A Church to Call Home

After many months of looking for a new church to call home and much prayer for direction from the Lord, we've finally found a church we feel God is directing us to attend. Fairfax Baptist Temple is a large Independent Fundamental Baptist Church with a strong missions program and many opportunities for each member of our family to get involved.

My daughter enjoys the nursery quite a bit and I think I'll enjoy the music ministry once I can get involved. They seem to have a wonderful Women's ministry which I believe is very important. My husband will have the opportunity to attend monthly Men's breakfasts and trips to the Shooting range with devotionals and prayer.

We attended the Candlelight service and had an opportunity to hear the pastor give a message and we were both impressed with his message. We had attended the church a couple other times but there was always a guest speaker. The pastor is younger than other pastors at churches we've attended. His oldest daughter just headed out to college this year. He took over his father's position about 5 years ago when his father retired.

We're so glad that God answered our prayers. We were starting to get discouraged because it was taking much longer than we had anticipated and we were attending what seemed like a different church each week. We now know that God has perfect timing and we should just wait on his direction. I believe God had us attend so many different churches to introduce us to new people and to show us that no matter what we think, he will always direct us to the right decision.

"A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps." (Proverbs 16:9)

For unto us a child is born...

I love the verse Isaiah 9:6 at Christmas time. To me it really puts the whole holiday into perspective. We get so caught up in gifts, decorations, and shopping that we sometimes lose sight of what we're even celebrating. This year in particular I've had some trouble getting gifts in from all the websites I've ordered from, I've turned down going to visit with friends to get decorating or shopping done and then on Wednesday night, while sitting in church, I realized it doesn't really matter if the gifts are wrapped perfectly or if I have the house decorated to the nines... We're celebrating the birth of our Savior and nothing really compares to that.

I went on Facebook this morning to find everyone wishing everyone else a Merry Christmas eve and complaining about how stressful the day is going to be doing all the last minute running around and wrapping. I posted and Merry Christmas followed with Isaiah 9:6... I don't know how many people will honestly read it, but I'm hoping that someone will look at it and remember what Christmas is really all about!

"For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace." (Isaiah 9:6)

Long Time - No Write??

Its been quite a while since I've posted a blog entry. I've been struggling with keeping up with this blog and keeping up with my family and housework. But alas... I believe I will be able to do it now that I've gotten our schedule sorted out.

Now its update time!! The baby is almost 7 months old (on the 24th) and she's sitting up and starting to try and crawl. She's even started using a sippy cup... we're still working on that.

My husband and I have started the Jim Sammon's Financial Freedom Seminar this past week. I think its going to be good for us and will challenge us to make better financial decisions and grow in our walk with the Lord.

We're still on the hunt for a church. We've visited several churches and we liked a few. We're going back to one of them this evening. I'm more enthusiastic about this particular church than my husband but we've only ever been to hear guest speakers. I'm hoping that the pastor will give the message this evening and we'll have a better idea about how we like it.

We took our trip to Florida for Thanksgiving. It was so nice to spend that time with my husband's family. We even got to go swimming on Thanksgiving Day. I have to admit, the drive down was a little rough, but we drove through the night and my wonderful husband did most of the driving and really allowed me to get rest and care for the baby. We did have the opportunity to go on a date while we were there which was nice. We saw Harry Potter and had ice cream at Friendly's. Its always nice for us to get out and have some time to ourselves.

Other than that, nothing else has really happened. We're just getting ready for Christmas day with family and celebrating this very important holiday for the first time with a child. I'm also looking forward to exploring more of the financial freedom seminar and seeing God's wisdom on the subject of finances.

"For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God." (1 Corinthians 1:18)