Its been a very interesting and fruitful month here in Decatur Texas. As the winter setting has melted away, the spring time air is starting to blow! The trees are being clothed with their annual colors of green, and little buds are sprouting on their limbs. Here are some pictures of our neighborhood, its looking more green everyday!
This past week has been awesome! Last week all the schools had spring break, so we had some events planned out for the week. We had the chance to hang out with the kids from the youth group, and served at someones house racking leaves. We went to Six Flags on Wednesday with about 30 kids. They all had so much fun, and I know that we did too. Here's a picture of us all.
Not only did we go to Six Flags, but Jordan had a guys night, and I got two girl nights this past week. One of the nights we went to a birthday party for a girl who is moving away (boo!). It was her sweet 16, and all of us girls had so much fun hanging out, eating hot dogs, and yummy cupcakes!
So, I wanted to do something a little different this time. I thought it would be cool to give everyone a sneek peek into our lives now here in Texas.
This is Jordan (Handsome!) Some of his favorite things to do are surf (mah San Diego!), and watch movies. He's recently been interested in Hunting boar (though he has yet to actually go), and has switched from drinking regular pepsi to pepsi max...way to go honey!
This is our newest addition to our family! His name is Ace, the great dane! He is only 9 weeks old, and already so big. His favorite things to do are chew on shoes. He loves to play with Jordan and go on family walks at black creek lake.
This is his 'buddy'...it kind of looks like him hehe.
This is me. I've recently been really interested in blogging, and websites (I'm looking to start a website so keep your eye open for it!). I love to paint and am currently working on a few pieces right now.
This one is called "For you shall enlarge my heart"
Here's a picture of our youth group (we currently are in a different room than normal, due to the contruction that will be starting on "The Attic")
Which is something that I wanted to bring up....this week was the second time that we had to push back phase II of "the attic". The reason being, we cannot start until the fire marshall comes, and well he just hasn't showed up on the saturdays that we thought he would. Please support us through pray in this! We are very eager to start contruction, and would like the project to be done sometime after summer. Please also pray for grace with the fire marshall, he can be a little tough on us!
We are planning a fundraiser for 'the attic' in April. The city of decatur has a city wide garage sale and we are on the map! We will be doing some 'spring cleaning' of our own here at central fellowship. We are wanting to get rid of the old and sale it, in hopes of raising funds for the attic. We've also recieved $1600 in funds to go toward 'the attic', we are excited to see this progressing. Thank you so much for your prayers, and we ask for your continued prayers in this as well.
There are some exciting things on the Horizon, and Central is praying about some exciting opportunites that have come up. One of which is regarding the Children's Ministry. We had 30 kids last sunday for kids church, and we are really feeling a need in this area. Please pray for the exciting opportunities before us, (some of which are top secret right now! ;) ) and that Faith would arise within the Elders and the members here at Central. As an encouragement to everyone who has been praying for us (we greatly appreciate it...we are immensly grateful!) these opportunities we feel are signs of life here. YOUR PRAYERS MATTER AND ARE EFFECTIVE! The soil here is being turned, and there are little sprouts of life happening with the seeds that have been planted. We ask (we beg, we covet) your prayers for this process with 'the attic' and as well as for these new opportunities to arise. God is moving, pray that he showers down his water and light on the members and elders of Central!
We are running, and God is enlarging our hearts!
Prayer requests in short:
"The Attic"- Continued funds, fundraiser April 16th, Constrcution of the Attic (GRACE with the fire Marshall) [Praise report: Funds of $3600 total so far for the attic]
The youth group "RESPONSE"- Continued connection/relationship with the kids, also a deepening of our relationships with them. A deepening of their walks with the Lord, [Praise Report: PS 119 is going awesome!].
-HART: a Girls bible study we desire to start, and continue on through the summer, utilizing the avenue of worship in the form of Art to connect with God in a different way.
-Jordan: Continued cultivation of his gift of teaching, and a deepening of it as well.
Small groups for Central
Easter Sunday-We have some skits and live artists planned for Easter Sunday, pray that Gospel is heard, that flyers be sent out and people respond!
The new opportunities!
We love you all!
Jordan and Sara (and Ace!)
