~Central PA Youth Convention, Daddy & Moma's 80th, family visits us, Southwest VA Youth Convention, etc.~

 Thank you for praying! The Lord DID visit us with a Special Sense of His SWEET Presence at Central PA Youth Convention (CPYC)!   Such great services, alter services, sweet testimonies, and wonderful times with dear friends! We consider the Youth Conventions like "Camp meeting in the Winter."  

Now, let me share lots of pictures with y'all!  

~Mary took colored pencils, cut them off, glued them together, and then formed them into a heart for her sweet friend Maren.~

~On the way to CPYC.  Levi came with us.~

Wonderful CPYC of 2023...

Already over? How can it be?

I came to CPYC needing a fresh touch.

Oh! How need God's Presence, so Much!!

I came to soak in and refill...

To determine even more to do HIS WILL!

Like Daffodils soaking up the Rays of Sun

In the midst of life, being with Jesus helps a Ton!

We love everything about CPYC!

It's a great Convention for our Whole Family!

We love the Preaching, the Songs, the Games, and More

The Testimonies, Friendships, and the yummy Food Galore!

For us, we don't go places, just 'cause of a Trend.

We go where God is, and CPYC we Recommend!

As we all are now back home and back in the Groove

May Jesus' Presence stay close and may He continue to Move!

~Heather~ Feb. 2023

~CPYC 2023~

~Taking a family selfie...

~then David Spivey jumped in.~

~Sarah, Bethany, and me.~

~Heather, Kim H., and Sarah.~

~Visiting after church.~

~Macie, Abigail, and Kelsey.~

~Heather, RaeQuelle, Sarah~

~Noah's team playing volleyball.~

~Maren and Mary's team~

~The Beavertown church team does a phenomenal job serving all of us a yummy Sunday dinner!!!  And They serve it FAST!!! This was the Huge line on Sunday waiting to eat!~

~The annual "Heather" Selfie. :-) ~

~The Anthonys speaking about parenting.~

~The youth choir.~

~Us and our cousin AJ.~

~Brian, Phillip and I.~

~I borrowed these pics.~

~A selfie with Josh and Sarah, and our dear friends, Josh's Parents, David and Kelly.

~A sweet paper that Mary wrote for her English PACE, 

"If God lets me be a Mother, I want to be just like my Mother." 

<3

~Our Sweet Friend Lila Kemp.~

~Chris and Kimberly singing at church.~

~My Daddy and Moma's Double 80th Birthday Party!~

Back in July, My Sweet Moma turned 80, but we were singing for Camp Victory in VA, and could not celebrate her.  My Daddy was going to turn 80 On Feb. 11th.  So, my oldest brother Andrew came up with the idea to celebrate both Daddy and Moma together.  We were going to go out, but we decided to host it at our house.

Daddy and Moma came up a few days early.

Daddy took us to Ponderosa for supper on Thursday.~

~Thank you, Dear Jesus, for giving my Dear Sweet Parents 80 wonderful years of life!!!!

Thank you, Lord, that they ever came to know and accept you as their Lord and Saviour!!!  

Thank you, Sweet Jesus, for allowing them to be my Godly Daddy and Moma whom I love with all my heart!!~

~Breakfast Friday AM at our house.~

~Kimberly and Sarah visiting with Gram.

Kimberly and Sarah were such a huge help to me in putting on the 80th party.~

~MOMA'S STORY!!~

~Daddy and Moma's picture back in 1961, I think.  (Below.)

My Moma was raised in a baptist type church and had never heard of Holiness until Levi Whisner came to Tennessee and brought the message of Sanctification to their church.  

Moma was in the 10th or 11th grade and she had tried out to be a cheerleader.   Then one of her friends told her about God's Bible School in Cincinnati, OH.  So, Moma, knowing very little about what God's Bible School was all about, nor what they believed, PUT OUT A FLEECE!  

She told her friend that IF SHE DID NOT MAKE THE CHEERLEADING TEAM, SHE WOULD GO TO GBS!!!  

When they printed up the Cheerleading list, Moma's name was on it,  BUT, RIGHT BEFORE THEY PUT IT ON THE BULLETIN BOARD, THEY DECIDED THAT THEY WANTED A SMALLER TEAM, AND TOOK 3 NAMES OFF THE LIST...YEP!!  

You guessed it, Moma's name was among the ones that were taken off.  

So, She started packing for God's Bible School.  God led Daddy and Moma together, and led them in the way of Holiness. ~

~All Because Daddy and Moma fell in LOVE, 

there are now 50 of us!!!

Only 25 of us could come.  

Daryl and Laura and family from FL would have loved to have joined us, but they were in the middle of Hobe Sound camp.

Those in VA would have loved to have come, but couldn't.

And of course those in AK, (my niece Kelsea and her husband are expecting TWIN BOYS, ) couldn't travel down here.) ~

~Mary found these cute little heart cookies at Aldi's.~

~My Sweet Daddy and Moma~!

~Hannah, Gram, Drew and Precious Andy.~

~Gram and Little Natalie.~

~Adorable Natalie.  

We were so happy that Daryl and Laura's Scott, Brittany, and Natalie could join us!!~

~Andrew and Lincoln brought the Yummy pulled pork, brisket, and sauces!

The girls and I made the Mac n cheese, Cole slaw, and baked beans, Cappuccino punch, and Iced tea. 

~Playing ping pong in my dinning room, and visiting in the Living room.~

~Good ole' Sam's Cupcakes.~

~Little Natalie, exhausted.~

~Games~

~The 4 Edgar Andrew Bryans.~

~Then we rushed from One Family Reunion, up to the Sutherland and Dickinson Family Reunion!

Worshiping together at Dad and Mom's church.~

~Dad D., Daddy, and Uncle Scott.~

~It was soooo fun being together with our family from FL and VA!

~We got to meet little Colton!!~

~Sweet Aunt Libby and Abigail~

~VALENTINE'S~

~My Sweetheart and I...taken at Josh and Sarah's wedding!  ~

(Which by the way, I Cannot believe that Josh and Sarah just celebrated 1 1/2 years of Marriage!!  Time flies when you are having fun!!) 

~My Valentine's Day decor.~

~For Valentine's Phillip and I stayed home and celebrated with our children.  We made homemade pizza together ...

and Mary made raspberry scones.~

~Abigail did a great job setting our table that night.~

~We bought this cute little cake from Ella at church.~

~A ONE THOUSAND GIFTS AND BEYOND JOURNAL...that we started as a family!!~

~Then we ran back up to be with Uncle Scott, Aunt Libby, Ostyn, Rachel, Paisley and Colton, Leah, Dad and Mom D. and Michael and Beth and family!~

~Our kid's cousins, Isaiah and Sophia were in a wreck!!  How Grateful we are to Jesus that they are still with us!!~

~Adorable Colton.~

~Aunt Libby made me this fun headband to keep my ears warm.~

~Piano lesson with Mrs. Martha in Cincinnati.~

~Being together, (Minus Phillip, Chris, Josh and Sarah.)

~Cousins Rob and Paul Dickinson come to visit!~

~It was Great having Rob and Paul with us!!~

~Rob wanted to take us to the Ark Encounter.~

~Paul and Abigail.~

~Missionary Convention at our Church, with Mr. Frank Vaughn.~

~Noah and I took a quick trip to Michigan, to attend the funeral of our associate Pastor Paul Pilmore's mother.  (At the same time Phillip, Elijah, Mary, and Abigail were in Zanesville, OH attending the funeral of Mrs. Esther Avery, which was a member of Christian Nation Church.)

On the way to the funeral we happened to pass this poor lady trying to change her own tire in the cold.  So we stopped and Noah helped her until her AAA truck arrived!  She was very grateful!!~

~Michigan had just had a huge ice storm and no one around the funeral had electricity.~

~At Mrs. Carol Pilmore's funeral, I got to meet Mrs. Throne, our dear friend David Fogleman's Sweet Grandmother.~

~Then we rushed back to attend the rest of our Missionary Convention at our Church.

Here we are out with the Flings and Carters.~

Kimberly's yummy Argentine Alforejes (cookies) that she made for the International dinner.~

~Is it Spring yet?~

~My Tres Leches (3 milk cake) I made for the International dinner.~

~Mr. Frank Vaughn, Pastor Eisenhart and Phillip visiting at the dinner.~

~Phillip praying over the food.~

~Sweet Friends~

~To the Air Force Museum in Dayton for a field trip. ~ 

We met my sis-in-love Beth and her kids and had a fun time being at the Dayton Air Force Museum together.~

~A very chilly picnic.~

~While in the Air Force Museum, We were quite shocked to see a Tornado Warning to come on our phone!  

So we had to bunker down in a hallway together with other visitors in the Air Force Museum until the warning was over.  

Afterwards the winds were VERY STRONG outside!!

~Phillip and I finally got to take our Valentine's date.  Coffee on the way to get his glasses fixed.~

~Southwest VA Youth Convention. (SVYC) March 3-5.~

~We got to stay in a beautiful place at SVYC.  It felt like a little get-away.~

~Sweet friends.~

~Gareth Nickerson was the speaker at SVYC.  

We would have known each other in Phoenix, AZ back in the late 90's, early 2000's.   

Phillip pastored at Gospel Center across the valley from the Bible Holiness Church where Gareth and his wife attended.  

In 2004 God called our family to leave AZ and go to be missionaries in South America. 

We pretty much lost contact with Gareth, but in comparing notes at SVYC, we learned that shortly after we left Phoenix, God called them and 2 other families to CA to pastor!!  God surely was calling forth labors from the Valley.

We hadn't seen Gareth since 2004!  

It was so fun to catch up!  

The only way it would have been better is if his sweet wife and family could have been with him.~

~God's Sweet Presence was again felt during this wonderful youth convention! That is one of the main reasons we take our children to these youth conventions.  We want them to feel and experience God's sweet Presence and see other young people minding God. ~

~Dear Elijah and Cameron...Pretty Much "Twins Separated at birth!" Lol! ~

~Bro. Gareth and Noah before they went up on the platform for service.~

~Praying together before heading to the platform.~

~Noah praying.~

~I got to hold little Lottie.~

~Elijah and friends a part of David and Goliath for HSBC.~

~Auctioning.~

~Maren and Mary~

~Dear Bro. Smith!~

~My Sweet friends Rhonda, Tonya and little Lottie.~

~Sweet Friends.~

~Such a nice visit with our dear friend Nate Becker.~

~After youth convention.~

~My Sweet friend Ruthann and yours truly.  It has been a long time since we have seen each other.~

~Abigail and Bro. David are pretty good friends.~

~Lauren reading to Macie and Abigail.~

~Phillip, David, Rob, and Gareth.  

After Youth Convention ended, we had such a blast being with our dear friends, and getting to know Mr. Rob.  We laughed until we nearly cried over crazy stories.~

~Macie and Abigail ...happy together.~

~Maren and Mary~

~Near where we stayed.  So relaxing and beautiful~

~Meeting Gram, Brittany, and Natalie for coffee.~

~Gram decided that she would treat us all to coffee.  She was shocked at the coffee prices and declared she would never pay that for coffee again.  :-) I am pretty sure it was CULTURE SHOCK to her!~

~It was so fun being together.~

~Sweet treats from sweet friends Kelsey and Klarissa to Abigail and Mary.~

~So fun to see Kimberly, Kiana, and Samatha playing together in the orchestra at church again.  

Life is changing so fast for everyone.  

Chris and Kimberly have been married for 6 months, and 

in 6 months Chris and Samantha will be married. ~ 

~Phillip preaching at our Church.~

~Is it Spring...or is it still winter?  

I was shocked to look out the other day and see snow.~

~So, Mary put together her Gingerbread house that she had not had the chance to do back at Christmas.~

~And I made 3 hot chocolates for the girls and I.~

~Samantha's Bridal shower.~

~Sweet Friends with the sweet Bride-to-be.~

~Thank the Lord for our wonderful chickens and their eggs!!~

Thank you for stopping by to scroll through ALLL of these pictures and events that have happened in the last 2 months!  

God is so good and we are Loving Serving Him 

together as a family!

~HEATHER~