Outreach Ministry

This is for the residents of Alamo Rec Veh Park - I am only posting it here so that it may reach those people.  We are going to have a new outreach mission at the Church @ Alamo Rec Veh this year.  I am always looking for a new way to reach others in need – usually at no monetary cost to our residents. This one will cost you – 75 cents. Yep, only 75 cents will provide a year’s dosage of Vitamin A for children in need to help preventable blindness. This ministry is made available through Christian Blind Mission International.  I will launch this project when the season begins, but I need your help now. Please save your prescription bottles (just the colored ones) as I am going to put labels on them for residents to collect their small change in until they get 75 cents for a Vitamin A shot. Start saving  the bottles now and bring them along with you so I can have a supply ready. And don’t forget to save your pocket change. PS – I also need the RX bottles for a project for our ladies retreat, so keep saving. Don’t forget to also save you printer ink cartridges to help defray printing costs for the church. The beverage cap promotion ends at the end of August. Usually the people who sponsor these promotions have a time limit - sorry for the short notice, but I just found out. So tell anyone who may be saving them to just dispose of them.

Our very old (10 years) TV finally gave out on us this week, so we proceeded to purchase a new one - no easy task in this modern electronic world. We also had the problem of finding the right one to fit into the space where the old one was. Luckily, we had a very helpful sales assistant who steered us in the right direction. As I asked if it was difficult to set up (as we have no grandchildren or son-in-law close by) he said to just plug it in. Yeah right. Well, after about only 1-1/2 hours we had it working - well - sort of. Still have a few kinks to work out, but at least we can watch what we want to, turn it off and on, change channels, and adjust the volume (what more do we want). I remember our first TV - black and white - given to us in payment for Fred helping plow some fields. Plug it in, hook a wire hanger to the TV, and hook the hanger to the curtain rod.  Waa la - a TV that had about 4 channels and went off the air at midnight. We thought we were in heaven!

I love the beauty of nature "The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament hows His handiwork."  Psalm 19:1 This past week we had a severe storm all through the night and into the next day. Rain gages showed over 7" of accumulated rain - yes 7"!!! Pastor Israel's son, who is a youth minister at a nearby church, took a time lapse photo at 3AM - the height of the storm. It was amazing - the power of God.

Calvary Baptist Church, McAllen, Texas at the height of the storm.


A lot of the following pictures, I had stolen from facebook - a person cannot look at them and say that there is no God - His creation is breathtaking. Sorry if I got a bit carried away.

Near the Red Mill in Waupaca, WI - my home town

years ago my youngest daughter saw some rays like this after church and told me that it was God taking His people to heaven

the Northwoods of Wisconsin

this was posted on facebook this week -

can anyone except God create this

he looks as cold as I feel when I see this

 more beauty than the mind can concieve

 Northwoods home of friends

 the colors I miss most

Old Main, Fayetteville, Arkansas in the fall

 

the early morning after the rain last week here in Alamo


Today was a special service at church, blessing and praying for the teachers and students starting a new year. Let us pray that the students do not fall into a lot of peer pressure, that they strive to do the best that they can, and remember that God is always their friend. Pray for the teachers to not loose their determination and motivation as they challenge themselves as well as their students to reach for the sky!

 school supply donations for those in need

 praying for the teachers - 1st, 6th, and high school

 Becky singing God's praises along with the praise team

the students - all excited because their special treat after church was a trip to Peter Piper Pizza!!

 

The sermon this morning was geared towards earthy children and the thought that we need to raise mighty children. Child rearing begins with God and hopefully continues all through their lives. We all make errors - do  wish we had done things differently in raising our 4 girls?? Of course I do - we made a lot of mistakes but just plowed along with only what we knew. Sometimes as young parents we were so tired and frustrated that we forgot to rely on our Father. Although I am sure we all said at one time "Lord, help me"!!!! Moses was asked to lead God's people (his children) and Moses knew God would help him even though, as we often did, that we were not up to the task. So continue to show your children, grandchildren, and even great grandchildren the road to God's love through your words and actions. They are the hope for the future if we are to bring America back to God.

 

 

Please pray for us as this has been a rough week.  We have been attacked and had to defend ourselves against those who do not seem to understand our ministry work and how God has laid it on our heart to help those in need. We will continue to do so because "We serve God whether people honor us or despise us, whether they slander or praise us. We are honest, but they call us imposters". 2 Corinthians 6:8