Archive for May, 2008

We received a wonderful surprise! Someone donated a total kitchen cabinet set, and someone else donated the money for a new stove in the parsonage. It not only caused us to feel grateful to the Lord, but it was also a great encouragement to the board as there was no money left to redo the kitchen, and they had only the Lord to trust. Wow, what a blessing for our board and their growth in faith in trusting God to provide.  Dale & Dorothy Wise

We are really excited. The area is having a crusade! I have been encouraging our people to go to the counselor training.  I thought only one was going at first.  Then another said she would go…and then another. Then when the training actually began, ⅓ of the church was there.  Praise the Lord for that! One dear elderly woman said she didn’t want to be a counselor, but she wanted to learn more.  I praise God that she wants to grow in Christ. Gary & Judi Ogle

With heavy rainfalls the last week of April, we praise God that the Volga River dike held. The church basement had a few inches of water that we pumped out to save the furnace. Sunday school was cancelled, and we had a water removal “party” for the evening service. We had 18 people show up for a cheerful time of clean-up. God protected us and even brought us closer together! We moved most of our things out of the parsonage basement, and moved much of the first floor up to the second floor. The water in the basement was nearly waist deep, and our freezer, furnace, and water heater were damaged – but thankfully could be repaired! We had help from many people; the Lord has really blessed us during this time and we feel thankful that the town was spared another flood.  Jeremy & Mindi Sarver

I was called to take a patient by ambulance to Seattle, and I asked a fellow believer to pray for me that I could share Christ with the medic I would be going with. I was paired up with a medic I’ve known since he was in high school – he’s now married with two kids. As far as I knew, he had no connection with the church and no interest in spiritual things, but I discovered his wife is a believer.  He said he was “jealous” of the faith she had, and he asked me to share the Gospel with him. He and his wife were in church the next week and he confessed, to his wife’s amazement, that he had received Christ after we had talked.  Cliff & Casey Horr