And So It Continues

HAPPY FALL Y'ALL

After about 2 months of being away from home for a wedding, family visits, meetings, etc I am back to continuing this blog. I could have written it as we traveled but it seemed every minute was busy, especially with the wedding of our granddaughter in beautiful Northern Wisconsin. It was a beautiful ceremony, very elegant, but so tastefully done. As we started out on our journey, we stopped along the way to visit friends before we arrived in Arkansas at the home of our youngest daughter. We kept all of our Dr appts with the go ahead for good health for another year! Of course it was the annual meat making process - brats, sausage, and kielbasa  sausage, as well as canning tomato soup from a recipe I found years ago.

                                  
                                          tomato soup ready to can - so good with cheese dumplings



                                                    
                                                                     kielbasa sausage ready to cut

birthday party of great grandchildren Brielle ans Jaylen

                                                    
                                    Jaylen and great grandpa having a discussion

                                   

lovely Brielle

a warm and cozy fire on the patio

                                              
                                   pumpkin made from pallets that our daughter made for me

 Arkansas great grandchildren

We did meet with our church mission board who supports us with love and prayer in order to update our Caring Hearts Ministry. We thank them so much for everything their faith in our mission. They also supplied us again with 33,000 individual packages of a cheesy broccoli mix. Last year some of this went to support the flooding in the Houston area. We so uch love Prairie Grove Christian Church - our home church in Arkansas. As we attender our fist back to Arkansas service we felt the love and support from everyone. 

We left Arkansas for Wisconsin, stopping long the way to visit friends. While there we attended a church where our nephew and wife serve attend and serve on mission trips to Africa every year. Their ministry is called Centershot Ministry - where they take the gospel into the schools of South Africa.

Most of the the time was spent preparing for the wedding of our oldest granddaughter Katie. It was an outdoor wedding and it oured in the morning but cleared up and became a beautiful fall day in Northern Wisconsin - if maybe a bit humid. 

 a perfect setting in the Northwoods

 Jake and Katie Knobernik

 we do clean up pretty well

Grete granddaughter Harper who was the flower girl

so glad this is over

Are we blessed??? Truly we are. God blessed us with a beautiful family, friends, a warm place to sleep, and a knowledge that through Him all things are possible.  Another unexpected blessing was the gift and delivery of a metal shed which we can use for colonia storage - hooray!  my Texas room will be visible again!!

 a blessing

After we returned to Texas we were aware of the miracles that God preformed while we were gone. 2 people who had been battling cancer were declared cancer free - PTL. Those who were recovering from surgeries and illnesses are on the road to recovery, the food and clothing ministry is well into it's almost 6th year, and we are embarking on another distribution day to another colonia. God is so good - we give Him all the praise and glory and realize all of this is according to His plan.