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Good morning on this rainy day that the Lord has made! God is wonderful, miraculous, and perfect. He is the Author and Perfecter of our faith. He is the Alpha and Omega. He is Creator over all the earth. He is the great I AM! God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM.  This is what you are to say to the  Israelites: 'I AM has sent me to you.'" Exodus 3:14 "I am the LORD, the God of all man-  kind. Is anything too hard for me? Jeremiah 32:27 "I tell you the truth," Jesus answered,  "before Abraham was born, I am!" John 8:58  And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying,  Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and  he will dwell with them, and they shall be his  people, and God himself shall be  with them, and ( I will) be their God. Revelation 21:3 He will be and is the great I AM! I believe it and know it and worship Him only! I hope that you believe it also. Have a wonderful...

  Good morning on this blessed Sabbath Day! We will worship You, oh God! We will tell of your amazing works! Come and see what God has done,  his awesome deeds for mankind! Psalm 66:5   Boy, it was hard to get up this morning. I feel as though I need to sleep for a week. But as usual there is so much to do. But in all reality, does it really need to be done now? No it doesn't. As my lovely daughter said probably in different words, "Do it slowly over days and weeks, not all at once." What a smart daughter we have! I always feel that I have to get it all done right away. A week away on a mission trip that is way too exhausting. But I know that when I catch up on rest, I would do it all over again tomorrow. That is what a mission trip is like. And so many of God's awesome deeds are not only the Choctaw children and adults that we minister to, but the things we see that are God moments. Things that God is showing us. Things God does to show u...

Good morning! I won't be able to finish this for a couple of hours so bear with me. Much to do. Had to clean the van we rented and will have to return it by a certain time this morning. Got up at 6:15 to do that cleaning when we wanted to sleep in. I guess for us that was sleeping in especially since my husband fell asleep at about 6:30 last night and slept til 6:15 this morning. So, will get with you later. But I do want to say thank you for your prayers and support of any kind that you gave. And if you are a team member, thank you so much for all you did. The hard work you did when you didn't feel like it. The sweat you gave. But most of all for the love you gave to the Choctaw people. They really appreciate it and so do we. God is smiling at you and loves you more than anything and so do we. So I will post pictures in a couple hours and tell you more. May God bless you mightily!  Lesbear  Well, I am back and never posted the pictures so I will now jus...

  Good morning.  We are in the van on our way home. What a week!  A terrific week! I am in awe of the things God has done this week. We had 150 attendees last night. The most on the last night in my 18 years. This week is just a bit of heaven. When God's children work together to advance the kingdom of God, great things do happen. We have proof. We lived it. We saw it. And we felt it. I cried when we left Great Spirit last night. On a mission trip the saying goodbye is by far the hardest. It is hard to leave the Choctaw people. And it is hard to say goodbye to our team today. We work together. We pray together. We sleep together. We eat together. And we worship our God together. And that is amazing. But some of our team we will never see again. Some will go again but some will not. Just like at Pentecost the disciples ate together and worshipped together and they were in one accord. As humans though I suppose that we aren't always in one acc...

Good morning on this great day! God is great! God is good! God is merciful! I found this song of God's goodness I wanted to share with you but it won't let me copy and paste, but the words are great about God's goodness and how much He loves all the children of the world. Our average VBS attendance last year was 105. This year it is 133. It is amazing what God is doing here. Last night was our high of 148. Wow! It does get a little chaotic with that many kids and 30 on our team. But the job gets done and it is all for Jesus. And HE gets all the glory, honor and praise! Many fiery darts have hit us this week but I won't go into them because what I just said above about God is so true. God is in control. Our God is greater. Our God is awesome. Our God is so great and greatly to be praised. And I love Him with all my heart, soul, mind and strength and I know that the God moments that this team has seen is amazing. And that Jesus loves His children! So, here g...

 Good morning to you! May God bless you richly as you seek to follow Him. That is for us all. And that is what I want to do, seek to follow Jesus. As in Just a Closer Walk with Thee. Tonight was great. God's blessings are awesome. We had approximately 121 attendees to VBS. But it didn't rain. Hallelujah!  It rained earlier a lot but not at VBS. But the ground is soaked. Three of our classrooms are outside so the ground is awful muddy.  The teachers are just going with the flow and not complaining. Praise the Lord! I will try some pictures again shortly. Having much trouble with it! God is good all the time. I am feeling kind of weird today. Maybe I am just tired. All of us are. I can't say we have been hot this year because we haven't. Besides the rain every day  the weather temperature is perfect. The two days it didn't rain at VBS, it rained during the night. And our last day of VBS there is a 60% chance of rain. Ugh! Pray for us please! This is ...