Happy Thanksgiving!!!

We had a very Happy Thanksgiving! Did you?

Operation Christmas Child Shoe Boxes

These are pictures from last year 2009. :-)

We are filling Operation Christmas Child Shoe Boxes tomorrow night at Forest Park!


We have 24 pre-paid shoe boxes and all the supplies we need to fill several more than that!


They have a great new way to give online with a Credit Card and now you can follow your box all the way to its destination!

Operation Christmas Child, the Shoe box ministry of Samaritan's Purse, is collecting their gifts for children all over the world these next two weeks. Let's pray for lots of boxes to be filled, for the right gifts to get to the right kids, and for all the people filling boxes, wrapping boxes, driving boxes, and shipping boxes! Let's pray that the kids receiving Christmas boxes will learn that God loves them and He sent His son Jesus to die for the forgiveness of their sins.

Here are some specific things they've asked for us to pray over for these next two weeks:

• That the Lord will give protection to the National Leadership Teams, the churches, and organizations that are distributing the shoe box gifts, and for protection for the project as a whole from spiritual attacks.

• That the shoe box gifts will arrive at their destinations safely and in a timely manner, and will provide effective opportunities to share the love of Jesus.

For the upcoming Connect Conferences being hosted in March and April in Atlanta, GA; Denver, CO; and Cincinnati, OH. There are many details to come together in order to be able to offer an experience where volunteers can be equipped in their ministry role, connected with other ministry partners, and spiritually refreshed and renewed.

• For recruitment, selection, and training of OCC volunteers and staff, both domestically and internationally. Please pray that the Lord will move in the hearts of those He has called to serve in specific ministry roles and that we will follow His leading to be able to continue to effectively multiply His ministry.

• That the Lord will give our international staff and volunteers wisdom and discernment in how to use the gift-filled shoe boxes to spread the love of Christ throughout their countries.

Here is a link to a page where you can commit to pray for 30 minutes or more during next week for the National Collection Week. www.samaritanspurse.org/index.php/OCC/1khours

Here is a link to find out more about Operation Christmas Child:

www.samaritanspurse.org/index.php/OCC/

I will try to post pictures when we are done!!!

 

Esther and Eivaen getting married TOMORROW!

Counting Down to Esther's Wedding.....

Esther and Eivaen's wedding is October 10th, 2010!

We are all nailing down last minute details before next week's rush to start packing!!!

Still to do:
Buy Thomas and Tyler a new suit.
Catch Thomas up on missed homework from sick days before he misses homework for the trip.
Dry Clean Sam's Suit.
Figure out rather to mail MJ's giant fluffy slip or stuff it in it's own suitcase...
Pack Pack Pack
100 Things I can't remember right now.

Mom had Surgery Saturday!

9/17/10 MJ - My Mom found out today that she has to have her gall bladder removed tomorrow! She had been having stomach pains and nausea for awhile, and this past Tuesday she was up all night long with pain and getting sick! Finally today she went in to the doctor, and he sent her to get an ultrasound of her gall bladder. They've kept her overnight.


Update: 9/19/10 Mom had her surgery Saturday morning and it went great! They said it was just in time! She got home at 8:30pm last night and doesn't even have to go back for a check up until 2 weeks from now!

Thomas Read a Book

So, Thomas read his first whole book! Tuesday night actually. 9/7/10. It was one of the little BOB phonics books. It was called, "Sam". They've been working on site words in school, so it was fun for him to see words he knew, and be able to sound out the rest. He had been reading little parts of other books I was reading to him, but this was the first one he read all himself.

He's pretty proud of himself!!!

I tried to upload a video of it, but it was too long! :-) It takes a while to read a book when you are 5!

:-)

MJ

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