Settling In

Our family is settling in to the new schedule and life here in Wichita Falls!  We are having an awesome time and looking forward to what God has in store.  This Sunday cannot be described in words.  We had a young lady filled with the Holy Spirit on Sunday night in our worship service!  That makes two since we arrived on June 15th!  The other was an elder gentleman and he also was filled during our worship time.  This Sunday night following the eruption of the Spirit, we tried to continue on into the Word and the Lord took over again!  I believe that we are going to hear of great victories that took place during this service even in days to come.  It was one of those services where we ended up taking the offering at the end... to God be the glory!  We are meeting almost nightly with department leaders going over their ideas and plans to figure out what our biggest priorities are.  It is exciting to see what the future plans hold for Life Tabernacle.  We have also been looking at houses while we lease the Elms' furnished home.  A special thanks to them for allowing us to live in their home while things get settled and as we search for a place to of our own!  We just got our DSL working here in the house...things take so long to transfer.

Anyway, here are some pictures of some of the happenings of the past week or so:

My birthday at McBride's Steakhouse.  The boys always love to give me crazy cards and want to see my reaction...  As you can see below, it was funny!

We have enjoyed having Joel and Sheree Bean here for a few days.

The guys have enjoyed having access to a pool.  Thanks to the Bivens for opening their home and backyard to them!  They are such awesome people.

We enjoyed a time of food and fellowship at the Frazier's home on July 4th.  They are always great hosts for these kind of events!  Everybody had a great time together and then joined with a crowd over at the Pursel's after dark for shooting fireworks.  You can see (l-r) Rita Frazier and Tammy Bryant below.

Aunt Ashley with Alyssa and Alivia Bean...

Karla and I snuck off in the Jeep with the top down for a little while at the Sheppard Air Force Base fireworks show.  We drove through Sonic for a big drink and just sat in the Jeep watching the display.

This past Sunday night after service, we had our first meeting to plan for our new Spanish-speaking satellite location.  We are having a Home Fellowship Group this coming Saturday at the home of one of the Spanish speaking families we are working with.  They invited us to come together with them, their neighbors and friends.  We will be having hot dogs and all the trimmings along with singing and little time of devotion.  They will be interpreting as I speak.  We are in search for a location to begin holding services when the time is right.

For some reason, Chad always has a crowd of kids around him and it is no different here!  Here's Ryan Isom and Alayna Elms with him.  This picture was taken at the church and then they had a blast playing at Pizza Hut (we had 8 young children with us, plus Chad!)  It was good to see Andrew and Mandy home after a month of camps in Lufkin!

We may be settling in , but we are definitely not settling down!  Have a great week!