Wednesday, May 19, 2010

PLEASE READ THIS, PRAY, AND COPY IT TO YOUR BLOG

As many of you know, we love Samaritan's Purse!!! It's the organization that does the Operation Christmas Child Shoeboxes and our small group supports this ministry with purchasing, packing, praying, and organizing the shoeboxes from our church.

Anyway, yesterday three Samaritan's Purse staff were abducted by a group of armed men in Sudan. Two men and one woman, who is an American from California. Can you imagine? Please join me in praying for their safety and for their immediate release. My mind just keeps going back to this 36 year old, American woman, who is obviously just trying to minister to the poor and orphaned. We need to specifically pray for her protection.

This won't make the national news....although it should. So please spread the word. God has promised that he hears the prayers of His people. It's time for us to rise up in prayer!

You can read more about this HERE.

Praying for their safe return...we are...
In Line With the Word

Saturday, May 8, 2010

Fun Friday!

Every Friday is Fun Friday!  Most of the time
we're getting together for a Bible study, but
we love just having fun together so last night
was party time! We started with our exotic menu
of pizza and salad! Then we went outside to
work off a few calories before dessert.




Everyone got into the action! As you can tell
we weren't dressed for serious competition
but we're not known for being serious. We just
love to have fun with one another and have lots
of laughs.


The games were Melinda's idea so she came dressed
just right and even wore sneakers. Check out Mindy!
Can you tell that she's always ready for work in the kitchen?


Laurie was determined to enjoy her evening out and
since she wasn't on call, when this conversation was
done, she left her phone in her car.  Yippee!


Check out my form. I actually look like I
know what I'm doing and managed to get a few
hits. Though I'm not an athlete, I had a great time.


We tried to convince Melinda to squeeze into Chip's car
so the three of us to get to a brief leaders meeting at church.
That didn't work but we laughed a lot trying to get out
of this low riding baby!



We made sure that we made it back in time to
surprise Mike with a little birthday celebration.
Mike loves all of his bath supplies!


Including his very own Rubber Ducky!


Chip and Jay cheered Mike on as he opened
his many surprise gifts. These guys are really
great sports! Brian had to leave a bit early to see
a sick friend but I know that he'd have cheered
Mike on too!


Mindy and Laurie really took this whole
birthday gift thing very seriously!

We have some BIG plans for our Fun Fridays
this Summer. Be sure to check in with us periodically!
We're looking forward to some Saturday excursions into
Boston for Duck Boat tours, walking the Freedom Trail,
miniature golfing and Ice cream at Kimball's, tubing and lots
more!

We strive to live and celebrate life, In Line With the Word!

Saturday, May 1, 2010

The Book of Acts

God's timing and direction is always perfect! So last
night we began our first traditional Bible study and we
started with the Book of Acts.  If you have
followed us through our blog, you know that over
the last year and a half, we have engaged in
many different studies and we have used a variety
of teaching formats and materials including books,
CD's ,and  DVD's . This time we felt moved and
God perfectly set the stage for us to study about the
challenges that faced the early church and those who
spread the word about Jesus Christ and why He
came to earth.

We are using the NIV Life Application Bible
and spent our first session reviewing the Megathemes
that will be covered: Church beginnings, the Holy Spirit,
Church growth, Witnessing and Opposition. Acts
follows the Ministries of Peter and Paul. It looks
like we're in for a great study .

I am confident that God will not only reveal Himself
to us more clearly than ever before, but that He will
reveal lots to us about ourselves . I know that we
will each be challenged in many new and exciting
ways while at the same time may find that we also
should never neglect or forget the basics of our Christian walk.