Have anyone ever been here?
This is for our good friend Chuck. This is God's country!
This is River of Life Assembly of God in Valley Springs Arkansas
This is Pastor Mike, a very good friend of ours.
Where do I begin? One of our services for last Sunday got cancelled on Saturday night so, we had to make some last second changes. We ended up going to Harrison for the Sunday morning service. Listen to this amazing story......Saturday night (on the way home from our missions convention) our kids were really upset. Not so much Ethan but Megan. They were asking questions like, why do we have to be missionaries?, why do we have to go to a country that we have never been to?, Why?, Why?.... Megan was really upset and I know a lot of it was she was just tired. Our lives stay in overdrive and I think it caught up with her. When we got home we sat down and had a long talk with her. Believe me, this is the hardest part of being missionaries, making sure your kids are happy with all the unknowns. I also explained to her that sometimes we girls just get sad for no reason. That is how girls are made....moody. Before she went to bed I told her about the verse in the bible that says weeping may endure for the night but joy comes in the morning. When I was blow drying her hair the next morning I told her that she should ask God if this was what she was suppose to be doing. I explained to her that God does talk to people and he answers our questions. If its through the word of God or by someone else, God does answer us. I left it at this, you just pray about it and God will give you an answer and will give the peace that you need. Then, we headed to Harrison. To make a long story short, as soon as Sunday school was over Megan came running to me and she said "you will never guess what scripture is on the board in the children's church" I said, what? She said "weeping may endure for the night but joy comes in the morning" She said I think that was for me mom. That was her confirmation from God and she knew it as soon as she seen it. To make this even better we found out that that scripture was last weeks scripture. The children's church teacher said that God had told her to use that scripture again for this week. She didn't understand why but, she did it anyway. She said that it didn't even go with her lesson but that's what God told her to do. To make this all the more interesting we were not even suppose to be there that morning. Or, maybe we were. Maybe it was all in God's plan. I believe with all my heart that God put us in that place just for Megan. Let me tell you what Ethan said about the whole thing, he said "He really is real". So many times we take for granted that our kids know Him and how he works but they don't. Just because we take our kids to church every time the door is open doesn't mean they know God. If we don't teach them that God does talk to us how will they ever know? It is all about a relationship not about religion. I want my kids to have a relationship with God and to know that they can have a two way conversation with him.
As for me, I am recovering well from the surgery. I had an inch of bone removed from my neck/throat. I didn't even have to spend the night and I was so excited about that. I took my bandage off today and the incision is about 3 inches long. I would post a picture but, that might gross some people out so I wont. I can tell you this, this surgery was 100 times easier than the tonsillectomy.
We are heading to Harvey Arkansas (never been there before) for the a.m. service and then to Texarkana for the p.m. service. Right down there with all the evacuees from Texas. Please keep us in your prayers. As of right now I plan on going, we will see.
