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| We've moved again. Today we
arrived in Stone Mountain, Georgia. We've driven by this area a
few times and now we get to stop. We're staying at Stone
Mountain Park, which is simply massive. We should be able to get
some photos up in the next few days. We look forward to the
service Sunday night and also getting to know some other preachers
that I need to meet with while we are in the area. |
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| The week at Nebo went by very
quickly. The pictures below are from the International Dinner on
the 28th. We are very thankful for everything the people at Nebo
did for us and look forward to continuing to work with them for years
to come. |
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| Braden
and I are practicing some special music that we will use either
tonight or tomorrow morning. |
August
and Addie also have some special music that they need to get ready
for. |
The
youth of the church made special posters for the missions
conference. These are judged and the winner receives $50 that
they can give to any missionary. |
A
closer view of one
of the winning posters. One of the young girls decided to give us the $50
that she won! What a blessing. |
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| This
cheese "ball" was not only beautiful, but also delicious! |
If
you left this dinner hungry it's your own fault. There was a on
of food and it was all good! |
Braden
is helping to make the punch. |
The
food isn't the only good thing around here. The fellowship is
wonderful as well. |
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| August
and Jonathan (the pastor's son) spend some time together. |
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| Another conference begins
tomorrow. We have arrived safely in Nebo, North Carolina and are
setup and ready to go. We spent most of the day getting
household chores taken care of, including cleaning and laundry, so
that we will be ready for the conference tomorrow. Nebo First
Baptist Church is allowing us to make use of their facilities, and we
appreciate their willingness to do so. |
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| Nebo
First Baptist Church looks small from this distance and view, but they
actually have wonderful facilities, which they have maintained very
nicely. |
Their
service times include a 6:00p Wednesday night service in Spanish. |
Our
home sits beside the educational building, behind and down the hill
from the main sanctuary. Level concrete or asphalt pads always
make setting up so much easier! |
We
are looking forward to meeting another group of God's people who are
striving to serve Him in their local community. |
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| Good news! The people who looked
at our home yesterday decided to make an offer, and we now have
another contract. These buyers seem to be 100% able to afford
the home (it is a downsizing for them) and we are praying that closing
will be able to occur on November 14th. Lord willing we will be
able to finalize this part of our move to Texas quickly. |
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| Hard to believe the conference is
already over. We had a wonderful closing service tonight and we
were blessed to receive an extremely generous financial offering from
the church. We have enjoyed every moment of our stay here and
look forward to seeing these dear people again as the Lord allows! |
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| Melissa
and Giovanni. |
Melissa
and Flo, an Hispanic woman who was a BIG help in fine tuning Melissa's
Spanish while we were there! |
The
International Banquet tonight offered delicious, abundant food from
around the world. |
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| Party at the Pastor's house. Today
all of the missionaries, their families, and the MMBC Missions
Committee enjoyed a time of fellowship at the home of Pastor Alvis.
There was food in abundance, and the time spent together was a
blessing to all. |
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| Bro's.
Shumate and Maietta, two of the missionaries at the conference. |
Pastor
Alvis and Addie Grace. |
Mrs.
Shelton (one of the missionary wives) and her youngest daughter. |
Mr.
& Mrs. Ellinghausen (MMBC
members) holding one of the Maietta girls. |
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| Bro.
Browder (main speaker, missionary motivator), holding one of the
Shelton girls. |
Amy
Tucker (MMBC member) holding her daughter. |
Mrs.
Browder, Bunny Franklin (MMBC member) and Mrs. Maietta. |
Pastor
Alvis and Bro. Maietta. |
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| Mrs.
Ellinghausen holding one of the Maietta girls. |
The
oldest Shelton daughter. |
Mrs.
Ellinghausen holding one of the Maietta girls. |
Aaron,
Bro. Shelton, Bro. Shumate and Mr. Ellinghausen. |
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| Bunny
Franklin and Mrs. Alvis. |
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| The Mt. Moriah Baptist Church 3rd annual
missions conference has begun and we are having a great time.
The people are extremely friendly (of course, they are home folk) and
the meetings have been a blessing and encouragement. |
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| Braden
practices on the piano while Melissa speaks with Mrs. Alvis. |
The
main sanctuary at Mt. Moriah Baptist Church. |
An
outside view of the church, with the sanctuary foreground and the
fellowship hall/education building to the right. |
It
is our privilege to get to stay with Mr. & Mrs. David Ellinghausen,
and their family. We are enjoying our time of fellowship with
them, as well as some delicious meals! |
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| Tonight
Addie and August had an opportunity to do a special song together. |
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| It's the 16th and no closing is scheduled.
The buyers simply could not get the financing. The house went
back on the market Saturday evening, and we had two showings Sunday
afternoon. No response from those yet. We also enjoyed
celebrating Addie Grace's birthday this weekend. We also enjoyed
attending our home church Sunday, baptizing Addie Grace in the morning
service and speaking to the various youth groups in the evening.
It's our last chance to fellowship with them until at least the
beginning of December. |
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| Preparing
to baptize Addie Grace. |
Addie
coming back up out of the water. |
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| Sorry for the long delay in getting another update
out here. We've been busy around our "real" house
finishing up repairs to get ready for the closing on the 16th.
The repairs are completed, but the buyers are having trouble with
financing. Please be in prayer that everything will work out
with this sale. Other than that, things are pretty good.
Both of our boys got hurt playing around the past couple of days, but
nothing life altering. We have had a few walk-in meetings and
are looking forward to a missions conference with Mt. Moriah Baptist
Church here in Powhatan next week. |
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| I prayed this morning that the Lord would give us
4 new supporting churches this month. This evening I received an
email notifying us that Corinth Baptist Church in Loganville, Georgia
took us on as a missionary family! It's a great blessing to have
another church supporting our work, and is an even bigger blessing
coming on the heels of a petition to our Savior for such an event to
occur! We look forward to seeing if He will say YES to the other
3 this month as well! |
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| Yesterday we were able to visit with the
congregation of People's Baptist Church during both the morning and
evening services. It was a great experience and we enjoyed
another very warm reception. One of the hardest things we have
to do during deputation is leave the churches we visit! The
churches open their hearts to receive us, and we cannot adequately
express what this means to us! Today we will be traveling from
Virginia Beach, Virginia back to Powhatan, Virginia, where we will be
staying for the next 3 weeks. We have much planned during this
time, and will be making some preparations for winter living in the
RV, which is something that promises to be a unique experience!
We also look forward to completing the sale of our home during this
time, which is a great YES answer to a long-standing prayer. |
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