IT'S ALL ABOUT SERVING OUR SAVIOR!: THANK YOU LORD

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

THANK YOU LORD

Today I just want to give my Lord thanks for my family. I take for granted sometimes the little things I'm blessed with. We are not only teaching these children here, but they are teaching us. There is a teenage boy here that wants to find his family. He has 2 brothers that he has never met and he wants to find them. He wants to know his brothers and he wants them to know the person he has became. Talking to him makes me realize how fortunate I am and was growing up. I have always had a loving and caring family. I have always had the pleasures of family vacations, movie night and going to church together. I remember when I was a young girl, we had this big sawdust pile in the woods around our house that had a road that went around it. My brother was learning how to drive. Me and my sister would stand at different spots on that road and my brother would act like he was a bus driver and stop and pick us up. I remember my daddy when he surrendered to preach. Every Saturday night he would sit us all down in the living room and practice his Sunday sermon on us. (So if we didn't listen Saturday we could hear it again Sunday. lol) I have lots of memories growing up with my family. A lot of these kids here are not that fortunate to have those precious memories. So thank you Lord. Thank you for my family and the blessings you give me everyday. Lord, please help me to never take them for granted...... and please tell my daddy I love him.

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Our Beggining and how it all got started

My husband, Gary, was the pastor of a church in Conway, AR. He resigned because we felt like God wanted us some where else. We came back to our home church in Little Rock, AR. and waited on God to show us where to he wanted us to go. I prayed every night; Lord show me where you want me to go and I will be willing to follow. I prayed for a full-time ministry and for the Lord to show me how to love as he does. I felt I didn't really know how to love and I wanted to learn. Gary soon got a call from a church by our home that was looking for a pastor. We went there for several Sunday's for him to preach and was told that the church was going to call him to pastor. On that same day, I received a call from my best friend to please pray for a set of house parents at ABC Homes. Immediately I knew what God was asking us to do. Two weeks later we set off for our trip to visit ABC Homes. I was very excited to be going, but thought I can't do this. I liked my time to myself, I liked to get up and go when I wanted. I didn't want to be around a house full of kids and kaos all day! God put me in my place real fast. He let me know how selfish I was being. I had just told him the night before, you tell me where to go and I will follow. Now I was telling God I couldn't? Well, he convicted me real quick on that one. We spent the night at ABC homes in Monticello and got to know some of the kid's. They were so happy and so full of love. Gary and I got up the next morning and walked through the campus. I started crying feeling overwhelmed by the presence of God. God was all over the campus and he said; Denise, this is where you will serve me. Gary felt the same conviciton and we knew God needed us there. We stayed for almost a year and felt God asking us to move on. We gained custody of a 17 year old boy, Jackie, who is on fire for the Lord. We are very excited about what God has instore for our family and very excited to have kids to minister with us. God is so good! We seek his will for our lives always!

OUR LIFE

I am so glad you dropped by to read what we did today. It is so nice to know that we have prayer warriors on our side. Please continue coming back and viewing the blog so you will know where some of our prayer needs are. God bless you all. We love you and hope you have a great day!

Love, Gary and Denise