had and the generosity shown this week from many people in the church. We couldn't have done much of this stuff without those key people's help. Thank you guys!!!!

The guest band was "Short Notice" This was there very first time playing live and they were AWESOME! I'm serious, they were really great! That girl can sing!!