Harwood Family Reunion

Well, we all survived our Family Reunion. We had a wonderful time with all of Marty's family even though we are all sleep deprived after staying up so late and getting up early every day so we could have enough visiting time. There were twenty-nine people in all which isn't even all of Marty's family we were missing one whole family(marty's sister's) of 7 and a son-in-law, eight grandchildren of which some have husbands,wives and children. Most of us except 9 stayed in our missions house with three bedrooms and one bathroom. Getting ready for church was quite the experience!:) I will post some pictures later. We only had one eventful evening which happened to be Sunday night while Marty's brother Mark who is a missionary to Canada was preaching at our church and fell down the steps blacked out and ripped his tendon off his knee and while the tendon was ripping off it broke his knee cap. It was scarey everyone thought he had a heart attack. So we shut the service down and took him to the E.R. which surprisingly only took about 45min. He will have to have surgery when he returns to Canada and several months of rehab. So his vacation was pretty much over after that. It was sooo nice to see everyone and we are all planning on going to Shady Acres in Houston, Texas in January for the camp meeting and having another reunion then hopefully this time all the Harwood's will be in attendance. God is has been good to the Harwood Family.

The Boys

I thought this picture of the boys was so funny because Elijah looks like he is getting into something he's not supposed to have and Nicholas has a longing look for a slice of that cake, actually for all of the cake. Nicholas can't have sugar except on special occasions so it is a real treat when he gets some. So Cute!:)

First Service

Well, hello everyone! It is freezing here today with a chance of snow tomorrow! Burrr! It actually is in the fifties but it feels colder because it is wet and rainy. For us Michiganders in the snow belt fifty is nice!:) I guess we got spoiled. The funny thing is that a church up here always has their camp meeting in May with Jason Kendricks who is from their church. It is a very large campmeeting. With Sam Gipp, who we really like to hear and lots of other preachers. We usually get to go a couple of times. Anyway the meeting starts on the nineth and it is supposed to be really chilly. Maybe they should start having it in June!:)
Anyway, We had our first service in our new auditorium and it was really nice. I must say that I did get a headache from looking up at the platform. Ours was so low before that I am not used to tipping my head that way. It was a great service and we had alot of visitors that day. We had alot of singing specials. We sang the Unseen hand which our family sings pretty much every evening in devotions. Pastor and his family sang Thank you Lord and Send the Rain-I love this song it sends chills. Their family plays alot of instruments which is nice. Our Pastor used to be an Evangelist before the Lord put him into the Pastorate. Marty also grew up with our Pastor and when he was out of church for a few years when he was younger Marty went to visit him and he and his family started coming again. It seems like that has been so long ago.
Anyway back to the service. We had testimonies and Pastor preached of course. It was nice. It does seem different in the new auditorium kind of like why is our whole church visiting another church. Its hard to explain I guess. Even though things aren't perfect (like the drywall and the concrete) It is still sooooo beautiful. I am having a hard time adjusting to the new pews though, the backs are higher and I am not tall enough to rest my arms on the back of them.:)
We had our first missionary in on Wednesday night and that was nice. Chuck, my brother in law who is an missionary in Ukraine and my brother in law who is a missionary in Canada will be here presenting their ministries on the 22nd. We are very excited and are making plans for a Harwood Family reunion.That is all for now. I would post pictures but we just got a new camera and I am not sure how to use the thing yet. Maybe later.