I am missing Caleb!

Where will the path lead next?

I find myself praying for our next congregation a lot lately.As Robert finishes seminary this coming year life will bring a lot of changes again.Robert is planning on starting the process of finding a new church to pastor. This will mean resumes will begin to be sent in the next couple of months. I pray that the next church is now praying for the right man to come along to love them and care for them.I pray that they want a family that wants to invest the rest of our lives to serve them and encourage them.... worship God with them...sing songs unto our savior with them ....hold the widows hand and pray over their new born babies...cry with them and rejoice with them...for a faithful and loving pastor that studies Gods word seriously and cares deeply about properly instructing them. I pray that there will be friends for our children and mentors that will walk beside them and encourage them in the faith...I pray they will welcome my parents with open arms as they make another move and another church change. We have only served 2 churches in 20+ years so we look forward to where God will send us next so we can begin a long term relationship with a new congregation. I hope our friends will begin to pray with us about how to proceed. We would love it if God sent a church to contact us and could bypass sending out a bunch of resumes. I pray that it will be a clear path set before us. I am excited about Robert getting back in the pulpit.I so enjoy hearing him preach and learning at his feet for so many years. Life seems so stressful and exciting as our first born gets married in a couple of months and Robert finishes school and we find a new church all in one year... yikes! Life is an adventure! I know I can rest in the deep deep love of Jesus as we take this next step


Becky

More funny Tim Hawkins videos...Read posting below first

Laughter is good medicine

Wow! What an experience Calvin will have after all this is over. He broke his leg jumping off the porch... chasing little woodland creatures...some exciting war story huh? After visiting 2 E.R.'s the consensus was that he needed surgery Tuesday morning to screw the bones back together.He broke the tibia and the fibula but the most damage was done to his growth plate at the end of the tibia.It was broke in 3 different direction. That is why they said it needed surgery. When they came in to tell us exactly what to expect and take him to th O.R. the surgeon said after reviewing the cat scan again she wanted to give it a week and re scan it because she said the bones in the growth plate were broken but not displaced so if we can keep it very very still it may start to heal properly as long as the bones dont move.We go Monday a 7:30 am to get the cat scan and then we see the Dr. right after to see if surgery will be necessary.We are so thankful for your prayers and are grateful that we are at home and have averted surgery so far. We are concerned about the injury may cause future damage since this type of fracture often causes the leg to stop growing since the damage has been done to the growth plate. We are praying and trusting God that he has this all in His plan and control and would appreciate your prayers as well. We are glad to be home! He has to keep his leg up above his heart at all times and no getting up except to go to the bathroom and then back to the couch. We are already getting bored but found great relief today when we found a very funny Christian comedian and watched several of his videos on you tube. I have included some here because laughter really is good medicine.We enjoyed it so much we called Robert to have him go by lifeway and see if he could find the dvd...HE DID...so we will be enjoying it after he gets home from church tonight!!!

If these don't download well for you then go to timhawkins.net and click on videos and it will show a bunch in really great quality!













the above video is made by this comedian Tim Hawkins, a fellow homeschooler, so all you other homeschool families will appreciate this.

Humbled

I have the most wonderful husband and kids! They worked hard to make my birthday special today! As we were praying with the kids tonight Robert was praying especially hard for all out brothers and sisters in Christ around the world that are suffering persecution for their faith. As he was praying I couldn't help but think of all the moms that share my birthday but how different it must look like for them. As I enjoyed good food and presents and fun family times They on the other hand may have been seperated for many years from kids and spouses and parents. How really blessed we are in this country right now. I wonder some times how long our ease will last or if those that I have learned to love at Clifton Baptist Church who are in the process of going over seas will experience persecution for the sake and name of Jesus. Our church is 70% seminary students many of whom are planning to go to far away dangerous places to take the gospel. I teach their precious children each Wednesday and wonder what their little lives will look like and pray that God will keep then safe. I wonder if it will be us that moves on from here to a place of persecution or perhaps my children or grandchildren but I know that God is Sovereign and The Gospel is worth the risk.
Romans 10
14How then will they call on Him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in Him whom they have not heard? And how will they hear without a preacher?

15How will they preach unless they are sent? Just as it is written, "HOW BEAUTIFUL ARE THE FEET OF THOSE WHO BRING GOOD NEWS OF GOOD THINGS!"

The following is our extended Christian family

proposal

These are pictures of Melissa and Lee when Lee surprised her a couple of weeks ago and proposed.She was there with a friend that was going to take some pictures and it had all been planned with the friend that Lee would show up so that is why there is someone there taking pictures of the event. So sweet. He put flowers and a card in the garden and when she read the card it said to turn around and when she did he was there.