Lustre News
It was beautiful to see the large bales in the golden fields on the way to sports events this week. Football, state cross country meet, basketball and volleyball were all on the schedule this weekend. The time falls back an hour next Sunday, Nov 1.
A group of folks welcomed Brian and Susanna Dick and their small family home from Spain on Monday evening, Oct. 19, with a potluck supper at Ross Trimble’s home. Brian and Susanna spoke at the Tuesday LCHS Chapel and EMB Wednesday prayer meeting. They were also harvest festival speakers at Community Bible in Wolf Point Oct. 18.
LCHS chapel began with enthusiastic singing by the students and a brief introduction. Brian has roots in Lustre since his grandfather Marvin Dick grew up near Jon Kliewer’s home. Susanna is a “missionary kid” from France. English and French are her languages. Brian is a “missionary kid” from Mali, Africa, as well as Spain. He identifi ed with the dorm students and those who were in grades 11-12, because “those were the years I spent as a dorm student in Germany.” Spain is the top exporter of olive oil. Its flag is red and yellow. It is bordered by Portugal and France, and soccer is its favorite sport. It does not get cold like Montana, but it has brick homes.
Brian said, “17 years ago, my parents were transferred to Spain and I hated it. I didn’t like Spanish. But, 14 years ago, for only one week, I got to go to Manantiales de Vida Bible Camp in southern Spain. It was there I realized Jesus loved Spanish people. It was there I felt called to do maintenance work at this Bible camp.”
After college in Omaha, Neb., where he met Susanna, they applied to the mission that ran this Bible camp, so he could get to Spain in time to have time to learn from the man retiring from doing the maintenance. He asked students if they knew how to fix things, partly because they needed to on their farms. He said, “I did not know how to fix anything, and had to learn. Brian explained John 4:114 and said, “Manantiales de Vida means Springs of Living Water. The camp is named that because there is a natural spring on the property that supplies the fresh water for the campers to drink. They run around playing and come often for fresh cold water.”
He said one of the neat things that happens is when people who come to camp (all ages), discover for the first time that 1) God is Real and 2) God is powerful. He asked the students to consider that whatever gift they’ve been given that God can use that gift on a mission field to reach people who need His mercy and peace. He gave an idea of what their first three years were like in Spain.
Year 1: Learn the culture and language. It is humbling to find you don’t know how to fill your tank with gas, cannot know how to find something in a hardware store without knowing what it’s called. Year 2: Begin as the maintenance man and learn how to fix something, and how to ask for parts in their language. Year 3: Attend meetings with inspectors and government agencies to arrange for permits to fix things. He said, “It is completely neat to see how God has brought people to know Him at camp. The camp began in 1980. We are reaping what others started, and it is my goal to leave the place better than we began. God can totally use whatever gift you have. It’s not about you. It’s about Him.”
The chapel was well attended, and the students had many questions.
The LCHS varsity volleyball team played its last home game before they go to the district volleyball tournament Oct. 2930 in Scobey. After the band played the national anthem, two seniors were honored. Player Lauren Holzrichter and videographer T.J. Cumpio were honored. The team has been “digging for hope” at their home games, with proceeds going to the non-profit Valley County H.O.P.E Project, Inc. Their mission is “to support neighbors in crisis by helping pay expenses as a result of medical hardship.” So far, “the Lions have posted 269 digs in October and 509 digs in the season so far.” H.O.P.E. stands for “helping others pay expenses” and is open to any valley county resident in need of help to pay for medical expenses including transportation. The students and audience wore pink in honor of those folks fighting breast cancer. Jean Toews, Carla Wall and Vivian Wall were recognized with a gift from the team, because they have survived breast cancer.
Prestyn Klatt was honored at his football game Saturday night with the other Wolf Point seniors. He is the only senior from Lustre playing with the team.
Lustre grade school jamboree and junior high basketball teams played Friday night against Frontier at Wolf Point. The junior high girls played very good defense, but lost their game. The jamboree girls were tied at 16, and were behind 20-23 at third quarter. They lost 26-28 in a real good game. The junior high boys’ fought to keep a lead with Frontier 35, Lustre 43 score at the third quarter. Fourth quarter was a nail biter as Lustre held onto a 57-56 lead for the last nine seconds to win when Drew Reddig made the much needed rebound near the buzzer.
