Sunday, April 19, 2009

Awesome News!!!!

This morning, Nueva Vida received a check for $3000 for our church addition!! It was a gift from a settlement for an injury on the job. That means that we are at least $12,000 toward our $19,000 bid for the building. With $19,000, we will have the building finished except for the platform, the carpet, wiring, and the air conditioning unit. So........we made a big leap in our savings today. Thank the Lord for that offering!!!!!!!!!!!! This is so exciting!!!!!!! We still have $7000 to work toward.....but we have gone over the halfway mark and that is so encouraging.

Saturday, April 18, 2009

Lasara Ladies' Spring Fellowship


We had an awesome ladies' spring fellowship last night. I counted 24 ladies and 3 babies in attendance. We invited two other churches and some friends....so we had lots of visitors. The music was terrific! The message that Sis Marcella brought was tremendous! Three points from Matthew 28: quickly, joy, and run. We need to "move" with the message. We have JOY only in the Presence of the Lord. And we need to take our calling and "run with it". The special prayer time was awesome and God did some very special things in the lives of several of the women....especially the YOUNG women!! The food and fellowship was great too! Sis Norma, our ladies' president, did an excellent job of opening the service and a wonderful job of organizing and serving! We are already looking forward to our next fellowship service!!

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Easter Sunday at Nueva Vida in Lasara




We had a glorious Easter service!! The children presented a short puppet play which was so well done. Then a group of five children sang a special Easter song which was accompanied on the keyboard by one of the Sunday School boys and our children's program director on the guitar. One of the girls read an Easter poem as well. We had awesome praise and worship, prayer, and my message was SUPER short. We really felt the Presence of God. And, the picnic lunch, the Easter egg hunt, the piƱata, the cascarones, the soccer and volleyball games were great too. It is so good to celebrate with our church family.

Dad and Mom's 65th anniversary



Today is Mom and Dad's 65th wedding anniversary! That is a lot of years to have been faithful to each other and to have been nuturing the four of us, me, David, Jon, and Jan--in order of our ages!--as well as the five grandchildren. Jon and Gwen have Allen who is married to Anne and also Allison. Rick and Jan have Ben, Eric, and Melissa. Mom and Dad have been a wonderful inspiration to all of us in many ways. They have overcome difficulties and challenges. They both have a great sense of humor. And, at almost 88 and 87, they are still going strong....involved at church, taking care of their own home and lawn, and Dad even does intarsia. It is so special to wish them a great anniversary and more to come!