~Recording, Our Sunday, saying Goodbyes!~

Warning this post is a tad long...so sit back, relax, put on your house slippers, and just read away!  =)
Besides washing, sorting, cleaning, and packing...we've also been...=)
~Learning new songs and recording them so that the church will have music to sing them while I'm gone. 
~Me waiting to record... with Gaby and Sarah behind me.~

 Here is Bro. Edgar recording for us.  Muchas Gracias, Hermano!! (Thank you, Brother!)~

~Dear Sis. Farly always keeps the church as clean as can be.  She and Bro. Jimmy have servants' hearts as BIG as Texas! =)~

Our Sarah has wanted to be baptized for 3 years now...so she is very happy that tomorrow (Monday, Oct. 17th), Lord willing, she will get to get baptized along with her friend Gaby!   Tomorrow our whole church will leave in a bus from our church at 6:00 AM to head to a place about 2 hours away to have the baptisms.  We will come back that night. (So, you can pray for me on Tuesday as I try to get all of the wet clothes washed up, hang them to dry, (in the rainy season!), continue packing and get all the loose ends tied together before we fly on Argentina on Wednesday.=)
~Gaby and Sarah at their baptism class.~

~The Lord gave us a precious service today!  Lots of tears, and a close sense of His presence.~

~One side of the church.  Notice Noah's friend has his arm around Noah in the right hand corner of this picture.~

~Worshiping Jesus in the back of the church as well.  (We always have someone back there to greet new people, give them a songbook, or Bible, and to keep a watch on things so no one comes in and steals, etc.)

~Praying for the group to get baptized tomorrow, Lord willing.~

~Nataly and Kimberly teaching Sunday school.~

~Phillip preaching.  He was sad when he got to church and realized he had forgotten his tie upstairs. =) Poor man he has soooooo MUCH on his mind with getting ready to leave, it's a wonder he didn't forget his Bible too. =) The Lord helped him as he preached.~

Jesus made me a people person.  I L!O!V!E! people!  When Phillip is called to serve another group of people it's not long before they have wrapped themselves right around my heart! =) I rejoice when they are doing well spiritually, I am burdened when they aren't, etc.
I remember growing up in a pastor's home and each time that God would call My Daddy to another church, how the TEARS would flow as I told that group of friends goodbye. (But a good thing about that is...that I'm very wealthy in friends now!  One can never have too many friends! =)
I guess the Lord knew how to prepare me for being a pastor/missionary's wife. =)  It seems our lives are full of Goodbyes and I cry every time.  This morning through tears I tried to admonish our people to stay true to Jesus and if we don't meet again here on this earth, to make sure we meet in Heaven!
Won't Heaven be wonderful?  No more goodbyes!
~The church praying for our family.~

~This week Phillip has printed off 150 certificates to give to the people who have attended the classes that he and others like our brother-in-law Daryl have taught here in Colombia.  They only got a certificate if they attended and did their homework.  Here he is passing out the certificates.~

~We were sooooo SAD when we (being in the USA) received the news that Sis. Farly's Daddy was hit by a taxi in front of our church! =(   He went to Heaven shortly thereafter.
So, Phillip printed his certificate and gave it to his wife as a keepsake.  It was a touching time.
This is Sis. Farly's Mom with the certificate and Phillip.~

~Recording a couple more songs after church this morning. (I would have loved to have had Kimberly play her violin yesterday as I recorded, but Elijah still wasn't well enough to come out in the cool evening air so she kept him at the house while Phillip and I ran to the church to record.~

~Sis. Joanna and Heather Sofia patiently waiting while Edgar helped us record.~

~Our 3 youngest trying to color and keep quiet so Mommy could record. =)~

Please pray for the baptisms tomorrow that God will come in a special way!