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From the Youth Room
Olivia Bryant has won the summer community service award for clocking in the most hours! She was so helpful at COAT! Olivia was always working, sorting clothes, hanging clothes, and filling food orders. Olivia wasn’t able to participate in one of our days of community service. Instead of forgetting about the chance to help others, Olivia came to COAT and worked one day all by herself! She really touched my heart this summer by her thoughtfulness.

Olivia is in the 7th grade this year at ATMS. She made the ATMS cheerleading squad and will be cheering at their first football game on Sept 10. She does very well in school and is taking an advanced math class - pre Algebra this year. Last year she was on the Braxton Craven student council and on the A honor roll. This will be her 2nd year playing the clarinet in the school band.

Olivia has been taking gymnastics since she was 3. She LOVES her gymnastics. She has been a competitive gymnast and on a competition cheerleading team. Now she is concentrating on the ATMS squad, but she still works on her gymnastics 2-3 days a week.

Olivia was very helpful this summer. In addition to COAT, gymnastics and cheerleading practice, she helped out around the house a lot this summer with chores and always kept her room very neat.

Olivia is a very bright and busy girl. However, she always makes time for our youth group activities! She is fun to be around, and she is always sweet. I’m so happy to have gotten to know Olivia better this summer, and I know our friendship will continue.
Inspirational Quote
Imagine darkness so thick that you can't see your own hand in front of your face.  Darkness that covers all light, all efforts to guide and direct.  Total darkness is consuming and terrifying.  In such complete blackness, one thin sliver of light is the equivalent of hope.  It provides a direction to look towards and the hope of an escape from the darkness.  It is quite simply, a comfort. 
When the circumstances of life weigh heavily on you, drowning out all joy and hope, what do you do?  Some people turn their faces to the wall and hide, some run around blindly, and others become completely immobile. 
Are you able to look around for the thin sliver of light that offers hope and comfort in the darkness?  It is always there - in the tenderness and promise of God's Word, in the words of a song, in the smile of a friend.  God always gives that hope.  Look for it.  Find comfort in it.

taken from Daily Inpirations of Comfort by Carolyn Larsen
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