Down time!

This week we had lots of down time, had fun playing uno, war, farkel and doing fun stuff with the kids.

We had our wonderful friends The Wiedenaars down for the weekend and also The Shutts. We are so blessed by all of the friends that come down to love on us.

We had a great Sunday with lots of people, who brought lots of friend and our sunday school classes were overflowing. If this keeps up we will have to rethink our space. It is so exciting to see people excited about what God is doing at Calvary Ellensburg and wanting to share it with others.

If you have been following our blog you know that our van has been in the graveyard for a while and we have had a couple of good friends trying to help us bring it back into the land of the living. In order to do this Tadd has had to spend a little time under it getting part information. Fixing vehicles is not one of the gifts Tadd has been blessed with, so it is a frustrating process. We are so blessed by the help we are getting though, he figures it is a small price to pay. Since he really didn't know what he was doing under there and he was getting frustrated, we came up with a equal solution.

We are headed down to Yakima on Friday to get our fingerprints redone for the adoption process. We are looking forward (as sad as it is) to a "date day" between the drive down, the waiting room and the drive back. We spoke with the adoption director yesterday and she said it is looking more like end of October or November that the kids would be coming home. We are praying it will be by Christmas, as it is hard every year when we say, "Maybe next Christmas." It is all in God's timing and we wouldn't want them home a second before.

Still praying for the hearing with CPS on Sept. 8th. I know the Lord will be there and so it dosn't matter what else happens, we know he is in it. We would still covet your prayers.

We are also starting up a woman's ministry with the shelter in town. They are so excited and I think we are even more. We are doing baskets full of kitchen items for them to give to woman when they move out of the shelter into an apartment. Then doing a bible class for the kids, once a month and letting the mom's have some time to do errands or job searching. We are excited to bring the kids in the church to play with them and give the kids a chance to do some mission work also. Please pray for this ministry, that we would remember our job is just to love on people with His Agape love and He will do the rest.

Thanks so much for being a part of what the Lord is doing here in E-burg and being prayer partners with us to cover all the people and things going on.