We rolled into this windy community late last night (~9pm) ready for some food and a good night's sleep. Over the past few days Herman had built Seminole up in our minds to be a beautiful and hospitable community, and we were not disappointed. We were warmly welcomed out of the dust and into a great meal of Pizza and Dr. Pepper. The church family here has truly extended love and care to us and blessed us in some really big ways. We have been all split up into different homes (groups of 3) where we are getting the chance to see Texan culture up close. Some of the highlights of our time so far:
1. Getting the chance to attend an Ascension day service at Herman's church (MEC) - pretty much totally in German.
2. Doing our presentation (drama's, testimonies, songs) for the church earlier this afternoon. It went fairly smooth and the church seemed really blessed but it - they fed us food afterward with a rousing game of volleyball.
3. Getting to know the youth in the church here. They are thirsting for God and are excited about studying the word and serving Him. They have blessed us over and over again, but it still was fun to weasel our way into the dishes line to help wash, I think they thought it was pretty novel.
4. The presence of guns everywhere. It's actually true, everyone has guns here, muscles and real guns. As I drove to church this morning, one of the host's let me hold his hand gun. In his words: "watch out it's loaded!" Then after the service we were talking to a different guy who had his hand wrapped up in gauze. Turns out he accidentally shot himself through the hand as he was cleaning his own 9mm hand gun.
Please continue to pray for us as we spend time in Seminole. We'll be spending more time with youth and we desire to continue to be a blessing to them. We also pray that we can get people passionate about a sacrificial of following God.
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Seminole, Texas!!
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Just want to encourage you guys to keep on spilling Jesus' love everywhere you go. I'm praying the Holy Spirit will continue to bond you together, and fill you with His awesome power. Keep living salty lives to make people thirsty for the Living Water. I'm praying for safe traveling and good health for all.
Blessings,
Marilyn
Novel...perfect word :). I don't think i can express it in words of how thankful i am that ya'll are here. My prayer is that where ever ya'll go that they will be blessed just as much, if not more, than we were here. Thanks a bunch guys.
Suz
P.S. AWESOME!!
Praise the Lord for safety on the road, and good ministry reports (both of you guys ministering to each other as well as the blessing that the Seminole church has already been to you). We continue to pray for you that God would be glorified in your daily activities!
Blessings!
Professor Gord
Man I am SO thankful that you are doing this trip its so awesome to see young guys wanting to make an impact for Jesus!! you have truly blessed us here in Seminole already and my prayer too is that you will continue to be a blessing where ever you go. oh yeah having you do dishes was something else...we enjoyed it :)
Helen
P.S. I hope you don't have too much fun with the gun freedom that we have here :D
Thanks for the frequent updates. We are all enjoying them.
Karen updated us this am in Church re;your travels. PTL for travel and mechanical safety for your wheels (after all you aren't drving a GEO). We continue to pray for you to be salt and light where evere you are ; united as a group; effective in your ministry. We're praying, Harry and Nancy.
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