YET ANOTHER BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION - Benny

Friday night, March 12th, found 16 of us celebrating Benny's birthday at his favorite Mexican restaurant, Ricardo's.

Here is the honoree with Jacque and the obligatory sombrero.

Suzette, Deann & Marc

CD & Debbie.

These are good friends of both Dave & Suzette & Benny & Jacque.

Dave, acting up as usual! Don't you love that mischievous grin?

Aric, Mickey & Susan

Lorrie, Josh & Daden. Josh is Benny's son. Baby Max was also present but asleep in his carrier and we failed to get a picture :o(

Mickey with daughter, Jacque.

Marc, Deann & Oksana.

Aric & Oksana with grandpa, Mickey.

Granddaughter, Jessica & her boy friend, Josh, were missing tonight. Jessica's work as usual.

It was a grand time of celebrating Benny's birthday and family and friends, plus some wonderful Mexican cuisine. We skipped the birthday cake and had miniature sopapilla's with powdered sugar for dessert.

HE GIVES US STRENGTH and oh so much more!!!

Yesterday was a L-O-N-G day, especially for Mickey. He went up to the church around 9 a.m. to help with sets, wiring, etc. for this weekends drama, CHOICES. He did come home for about an hour for lunch. I, and all the many others, arrived by 6 p.m. for practice and we did not get home until 11:30 p.m. We ran through the entire production twice.

By the time we got home I was too worked up to sleep!!!! Mickey is blessed to fall asleep the minute his head hits the pillow :o)

This morning it was up for our Bible study time and prayer, and to the church by 9 for The King's Kitchen. Fortunately, today being the 5th Tuesday in this month, Nancy, and her father, Bill, volunteered to do the cooking on this 5th week. They came in shortly after to prepare the meal with Sherry, Mickey & I assisting.

Kathy, who is part of one of the delivery teams and partners with Joi, was not able to be here today. I told her I'd be happy to step in and substitute for her. Oh, what a blessing that turned out to be for me today.

It was a further reminder, (as if I needed one!!!!!) that God always blesses us above and beyond what we hope or expect. I was just blessed, beyond measure, to get to participate in this side of the ministry of actually taking the meals into these 8 dear, wonderful shut-ins on this route. To see the smiles, hear the appreciations of thanks, and get to pray with them for their needs was a blessing I truly do not have words to express.

Thank you Lord for being not only a good and wonderful God, but giving us back so much more than we could ever give.

Please continue to pray with us for MANY souls to come to know Jesus as Lord & Savior during the 5 presentations of the CHOICES drama this Good-Friday Easter week-end.

MINISTRY

Just a couple of "catch-up" photos about 2 areas of our Coweta Assembly ministry.

Part of the team of King's Kitchen with the new Oliver sealing machine. Left to right - Janice, Sherry, Tim hiding behind his wife, Jeanne, Nellie, Jimmy & Mickey.

When Mickey started The King's Kitchen I had to bow out of my Tuesday 10-3 commitment to work at the Klothes Kloset each week but I still pitch in and help when I can on a special work day. Judy called for such on Monday 15th.





These pictures were taken in the storage area and the hall outside the Klothes room.



Barbara, who loves hats, wearing one for her picture.

I talked Mickey into coming to help with his stronger lifting power. Here he is cutting up and acting silly with Shirley.

Betty (standing) and Judy. We ALL work hard but have a lot of fun at the same time. Judy is the hardest working of all.

It is such a joy to work with so many wonderful people who truly love Jesus and have a heart to reach out to our little community.

SPIRITUAL SUNDAY 2010 #4 - Yes, Jesus Love Me

Thought it would be fun to share this here for Spiritual Sunday for us who have white hair or no hair at all...For those over middle age (or even those almost there) and all you others. Go here to read other Spiritual Sunday posts.

Senior version of Jesus Love Me

Jesus loves me, this I know,

Though my hair is white as snow.

Though my sight is growing dim,

Still He bids me trust in Him.

(Chorus) YES, JESUS LOVES ME...

YES, JESUS LOVES ME...

YES, JESUS LOVES ME,

THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO

Though my steps are oh, so slow,

With my hand in his I'll go

On through life, let come what may,

He'll be there to lead the way.

(CHORUS)

When the nights are dark and long,

In my heart He puts a song..

Telling me in words so clear,

"Have no fear, for I am near."

(CHORUS)

When my work on earth is done,

And life's victories have been won

He will take me home above,

Then I'll understand His love.

(CHORUS)

I love Jesus, does He know?

Have I ever told Him so?

Jesus loves to hear me say,

That I love Him every day.

(CHORUS)

Be sure and tell Him today......I have..

A MARCH TO REMEMBER....or try to forget!!!

The inner workings of my electric range, after the cracked ceramic cook top had been removed.

Sorry to start with this, like this, but read on and you'll understand and get the picture.

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One thing for sure.......life is VERY interesting &...........around my house never dull!!!!

Actually, Mickey & I both strive to live calm, orderly, neat, organized lives. We are of the school, "Everything has a place, and a time, and everything in its place and time." But, "The well laid plans of mice and men often go astray" and nothing could be more true than this saying for us in this month of March, 2010!!!

Even today as I loaded the pictures for this post and endeavored to move the pictures to the proper spacing, as I do ALL the time on my computer. Guess what? They wouldn't move. So, next best step I was going to delete the first picture, which was out of order, and just use the one snow picture. Guess what? I can't delete it!!! Hence, two pictures of the back yard with snow.

After all that, NOW to the original plan of this post and an update on this most interest month.

On March 3rd, Mickey was busy planting 9 rose cuttings that our dear friends, Don & Barbara, had brought over to Mickey the night before. This is a picture of the front and side, along the trellis around part of our patio showing the finished produce of all planted and covered with quart canning jars. OH.....and the DUPLICATE out of place snow pictures!!!!


Side view with the jars laid out for spacing before planting the cuttings.

Front view of the jars for spacing.

Mickey mixing the soil and various additives. You can tell by the fact Mickey is in his t-shirt that this was a warm, sunny day.

It was a good thing Mickey covered up the rose cuttings because THIS is what we had in our back yard the very next day.

Then my computer crashed but my sweet son, Marc, and new family came out Sunday the 7th to fix and reload information on said computer.

1- In the process I lost my entire e-mail address book. So if you haven't heard from me lately via the Valornet e-mail please drop me a note so I can add you to my NEW address book.

2- I can not yet load my pictures from my camera onto my computer, but we can on Mickey's so I have a mess with some pictures on this computer and some on the other.

3- I have a professional accounting system, from my years of accounting work, but when Marc got it loaded back it came up with mid 2008 as the last information!!!! Fortunately, I am one of these that does not trust the "paperless" approach of life that is being expounded and encouraged and therefore had hard copy figures as of 12-31-09!!!! Wheeeeee

4- #3 necessitated my having to rebuild the accounting information by starting from scratch with the 12-31-2009 figures and reposting January & February.

THIS is what a mess my desk was for several days during this process!!!!

As I've already posted I cracked my ceramic cook top in the wee hours of the morning March 16th. The new replacement, shown here on the kitchen table did not arrive until Wednesday, March 24th. Fortunately it came as a single, complete unit and was very easy for Mickey to install.

Return to top to see in electric components!!!! Out of order, of course.

See, another shot of the desk mess, out of order!

To say we hope April brings us back to our calm, orderly, neat, organized life is an understatement.

We are working hard, in the midst of this, on the production of the CHOICE'S drama that our church is putting on over Easter weekend. MOST of us connected with this upcoming drama have been experiencing a lot of upheaval and turmoil in our lives. Not surprising since we know satan does not want to see this drama presented and be successful. BUT we know "He who is within us" with see that it goes off just as HE intends it to.

I've also been asked to speak at a Woman's Day conference the woman's ministry is putting on April 24th on the subject of Quench Your Thrist. I think the Lord is supplying me with some much needed input and information......!!! Do you agree?

SOME CATCHING UP on The King's Kitchen

With my computer being out of service for a couple of weeks, and not having access to my picture files, I missed a very important occasion. The arrival of The King's Kitchen Oliver microwavable sealing machine.

Hence, for posterity, and our family records here are the pictures.

The box marked Oliver contains the machine and the other box is 600 black plastic microwavable 3 part trays and a roll of the covering plastic film.
Mickey reading the instructions. Side view

. Attaching the heavy roller bar.
The frame where the 3 part tray sits.

The large flat heating plate.

Opening the tray supplies.

These arrived on Thursday, March 4th and we were able to use it for the delivery of our 5th week of Tuesday delivery on March 9th. Everything worked like a charm. We are blessed to have received enough donations to cover the cost and shipping of this wonderful machine. Thanks to all those at Coweta Assembly that are supporting this ministry and making it possible.

JUST IN CASE - say "I love you!"

Saw this and just have to share it because the message is so very important.

One day a woman's husband died, and on that clear, cold morning, in the warmth of their bedroom, the wife was struck with the pain of learning that sometimes there isn't "anymore."

No more hugs, no more special moments to celebrate together, no more phone calls just to chat, no more "just one minute."

Sometimes, what we care about the most gets all used up and goes away, never to return before we can say good-by, say "I love you."

So while we have it, it's best we love it, care for it, fix it, when it's broken and heal it when it's sick.

This is true for marriage... and old cars, and children with bad report cards, and dogs with bad hips, family and aging parents and grandparents. We keep them because they are worth it.....because we are worth it.

Some things we keep -- like a best friend who moved away or a sister-in-law after divorce. There are just some things that make us happy, no matter what.

Life is important. We only have one.

We only have one mom,. one dad, one unique brother or sister or friend.

Suppose one morning you never wake up.

I was thinking...I could die today, tomorrow or next week, and I wondered if I had any wounds needing to be healed, friendships that needed rekindling or three words needing to be said.

Let everyone of your friends and family know you love them.

And just in case GOD calls me home ...