So, wow...it's been a few months since anyone has updated our page. We didn't forget about our faithful readers, we only got to busy to take the time to write, so please excuse us.
We have had many things going on including Corye and I being out of town for a few weeks in October, to visit family. We left Will here to take care of the property, handle after school, take the youth group on trips, and head up a Halloween movie night. Will said that the van was full of teens for the youth group outting to the "hell house", and he said that everyone had a great time. Will also said that the Haloween movie noght went great and that there were over 50 people in attendance for it. He was able to give a way prizes to everyone and serve lots of yummy food.
After Corey and I got back, we enjoyed a Thanksgiving community meal with around 50 people, including men, women, and children from all over the community. We were able to give away a bunch of door prizes and even some folks were able to take home some food since we had almost to much to fit on the table.
This past week we were blessed by several visitors. Andy Lambert and Larry Doub from Forbush Friends Meeting brought presents for 12 of our After School kids, along with items for our christmas sell. We also had John Carroll and Ken Spivey, along with two other friends bring down gifts for all the rest of our ASP kids and the rest of Christmas re-store. We are so thankful to everyone who sent down items both as gifts for kids and for christmas re-store.
We are also so blessed to have Patsy Cheadle down for the next couple weeks. She is going to be teaching pine needle basket weaving and quilting to anyone willing to learn. So far we have had 6 ladies, four teenagers, one child, and corey, will and myself learning how to make these things. We are having a blast learning how to weave baskets. Patsey also went out to pizza hut with the youth group the other night. We had such a great time, and ended up having to take the van and our car because we had so many people.
Coming up this week, we are looking forward to more basket making with Patsy, and starting quilts with her. We will be having our Christmas re-store sale on Tuesday. We are excited that we will be visiting the jail again this year, on wednesday, to take "Goody bags" including a couple cookies, razor, toothbrush, and a Bible. with this visit we are hoping to also be able to pray with the inmates and possibly see what some of their needs are. We will be having our youth group Christmas party this week to, so that Will can join us since he leaves for home on Friday, pray for no rain so that we can have our bonfire as planned. Then on Saturday we are looking forward to our last Community movie night of the year. We are going to be watching a Christmas movie and having lots of food. The last couple things that we will do before our christmas break is to give out christmas "cheer" to the community folks that live right around us, i believe hot cocoa is going to be it again. And we will be having our ASP christmas party, where all the kids will recieve their gifts that everyone has sent down.
We can hardly believe that the year is almost over as things have flown by so fast. Things have been so busy here, and there is always an activity going on that requires lots of energy and time, but we must be having fun because time has jsut flown by.
We hope that everyone has a fantastic and blessed christmas. We sure do feel blessed already through all your prayers and support of us and the community. We hope that our next blog won't take as long as this one to be posted, but be patient as we are staying busy at this wonderful time of year.
Merry CHRISTmas to everyone <><
