BTLN UPDATE - SERGEANT INDUCTION NIGHT

Congrats to Joshua Martens, the 32nd Sergeant of Btln 3739! Josh officially became Sergeant this Wednesday night at Btln! Ben Jepsen (2006), Jason Hayashi (2007), Luke Martens (2018) and Isaac Holitzki (2019) were there to present Josh his Jersey! Josh is the 20th Sergeant to receive his jersey.

Congrats also to Anthony on his third Helmet of the Btln Season! Josh was there at the end with Anthony, battling it out for Bulldog supremacy! This week it was Anthony's turn to take the Helmet! 

Last year on Sergeant Night we played Mike. Without planning it, and by random chance this year we played Mike again on Sergeant Night. There were quite a few guys that had never played Mike, making it more exciting this time around! The scores were close for the first half of the game, but at the end it was Ben's team pulling away and winning big! Ben's team were + 22 on the last round!

Mike Final Scores

Ben's Team - 70

George's Team - 56

Jason's Team - 53

Coady's Team - 44

This week we looked at Moses in our Bible study.

God saved Moses from dying when he was a baby (Exodus 1) because he had a special plan for Moses' life. 

Exodus 3:7-11   The Lord said, “I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them. So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.”

But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”

God wanted Moses to lead the Israelite people out of Egypt and to free them from slavery. Moses' didn't think that he was capable of doing what God had asked him.

Exodus 4:1-17   Moses answered, “What if they do not believe me or listen to me and say, ‘The Lord did not appear to you’?”

Then the Lord said to him, “What is that in your hand?”

“A staff,” he replied.

The Lord said, “Throw it on the ground.”

Moses threw it on the ground and it became a snake, and he ran from it. Then the Lord said to him, “Reach out your hand and take it by the tail.” So Moses reached out and took hold of the snake and it turned back into a staff in his hand. “This,” said the Lord, “is so that they may believe that the Lord, the God of their fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has appeared to you.”

Then the Lord said, “Put your hand inside your cloak.” So Moses put his hand into his cloak, and when he took it out, the skin was leprous—it had become as white as snow.

“Now put it back into your cloak,” he said. So Moses put his hand back into his cloak, and when he took it out, it was restored, like the rest of his flesh.

Then the Lord said, “If they do not believe you or pay attention to the first sign, they may believe the second. But if they do not believe these two signs or listen to you, take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry ground. The water you take from the river will become blood on the ground.”

Moses said to the Lord, “Pardon your servant, Lord. I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue.”

The Lord said to him, “Who gave human beings their mouths? Who makes them deaf or mute? Who gives them sight or makes them blind? Is it not I, the Lord? Now go; I will help you speak and will teach you what to say.”

But Moses said, “Pardon your servant, Lord. Please send someone else.”

Then the Lord’s anger burned against Moses and he said, “What about your brother, Aaron the Levite? I know he can speak well. He is already on his way to meet you, and he will be glad to see you. You shall speak to him and put words in his mouth; I will help both of you speak and will teach you what to do. He will speak to the people for you, and it will be as if he were your mouth and as if you were God to him. But take this staff in your hand so you can perform the signs with it.”

Moses was filled with doubt in himself. Moses was also doubting God. God offered to help Moses speak, gave him signs to show the people and even sent Aaron (Moses' brother) to help. In the end, Moses did go to Egypt and helped free his people from slavery. Moses needed to realize that God was going to be with him along the way to help him! God also helps us in our daily lives. God has things that he wants us to accomplish and he will help us as well! We just need to trust God and believe that he will help us do great things for him!