I just wanted to let you all know that Sunday we will have our first service in our new auditorium!!! YAY!! We are all so EXCITED!:) Last night Pastor said that we were going to have church in the new Auditorium whether we had
our occupancy permit or not because they said the inspector couldn't come for 2 months. Then this morning the inspector called and said he would be stopping by today. He came and walked in and walked out and said the inspection passed!!! AMEN! We are so excited and now we can really use the building. There is still alot to do in the old part of the church such as put in the commercial kitchen which was given to us for free. Build Pastor's new office and build more Sunday School classrooms. We will be having our dedication Saturday the 22nd of May!! I will have to post pictures of the new building later!! We are just a little church and God has really been working here. After our service last night we moved the piano in and there was just a buzz of joy through the building and it is really all starting to pull together. It has been amazing how God has just been supplying the funds for this project. Our church was given about $600,000.00 and only ended up with $145,000.00 after lawyer fees and all so that is what we built our church with even though we exceeded the amount given to us by a mere $100,000.00. We have built the church debt free even though we tried to get a loan for the pews but God didn't allow it and some one gave the money. What a blessing. It has been great for our kids to see and we are so excited that we were able to be a part of this project. It only took us a year to do this and we mostly only worked on Saturday after soul winning. I'm not even sure it has been a year yet. We have all got in on helping with some project on the new building even the little guys pulled nails and had their own tool belts. Our new auditorium isn't just a part of the church that we go in and look at and say pretty anymore but it is now a place to worship and glorify God and that is what we plan to do. Rejoicing over seeing souls saved. And now whenwe sing it won't sound like we are singing in a tunnel. I can't wait! We get to sing on Sunday! YAY! God is good! What a blessing!!!:)
My Men
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Monday, April 19, 2010
BIBLE QUIZ FINALS 2010
Hello Everyone,
I wanted to give you an update on how our final quiz went. The quiz played out just like we had planned. We went against a team from Mt. Pleasant, Mi. who tend to cheat. We actually have seen them give answers to there kids and Saturday was no different. There Pastor of all people gave signals to one of the girls and told her what verse the question was from. But of course no one spoke up. Now to get to the quiz. We ended up in the final quiz as we were sure this was how it would play out and that it would come down to our team and Mt. Pleasant. Our team has alot more consistent players than theirs but they are sly and like to cheat SERIOUSLY! Anyway, one of our boys answered a question and the quiz master said correct and Levi sat back down. Well, Mt. Pleasant stood up and wanted to contest it. The quiz master said that he didn't agree with her arguement. BUT.... Marty stood up and consulted with him that it wasn't a reference question and that the answer he gave was right. The quiz master agreed but decided to throw the question out. Which was crazy. So we lost our twenty points and then they got the replacement question. The same thing happened again with a question Abbie answered. This was ridiculous!!! So we ended up losing by one question which is twenty points. Not to mention that the Pastor cheated. They also won the high points trophy for the year even though we had 4oo more points than they did?? Sounds a little fishy to me. We are not a well liked team because our kids are very good and we don't dress immodest and we take a stand. The kids memorized ICorinthians this year. It is a blessing to see the kids memorize so much scripture. Last year they memorized the book of Romans. So anyway unfortunately our kids came home with second place but we know that they actually won first. Abigail was the top quizzer out of the whole league and Megan was third so that was very exciting and most of our kids placed for a trophy in individual quizzing. This league does individual quizzing and team quizzing. One thing we like about this group is that they always have an activity and Preaching after each meet which is alot of fun for the Kids. The preacher that preached on Saturday was a missionary to India. He was great and his message was encouraging the kids to live for God now. Not to wait it was really good. We had a good time despite the circumstances and we are really happy with how well our kids did this whole year. We are looking forward to next year. We will definately dominate the league next year since two of Mt. Pleasants quizzers graduate this year. But we may be joining another group so we will have to see. I can't imagine how good our team will be by the time their all seniors. Most our team is in seventh or eighth grade. I guess thats all for now.
OH YEAH!
CONGRATULATIONS RUSSELL AND HANNAH MAYNARD!!!
I wanted to give you an update on how our final quiz went. The quiz played out just like we had planned. We went against a team from Mt. Pleasant, Mi. who tend to cheat. We actually have seen them give answers to there kids and Saturday was no different. There Pastor of all people gave signals to one of the girls and told her what verse the question was from. But of course no one spoke up. Now to get to the quiz. We ended up in the final quiz as we were sure this was how it would play out and that it would come down to our team and Mt. Pleasant. Our team has alot more consistent players than theirs but they are sly and like to cheat SERIOUSLY! Anyway, one of our boys answered a question and the quiz master said correct and Levi sat back down. Well, Mt. Pleasant stood up and wanted to contest it. The quiz master said that he didn't agree with her arguement. BUT.... Marty stood up and consulted with him that it wasn't a reference question and that the answer he gave was right. The quiz master agreed but decided to throw the question out. Which was crazy. So we lost our twenty points and then they got the replacement question. The same thing happened again with a question Abbie answered. This was ridiculous!!! So we ended up losing by one question which is twenty points. Not to mention that the Pastor cheated. They also won the high points trophy for the year even though we had 4oo more points than they did?? Sounds a little fishy to me. We are not a well liked team because our kids are very good and we don't dress immodest and we take a stand. The kids memorized ICorinthians this year. It is a blessing to see the kids memorize so much scripture. Last year they memorized the book of Romans. So anyway unfortunately our kids came home with second place but we know that they actually won first. Abigail was the top quizzer out of the whole league and Megan was third so that was very exciting and most of our kids placed for a trophy in individual quizzing. This league does individual quizzing and team quizzing. One thing we like about this group is that they always have an activity and Preaching after each meet which is alot of fun for the Kids. The preacher that preached on Saturday was a missionary to India. He was great and his message was encouraging the kids to live for God now. Not to wait it was really good. We had a good time despite the circumstances and we are really happy with how well our kids did this whole year. We are looking forward to next year. We will definately dominate the league next year since two of Mt. Pleasants quizzers graduate this year. But we may be joining another group so we will have to see. I can't imagine how good our team will be by the time their all seniors. Most our team is in seventh or eighth grade. I guess thats all for now.
OH YEAH!
CONGRATULATIONS RUSSELL AND HANNAH MAYNARD!!!
Thursday, April 8, 2010
BRRRRR!!!
Hi Everyone,
Just thought I would let you all know that It is freezing today!:( We knew that it would come! We are also having snow flurries. Yuck! Everyone will probably be sick because it is supposed to be 60 on Saturday. Thankfully we have not been sick at all this winter. We have been taking alot of vitamin D which helps keep the flu away. It has been a blessing.
We have had such a blessing this past week. Josiah got SAVED! We are so excited! We have had many a devotion time with the children about salvation and Josiah would always say he knew he wasn't saved and it was very scarey to us. Alex got saved one night in devotions back in January after Marty taught on Hell. We thought for sure Josiah would come at that time also but to no avail and we were very disappointed but happy that one of the other children had come that night. Anyway last Thursday we were fasting for Marty's stepmom who has terminal liver cancer and we decided to fast for Josiah at that time also. Then Saturday we had gotten home late from our overnight vacation and were sending the kids to bed when Marty decided to have a quick devotion eventhough we had had them earlier that day at the hotel. And boy were we glad we did. The chapter we read was IICor.12 and Marty gave an example of a boy from the boys home, Matt by name who claimed that he had rejected Christ so much he couldn't get saved. Needless to say it wasn't a quick devotion and we sent the children off to bed eventhough we could see the conviction written all over Josiah's face. Then Marty told Josiah to get him a glass of water and then I asked him to get me one too in hopes that he would come and talk to one of us. Well, he brought them and headed off to bed but something stopped him and he came over to me, I was sewing, I asked him what he needed hoping he would say what we had hoped and sure enough he asked if he could talk to me. My heart leaped for joy. I have to put in here that Marty has always gotten to deal with the girls when they got saved and I prayed for the opportunity to show some of the children the way to Christ too, so I had been praying that the Lord would give me a turn. I was able to show Alex and now Josiah. Josiah and I went out to the living room and talked a little, he knew what he needed to do and he did and boy did he!!! It was so amazing to me that God answered our prayer! When we were fasting and the hunger would get strong I just kept reminding myself that I could fast for one short day and be in prayer for my son. It sure was a small price to pay for the eternal life of my son!!! And I am so thankful I continued the whole day and obeyed the Lord! I am also thankful that Marty obeyed the Holy Spirit and had devotions eventhough we were all tired. So just remember when the flesh is telling you your to tired to have devotions and you don't you could have just missed the blessing of seeing one of your little ones get saved!!!!!! Or get right!!!!! Have a wonderful Day!:)
Just thought I would let you all know that It is freezing today!:( We knew that it would come! We are also having snow flurries. Yuck! Everyone will probably be sick because it is supposed to be 60 on Saturday. Thankfully we have not been sick at all this winter. We have been taking alot of vitamin D which helps keep the flu away. It has been a blessing.
We have had such a blessing this past week. Josiah got SAVED! We are so excited! We have had many a devotion time with the children about salvation and Josiah would always say he knew he wasn't saved and it was very scarey to us. Alex got saved one night in devotions back in January after Marty taught on Hell. We thought for sure Josiah would come at that time also but to no avail and we were very disappointed but happy that one of the other children had come that night. Anyway last Thursday we were fasting for Marty's stepmom who has terminal liver cancer and we decided to fast for Josiah at that time also. Then Saturday we had gotten home late from our overnight vacation and were sending the kids to bed when Marty decided to have a quick devotion eventhough we had had them earlier that day at the hotel. And boy were we glad we did. The chapter we read was IICor.12 and Marty gave an example of a boy from the boys home, Matt by name who claimed that he had rejected Christ so much he couldn't get saved. Needless to say it wasn't a quick devotion and we sent the children off to bed eventhough we could see the conviction written all over Josiah's face. Then Marty told Josiah to get him a glass of water and then I asked him to get me one too in hopes that he would come and talk to one of us. Well, he brought them and headed off to bed but something stopped him and he came over to me, I was sewing, I asked him what he needed hoping he would say what we had hoped and sure enough he asked if he could talk to me. My heart leaped for joy. I have to put in here that Marty has always gotten to deal with the girls when they got saved and I prayed for the opportunity to show some of the children the way to Christ too, so I had been praying that the Lord would give me a turn. I was able to show Alex and now Josiah. Josiah and I went out to the living room and talked a little, he knew what he needed to do and he did and boy did he!!! It was so amazing to me that God answered our prayer! When we were fasting and the hunger would get strong I just kept reminding myself that I could fast for one short day and be in prayer for my son. It sure was a small price to pay for the eternal life of my son!!! And I am so thankful I continued the whole day and obeyed the Lord! I am also thankful that Marty obeyed the Holy Spirit and had devotions eventhough we were all tired. So just remember when the flesh is telling you your to tired to have devotions and you don't you could have just missed the blessing of seeing one of your little ones get saved!!!!!! Or get right!!!!! Have a wonderful Day!:)
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