Absolutely Amazing

How to describe the roller coaster that we've been on over the last 2 weeks or so?!? Absolutely amazing!! If you are a somewhat faithful reader to this here blog, you might know about our church's Community Day and Egg Hunt that we were putting on April 15. Well that day has now come and gone. And all that's left to be said is, "Wow!!"

First of all, I had been working with a company to send out 10,000 postcards to our community inviting them to worship with us this Easter, as well as to the Community Day. Well, those cards did not go out. Long story and don't care to rehash it here. So we're a bit frustrated at that time. After finally "discussing" with them that I would kindly like my money back, they agreed and we made other plans to announce. Thankfully, we had already placed an ad in the local newspaper. I called and asked them to enlarge it to a full-page ad. Yes, that's right. Full-page. Color.

Amidst all this stress as well as other issues being dealt with (sick kids, etc.), we were praying a whole lot. I had finally turned it over to God and said that if we reached one person, if one family came to this event, it would be worth it. Saturday came and we saw God move in an absolutely amazing way. People came.....and came.....and came.....and came. At the end of the day, we estimate that there were approximately 600-700 people at our event on Saturday. WOW!!!!!! I was able to share the resurrection story with at least 450 of them. How great that was!! We were all totally exhausted, but a good exhausted.

Of course, I had to be back at the school from 6-8:30pm for our praise team practice. Long day. Sunday at church we hit our highest attendance yet......145. This was also with about 20 regulars not there. What a great day!! God is so good.

In all this I have been reminded of the David Crowder Band song that says, "Take my frets. Take my fears. All I have, I'm leaving here. Be all my hopes. Be all my dreams. You're my delight, my everything. I will worship You, Lord. Only You, Lord. I will bow down before You. Only You, Lord."

In all of it He was there saying, "Trust me. I got you covered here, Tim. You let go and let me take control."

Thank you, Lord!!

How Refreshing......A New Post

So I really needed to post. Life has been quite the chaotic madhouse for about 2 weeks now. In fact, we were supposed to be in Indiana this week for a visit, but that was postponed because Isaac and Riley were both sick.

Things are still going quite well though. As I said, life is chaotic. Today was Isaac's first day back at school in a week and a half. I'm not so sure he wanted to go back to school. After all, he discovered that there is a whole other "cartoon world" out there while he is at school. At any rate, he went back today and we look forward to seeing him this later this afternoon.

Riley is Riley. He went to his first speech therapy session today and did well. It should be interesting for us, having already gone through this with Isaac.

Eli is growing and doing very well. His mysterious rash is all but gone right now. He smiles a lot and laughs quite a bit too. He is even "cooing" some. That's something that neither one of the other 2 did very much. My theory is that if he wants to be heard later, he better get started now.

Susan and I are doing good too. We really hated postponing our trip to Indiana, but it had to be done. We have both stayed relatively healthy through this little bout the boys had. I was down for about 36 hours, but, thankfully, Susan and Eli have been pretty much healthy.

Life at Northeast Christian Church is as exciting as ever. Our website is finally starting to come together. It still needs some work, but it's coming. Check it out here, http://www.nechristianchurch.com . Our big Community Day and Egg Hunt will be April 15. Lots of publicity has been going out for that. We have done a mailer to 10,000 homes in the area. This is primarily to get word out that we are here. Maybe we'll get some response to it. VBS plans are coming together. Anyone want to come out and volunteer to help us???? June 26-29, 2006.

That's the latest. That's the news. Keep praying. We're praying for you.