BITTER SWEET

Now we are getting the ball rolling. Seems like it has taken forever, but God's timing is always perfect. We have been at Lakeview Baptist for 8 months now. I can't believe it's been that long. Jon has been filling in until they called a full-time pastor. Well, they have voted on a new pastor and he will start the first Sunday in April. We have just fell in love with the people and are going to miss them, but we are so excited to get on the road with our missions and deputation. This Sunday will be our last Sunday there. I am sure there will be lots of tears in my end. Jon Caden has a few he's gonna miss too.. lol We have all kinds of things lined up in April. We will be busy busy. We leave out on the 4th for our Mission training in Spencer, Ohio. I will keep everyone update on it. When you think about us say a little prayer please!

Bible Conference and sickness

This past week we were in at Beryl Baptist in Vilonia, Arkansas at a Bible Conference. We really enjoyed ourselves. The people of the church were so hospitable and friendly. There was a lot of hard work and preparation put into this conference. We are so thankful for the time to get away and be apart of the conference. We heard some great preaching and wonderful singing. We also had time to spend with some friends. Which was truly a blessing, especially for me? The devil was really fighting the conference well, he was fighting us. We had an ordeal with getting our prayer cards which it worked out. Our presentation is still a work in progress, but it fell apart the morning that we took it to set up. Then on top of all of that Jon Caden started getting sick Friday. We took him to a pediatrician there in Conway. Then Jon got really sick Saturday night. We intended to stay until Sunday night, but we had to leave right after the morning services. We took a different route than we were used to coming home and got really lost. I was driving so yes it was my fault. We finally did make it home safely. Jon Caden is better. Jon is hopefully getting a little better and now I am getting it. Although, everything went wrong we had a great time. We have a few churches that we are going to go to this month. Jon is currently still interim at Lakeview Baptist. They are voting on a man on the 15. If he is voted in and accepts then we will really be hitting the road on deputation. We are really busy the whole month of April. Hopefully these next trips will go a little smoother than this one. At least it’s one that want be forgotten.

Preparing!

This is our first post so I thought what better to talk about than preparing for missions. We are so excited to see what God is doing in our lives.. I am one of those impatient Christians who want God to give me a piece of paper with everything he wants me to do written on it. I am sure that most of you can relate? I love to look back and see how God has used every good and bad situation, to mold us and prepare us for today and what he wants for our lives. There has never been a time in my life that I feel more in adequate to do something.. When God confirmed in our hearts exactly what he wanted and that it was time.. I was on fire and ready to go. As we started preparing and getting everything together, it seemed to get harder and harder. Not that I wasn’t excited, but just a little scared. Well, a lot scared!! And the devil knows exactly what to do to kick you down on the ground. Man has he tried the past few weeks! I love how God will just put a certain person to come by and give you a hug or just say that I am praying for you exactly when you need it.
I honestly had no idea what all needed to be done to prepare to raise our support in churches. Thankfully the churches that we have been to so far have been what I call “home” churches. They all know that we were still in the process of getting everything together. Finally, after weeks of getting information together, our prayer cards are being printed, the website is up (still not 100% done, but it’s up), letterheads are done, the blog is on the right path, and the presentation board is almost done. Still so much to do, but we’re headed the right way, hopefully.