Greatly Blessed

Well gald to say the yard sale was a success. We sold around 470.00 in about 4 hours. Big thank you to my special loving daughter, Amanda who was the the one who brought the family together for this idea and taking the reigns :) (she took these pictures and is not in any of them :( ..
..and a special thanks to my sis who went to bed at 1:30am and woke at 5:00am to set out all the items for sale with the help of head lights from the truck in the dark , thanks Sherry :P,

and my sis in law, Suzie for the breakfast from "Bo's" of course I can't leave out the men....what can I say...Love you all....

There will be another sale here at our house in the next few weeks a Moving sale, everything must go....
Keep us in your prayers. Time is ticking bye..

Till next blog...

quite some time

Hello out there..
Sorry it has been so long since my last post. Just want to give a short update on how God is working. We sold Donald's motorcycle and now the only item we have left is our camper/ toyhauler. If we don't sell it we will store it till we come back home on furlough then we can stay in it without disrupting anyone for a place to stay.
What can I say..God is Great !!

Oh, forgot, you can now read our blog from the Children's Cup Website, www.childrenscup.org,click on our blogs in the upper right of the page.
thank you Stephanie...

We want to express thanks for all the cards and prayers with the death of my dad and a continuing "thank you" from the bottom of our hearts to all of our supporters of prayer and monitary donations.

Our families are putting on a yard sale Saturday Aug.23rd to raise money to purchase items for a BBQ pork and chicken plate sale in September...

We are greatly blessed...
thank YOU and please continue the prayers for us !!!

God Bless
Donald & Diane

Remembering

Remembering a year ago today "My birthday" the first time Diane and I were in Swaziland at our first care point stop where an over privileged spoild american was honored by over two-hundred under privileged Swazi children that sang happy birthday to me. To date that was the best birthday ever, no there was no cake with many candles, no ballons or many brigthly wrapped birthday gifts but just an awsome knowledge of knowing just how very blessed I (we) are. It was also two days from now a year ago that God confiremen in mine amd Diane's heart that this would be our new home, the place that HE was calling us to help minister to those most vaugnerable and very vauluable children. It is just but a few months now God willing we will be back in that place God has called us to. Please keep us and our families in your prayers during this time of transsition for us and espesially the children of Swaziland. Thank you all our supporters and for a wonderful church family. To God be the glory great thing He is doing.

40 days of Prayer

Hey,
Children's cup is staring their 40 days of prayer...check it out..

http://www.childrenscup.org/v2/fortydays

We will be praying...

Exaltations

Just as David praised...........This is my praise..

10 David praised the LORD in the presence of the whole assembly, saying,
"Praise be to you, O LORD, God of our father Israel, from everlasting to everlasting.
11 Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the majesty and the splendor, for everything in heaven and earth is yours. Yours, O LORD, is the kingdom; you are exalted as head over all.
1 Chron. 29:10-11

AMEN
(this says it all)

Blown Away !

No, not weather related, God Elated..
God is Great!! He has blessed us with wonderful friends who are loving and compassionate to our call to the mission field.
Just want to say "Bless you"

With Love in Christ always.

Patience

God makes a promise, faith believes it, hope anticipates it, patience quietly awaits it.
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I read this today in my devotional and thought how true..
After several months of waiting God sent someone to purchase my motorcycle. Patience quietly waits, in HIS time.. my faith stayed strong and his promise always rings true.

Long time no blog

Sorry it has been so long between blogs. We have been very busy.
Donald's return from Swaziland was good, no flight problems on the return but he told me when they were on the flight going over they wound up having a 4 hour delay at one of the stops for them to repair something on the engine.
While he was there the team treated around 1700 children and adults. There were a large number who came to know the Lord during their 5 days working in the clinic. "To God be the Glory".
Donald said he would not have come home if it would have been possible for me to join him, things there are worse than when we were there in August 2007.
We attended a meeting at one of our local churches last week and enjoyed the music and preaching, Met a wonderful young missionary couple and received a lot of pointers.
We are now trying to get our information printed on brochures and prayer cards.
Still working on our support and need your prayers. Special thank you to all for everything you do for us.
Thanks for hanging in there with us....God Bless and will try to write again a lot sooner than last.

Love you all..

up up and away (ha ha )

Well, Donald has left for Swaziland this morning. Hoping his flight will be a safe one, please pray for him. This is the first time he has flown anywhere (especially 18 hours) without me.
He is joining a the Doctor and a few more to do medical visits to all the care points.
He's only been gone 2 hours and I miss him already. Since the flight is so long I probably won't hear from him until Monday, but I know God is with him and will take care of him for me.
Its hard after 29 years of marriage not to think I take care of him when we all know the truth...its God....

Our donations are still short and slow, but I have to keep the faith that God has called us and he will provide.
Thank YOU to all who have given and thankYOU to all who are keeping us in your prayers, (please continue)

God watches over us all the time, my car broke down this week and we were expecting a large repair bill but...God had sent us someone a couple of months ago who has a car like ours (20 year old Mazda) who had told us that if we ever needed repairs done to let him know, he just enjoyed working on them. Well, we called and he fixed ...how about $80.00 ...Tell me God is not Great !!!

Please reply if you read this so I will know if anyone is really reading this..
Till next time...

EGG or POTATO ?

I ran across this and thought about Mankind….
A person can respond to suffering like an egg, or like a potato. A potato goes into the boiling water hard, but comes out pliable. An egg goes into the boiling water soft and comes out hard. Author Unknown

Kind of like us…before Jesus – hard like the egg… but, after we accept Jesus in our hearts we become pliable and useful, soft and sensitive to suffering.

Our prayer is that more people will become like the Potato.