Quirky in Oregon : June 2008

6/30/08

weekend fun

Mike and I spent the weekend at Cultus Lake resort The weather was wonderful! Saturday we toodled around the Lake in a boat,took Dupper dog swimming and explored.

We had a spectacular thunder storm Saturday night

Sunday we hiked 15 miles for 5 hours one of our destinations was Muskrat lake

I got a blister the size of quarter

I guess since his last movie was just ok he has taken to modeling Headnets

6/25/08

CYIA update

Melissa had a wonderful time at training camp! She came back all ready to save the world. Her faith is infectious sometimes. What a Special kid the Lord has given me. Some of the highlights she retold to me are: she did “open air” so they went to neighborhoods and knocked on doors asked for permission to share the wordless book with the children of the house. If you don’t know what the wordless book is check it out. She led 10 of the kids to Christ that week, out of the 500 or so the mission’s trip tallied. This week really meant allot to her, she really feels the Lord calling her to children ministry. How neat to obey the Lord and feel a calling at the age of 13. wow.
Thank you for praying for her

6/18/08

God’s wheelbarrow

hahah this picture made my day

Scott C was teaching this Wednesday night and had an illustration I had never heard before but loved so I googled it when I came home here it is: well it’s a little longer and different but it still make the same point

A tightrope walker had managed to a tie a rope to trees on both sides of Niagara Falls, and then proceeded to walk across the falls on the wire, and back, without falling and perishing to his death. A small crowd watched in amazement as he returned to safety.
He looked at the crowd and said, “do you think I could push a wheel barrel across this very same tightrope?” They were quiet, for fear of encouraging him to risk his life again. So away he went, walking the tightrope, pushing his wheel barrel to the far side and back. They were amazed.
He decided to push the envelope further: “Do you think I could push a load of bricks in this wheel barrel across the falls?” A few folks had now become believers, and quietly nodded yes. Others were still afraid of the colossal fall about to happen. But he amazed them further with his deft agility as he safely went across and back.
By then, a large crowd had gathered. They were really excited at this point. He emptied the bricks and asked them, “Do you think I could push a human being across the falls in this wheel barrel?” By then they totally believed. They shouted in unison, “yes”.
Then he looked at them, paused for effect, and said, “who will be the first to get in?

To get in God’s wheelbarrow is to trust Him that He will guide you safely, it is the ultimate in faithfulness.

Aahhh it’s like beating a dead horse with me!! Will I ever learn to trust God in my trials??? grrrrrrr

6/13/08

CYIA

Little miss miss is off to CYIA tarining. please pray for her, her asthma is really acting up and that the Lord would speak to her little heart and use her.

Also my new friend from the CYIA dinner Jennine Varlesi and her family are missionaries to Mexico, I have the awesome privilege of helping them with a new website and blog. The blog is done but we don’t have a clear definition of what they do yet posted, I am waiting patiently for some words :) check it out food 4 the future

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