Mom Time
7 ladies, 15 small children, and one baby sitter. The church is a busy place this morning. How wonderful that the church building is being so used.
7 ladies, 15 small children, and one baby sitter. The church is a busy place this morning. How wonderful that the church building is being so used.
The last few months can be summed up by the song “There Shall be Showers of Blessing.” “Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah.” (Psalm 68:19)
This week is Vacation Bible School. We begin with the Sunday School hour this Sunday and continue Sunday through Wednesday evenings at 6:30p. VBS begins in the auditorium with flag pledges, great songs, and a Bible story. Then we will dismiss into classes for lesson sheets and work on our verse. Finally we will return to the auditorium for games and a closing. Snacks at 8!
When I boarded the plane in Sucre and realized the finality of the fact that I would be residing in Santa Cruz, I couldn’t help but think, “And so the new adventure begins!” I had no idea how much so.
The Heritage Singers of Maranatha Baptist Bible College are our guests this Lord’s Day morning. They will be singing and ministering to us during the Sunday School hour and singing a package during the morning service. In the morning service I will be preaching from Romans 10. After considering God’s Mercy in Romans 9 we see that “faith” and “belief” are the means of our access to mercy.
This coming Lord’s Day we are in week 2 of a 4-week series on the Old Testament historical book called Esther. Esther the Jew became Queen of the largest empire in the world in 479 bc. This week we will learn lessons about life when evil is victorious.
We take your desire to pray for us very seriously. We thank you. Last week Charlie sent out an email asking prayer for our daughter, Lauren, who is in Papua New Guinea. She is having some health problems which at the first appeared to be resolving themselves after she discovered she was dehydrated. She called us last night from Goroka, a town several hours away from the vil