My chillens are growing too fast! Emery's in her 2nd year of preschool. She goes Monday-Thursday 12:30-3:30. She absolutely loves it. Her teacher is really great too, so that makes it even better! I really can't believe she's starting kindergarten next year. Time really does fly.
Eladie is eligible to go to preschool next year and she's started talking about going to school, so I (reluctantly) filled out the paperwork for her to go. She's excited. I'm not sure how I feel!
Ryan is doing great. He's continually planning and working and God had definitely blessed all his hard work. A lot of people don't realize that he plans events months in advance. As soon as one is over, say, camp, the next week we're talking about next year. I love the way he lets God lead what he does. I love the way he strives to get others involved so that event are community-wide. No matter what church you attend we're still striving for the same goal so let's strive together! Ryan really is the bomb and I have been overly blessed to be able to call him husband and the father of our girlies!
I've been doing some extra things this year. I joined a team around Halloween time to plan a Fall Festival to remember at our church this year. The theme was "Where's Waldo" and everyone dressed in red and white and stripes. It was the team's goal to be intentional with sharing the gospel with the people who came in the doors on Halloween night. So besides having carnival games, a bounce house and food, we played a real life game of Where's Waldo. I don't know if you know this but there are 5 Waldo characters: Waldo, Wenda, Wizard Whitebeard, Woof, and Odlaw. For our purposes, each character (wearing their costume, of course) had a bag of beads. When people came in the doors after they registered they were given a paper with our characters picture on it. And the game begins. Each character gave a bead to make up the salvation bracelet and their signature. When they got all the beads to complete their bracelet and all the signatures they could hit up the prize table.
All the characters
Prize table
He accepted Christ as his Savior that night. Even if it was just for him, all the work was worth it!
I had a great time working with the team and enjoyed getting to know them better! This was a super fun event!
The Story of the Colors:
- Gold/Yellow
- God has prepared heaven for us. Rev. 21:21b
- Black
- Sin separates us from God and keeps us out of heaven.
Rom. 3:23, 6:23 - Red
- Jesus shed his blood on the cross to pay for our sin.
Ro. 5:8, I Pete. 3:18a - White
- If we accept Jesus and turn from our sins, our hearts are made clean. John 1:12, Romans 10:9
- Green
- After believing and receiving what Jesus did we need to grow in our relationship with Him by reading the Bible, praying,and attending a church where the Bible is taught.
Matt. 18:20 John 1:7
Right after the Fall Festival, a team and I began working on a home mission event for November. Every Sunday of November members of the church went out in town to hand out cookies and an invitation for The Village of Lights parade in town and a preview for our Music Ministry's Christmas performance (which was AWESOME). With the help of A LOT of people, we were able to visit every house in Mt Vernon plus some. We delivered 1663 bags of cookies.
In both of these events, God really showed up and showed off! The blessings of letting Him take the lead and take control is immense! Neither of these events could have happened as well as they did with us working on our own. God really gets all the credit. Follow His call! Do as He leads! This has been my anthem, as it will ever be!
Here's to a God-filled 2014!
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