Hello my
friends! Well, our family is off on an
adventure. Yesterday after worship at
The Community Fellowship we loaded the van and headed south. It is time for an extended vacation. We are so excited about the trip, and we are
so blessed to be able to get away.
Let me say a big
thank you to our church family. We serve
a great church family that continues to touch our lives as we partner to
minister to those in and around Martinsville and Henry County as well as much
further around the world. Julie and I
headed start this church 7 years and 9 months ago. We stay extra busy, and it is time that we
take a little extra time to refresh, rebuild and to love on each others.
With that being
said, our goal in the next 19 days is to focus on each other … Julie, Rebecca,
Ruth, Ryan and me … that's the focus. We
will get to spend some time with family in Oklahoma and a few friends that live
a long way off.
I ask that you pray
for us. As you read this we are getting
on a boat for the next 5 days sailing around the Bahamas. Then we will drive across about half the
country to enjoy a little “living on Tulsa” time. A week or so later we will head back to
Virginia where our children will be going to youth camp/mission trip while
Julie and I go to the beach. We really
are excited.
Here are a couple
of the things we will be focusing on:
Proverbs 5:18 NLT
Let your wife be a fountain of blessing for
you. Rejoice in the wife of your
youth.
Proverbs 22:6 NASB
Train up a child in the way he should go, Even
when he is old he will not depart from it.
Deuteronomy
11:19 NASB
You shall
teach them to your sons, talking
of them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road and when you lie down and when you rise up.
1 Timothy 3:4 NASB
He must
manage his own family well, having children who respect and
obey him.
1 John 3:18 NASB
Dear children, let’s not merely say that we
love each other; let us show the
truth by our actions.
I think you get my
point. I am unplugging from the cell
phone, email, Facebook, twitter, the blog, my work and such things all so I can
plug in with my family.
As we return our
prayer is that we will be recharged, refueled and more excited about all that
God has before us. That is why I ask you
to pray for my family and me. If you know
me, you know that unplugging isn’t something that I do well. But here I go. Gonna make it happen. I plan to love on and enjoy my family.
If you get these
daily devotions in your e-mail, they will continue to come each week day
because they were scheduled, and they will be old posts that I share with you
once again. If you read my e-devotion
blog, there will not be many (if any) updates until Monday, June 30th.
So, before I sign
off I ask you to pray for three things very close to my heart. First, pray for our new campus and the
finances to make it happen. Two weeks
ago a mission team came in to complete much work, and they did a great job, and
we are still paying for the building supplies.
If you would like to make a donation, you can go online to www.thecommunityfellowship.org and click “give online” and then chose
“vision fund”. You can also mail your
best give to TCF, PO Box 388, Collinsville, VA 24078. Second, pray for our Nicaragua Mission Team. I need to raise $700 in the next few weeks to
help with my trip (use the same info above but chose “Nicaragua Mission
Trip”). And last, pray for our
back2school outreach 2014. It is fast
approaching and will be our best event ever!
Thanks for allowing
me to unplug, and I will talk to you again in a few weeks. God is good … all the time!!!
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