Alexis and Annie

These two pictures I just had to share! The first is of Barbara's son Alexis, he is the dirtiest little boy I have ever seen! He looks like this ALL the time. The funny part is that he likes it! Please pray for him. He is somewhat in the way most nights at my house. Now that the meetings will be at his house I fear he could become a huge distraction. He loves to play in the middle of our group. Please pray that he will not be a distraction and that His word would be heard clearly over all the distractions that we are faced with! (there are a lot!)

Annie has found that playing in the dirt is one of her favorite things! It is so funny because although she is all girl, she likes to play with the boys. She can even manage (and I don't know how) to keep her white sweater, white! Please continue to pray for her. I don't ask that much anymore but, she still scratches herself raw some nights. Her booboo is just that, a booboo. However, when she starts to itch, it can get really bad! Please also pray for her sweet hand. I know warts sound kinda simple, but they aren't really simple when they cover most of 3 fingers. The banana trick the Dr. suggested isn't working very well. Please pray they will fall off soon! Thank you!

Meeting went well!

Our meeting went very well! The first picture is of Greg showing them the room we will meet in. The second one is Barbara and I fixing steak tacos that were delicious! We all ate and then we told them why we had called this "meeting." We explained how God had revealed to Barbara and us that He wanted to use her building to meet another day. We all agreed on Friday nights at 6 pm. They were all excited about the idea of getting together twice a week! Greg shared with them some words from the Bible and asked them to pray for some of Barbara's neighbors. They will be invited and they will either come or criticize her family for having this group meet in her house. Thanks for praying for us! Missy

Pray!

Please pray for us tomorrow night. ( Thursday) We are having a meeting with all of the leaders in our group. We will be meeting at the "new site" to talk over the future plans for our group. We will be deciding which day would be best for our second meeting each week. We will also talk about the needed improvements on the building in which we want to meet. Barbara is so excited about what God is doing she just wants to celebrate each decision that is being made about our group. So... she will be making us all a celebration dinner! (Tacos! Hooray!) Please pray for Barbara and Icho as they are opening themselves up to a lot of criticism from family members and friends. This is a very bold thing they are doing and we just hope and pray that God will bless them for this act of obedience! Please pray for Greg and I as well, as this is all new to us and we want to do this in the manner in which God wants it done! Give yourselves each a hug from us, we love you!

Our new church building!

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

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!