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!

Kick off went great!

Well, we kicked of the 1st sunday at Calvary Chapel Everett on Sunday. We were so blessed to see how the Lord provides. There were quite a few people who showed up, many who were very familiar with Calvary Chapel and some who had no idea, but were willing to come in and take a gander. Lots of people were prayed with and people we never thought would have been impacted by the service, gave us some very encouraging words after the service. Everything worked out wonderfully and we are excited to see what God does and who he brings next week. Unfortunatly we forgot our camera so you will have to wait for pictures until next week.

All is going well on the home front. Tadd was able to attend the Lake Stevens Men's conference last Saturday and then the Seattle Pastors Conference on Monday and Tuesday. He was very blessed and Charity was able to get some much needed housework done.

We have not heard any updates on our adoption yet but are hoping to hear with in the next week or so. Please pray that the Lord will do an amazing work in Haiti and our adoption will be pushed through the paperwork pile up. Thanks so much for your continued prayer. I was reading in Daniel a few days ago and it was talking about when the King Cyrus said all the Jews that had been taken captive in Babylon could go back to Jerusalem and rebuild the city. Only a small portion of the Jews wanted to go back and it greeved Daniel so much he started to pray and fast for the people. On the 24th day of his fast an Angel came to him and said that he had tried to come the first day that Daniel had humbled his heart and set his heart to understanding God, but the Devil had intercepted him and he fought with him for 21 days until Michael the Arch Angel came to help him. It really helped me to realize what a spiritual battle we are in every day. I wonder what would have happened if Daniel would have given up praying after a day, a week or a few weeks. As God helped me to see how important prayer is, it made me so thankful for all of you who pray for us and our kids consistantly. Thank you agian so much.

Start'en up

Well this is the weekend we are helping to start up the Calvary Chapel Everett church. Please pray that God would bring lots of people who need to hear of His love and that we would be receptive to the needs of the people that God brings. We are starting out with Pastor Ken and his family, our family and a worship leader, as far as I am aware of. There may be some people coming from the Calvary Lake Stevens to support this church plant also. We are so excited to see what the Lord is going to do.



Also, please pray for direction as to how to use the building that God has given us as it is small, but perfect for an Adult Bible Study. Unfortunatly, not a lot of room for kids. But this is what God has provided, so I am sure he will work it out. Here is a picture of the building and here is the web site again if you didn't get it last time we posted. http://www.calvaryeverett.com/



Lastly, Please keep in prayer the people affected by the hurricanes. Charity has a sister in Texas and obviously children in Haiti so we have heard stories and have seen pictures first hand of the horrible damage it has done. Many people we know in Haiti had family members die and all that they have (which isn't much) was washed away.

Creative or Crazy?

Well, Kenya and Elijah have started school and they are loving it with an occational whimper of I can't do this. Over all it is going good. The curriculum we are using is very helpful to get Mom out of her box, instead of the same ol same ol. Mom is enjoying homeschooling a lot more this year as the History part is a lot of reading out loud. So we have taken our books to the lawn at the park. We get to snuggle on a blanket and read while we still have some sunny days left. We are still working out some glitches but once Mom figures out what she is supposed to be doing. I am sure things will run smoothly. Elijah and Daddy got hair cuts the other night and Elijah expressed he really wanted a mohock (one of his friend had gotten one earlier in the year) So Dad decided, what the heck, he's homeschooled, we can let him sport it for a couple of days. Now my little sweetheart is looking more like a little punk. I guess I can handle it for a couple of days. The smile just doesn't go with the hair. Here they are writing their spelling words in paint.

Tadd has been working for one of his friends doing construction and it is working out well for them both, as right when we got home from vacation, one of his full time employees went back to college. Still keeping our sites on Haiti as we try to get a couple of big issues worked out. Praying that the Lord will open doors if this is His will. We definantly don't want to be in Haiti with out Him. Please pray that He will open doors where they are closed or steer us to the one that He has opened already. Also, that we will abide in Him daily and seek His plan. Instead of trying to plan it all out on our own , before He shows us what He wants. Charity is a planner and that always makes stepping out in faith very hard. We were waiting till November to leave hoping we could stick around for Tadd's brother's Wedding but it looks like that due to some paperwork with his Fiance in Mexico they may have to push the Wedding off until December. We would really hate to miss it, so we are seeking the Lord's direction on the matter. No word on the adoption, the kids were safe through all the hurricanes. They are on higher ground, so the worst case senario was that they would not be able to get supplies as roads may get washed out. Some of the roads they use were washed out, but they were able to find alternate routes. Please pray for all of those involved in the hurricanes, as after hurricanes there is a greater risk for sickness and infections (especially in Haiti) as all of the garbage and waste has been spread. Thanks agian, Here is a 2 week old picture of our cuties that another mom took while she was there.

Obviously the one in in blue flowers right up front signing "I love you" is out sweet and sassy little girl.

The cutie with the big smile in the plaid shirt is our boy.

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We miss them so much and when we talked to them on Tuesday we learned the sentaments are returned. We are so excited to see them soon.

A Happy Family Again!

Well Tadd is home and had lots of fun. Other than missing him a whole lot, we survived with no major catastrophes. We got all of our homeschool stuff in the mail the day before he left, so that kept mom busy organizing and reading while he was gone.

Kenya and Elijah were troopers, they did lots of fun stuff together to let mommy have some time to look through homeschool stuff. Beleive it or not Kenya and Elijah are actually excited to start school next week. They were outside yesterday washing off the little desks that they use and Kenya wanted to do a whole years worth of art curriculum in one day. We are having lots of fun and feeling very blessed that we have so much time to spend together.

Kenya and Eljah showing off the sock puppets and pottery they made to surprise Daddy when he got home.