Hope Baptist Church

Early in July...

      The beginning of July had Terry returning from Romania on the 2nd
      and Erin & Josiah leaving on the 9th!

      Terry came home and had to have a little time to recover...he had
      picked up a cold while in Romania and it never really went away
      over there. Then, when he got home he had a repeat of the same
      symptoms for about a week! This only stopped him a few days....
      he still made time to paint at the church!

      Erin & Josiah headed to Bearing Precious Seed, El Paso for a
      month of service there. Last year they served for 2 weeks, so
      this was a bit of a stretch! It was a great trip for them though.
      They were able to help with 2 trips into Juarez, 1 trip to the
      Najavo nation in New Mexico, and spend an off week with
      their sister & brother-in-law!

      We are thankful for all the opportunities the Lord allows us to
      serve Him! And for children who are willing to serve the Lord
      wherever He leads them!

Summer Camp

       While Terry was in Romania, Erin, Josiah & I attended Mt. Zion's summer
       camp in Hanover,PA the fourth week of June. I'm sorry I didn't take any
       pictures so I will keep the post brief!

      Erin & Josiah went as campers, this being Erin's final year as a camper. I
      went as a teen counselor. This year marked my 8th year of camp as a
      counselor! I never went to camp as a child or teen (I didn't get saved until
      I was 20), so camp has become one of the greatest opportunities to serve
      for me!

     This year we had a great speaker, Phillip Bishop, from VA. You can hear his
     sermons that he preached at camp on sermon audio's website.   Here 
     is the link to that page.

     There was good unity from the many churches that were there. It is great to
     meet new people and to catch up with old friends too! I think it is as much
     fun being a counselor as it is a camper (but I will never know for sure....)!
     And it is great to be able to hear preaching two times a day for that week.

     As long as the Lord allows I plan to serve at camp! And I am looking forward
     to next year already....Erin can go serve as a worker!

16 Days in Romania !

       On June 15th at 6:45 PM Terry left Dulles International Airport for what
       would be 16 long days in Romania! Although he didn't know it then.....

       His overnight flight to Europe had him landing in Paris at 8:25 AM
       with no sleep! He had a 2 hour layover then it was off to Bucharest with
       another 3 1/2 hour layover and a final flight to Timisoara, Romania
       landing at 6:35 PM. That's 24 hours of flights & layovers, with very little
       sleep....not the best way to start a massive building missions trip!!

      He was picked up after church by Jonathan & Kristy (the ones who needed
      help at their house). After a not so restful night, it was off to the work!
      Much planning & getting of materials that first day. But there was also work
      going on too! Concrete stairs to try to bust out! Thankfully they decided to
      rent a saw!

      I'm not going to give you a day by day account of everything... I wasn't
      there! But I do know he started putting 10 - 12 hour days in, even though
      he ended up with a cold that he picked up once he arrived there! And
      once Jason got there (a man from our church who, thankfully, went to help)
      they increased to 15 - 18 hour days! The final day they did not sleep at
      all! They worked until 2 AM, packed their suitcases & headed to the
      airport at 4!

      He arrived home completely exhausted! They were not able to get all the
      work finished, but they were able to get it to the point that the missionaries
      could get it finished! Below are some before & after pictures....

The baby's room after!

The baby's room before

The baby's room during

                                                                

                           

Those concrete stairs!

I'm sorry these are so small, they were
taken with a phone (I believe). It gives
you an idea of just what those stairs were
like!
   

<----This is the hall & stairs before anything....















 This is after the floor & stairs were finished---->

Finished & Painted!

   And just a few more....

         This is the hall looking out the front door....with Jason laying tile there in the
         corner of the picture.

Finished!

 

 

 

 

         The finished pictures were sent to us by e-mail from Jonathan & Kristy after
         they painted & cleaned up the place!

         While they were there they also fixed a leak in the church roof...sorry, no
         pictures. It was a good, long, tiring trip! They were glad to be able to be a
         help to one of our missionaries though! 

Many Projects ~ Busy Month

 June began with many projects going at church & planning for a trip
 to Romania. We had a work day at church the first Saturday; getting
 a lot of work done to the outside of the church building.... siding,
 windows, etc. (Sorry there are no pictures!)

 Then a spur of the moment call had Terry & Josiah going overnight
 to Servant's Heart Camp in Ramey, PA. It is a fairly new camp and
 they needed some water lines hooked up & covered before their first
 week of camp...in 3 days! I didn't get any pictures there either...Erin,
 Anna & I were on a Graduation/ Birthday trip. You can go to their
 website here though to see pictures of the camp.

 This trip happened 3 days before Terry left for Romania as well, so
 like I said these were busy days!  The rest of us were busy with camp,
 for Erin it was 2 weeks of camp back to back! We also had Baptist
 College of Ministry in at church the night after Terry left.

 The Lord is good to us all the time....more than we ever deserve!
 Next time I will post about his Romania trip....until then~ take time
 to praise the Lord!

The month of May

        I must start off with an apology..... I am sorry I have not kept this blog current.
        High speed internet is coming! So I hope that will make it easier to post!


        The month of May was a little slower work wise....maybe. If you count working
         at our home church & at home slower! Terry's days were filled with just that,
         working at church ~ cutting trees & finishing the prophet's chamber, working at
         our Pastor's house, working at our house ~ part of our agreement to live here was
         that Terry would do some work to get the house ready to sell & working to help
         others in our church.

         He also spent time making phone calls to churches to try to get meetings to
         present our ministry ~ not a fun thing for someone who doesn't like to talk on the
         phone!

         I was able to fill in and teach the 4th - 6th grade Sunday School class at the end
         of the month. I do miss teaching the 1st - 3rd graders!

         And on a personal note ~ we had a graduation & wedding to attend this month!
         With Terry's trip to Romania coming up ~ we were busy making those plans
         as well!

          Sorry there are no pictures for this post.....

Missions Conference

This year we were asked to be a part of our own church's missions conference
April 29 - May3. It was great experience for us! Bill & Marcia Hardecker and
Don Chitty, Jr. were the other missionaries. 

We were able to: go to Shady Maple for breakfast Thursday morning, sing as
a family Thursday night, Terry gave a 15 minute challenge Friday night,
participate in visitation on Saturday morning, take part of the panel discussion
during Sunday School, teach junior church and show our presentation during
morning service!

 I'm sorry but the only pictures I took were of the preaching Friday night!

Terry giving his challenge

Brother Chitty...no they did not plan to match!

Brother Hardecker ~ we call him Pastor Bill...

It was a great time and we appreciate the support that we have from our own
church family! Please continue to pray for us & our ministry! We certainly do
need and appreciate it!