Teen Spectacular II

The Lord really blessed our Teen Spectacular this week! On Wednesday, we had 467 teenagers and 43 saved! It really was an exciting week. It was amazing to see teenagers from all walks of life there to hear the gospel. Bro. Reno did an outstanding job and the kids had a great time! On Wednesday night we gave away a '97 Chevy Cavalier along with tons of other prizes. Our church members worked so hard to prepare for this week so it was great to see the Lord bless it.

What a crowd!

Bro. Reno Likens and Pastor Jones

Slam dunk competition

Praise the Lord, 179 souls saved!!!

Teen Spectacular

On Monday, Tuesday and tonight we are having our 1st Teen Spectacular! So far it's going great. We had Bro. Reno Likens here to preach all week. He has done a great job! On Monday we had 288 teenagers and 89 salvations! On Tuesday, there were 415 teens and 47 salvations! Isn't the Lord good! Having over 400 public school teens hear the gospel was amazing! I helped Doug on his bus this week. We had 65 last night just on our bus! I just wanted to give an update, I'll post some pictures tomorrow after it's over! Pray for tonight, we are giving away a car so we expect over 500!

Catching Up

This weekend has been very busy! First of all, on Saturday, we had our Annual Couple's Class Harvest Party. It was a good time of food and fellowship with our church family. We had sack races, bobbing for apples, an egg toss, a corn pit, hayrides and a jumping hut. The kids really enjoyed it. Doug managed to smash the egg all over me so I caught up with him and gave him some back!

On Sunday we had Tug-A-Bus Sunday with our bus kids. I didn't think they would get into it much, but I was VERY wrong! They pulled the buses so quick it was over in less than a minute! My bus lost because our rope broke! It was a lot of fun and the kids had a great time. We had 50 on our bus but 25 of them were teens!

Aren't they cute?

Getting ready to pull with all their might!

This is little Jackson Elliott

Merry having fun in the corn pit!

Look at all that food!

That sack is bigger than Macy!
My husband with some other crazy church members!

A Week Alone

This week Doug has been gone to Lexington, Kentucky to the National Bus Conference. Usually, I am the one going somewhere but this time I had to stay home. I had high hopes of getting caught up on my house work but the week sort of got away from me. I have missed my husband so much, I'm just not sure how to act when he's not around! He thought about staying an extra day, but I convinced him that I needed him home more.

Last night, he started back and went to church at Temple in Powell. He hadn't originally planned it that way in the beginning but it worked out. I was so jealous because I knew he would get to see some of my college buddies! I miss you Sarah, Cathy, and Charity! But he had a great time getting to see some of his old friends too.

My friend Jessica had her baby on Monday. I went to the hospital on Tuesday to see how she was doing and of course hold Baby Jackson. He was a big boy! He weighed 8 pounds and 14 ounces. Both are doing well and are at home now. As soon as I can I'll post a picture of him.

Sorry there are no pictures, my beloved husband took the camera to Kentucky all this week!

Babies

This post is all about babies! Aren't they cute! It seems like everyone I know is having a baby or just had a baby. My friend Joy is having a boy named Jackson in December, my good friend from church Jessica is having a baby any day now and she is naming him Jackson as well. Mrs. Mindy, my pastor's wife is having a boy in February. I think they are going to name him Micah. So it seemed appropriate to show some pictures of some sweet babies! And maybe someday I'll have one of my own.

This is Tyler Pearce. Isn't he a cutie?
This is Macy, my preacher's middle girl. She is almost three and crazy! She keeps telling me that she wants to go home and stay with me and Bro. Doug.

This is Merry, preacher's youngest daughter. She is such a ham. She is 15 months old and has NO desire to walk on her own. Why should she, she knows someone will carry her!

Pictures, Pictures, Pictures!

No, not the pictures you're thinking of. Today at school we got the school pictures in. YEAH! This soiunds like a breeze, but since I'm in charge of the yearbook that also means I'm in charge of the school pictures. So now I have tons of questions that I can't answer about retakes and prices and mistakes and anything else they can think of! It will all be over soon! Well, I need to go, I have a hair appointment. I need a good trim!