Lost & Found

Who? What? Where? This is a little friend who was lost and now is found. I'm sure we have seen this little guy crawling around in the church sometime but suddenly disappeared. Then it was found a few weeks ago. A friend of ours cleaned out the furnace and what did he find. Yes it was "Lizzy" although not in any shape to do any harm to the insect population. Not really charred but surely dried. However it was still able to surprise folks. I decided to bring i=him home and forgot him in the car. Wakaine was going someplace with Melodie and found him. He carefully brought him in and said, "I don't think you really want this in the car, do you?" He was not sure he wanted to ride in the car with it. We had a good laugh.

Extremes! of another kind

We have had quite the winter this year. It seems we have had unusual weather. I Looked at the almanac for our area and it was predicted that we were to have a mild dry winter. Well whoever was predicting that must have been from another continent. It has been any thing but mild and certainly not dry. By the Way we are very grateful for the moisture. Temperatures were in the highs of the mid 20's and lows around the single digits a few nights even below zero. However this changed - rapidly! With about 6-8 inches of snow on the ground and the temp rising above 32 the once beautiful snow disappered. This happened in at least two cycles - 2 weeks of cold and snow then 1 week of thaw and melt. Only the second time the ground didn't freeze and more snow then cold on a ground that was already saturated. This created quite a few problems in Western NM and Eastern AZ. I heard that the tribal President declared a state of emergency in some areas. Maybe a few pictures will help. It was on the way to pick up a student for school that I had this happen to me. The student called a 2nd time and asked, "Is Bro. Seth picking me up?" when Melodie started to look for me. I had already started to walk and was almost home when they started to look for me.

Extremes!

I was looking through some pictures I had taken on my cell phone and ran across these extremes. It's amazing how people seem to like the EXTREME. Its not only in vehicles - its seems to be anything.

Update!

The little church mentioned below is located in Western Nebraska north of Ogallala. The little village is a ranching community. It is nestled in a small valley among the sandhills and suddenly appears as you are rounding a curve in the road. There is an interesting welcome to the travelers. Starting about a half mile or more from "town" each fence post is topped with a worn out cowboy boot. Then suddenly as you round that last curve there is Arthur and a half mile later its behind you. I'll bet their crime rate is really low. Too busy working to get into much trouble.

Where there's a will, there's away!

Back in 1928 there was a group of people that wanted a church very badly. The depression was severe and money was tight. Supplies were even scarce for this community. Not much timber around for lumber, and if there was it was expensive. This was a ranching community in the sand hills of Nebraska. The group of Pilgrim Holiness people got together and came up with an inexpensive way to build a church. I'm not sure what the cost was but it was built. Can you guess what the building material was? I'll post a couple pictures and see if you can guess. I enjoy traveling the back roads and enjoy going through this area. Its kind of lonely through there.

Twas the Week before Christmas......

On Monday eve., Seth and I "wrapped" over 110 gifts.

On Tuesday night, we had the children come to practice playing the bells for our Christmas Program. Afterwards, we played a few games, had a talk, and then opened some gifts.

THANK - YOU LEBANON GOD'S MISSIONARY CHURCH FOR BRINGING LOTS OF LAUGHTER AND JOY TO OUR CORNER OF THE WORLD! APPRECIATE IT MUCH!

Wed. Ladies' Night

Thursday, Christmas Service

There were 43 in attendance with at least 3 people who came for the very first time and several who attended that haven't for years. Yes, we were encouraged! The whole program was centered around not having an Xmas, just another holiday, but a CHRISTmas!

Friday School Gift Exchange N Pizza

Friday evening - Paricipating in Program at Hospah Holiness Mission

The Tale Of Two Kings - It was Awesome!

A Herod's Life vs Jesus' -

Last Scene - Everyone will bow at the name of Jesus! (even Herod who scurged and ridiculed Him) It was a very powerful ending as the whole cast went to the front and bowed down before the cross and Jesus, laying our "trophies" at His feet, while someone sang, "Have you any room for Jesus?"

Christmas Decor

How does it look around our place at Christmas?

This year the students chose to decorate the classroom in gifts and bows.

At the church, we always try to decorate with a message.