SHE Event

This is a bit late but I just wanted to post a little blurp about last Fridays She Event at our church. Rebecca St.James and Evie performed. It was so neat to have a big name Christian singer at our church in little ole Dubuque. The concert, SHE (Safe-Healthy-Empowered) event, was for women.In particular for mother daughters or young women. Rebecca talked to the girls about purity and modesty. I have to say I was very impressed with her and her genuineness. She is the real deal. I took Molly, Abby and one of their friends and they had a great time. I of course loved getting to meet and talk to Evie as she was the cool singer when I was in high school. Evie is a mentor for Rebecca and they tour around doing these concerts. It was fun!

I downloaded some pictures off my camera today. I had taken these last month just up the road from here. Seems like March is the month for getting eagle pictures around here. The last ones I took were last march. They are so cool to watch. There was a young one in this group of three. He/she still has a lot of brown on their head.

So Much to Do!

Wow, I have not posted in awhile but things have been so busy. The mens CRW weekend went great and Jerry basically was in charge of the Chapel. He did and awesome job and really enjoyed it. The Monday after we had a couple walk through the house and make an offer that night. We came to an agreement by Tuesday night. PTL He sold the house!!!! They are from CA, no house to sell of their own, they just want to move in. We are to close the 23rd of May so we have been on a frantic search for a house to buy that we can move into quickly. After two offers and turn downs we found one. They will let us move in May16th. We have just been in awe watching God work all this out for us. Jerry was commenting last night how "you just want to not worry about anything ever again knowing God will take care of us." It does seem so wrong how we waste time and energy worrying about things when He tells us to cast our burdens on Him. Why do we hold on to them so tight for so long? We are such a self-centered creature to think we can fix it or handle it ourselves.

This last Sunday we met with the team of directors for the CRW weekends and they asked Jerry and I to be the assistant to the assistant directors this next year. They have a team of three all the time so two teams are being trained. What that means is that in 3 years Jerry and I will be directors for the womans and mens weekends. That is a bit scary but we get two years training for it. Jerry is excited. We love this ministry and we love that it is something we can do together. I cant imagine being the director and it all scares me spitless but I am clinging to the fact that He qualifies the called and not calls the qualified!

So that is our current life in a nut shell. God is taking care of us in huge ways and we are learning to take our hands off the wheel and let him drive. It's a beautiful ride that way and much more enjoyable :)

How Great is our God

It's late and I am tired but I just had to post something. Tonight is the start of our mens CRW weekend. Some of the women met at a house to pray for the men and then about 9:15 pm we went up to the Shalom Center for the first chapel. The first speaker was at 9:30. we pray with him and worship in song and then he goes up to the room to speak and we all stay in the chapel and pray and worship. It is just an awesome thing to experience. Just to be surrounded by Gods people and to hear them pray and sing and give glory to our amazing God. Jerry is on the chapel team this year and to be there and hear him pray over those men each by name just was over whelming. Nothing better than to hear your man prayin!! :) I am so excited for this weekend and can't wait to see God work in the lives of these men. We have 40 candidates (and about 40-50 team members) so it's a full house. PTL Right at the end of chapel tonight we sang How Great is our God, and it was just a humbling feeling to think of how how great a God we serve, and even in His greatness He cares about little ole me. Cool huh?

Awesome weekend

Well, I haven't blogged in a while but I have been so over loaded. The kids left last Wed to go on vacation with all my family to Hilton Head ,SC. Thursday night was set up for our womens CRW (Christian retreat weekend) I was co-leading the kitchen this year. My friend Marrianne was our fearless leader. She is the compulsive organizer-planner and I am the executor of the plan. We worked well together. Lots of chopping, dicing, and baking ahead of time saved our sanity. We had 41 candidates and about 50-60 team members. We were cooking and providing snacks and drinks for about 100 women from 5pm Friday till 5pm Sunday. It was the most exhausting 3 days of my life but I know of at least 3 women who professed to accepting Christ over the weekend and so it was soooooooooooooo worth every ache and sore muscle. At the closing on Sunday afternoon all the women have a chance to give a testimony and almost all of them did. Some spoke of meeting Christ for the first time and other talked of reconnecting to Him and desiring to study more. It was just an awesome weekend . I did not get out of bed till 10am Monday.
Today I am cleaning for a house showing tonight. Hope it goes well. We are having an open house this next Sunday. It should be easy to keep the house clean since the kids are gone. :)
So far I have been so busy I have not missed the kids too much. We will see what the next few days bring. I does seem like I am supposed to be picking them up, like I need to watch the time so I don't for get to go get them on and hour or so. Odd!