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Dear Friends and Prayer Warriors,
After almost two years since being introduced to JobsforLife, we are finally going to launch our first class on Tuesday of this week! The Lord has heard your prayers and graciously provided us with our first group of students. From my conversations and their pre-class surveys, I am fairly sure none of these folks know the Lord. All of them have complicated and challenging life situations, and all of them seem motivated to pursue change. Please pray that they follow through and show up this week! Also please pray for the volunteers who will be champions and mentors, that the Lord would bless their conversations and enable them to demonstrate genuine Christian love over the next two months. Most importantly, pray that as we talk about the dignity of work and the transformational power of the Gospel, that our students' hearts would be soft and receptive. Pray that the Lord would open the eyes of their hearts to believe that Christ wants to redeem every area of their lives, and that true meaning and hope is only found in Him. The Gospel is the only means of transforming the human heart, and our prayer is that JobsforLife gives us the opportunity to share that message in a compelling way over the next two months.
Ministry at the Storehouse is flourishing. July we saw fewer clients, but August was busy with families coming in to get clothes for their kids as they start the new school year. We're blessed to be in a position to help them! If you're local, spread the word that we need donations of kids clothes, especially jeans. They were seriously depleted last month.
Things you can be praying for this week...
1. Please pray for our JfL launch and all the details that entails.
2. Please continue to pray for Mrs. Earlene's recovery from her back surgery. She's moving some now, but her recovery is progressing more slowly than she had hoped.
3. Please pray for Meredith as she prepares to take here Physician Assistant National Re-certification Exam (PANRE) in two weeks. It's crazy to think that she's been a PA for 7 years.
Dear Friends and Prayer Warriors,
After almost two years since being introduced to JobsforLife, we are finally going to launch our first class on Tuesday of this week! The Lord has heard your prayers and graciously provided us with our first group of students. From my conversations and their pre-class surveys, I am fairly sure none of these folks know the Lord. All of them have complicated and challenging life situations, and all of them seem motivated to pursue change. Please pray that they follow through and show up this week! Also please pray for the volunteers who will be champions and mentors, that the Lord would bless their conversations and enable them to demonstrate genuine Christian love over the next two months. Most importantly, pray that as we talk about the dignity of work and the transformational power of the Gospel, that our students' hearts would be soft and receptive. Pray that the Lord would open the eyes of their hearts to believe that Christ wants to redeem every area of their lives, and that true meaning and hope is only found in Him. The Gospel is the only means of transforming the human heart, and our prayer is that JobsforLife gives us the opportunity to share that message in a compelling way over the next two months.
Ministry at the Storehouse is flourishing. July we saw fewer clients, but August was busy with families coming in to get clothes for their kids as they start the new school year. We're blessed to be in a position to help them! If you're local, spread the word that we need donations of kids clothes, especially jeans. They were seriously depleted last month.
Things you can be praying for this week...
1. Please pray for our JfL launch and all the details that entails.
2. Please continue to pray for Mrs. Earlene's recovery from her back surgery. She's moving some now, but her recovery is progressing more slowly than she had hoped.
3. Please pray for Meredith as she prepares to take here Physician Assistant National Re-certification Exam (PANRE) in two weeks. It's crazy to think that she's been a PA for 7 years.
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| Lily started Preschool with mommy this month! She loves to learn! |
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| Lily turned 4 on August 23. We hosted a "Tea Party" complete with costumes to celebrate! |
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| Lily and Hosea in their Tea Party hats. |
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| Our guests decorated tea cups to take home. |
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| The finished cups! |
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| Even the grown-ups had fun dressing up. |
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| Hats for everyone! |
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| This big guy turned 10 months. |
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| I need to photoshop this one and put him in mid air somewhere. |
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| With a crawler in the house, no cord is safe! |
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| No children were harmed in the taking of these photos! |
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| First trip to Splash Country. |
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| Our kiddos LOVE the water! |
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| Riding the carousel at Dollywood. |
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| Hosea spent the day at Dollywood grinning in the stroller. |
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| Did I mention he loves the water? |
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| Since we normally post smiling pictures of our beautiful children, here's a sneak peak at our behind the scenes. This is Lily's hair every morning! |
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