This blog was started in 2004 when Annie was badly burnt. Over the years we have seen how God has continually provided for us and answered our many prayers.
Monday, January 5, 2009
Back to school!
Hello everyone! I guess all good vacations must come to an end, huh? We had a wonderful vacation with our friends and with our family! Greg's mom and Clay left on Saturday and returned home safely. We enjoyed showing them a Mexican Christmas and a Purepecha New Year's Eve!
On the way home from the airport, Greg and I had a good 3 and a half hours to talk. He shared with me that he felt God urging us to meet with our group 2 days a week instead of just our one on Monday. The problem is that we want to do this in someone elses home.
We had some idea of where we thought we could do this before the holidays, however the holidays brought some temptation into some of the homes of our believers. There were a few who started drinking heavily during the holidays. Please pray they can start this new year off on a better note than they ended it.
So, that closed the door on some homes. I told Greg I thought a great place would be a Barbara's home. He said, you are right, but Icho (Barbara's husband) has never come to our meetings before. Icho gave his heart to the Lord about a year ago, but has never wanted to come to a "formal gathering." We decided to pray about this and see what God wanted. We returned home and Barbara comes over about 30 minutes later and asks us to dinner. She always does this after we have been traveling. I told her, no, but thank you, we were just too tired. She then said, "I wanted to tell you, God has been speaking to my heart about having our meetings in my home. I want the "brothers" to feel at home in my house for worship. " My thought was, hmmm.....note to self... God is answering prayer quickly in 2009! ;o) So I told her I would talk this over with Greg and we would get back with her about this. I know I am long winded today, but hang in there, I am almost done! We met with Barbara and Icho yesterday for about 3 hours, discussing everything that this would mean. Inconvenience, people would criticize them, it would disturb their restaurant hours, etc..... None of these mattered to them. Icho was on board and seemed excited about it. His comment was, " We don't want studying the Bible to end when you leave for the US." WOW!!! So, I will download a picture of what we think will be our new church building! We are very excited! Please pray God will continue to guide us in this process! We love you! Missy and family
On the way home from the airport, Greg and I had a good 3 and a half hours to talk. He shared with me that he felt God urging us to meet with our group 2 days a week instead of just our one on Monday. The problem is that we want to do this in someone elses home.
We had some idea of where we thought we could do this before the holidays, however the holidays brought some temptation into some of the homes of our believers. There were a few who started drinking heavily during the holidays. Please pray they can start this new year off on a better note than they ended it.
So, that closed the door on some homes. I told Greg I thought a great place would be a Barbara's home. He said, you are right, but Icho (Barbara's husband) has never come to our meetings before. Icho gave his heart to the Lord about a year ago, but has never wanted to come to a "formal gathering." We decided to pray about this and see what God wanted. We returned home and Barbara comes over about 30 minutes later and asks us to dinner. She always does this after we have been traveling. I told her, no, but thank you, we were just too tired. She then said, "I wanted to tell you, God has been speaking to my heart about having our meetings in my home. I want the "brothers" to feel at home in my house for worship. " My thought was, hmmm.....note to self... God is answering prayer quickly in 2009! ;o) So I told her I would talk this over with Greg and we would get back with her about this. I know I am long winded today, but hang in there, I am almost done! We met with Barbara and Icho yesterday for about 3 hours, discussing everything that this would mean. Inconvenience, people would criticize them, it would disturb their restaurant hours, etc..... None of these mattered to them. Icho was on board and seemed excited about it. His comment was, " We don't want studying the Bible to end when you leave for the US." WOW!!! So, I will download a picture of what we think will be our new church building! We are very excited! Please pray God will continue to guide us in this process! We love you! Missy and family
New church building!
I guess we will probably eat the meat hanging from the string before we actually meet formally in this room! ;o)
Eating the meat! Greg was hungry!
As we were looking at different things in this building, Greg kept hitting his head on something, he finally realized it was the stomach of the lamb we ate! You gotta love it!
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