Early September Happenings

  Most of the beginning of September was spent working on a room being
  added onto one of our current buildings at church. It will be used to hold
  chairs and tables and whatever else will fit!

 The only pictures I took was the day he poured concrete.....

 He also spent a very rainy weekend at a Men's Retreat at Servant's Heart Camp
with several men from our church and some from other churches. He said it was
 a good weekend even though it did rain!

Standing in Awe.....

      
      Psalm 86:10 - "For Thou art great, and doest
               wondrous things: Thou art God alone."
        
         Truly we serve a great God! As we think about how quickly things 
         are moving with this ministry, we are truly amazed & awed by how
         great God is to us! No, we do not have a fifth-wheel trailer yet. And
         no, we haven't had as many meetings as I thought we would. BUT,
         in 9 short months, we have 20% of the support we need a month!
         THAT is amazing to me! God is good & does good things, not 
         because we are special but because He is God and He loves to show
         His goodness to His children. Thank you, God for your goodness to
         us! Praise the Lord!
 

Going a Little Farther From Home...And Receiving A Big Blessing!

 We were invited to our friend's daughter's wedding August 21st in Northwest
 Missouri and while we were there we also were  able to present our ministry
 in their church!

 Since their daughter is the piano player and she was gone on her honeymoon,
 Josiah played his cello while their son played his guitar...

 We had an afternoon service where we sang a special and Terry gave testimony about
 our ministry & preached.The neat thing is, the very first missions trip Terry took was to
 Romania with this friend, Matt. He is now the pastor of that church in Missouri and that
 trip planted the seed in Terry's heart & mind for the ministry we are now in! That was
 back in 2000! Praise the Lord for His goodness & His timing!

 The big blessing came in the form of a phone call... Mt. Zion Baptist Church called to
 let us know they have taken us on for support! Praise the Lord! He is so good to us!

Reunited Again!

 As August began with Terry working hard to get Hope Baptist ready
 for their first service, our children arrived home on the 10th! It was
 great to hear about their time serving! I hinted to some of their time
 in  this post.
 If you have never been on a missions trip, we highly recommend one
 of  these trips ~ either the Juarez Project that I posted about in June &
 July (take a minute to read over those) or a regular week trip to El Paso
 where you will put together John & Romans Monday & Tuesday mornings
 and use those scriptures to hand out in Mexico in the afternoon & evenings.
 You can find out more about both of those trips on Bearing Precious Seed's
 website BPS El Paso.
 You can also e-mail us for more information ~ finmin2014@gmail.com We'd
 love to hear from you! It will definitely change your life!

 Also at the beginning of August I was able to attend ASL Institute at Valley
 Forge to continue work on sign language learning! It was a very interesting
 time for me! I would appreciate your prayers for me in this, do we ever get
 too old to learn something new?

 So that's what we've been up too at the beginning of August!
  

Northeast Vision Summit

       The very end of July Terry & I attended the annual Summit
       at Solid Rock Baptist Church in Berlin, NJ. This was a unique
       experience! Our purpose for going was to make some contacts.
       Well, with an attendance of approximately 1900, there were
       plenty of those! Can I tell you we were a LITTLE overwhelmed!

      We did get to hear David Gibbs, Jr. speak twice along with some
      other very good preachers. We also were able to go to some
      separate sessions that we picked based on the title of the class!
      That was very interesting! You had no idea who the speaker was,
      just what was being taught!

     We did make one connection though! A pastor from Moscow, PA,
      had contacted our pastor about some work he needs done and he
      happened to be at the conference!

      It was a lot to learn ~ 10 different preaching or teaching times,
      in a little amount of time ~ 2 1/2 days! But it was a great time of
      learning for us both!

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