Hi friends! I know it seems like I am hit or miss with these entries lately, but I feel like I am literally running everywhere I go! This past week was slam packed with getting people to one place and trying to stay warm and dry while doing it and this week is all about playing outside and enjoying this little bit of extra summer! CRAZY!!
Greg had his last tennis match last night. He has been playing on a local tennis league and his team was undefeated right up until the semi-finals last night. He came home saying it just wasn't the night for the Wood family since he tennis team had lost and I had entered my chili recipe in a cook-off and didn't even get mentioned! BOO-HOO! :o) We really don't care, it was probably MY chili that caused his team to lose!! :o} Oh well!
So, that is a little of what we have been doing. We are gearing up for lots of speaking engagements at different churches. This is our time to promote the LM Christmas Offering.This ONE offering is how the largest part of our financial support is obtained.
Over a hundred years ago this woman, (mentioned and pictured below) was writing back home to her organization and she was pleading with them to send more m's and more funds. She received the sad news that they could not afford to send more m's at that time and that due to building projects at churches they were not able to give more financially. This hit home to me because I just heard this the other day when I was at a football game. Someone said, "I think our church's Christmas offering will be down this year because we are building a new building onto our church." I had to think, 100 years later and it is still the same. The reason we take up a LM Christmas Offering is because after more than 30 years serving in China, she eventually gave all of her food to the poor and starved herself. She died on her way back to the United States to try and get healthy, with the only thing she had left, an empty trunk. Some women from her organization then decided they never wanted this to happen to m's again.
Please pray that our LM Christmas Offering this year will be sufficient to keep us all on the field and send all of those who are anxiously waiting to go and cannot, due to lack of funding.
Love you all!! Missy
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.
