Just a Post

Well I haven't blogged in a while have really been busy, due to summer being our peak season at work. Well today I was talking with my brother from another mother on this Hurricane coming towards us. I told him I was praying it away, but he told me something that really hit in the heart about praying For God to weaken the storm, not to pray it away to someone else, to other countries that don't get the help we do. I t made me think of the way I was praying, I was praying All selfish I guess, but I am praying in a different way, Thanks Bro. This Hurricane season has really been active, I worry about my family, then my house,. but you what, God is in control a HE is my Father in heaven and some times , like times like these. When we are so busy with work we forget who is in control, who our Jesus is. We have a connection with HIM & sometimes we don't, or even forget to use it. Just a quick blog to let you know whats in my heart today.

Epaphroditis Mission

Here is Sis Pat front of the warehouse.

Inside the missions quarter where missionaries & pastors stay.

Carport where supplies used to be.

Inside the warehouse Half the roof is gone. I pray your heart & prayers are with this mission work we (Grace Baptist Church, Harlingen, TX) support Sis Pat in here work, she is widowed to Bro Tino Mendez. Our church supports her work for $50 dollars a month, but she will need more than that. Her ministry is to supply need of Pastors & preacher & missionaries in Mexico or anywhere in the U.S. If they need literature or bibles or whatever she has in here warehouse she lets them have it. She also had food & office supplies. Most of everything was destroyed & insurance wont cover it. This Mission work relies on us the saved in Christ Jesus to help in someway. Gracebaptistharlingen.com will try to help some, will have to talk to our pastor & church members, if we can pick up an offering to help her out in someway financially. Please again be in prayer for the rebuilt of this mission. Bro. Roy Dale Kincaid was over there this morning with Bro. Rupert & Bro. Luke tearing off the metal that was not salvageable. Bro. John from Pennsylvania, & Iwere there also picking up the trash, & piling it together. Now she will need lumber to rebuild, & metal roofing supplies to get a roof back on her warehouse. I pray if you could help financially, & please pray for the finances,& especially help to come in to fix the roof.

Roof

This is my roof after Hurricane Dolly, & we are still waiting for the insurance to see how much they are going to help us with this. I have had 2 different companies come by to see it to give me an estimate, but it will come out about to $2000 to $2500 is my guess they give me estimates but they always say we still have to see the plywood & how much supplies we will need. So if you can pray for us on this issue, & pray in the money for the repairs. The insurance has already been out here, but no word from them on the settlement check to see if it will cover what I need. The insurance already send me one check for a water leak I had on the roof from the 3rd picture down. They send me some money to fix it, but then they were saying that money was for all the roof, which will not even cover the supplies I need. I thought about doing it myself, but it seems the Law doesn't want me to try to do it. Just pray please, I don't know what to do anymore, my house has tarps all over it just in case it rains. I am tired of seeing my little house like this, I want it fixed already.

No Respect

Today I had to go to the church some one tried to steal our window unit from the fellowship hall(annex building). It really aggravated me I was all ticked off that people don't even have respect for the house of God. Some one pulled on the a/c & shattered the window, but the glass came down on them because I saw blood stain on the front steps of the church. I was so mad they have stolen our stickers from the bus, the inspection & state sticker, so we carry them in our hands when we move the bus around town. Then they shoot out our windows in the fellowship hall with a bb gun. & to top it off they stole our weed eater from church. How can people be like that, I just don't get it. Even when I was lost I had respect for a church, no matter what kind of church it was there was some respect for it. Don't know what to do anymore please pray with me for these people to move away I know its the people from the apartment from in back of the church , but we can't catch them. I pray that God take care of these people, or just allow us to buy. & build somewhere else, I am really getting tired of this. I get so mad I want to get in the flesh,.. but then realize I am taking my anger out on my wife & kids. IT just makes me so mad. What can we do please pray with me if you don't know how to pray ask the Holy Spirit to guide you. I have to get to a point, & calm down, & thank God for them not taking anything else or breaking in when someone is there. Sometimes even the Christian have no respect for Gods house, so why would the world have respect for it, I don't know I am just rambling, just pray please.

The Zone

Here we are on the go karts, sorry I didn't edit.

The Call

Well today I got up & answered The Call to Preach Gods Holy Word. I have been struggling with it for years, just putting it off. Since I started teaching the 8 yrs old, back in 2000, I knew I had an attraction to teach, & preach. I have talked to preachers, missionaries about this calling & they would just tell me to surrender , & God would bless me. I talked to my pastor about it,& he said I would just know. So I decided to just take the plunge, & announce it publicly then I would let God guide me. I am in no ways perfect, but we have to strive for that perfection as Christians. I felt nervous, & I almost chickened out again, but I knew what I had to do. My wife didn't even know I was going up there, I didn't know I was going up there, but preacher called me up to the alter, it was awesome, I just wanted to tell the church from my seat, but Pastor said to go up so I did. Now I need to get started in whatever God is calling me to do, My heart goes out to the Spanish speaking community, & no one really to preach, & teach the truth. So now I need some teaching, & a lot of prayer, so I beg you for prayers on my behalf. I felt like I was stuck in my christian walk until I surrendered all to Christ, so here it is Lord, Have you will & way with my life.

Dolly Story

Well everyone is putting up their Hurricane Dolly stories, & everywhere we go people are just talking about their home damages, tree damages, water damages. Well here is one of mine. As we are coming back home from my parents house, because that is where we spent the night for the hurricane. When I was coming up on my house, I had this knot in my stomach anticipating the damage report. Well I will skip the damage report, because I have pictures that i will post later. Anyway we went to Lowes to get some supplies which included a tarp for my roof. This tarp was about $120, it covers 30 feet X 50 feet, which is huge it covers the whole house, & has some tarp leftover I don't know what to do with it, so I just rolled it up next to the house. As I am on the roof struggling with this tarp asking God to help me, because I couldn't do it alone. My wife & Mike were picking up all the tree branches, & the roof shingles that came off. My wife asked if she could help, but she wears skirts so she can't be up on the roof. Then my neighbor on J street an older man comes to my house to ask if he can help, he has a machete in his hand, & I told him thanks so he starts cutting trees branches in smaller pieces I had a huge tree branch right on my drive way. As I am struggling with this tarp, I see my other neighbors all around just drinking beer, & chilling out, but I don't say nothing. Then my wife is passing by , & starts telling me that these men should be embarrassed for not helping out. Then about 5 minutes later they start coming over to help, & within 10 minutes I kid you not they finished all the tree branches. I am still on the roof by myself struggling with this enormous tarp, praying & asking God for some help to stop the wind. All of a sudden a gust of wind passes by , & the tarp just layed down the way I needed it to be. My eyes got all watery, & I just said thank you Jesus. As if God had been trying to help me all along, I just wanted to do it my way. Man I could make a message out of this I probably will for the teenagers. Well I hmm, God & I finished the tarp & it has stayed on isn't God so good, through it all HE was there I was just so frustrated. I usually pray before I do anything, anything, work on the house, the car, anything around the yard, but this time I was just so over whelmed, with so much work around the house I forgot to pray. Sorry God. I just can't thank HIM enough for the things he does in my life. For the people he surrounds me with. And that is one of my Hurricane Dolly stories.

Details

This is our newly remodeled dining room, just need some minor details.
This our new living room, some minor details also needed.

Special Singing

Here are the kids singing in church, don't know the name of the song sorry, but maybe, Warla will know. I thought they sounded pretty good, & Mrs. Kim on piano. ENJOY.

Listening

Listening, I know people who are real good listeners, you ever met a person like that. I am like that sometimes, sometimes. Some people have that ability to listen, those people even have the look, you know that look like they care, because they actually do. Some times we need to be good listeners, & talk less let the people vent a little. It will make there day or evening, help them sleep at night. If you are like me I like to just bottle everything in, don’t want to bother people, actual friends & family with my problems. As I am driving my wife can see me in thought, & ask me,” What are you thinking about?” I will reply to her,” nothing” when in fact I am not thinking about anything its weird I guess. She always tells me, “I wonder what is going on inside that head of yours.” But just be a good listener you might help some one. I guess I have to open more up to my wife; I don’t want to bother her with the little things like work & stuff. I think it will be a waste of time. Beside when I leave work I really don’t want to talk about work. I would like to have more time, hmm, time is so precious yet we take it for granted, but that’s another blog. Listening I guess it has an art to it, you have to practice to be a good listener, some people it just come natural. I wrote this to just say that Thanks for listening & letting me vent. You know who you are, when we talk, it’s one on one time I guess. To my wife especially who has to listen to me complain all the time, & Bro & Sis in Christ, Thanks for listening.

P.S. Had this blog on hold for a while so just now I decide to post it.

Good Ol Boys

Big John with Big Gun

Shooting Skeet

Trying to shoot skeet at "Todds" rents house