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I would love to invite you into my home to have a cup of tea with me. We could sit in my sunny kitchen and talk about all the things that are going on in our lives. I could share with you the news I hear from my grown daughters. How my grandkids are growing. We could laugh together over the funny things that they have said. It would be fun to share the ins and outs of our family life, and talk about our latest creative projects. We could share what God has been teaching us, in our personal lives, and encourage each other on this walk of faith. We could pray together, laugh together, and even cry together. Since most of us will never be able to sit down together face to face, I would like to invite you to join me here. So come on in and have a cup of tea with me.

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Joy

Joy

About Me

Crossville, Tennessee, United States
I am a 61 year old, wife, married to my best friend for 40 years. We have been blessed with 6 children, & 13 grandchildren. I love mentoring women in their spritual walk & in the everyday. I have a diverse background, having spent over 30 years living and ministering in a small South American country. Now my family resides in a small town in the lovely state of Tennessee. We have experienced the blessing of adoption, but also the hard of dealing with a child with RAD and other mental health issues. You can live life with the cup half full or half empty the choice is yours. I choose half full.

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Tuesday, July 31, 2007

July has come and gone...

Sometimes we get so busy, but it doesn't seem like anything is happening. Then I stop and start recounting everything that we've done this month.

Let's see...

We started school with Teddy. We are now into week 5 and it is going great. We are really enjoying it.

Lexi and Jonathan were here and we did a few "site seeing" things with them. Took a day trip down the coast. Tony took them to Guayaquil one day. Then we all went to Quito for a few days and played the "tourist" there before we saw them off to the States.

Hosted a national pastor and his family for 4 days. They came down from Quito for their "first ever vacation."

Meeting weekly with a young lady in the church for one on one Bible study time. Started having discipleship lessons with another young mother on Friday mornings.

Continued with Ladies Bible Study on Friday afternoons.

Finished pulling together the 3rd quarter Sunday School material. That will go to get copied tomorrow and be ready to pass out to the new teachers on Sunday evening.

Besides that we did some moving around to make space for a "school room"... which involved moving Teddy's room, setting up an office/guest room in his old room, and re-decorating our main guest room. Everything turned out pretty nice. Still have some painting to get done, but little by little. :-)

Our attendance was down a little bit Sunday. It was "cold" for Manta. Even so we had over 80 in the preaching service.

Please pray for those who have made the commitment to teach in our Children's ministry. We have asked them to teach for a whole semester this time, instead of just a quarter. This is a big step. I am trying to work it out so that there is an "extra" person working during the church hour, so that they can rotate out and be in the service once every 3 weeks. I am going to give you a list of everyone so you can be praying for each one of them by name. Thank you for praying for our family and ministry here in Manta.

Joy

Nursery class (up to 3 years old)
Betsabe and Manuela
Barbara, Jessica, Yolanda, Angela (they'll switch out every other week)

Children 1 (4 years old through 1st grade)
Lorena and Pamela
Leonor, Cecila, Isabel

Children 2 (2nd - 6th grade)
Wilda and Janneth
Dina, Aday, Maria Jose

Middle School
Darwin and Jessica

Youth Group(Sunday PM)
Luis and Melanea, with Tony
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Gavi said...

Hi Joy!

I just wanted to stop by and see your blog. It is lovely!

Blessings,
Gavi (Rachmielah from SL)

August 2, 2007 at 12:57 PM

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