This is has been a blessed weekend! For those of you who don't know the choir of G.A.N.G Student Ministries from Auburn University, Holy Nation, went to Rome, GA for a youth conference at Katie Reid's home church! The entire trip was simply a blessing! We were greeted with kind hospitality from her parents. The entire choir stayed at the Reid Mansion (LOL sorry Katie). We had fun just clowing around and having a good time enjoying each other. Then the church service came! We sang (thanks for the preparation on Never Would Have Made It! LOL) and the Spirit was really high in the sanctuary. Then Shaemun Webster aka Pastor Mun preached a sermon that was no doubt sent by God! There was no doubt that this weekend had been ordained by God!

I also want to thank the Holy Nation family as well as the core members in G.A.N.G. You guy are the reason that i am still at Auburn. Bc of the type of person i am i didnt really party and i felt so left out! I didnt know where i belonged! God told me that i belonged in G.A.N.G and so i went! G.A.N.G has been the biggest blessing to my life! As you all know i am now a minister and Shaemun embraced me and has been a wonderful mentor and friend to me! I feel so blessed to be a part of a family like that! When i preached my first sermon you guys packed up and came to Dothan and turned my little small country church upside down! I want you guys to know that you renewed a Spirit in my church that i had never seen. G.A.N.G taught me how to really serve God! I mean really serve God! As Shaemun always says there is nothing wrong with giving God a silly praise every once in a while! As much as God has done for us we have to praise Him! HAVE TO PRAISE HIM! I think that the older generation has become content sitting on their butts and this generation is bringing back the art of serving, praising, and worshipping a true and living God! My point, I truly never would have made it w/o G.A.N.G

Lastly I want to say that i having been preaching and teaching alot this summer! I want to thank God in this note for igniting my ministry the way that he has! I ask that you all pray for me! Being a young minister is the greatest gift God could have given me but Satan takes every oppurtunity to try make it feel like a burden (keeping it real). But i know that God has my back! So pray for me and i'll definitely do the same for you! If you need a prayer request send me a message! If you need to talk then just send me a message and i'll get you my number! I will do anything in my power to help anyone who needs it!

Be Blessed,

Rev. Matthew Paul Cowley (Run C)