Home Again!

Our family is back together again, Charity and the kids got home on Tuesday after a long 11 days away from home. It was lots of fun to be with family and the kids got to spend a lot of time with their cousins they haven't seen in a long time. The kids got a free week off of school due to Charity's brother's wedding and her Grandma's funeral, now they have to face the music and get started this week.

We went to the local nursing home tonight with our church Sunday School classes to sing and hand out cards they had made. It went great, the kids loved it and so did the people at the nursing home. It is great to get a little more involved with the community.

School starts at Central Washington University this week so we had a hord of college students come to church for the first time today, we are so excited to see what the college atmosphere add to the church, as when we started on sunday morning college had just ended for the summer.

We hear the winter comes quick here and so they say to expect snow in the next month or so. To be honest I am not sure how we are going to handle a real winter. We are used to Western Washington Winter were it snows a few days out of the winter and it melts with in a day or two. I guess the snow starts in the fall and and it dosen't go away until March or so. God was good to give us 2 all wheel drive vehicles. So we will see how our snow driving is. The kids are obviously excited to wear their snow suites more that once this winter and I am sure we will have lots of snowmen to play with.

The CPS hearing was actually a pre-trail hearing to establish witnesses and what each sides case would be. Charity was in Utah, so the Lawyer handled the hearing and the actual hearing was set for January. We will continue to pray that this time is just to soften the hearts of the people involved, God is always faithful and we know he will be in this situation too. We hope you are all doing well and have some time to settle down and spend with the Lord and loved ones as the fall sets in and things slow down a bit. Thanks for all the love.

Traveling

Well, Charity is in Utah, having lots of fun with family after attending her Grandma's funeral and then helping get ready for her brothers wedding. Kenya and Elijah have been having lots of fun with their cousins, on Tuesday we went hiking up to a waterfall with 6 kids in tow all under the age of kenya and elijah. It was a mile hike that was a little steep at times, but I think the kids out did the adults.

Then after the hike, Grandpa Davis took us to a Salt lake Bee's baseball game where they got toasted by Sacramento. It sure was a lot of fun to get sick off of baseball food though. Thanks Grandpa!

We still have 4 more days down here and boy are we missing daddy! Partially due to the fact that Elijah started a fever on Tuesday night and has been down for the count ever since. Because we don't want to get anyone else sick, we have been hunckering down at the house for the last couple of days and boy is Kenya getting cabin fever. Please pray for Elijah as we are not entirely sure what is wrong with him, so we may have to pay a strange Dr. a visit.

The hearing with CPS went well I guess, because of the family emergency, the Lawyer did all of the dirty work and she said we will find out next Tuesday if the Attorney General will make a decision on his own or if it has to go to trial. Please pray that the Lords will be done and pray for the Lawyer as she tries to put all of this together.

We are getting excited for school and fall weather as it usually means hanging out at home a lot more, we sure are ready for it. Hope you are all too. We will post some more about the remainer of the trip next week. God Bless your week.

Going South

We found out today that Charity's Grandma in Utah died last night, so she will be going to the funeral on Satruday. Then because her brother's wedding is on the next Saturday she will probablly just stay all week. So Tadd will be a bachlor again for a week. We could use your prayer as we are both away from each other and lots of stuff going on.

One of the really cool things going on is, we got an e-mail on Monday from another pastor in town who said he had seen our website and noticed we meet at the park on the first Sunday of the month. He wanted to inform us ahead of time that they had rented the same park and were doing a BBQ and outreach service and thought we should know before sunday. We checked our receipt from the park and sure enough we had it rented also. We called the Parks service and after checking their records, they were very apologetic and said they would call the other church and tell them to relocate. We really did not want to make another church try to reschedule on such short notice, so Tadd called the pastor to see what we could do. After talking they decided to do a joint service and BBQ for both churches. They are wonderful people and we are so excited to get to know them better. God is so good to make these meetings and do His work through them.

We also just finished dropping off our "Exit Baskets" to the woman's shelter. As part of the woman's ministry we decided to pair with the woman's shelter and make baskets full of kitchen and bathroom items for the woman who are moving out on their own from the shelter to an apartment. When they move out they have nothing and so the woman in our church purchased and put together beautiful baskets complete with Bible and the "Love letter from Jesus" tract. Please pray for the woman who receive them, that they would read these with an open heart. Here is a picture of the finished product.

Charity has her hearing with CPS on Tuesday the 8th and apparently will be in Utah for it. It is a phone hearing so it should work out OK. As always though we would really appreciate some prayer for that this week, that the hearts of the people involved would be softened and the Neglegence charge against her would be reversed. Also prayer for Tadd as he teaches 120 more people this sunday, than he is used to and that the Lord would bond our churches together for no other reason than that we are all a part of the Body of God. Lastly that Tadd would not have a heart attack from all of the frozen pizzas and hot pockets he will be eating while charity is gone.

Here is a picture of what the girls, do while the dad's are taking care of them during the woman's activities.

We will keep you posted on all the goings on, as we know God is in them all and they will all turn out for His glory.