Welcome

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.

-_-_-_-_-_-_-

-_-_-_-_-_-_-

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.

-_-_-_-_-_-_-

-_-_-_-_-_-_-

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

What's been happening?

We thoroughly enjoyed our last week-end! It was a such a blessing to have Stacey and Andy Meyers visiting us.  They are in Ecuador for their honeymoon.

The kids really enjoyed all the extra attention.  We had fun showing them around and just visiting and playing games.

Sunday we had a great attendance again.  With 151 in the church service.  In the Ladies Sunday School class we had 37!!  We had a special "fellowship time" with rolls and coffee, starting class about 15 minutes earlier than normal. This was just idea I had, to see how it worked.  They ladies had a wonderful time, and we are going to be doing this once a month. :-)

2 people talked to Tony after services to let him know that they were interested in getting baptized this next month.

We are getting ready to start a contest in the Ladies class.  There are so many ladies that come to church but  don't make it to Sunday School.  So my idea, is to try to get them involved.  I am thinking to start this Sunday, and anyone who isn't present in Sunday School, will be considered a "visitor" the next week.  The ladies are going to get 5 points for each first time visitor and 10 points for each time that "visitor" returns...so the idea will be to try and get some new people in the "habit" of attending Sunday School!  

The kids have done really well in school this week.  We just have one more week left and then we will be on our "Summer Vacation".  Our school year is running a little longer than normal this year, because we took some extra time off for different things throughout the year.  We are all looking forward to our "vacation"... not sure who is more excited though, the kids or the teacher! ;-)

We have some more exciting news in our family.  Our oldest daughter and her husband announced this week that they were expecting, in February.  That will be 2 new grand babies for us this coming year!!  Also our middle daughter and her husband will be moving this week, to work in a church in Ohio!  We are very excited for all of these blessings.

Thank you so much for your prayers for our family and for the ministry here in Ecuador!

Blessings,
Joy
Posted by at
Labels: ,

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)