Happy Birthday

Well, Charity's birthday was on Oct. 14th, so her wonderful, romantic, loving husband took her away without the kids to Oregon. We stayed in cabins at the Medford Oaks RV park and drove to Applegate Fellowship (one of our favorite places to listen to John Courson, the pastor) We went in the morning at 6:30am for a worship service they have, before people go to work or school. Then every evening they have some kind of service and so we were blessed to start and end every day with the word and worship. We spent the middle of our 2 days there walking the shops and hanging out in the sun and reading.

Then one of the nights we were there the assistant pastor at Applegate introduced himself to us and asked us where we were from and why we were there, when we explained a little bit of our story to him, he asked if we could have coffee with him the next morning after worship. Well, we did and after hearing a little about his life story and sharing a little of ours, he offered us lodging in their "hospitality house anytime we wanted to come down and stay. It is a house for single mom's in transition or people who need a place to stay for a couple of days. They used to use it to house the young men going through their School of ministry, but now it is used for different random hospitality purposes. They have a wonderful woman named Shari, who lives there and keeps things up and makes meals for who ever stays there. He told us to go over and use the house to take naps and that Shari would bless us with dinner, before we went to their Wed night service and drove home overnight. Well the assistant pastor called and asked if he and another family could join us for dinner? Of course we agreed.

At 5:30 he showed up with Tyler and Hailey and their two kids. They had apparently, the day before, decided Haiti was jumping out to them as a possible place to do ministry and wanted some information on how they might go about setting up a program to send mission teams on a regular basis to Haiti. Needless to say we were excited to show them all of our pictures and answer any questions we could. At the end of dinner we exchanged contact information and left to the wednesday night service.

When we finished and went to our car to drive home, we were so in awe of what an amazing God we have and how he is always working things for our good. He always has us in the palm of His hand, no matter where we are and no matter what we are doing. It was definantly the best birthday yet. Here are some pics of our beautiful room and view we were blessed by.

We finally got pictures on Sunday of Calvary Chapel Everett, as I am sure you have all been waiting on the edge of your seat for them, I can not post them all here so if you want to see more you may go to http://www.calvaryeverett.com/

Where P.K. teaches

Pastor Ken's wonderful craftmenship displayed on a great looking sign

view from the front door

front door

Children's room

Pastor Ken and his wife Lynn make'in coffee

And of course we have to have the random pics of our wonderful kids


God Bless Ya!

Feel'in like fall

Well it is starting to feel like fall up here. The ground is cluttered with the most beautiful colors and we are pulling out the 2nd blankets for the beds. I have to say, in the morning, I wake up and don't want to get out of bed because it's just too cold to venture out from under the blankets, that is when the Haiti heat doesn't sound so bad after all. Just don't ask me when we get there how it feels, by then I will be longing for the cool fall weather of Washington. I am proof that we have a very patient God, since it seems I am never content.

Well we got family pictures taken a couple of days ago, by our wonderful friend Brittney and I am excited to post a few. It will take a couple of days, as she is so sweet to do a little photo shopping fix up, that is nessesary when you have kids in the picture. We are still revamping our newsletter and hoping to send them out and post one on this blog for all to read by next week.

We were again blessed Sunday night at Calvary Everett as God brought even more people and the resounding praise was that God had answered their prayers by bring them to Calvary Everett that night. We are so excited to see what God will do in the next couple of months as Calvary Everett finds a building and moves to Sunday Morning. Here is there web site again in case you didn't get it last time. http://www.calvaryeverett.com/ Tadd is still working for our friend doing Construction and is enjoying it. It has been such a blessing to work with another person who loves the Lord.

We spoke with Annecy and Isaiah on Sunday and they asked if we could bring their Grandma's and Grandpa's with us to Haiti. When I told them I didn't think that would be possible and that they would have to keep praying for their passports, so they could come over to see their Grandma's and Grandpa's. They said "OK, then let me just talk to all of them for now". Unfortunatly I was not able to grant this request either, so we resolved to just pray lots and leave it in God's hands. We got some new pictures of them this week, but Snapfish will not let me download them for some reason, so I will try again later and post them if I can. Here are some pics of Kenya and Elijah enjoying the autumn leaves.

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Grow'in

Well, we remembered the camera on Sunday, so we could take pictures of Cavary Everett. When we went to take pictures, we realized the batteries were dead. I guess we will try again this Sunday. God is really blessing Calvary Everett. The building we are in is pretty full and we are looking to move to Sunday Morning Services, by the first of the year! We are very blessed to be a part of what God is doing, the people He is bringing are blessing our socks off. Please continue to pray for the work there and the people involved.

Well we are getting ready to send out our first official "Haiti Newsletter". We are trying to get it ready this week and send it out to let you know what is going on with us and Haiti. We are trying to get a family picture taken, so you can put our mugs on your fridge, to remember to pray for us. We are so blessed to have friends and family who will do this for us.

Sorry I have been neglecting the pictures lately, I have not been very good at remembering to document the Genre of the Scheffer life. We did get a little video clip of Isaiah and Annecy saying Hi last week. It repeats itself over and over again, so Elijah watched his brother saying Hi for ten straight minutes the other day. If you want to try it, be my guest. I don't think these clips will be as exciting to you, as they were to us, but we do have some people out there who love to hear their little creole accents and since we love to show off their beautiful faces, here they are. God Bless Ya!