Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Raising up new laborers


In spite of everything ... we made it to the training time at Forcey Bible Church in MD.  We were blessed to train up a Gideon's band of laborers for the harvest field here. 

 Richard had re tooled the training and even though we only had 2 hours, there was much accomplished.
Richard will be adjusting the training to fit a new vision for training volunteers in this region.

Thursday, August 11, 2016

Pictures speak

 Family photos from our trip west. It was a blessing to be with Josh and his family!  Love them all.  Fun to see how the children, now 5 of them, have grown.




reading time

We visited Richard's sister in Denver while at our staff conference.
Carol's Mom on her 90th birthday 4 years ago. Still happy to be in her own home!


Summertime trippin"






 Immediately after our last post we left to visit family in Oklahoma and then on to our National Staff Conference in Denver, CO.  It is always a time of refreshing, renewing friendships and being encouraged.  One of our speakers this year was George Otis from the Sentinel Group; challenging and a blessing of encouragement.
Our NE Region gathered to visit Casa Bonita.  It was a fun experience and good food.  The blessing is always in the company!
view from the hotel 
Casa Bonita company!



Just before we left for our trip to see Carol's Mom, this event occurred!  Slowly but surely the atmosphere is changing over this area and we are seeing it play out in the churches here.  Our staff is being added to, more volunteers are coming forward, churches are working together to reach the unsaved.   This week in our county there are 2 tent revival meeting going on, and being sponsored by several churches each, and of different denominations.  This is God at work for sure. 


Our time visiting Mom was mostly to help her in ways she needed.  We did get one afternoon to enjoy the beauty of God's creation like the above osprey family!