Easter

I hope everyone had a wonderful Easter. We had an amazing service followed by lunch at my in laws and then home for a nap. It was a lovely day. We ended our service with one of my favorite songs..

He Lives

I serve a risen Saviour,
He's in the world today;
I know that He is living,
Whatever men may say;
I see His hand of mercy,
I hear His voice of cheer,
And just the time I need Him
He's always near.

####Chorus:

He lives, He lives, Christ Jesus lives
today!
He walks with me and He talks with me
Along life's narrow way.
He lives, He live, salvation to impart!
You ask me how I know He lives:
He lives within my heart.

In all the world around me
I see His loving care,
And tho my heart grows weary
I never will despair;
I know that He is leading
Thro' all the stormy blast,
The day of His appearing
Will come at last.

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Rejoice, rejoice, O Christian,
Lift up your voice and sing
Eternal hallelujahs
To Jesus Christ the King!
The hope of all who seek Him,
The help of all who find,
None other is so loving,
So good and kind.

We had eleven people baptized yesterday and so many visitors. My prayer is that those who didn't come in  knowing the Lord that they would after hearing such a wonderful message and songs of worship.

Give-A-way!

Over at Not Just Another Housewife she is giving away a Silhouette! Click HERE to go and enter!

Ever wish you could help someone with adoption?

Here's your chance! There are some of you that may call people that adopt amazing, special, wonderful or any number of other adjectives. We call ourselves called by God and very blessed. Maybe you are not called to adopt but we are all called as Christians in James 1:27 Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

A blog that I follow has an amazing post today about just that...bringing these children to their forever families. And how we can help. You can read it HERE . The Vaughan family who is very precious to our family just brought home another new treasure by the name of Daniel. You can read about their journey to Daniel HERE and they have great give-a-way going on HERE. You can join the give-a-way by making a PayPal gift towards the adoption of Daniel to help them complete their adoption. We will be throwing a Baby Shower for Shauna but we will be showering them with donations please feel free to link up to PayPal and let's hit that $10,000 mark!

Happy Green Day!

My need to craft and a holiday just means more fun for this Mama and Grandma! I ended up appliqueing shirts for all four of the young ones and then last night Grace and Jeffrey asked me to crochet them hats to match. They know how much I love matching! So here is the end result. Two cute kids! Pictures of the David and Caleb later. Wish I had them all together today...well everyday!

Can't leave this post without mentioning my Mom. Today she is sixty-four years young! Happy Birthday Mom!

 

Caleb Aaron

He's here! A  bit too soon..but he and Cassie are doing well. Keeping Caleb in the NICU for a bit to monitor his breathing since he is only 35 3/7. Once again there was a placenta issue with Cassie. Twice is no accident..something is going on there. And in both cases it stopped doing it's job at the same stage in pregnancy. Concerning to us and once again the placenta has been sent to pathology. These are the only pictures I have for now..Enjoy!

Missing my man + a need to create =

Mother & Son

Put this together just for fun. I have never had a child that looked like me. Cassie is the spittin' image of her Daddy and now David is following suite. Just fun to watch David grow and look so much like them.

Something on my heart

To say I have been moved after reading a post about a children's prison in Uganda. Well, I tear up at the thought of it. It is something that is taring at my heart. My dear friend just came home from mission trip to Uganda to love on and serve the people over there. The blog post from their visit to "M" made this gal sob. Why are they imprisoning children? how are we letting this happen? How are we as Christians letting there be orphans in this world? How are we letting one person anywhere go hungry, cold, sick and alone?

Please take the time to read about "M" here

And you can read about the ladies mission trip here