Its such a blessing to serve the LORD!

It has been a very full two weeks I cant believe September is already half over! There is so much to tell, 2 Sundays ago my sister Samantha got SAVED!!! It was amazing and one of the most blessed moments of my life. Praise God for doing a work only He can do. Each of us has grown so much since we have arrived. This last Sunday we had a Western Round-up service followed by a cook off and pony rides for the kids. My sister Got baptized after the morning service and we all enjoyed some great southern cookin' afterward.

Last night I caught Matthew counting as he lined up his cars it was so neat watching the kids grow and learn. Audrey is very interested in the potty in fact its all she wants to do. she rips off her diaper and climbs up several times a day, she just does not seem to understand that she needs to sit on the potty BEFORE she goes not right after. LOL!! She is only 18 months.

My sister has applied for enrollment at Pensacola Christian College and is excited about getting things situated. Pray for her as she gets all of her required paperwork done and tries to raise some money for this up-coming semester.

I am 38weeks and 3days along in my pregnancy, we had one false alarm last week, I really am sad about not having my good friend Tammy here to be my Doula like at my last two births. I could not seem to get comfortable during my labor-y episode last week not having my comfort person with me. Its hard to imagine what this time will be like not having my planned birth team avail.

A few things we are looking forward to over the next few weeks\months are our harvest festival in Oct and in the beginning of Nov we have FAMILY CAMP!! I have always wanted to go to a family camp with church, I cant wait!

Please pray for us: as we are looking for a second vehicle that is fuel efficient, as we are financially getting back on our feet and having to adjust our budgeting accordingly, and as we are preparing for the upcoming birth of our #3.

 

Nesting Nicely

After a beautiful housewarming from our new church family we officially moved into our new home. its so wonderful to have a place to call our own. The kids love all the space to play and my sister loves having the guest room to herself! The neighborhood is quite and after our 3 day tropical storm we have been able to enjoy turning the air conditioner off and opening all the windows! Alabama is so pretty, its green and full of such sweet people.

Pastor preached an awesome semon last night out of Psalm 39 on how silence can be golden. how true! we hung around after the service and enjoyed fellowshiping with a few families...Matthew and Audrey are enjoying there new friends, Matthew is communicating so much better since the start of the school year. He is learning his colors and how to color in the lines, Ms. Amy his teacher says he is doing so good!

Today I am 36wks and 3days along in my pregnancy, I felt my first rush of energy this morning and used it to clean the kitchen, bathroom, windows and unpack the last few things to make our home complete. We are getting our washer and dryer tonight and my sister and I will be up late washing away!

I will post pictures soon!

Praise God for all the wonderful things he has done for us!

Showers of Blessings

There shall be showers of blessing:
This is the promise of love;
There shall be seasons refreshing,
Sent from the Savior above.

AMEN and AMEN! After a long "season" in a storm God is giving us a season of refreshing! We have been so blessed, looking back on the past few months I can now see what God was trying to teach us and what he was preparing us for\for us. It makes me wonder why we doubt so often his leading and will, when we have such a wise Father who knows exactly what we need to grow and learn. God has blessed us so much!

We found a beautiful house we are leasing to purchase. The price is locked in at $78,900 and is only $750 a month! We are in the process of moving in right now! Its a beautiful 3bed 1bath, there is a fire place in the living room 5 large closets throughout the house, tons of cupboard space in the kitchen a laundry room and a gorgeous dinning room! As silly as it may sound I know God saved this house just for us because when you pull up to the front its a sweet little blue house, with a white picket fence, which is something I always dreamed of! The inside is already painted EXACTLY how I would have painted it, the flooring in the dinning kitchen laundry is all new too!

 our beautiful new home!

Another blessing I wont fail to mention is the kindness and generosity that the people here have shewn us from the moment we arrived. When we knew we where moving to AL we sold everything but the essentials, and hopped on a plane in faith knowing God would take care of us... When we found a house the church members one by one started asking what we needed. We have been blessed with a very pretty dinning room table and chairs, an over sized chair and ottoman with a super comfy sofa, a queen bed, a washer and dryer and a breakfast table! Everything we have received is nicer than what we parted with! GOD IS SO GOOD!

This week at the christian school there was Open Revival. Four preachers came in through the week and each morning the school students and staff heard preaching. Steven was able to see 3 boys get saved! This past Sunday in church 2 adults got saved and 2 children where baptized. Steven was able to go with our pastor to a local prison and preach he said that the inmates response to the preaching was more exciting than a collage chapel service! The men where AMEN-ing and shouting, the singing was loud and exciting and the preaching was followed by 1 assurance of salvation!

God is really doing a wonderful work in this growing ministry and we are so happy to be able serve here!

There shall be showers of blessing,
If we but trust and obey;
There shall be seasons refreshing,
If we let God have His way.