I needed a laugh today!

STILL MY SOUL

This passage of scripture is on my memory board this week. Sunday marked 3 years since we had our last church service as Christ Fellowship on the last Sunday in April.God has done so much since then in getting us here to finish school... Melissa got married ...Caleb is settled at the Air force academy... and now we wait to hear about where God will send us next. We have not been filling out any other resumes until we hear from Sylvania church in Tyler, Texas. My heart has felt weak as we hope so much to go there but we have not heard anything for 2 weeks and silence is never a good sign. I would much prefer to keep communicating but they have a VERY big job to do as a pastor search committee. We have known for a few weeks that Robert is 1 of 4 left in the pool. There is nothing we can do other than wait. They have contacted our references and it is not our place to now make contact except to find out how we can pray. I have been praying for the search committee as a whole and elders but also for several of them by name. I feel in a weird way like I know these people already and so hope that we get to work with them and serve them and love them.We have such a strong desire to go there and speaking for myself will be so disappointed if we don't get to know them better this side of heaven.
At the same time I am reading and searching scripture and holding on to the Lord for his strength. I have and am praying for a courageous heart to take the answer from Sylvania as Gods working and know that He is Sovereign over all things and very trustworthy and loving. This song just spoke to me so much tonight. I am still praying that God would be directing us to Sylvania and that we will be able to give ourselves and our family to these people to serve them to the glory of God. I believe the committee will be meeting tomorrow night...Please pray that we will hear something soon. We are putting on hold searching anywhere else until we hear from them. We have never felt led to stop applying at other places while waiting to hear from a particular church until now.We just feel such an affinity and don't want to look elsewhere.Please pray for strength of heart and peace and that fear will not take over our souls. Thursday is April 29th the actual date of our last Christ fellowship church service...we will be thinking of our dear brothers and sisters that shared that day with us on the beaches of Florida.It is a bitter sweet day as it also marks the day our youngest son,Joshua was baptized in those warm waters of the Atlantic. Thank you all for your prayers!

I am so thankful for the music that God uses to bring us strength and encourage us. The Gettys have written songs that sustain me.

Family Picture

we were never good about getting family pictures when the kids were growing up so this one is especially treasured in that is is th only one of all of us all 5 kids together at the same time.We are so thankful to have it!

WAITING! I know ...thats all I ever say!

I needed to hear this song today! I am so ready to hear whether we are going to Texas.I do understand that the committee is doing its job and they really aren't taking all that long at all. It is just so hard to go from being willing to go somewhere to having a real passion to go to a particular church and not be able to just GO! i am finding myself wanting to meet these people and start a lifelong/eternity long relationship with them which I guess is a result of praying for them so much it makes you feel like you know these complete strangers so well...yet we must wait! I pray that these desires are from God indeed. I know that neither one of us have had a strong particular desire to go to a particular church until now. I am finding myself thinking about it all the time and praying earnestly that God would have us go to Sylvania church in Tyler Texas. Please pray that we hear good news soon and if it is not good news in our eyes then pray He would give us courageous hearts.

I pray that God gives me another opportunity to do this again!

I thought this was a great article!

http://news.sbts.edu/2010/04/16/seven-sure-fire-ways-to-blow-up-a-church/

Happy EASTER!!!!

Thank you Jesus for rising from the dead and shedding your blood and grace all over me so that someday I will rise to sing praises to you forever!!!!





Grace is SO AMAZING!!! I am overwhelmed tonight with the reminder and meditation on the resurrection this early Easter hour.



WORTHY IS YOUR NAME!!!

Good Friday

When I hear these songs it makes me see just how wretched my sin is and the cross reminds me that they have been paid for and I have been made a new creature and been given the Holy Spirit to give me strength to resist sin. So now when I sin I do so with disregard for the sacrifice and a denial of the power that resides within me.Thank you Lord for your mercy and grace given to me even now when I so don't deserve it and help me to see my sin and repent as I go through the rest of my life on this earth.

Shock and Concern

“Discernment is not a matter of simply telling the difference between right and wrong; rather, it is telling the difference between right and almost right-Charles Spurgeon


I am having a very hard time with this...please someone tell me this is an April fools day joke! I am stunned and do not see the necessity of this at all. I am feeling like I dont even know this man that is speaking in the video...he is unrecognizable to me...I would never have seen this coming...I am glad he is taking a sabbatical and we should all pray for him fervently.