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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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Sunday, September 9, 2007

Another sign of Fall...

Football season has arrived, even to our house in Ecuador! This means the same thing here in our house that it means for the rest of you, who are married to big football fans. :-) We may not have fall leaves, or any of the other things that you associate with "fall" here in our "tropical paradise" but thanks to "Direct tv" we have the NFL.

We had a good service this morning. Each month we have a "theme" and a memory verse to go along with it. This morning during the church service, after going over the verse again with everyone, Tony asked if we had some who were ready to say the verse. After 5 people had said it, Nelly raised her hand, but she said, "We have learned it together as a family". Then they all stood up and recited the verse together! What a blessing. After church they were asking us if they could get some Cd's of the music we sing, because they don't know any of the songs and they would like to learn them and sing them at home! Please keep these new Christians in your prayers.

The congregation is very excited about the new property. They agreed today, to start making the payment on the loan that we had to get from the Missions Office to pay the down payment, until we have raised the money to pay that off. They also are excited about having some "work days" to get the property cleared off, and having some places to play volleyball and just have some fellowship times there.

We are planning a "Ladies Tea" for Saturday, September 5. The ladies have divided up the work. I had 3 ladies volunteer to lead 3 different groups. 1 group is in charge of organizing and get the food, 1 group will take care of setting up and decorating and 1 group will be in charge of cleaning up and getting everything set up for the Sunday Service. It was neat to see them all excited and willing to get involved.

This week the Tignor family from Puerto Viejo is coming over for dinner. We are looking forward to a good time visiting and playing games with them. Teddy is always very excited to have friends to play with!

One more prayer request for you... Tony will be sending our new US passports to Quito this week, so that our visas can be transferred. Please pray that this goes through without any problems. It should just take a week. But of course you never know... ;-)

Thank you for praying for our family and the ministry here in Manta!
God Bless,
Joy
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