well.. ok.. maybe not live! exactly, but pretty close! This last weekend we spoke and participated in the service at our second home church, Killarney Calvary Baptist Church, which is also where we used to youth pastor. They post all their services online, and so Ive decided to link to the page so you all have the opportunity to see it too! If you do watch, about half way thru, Lavinia Bryce (the wife of one of our former youth kids - yeah.. we feel old... sings an absolutly AMAZING special music number that just spoke to my heart- what a talented young lady!)
Now.. a few disclaimers... a) this is our second home church.. so we are bit more relaxed here... joking around, laughing, taking pictures of our church family from the front.. yeah. we are a bit nutty. b) SPOILER ALERT- should you decide to go check this out, and we come to your church later this year... you will probably get the same sermon in some variation.. just so you know! (its a gooder though and even seven sundays in, Im still loving listening to it!!) c) I am in the praise team... and i havent sang in a praise team for nearly three years... so no laughing.
me singing in the praise team.. what a blessing it was to be able to participate again with them.. and even cooler was the fact that FOUR of our former youth kids (both jr. and sr.) were involved with the team that sunday- God is Good!
The Pastor, and many of our friends and former youth prayed over us at the end of the service.
We stayed with good friends (Corrie and Grant and their daughter Elora and McCanna- sp?) Elora Loved to play with Tendai!
frost on the trees on the way home..... oh how i love the frost on the trees!!
moose we saw on the way home.... he was cute. (i used to be scared of moose till i got chased by an elephant.. now as long as the moose is BESIDE the road and not on it.. i think they are cute!)
We recently sent out an our monthly email update, where we asked for folks to continue praying for us, but also to COMMIT to praying for us... I'm going to post a little excerpt from that here
"Our 500PPD (pray-ers per day) Challenge!
Lately God gave us a desire to find 500 people who would
commit to praying for us daily. It seemed like a big number since we are asking
for regular prayer from each person, and asking them to sign up for our email
newsletter so they can have access to our monthly prayer needs and
requests! (currently we have about
150 people receiving that newsletter). If you are one of those people (who
already receive the email updates) BUT have not yet signed up to be one of our “500
pray-ers per day”, and would like to, please send me an email with your name & email address and stating you
would like to commit to praying for us every day! If we wont be visiting your
church soon we can even mail you a new prayer card and magnet so you have some
reminders!
We have realized these last two years in Mozambique that
prayer makes a huge difference. I cannot tell you how many times someone has
emailed me and said “I felt I needed to pray for you today… was something going
on?” We know when people are praying for us, we feel the encouragement and
support even across the planet! Mozambique was recently listed at #165 out of
169 countries on the human development index- it is a tough place to live. We
are blessed to have a home and access to clean water and safe food, but we are
daily faced with the realities of working with the local community, many of
whom do not have those opportunities.
Please take a moment to consider signing up to be one of our
500Pray-ers, we are believing we can get to 500 who have committed and signed up by the time our furlough is over!"
This afternoon the first few flakes of what the forecasters are saying will amount to 15 cm are falling.. its so wonderful to be celebrating the season in "normal" style- with snow, hot chocolate, mittens, vans that wont start in the cold.... all the fun stuff! Hope you are enjoying it as much as we are!
Lately Ive been encouraged to find that LOTS of people are reading my blog (which is nice.. cus i didnt think very many were) so Im motivated now to keep updating it more often!! Ill try to get back to doing it once a week.. though theres only so many pics of Rick preaching wearing the same outfit that you guys are gonna want to see!! Im hoping to do a post on our Unique Christmas Gifts in the next week or so, keep your eyes open for that!!
God Bless,
Rick, Heather & Tendai!
p.s. if you would like to receive our monthly email update send us your email address and we will add you to the list!!!
2 comments:
I love that they prayed over you after the service! Wow. It's like a big family :) I hope one day our church is also the kind of community that hoots during singing, and prays for people on Sunday morning - right there.
Love it.
Hi Kim... the hooting is one of my favorite parts of that service.. allways has been! There is a boy there who struggles with some health and development issues, but he LOVES to praise God and to praise Him openly.. we allways used to sit beside him in church, and did again on Sunday.. it was such a blessing- he seems to be able to "feel" when God is at work in the service.
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