~Nearly losing our Sarah, Missionary Services in PA & NY, Ashlea & Fam. come to visit, Noah's graduation party, & Finally those pics from IHYC & Camp Victory!~

 ~Hello!

The Lord has been helping my right arm!!  Thank you for praying for it!  It is not healed completely yet, I cannot lift it all the way, but I can lift it higher than I could!  

Praise Jesus!!  

~PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR NOAH AND A TEAM FROM OUR CHURCH WHO ARE ON A MISSION'S TRIP TO NEW MEXICO.  THEY REALLY NEED GOD'S WISDOM AND STRENGTH!~

"There's Pain in this World; 

It's not always evenly distributed!" 

I'm going catch you up on our lives.   

We have walked through some deep waters in the last little while.  

On Aug. 3rd Josh and Sarah told us that they were expecting a BABY!!!!  We were super excited!!! 

In fact on the first day of our Comargo camp Kimberly and I ran up to SURPRISE Sarah.  We took her shopping, bought some Maternity Clothes, and a fun little baby item, helped her on some projects at her house, had a blast being together, and then went back to Camp on Tuesday.

HOWEVER, On Wednesday, Aug. 9th, Sarah called to tell me that she was having complications and thought she was LOSING THE BABY!  :-(.  

So, I ran up there to be with them and sure enough we thought we lost our baby that night.  We were so SAD!!! 

Sarah didn't have an OB/GYN yet.  She was in the process of finding one, when she started miscarrying.

2 weeks later Sarah tells me that she is having horrible abdominal pain! 

I told her that that didn't sound right.  So, they cancelled their prayer meeting on Wednesday, Aug. 23rd. and took her to the ER. The Hospital did ultrasounds and blood test, hooked her up to an IV, to make sure was not dehydrated, and sent her home. 

The next few days she still had horrible abdominal pains.

On Sunday, she ended up teaching Sunday school, playing the piano, and then coming home and FAINTING multiple times on Josh!  

He called the Ambulance!  

He told us to pray and PRAY WE DID!!

Then he called us and told us that she kept fainting and they couldn't figure out why.  

He said that every time she fainted it was so SCARY!  

He then told us some of the scariest words I have ever heard.

He said something like,

"IF YOU WANT TO SEE SARAH YOU HAD BETTER COME!!!!"

Phillip and I knew that it was SO SERIOUS, so we gobbled our Sunday Dinner and ran out the door!

I called a Kristin, a midwife friend of mine, and asked her what she thought could be wrong with Sarah.

She suggested Ectopic (Tubal) Pregnancy.   She told me that if she had horrible pain out of her shoulders, that was one of the Serious signs.  

Sure enough, the OB/GYN that Sarah was supposed to see the next day, came to the hospital and confirmed that Sarah had a tubal pregnancy. (Somehow the ultrasound technician had missed it.)

By the time we made it to the hospital Sarah was in excruciating Pain in her shoulders!!!  It was sooo SCARY and SAD to see!  

Several dear friends and family, and our dear church family were PRAYING SO HARD for Sarah!!!  A niece of mine and a friend of mine were ANNOINTED that night for Sarah!!!  THANK YOU!!!

We got to pray with SARAH and then 

they rushed her back for Emergency surgery.  

Her tube had erupted! 

We came SO CLOSE to losing our Precious Sweet Sarah!!

How we rejoice that she is still with us and with her Dear Husband Josh!! 

We are SO SAD about losing our baby, but know that our precious little baby is with Jesus and our family in Heaven!

We came home, and then our family was hit with another 

HARD blow!!!  :-(

There has been lots of sadness and tears, but Jesus is helping us. 

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 This past weekend we ran to PA and NY to have missionary services. 

We had such a nice time being the dear Jonathan Fall family! They fed us delicious food and took us to see the Nicholson Bridge and took these fun pics!! 

~Elijah and Matthew Fall.~

~Our family.

JUST THE 5 of US!  

Noah is a working man now and cannot always travel with us, so it's down to us 5 now.

God gave us a good service at their church.

~Sunday afternoon we drove to NY and had a service at Northville.  

It was great to be with our friends the Hochs.  God gave us a good service with them.

~The Hochs fed us well, and we had nice visit with them.

The Hochs also took us to see a bridge and a fun waterfall!~

~Bro. Hoch was over Christian Service while we were at GBS, and Sis. Hoch was my Spanish teacher.~

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~Elijah found some pop cans and ordered some pop tabs and made this Chain Mail!~

~It was so awesome having one of my dearest friends Ashlea and her family 

come stay with us for a few days! 

(I have a lot of dear friends :-) 

They were here for her nephew Donavan's wedding.~

It just a few minutes Mary will turn 13!  

WHERE IN THE WORLD DOES TIME GO?

~NOAH'S GRADUATION PARTY!!~

~Noah graduated back in May, but I knew we were going to have a CRAZY BUSY summer, what with going to 4 Campmeetings, so we planned his party for September!

It was a pizza and volleyball type of party.

It turned out fun and we had a great crowd.~

~We decorated with his discs for disc golf.  

(He has his own money and has gotten a great deal on a lot of these.~

~My Daddy, Noah's Gramp, praying for Noah and the food!~

~Kimberly, RaeQuelle Harvey, and Sarah.  

These sweet girls have been life-long friends!

~Christian Nation Church Congress.~

Bro. Mike Kline gave a very encouraging devotional.

I have been saying I would post pics from IHYC and Camp Victory, so here they are.

I tried to just post some of the highlights. :-D

~PICS FROM IHYC 

Youth Camp back in June!~

God gave us a great camp filled with His Sweet Presence.~

~Mary and Noah were a part of the Bible Bowl.~

~Mary's team~

~Noah's team~

~Elijah's team~

~CAMP VICTORY~

Again, God met with us and gave us a wonderful Camp!

It was so FUN to have Josh and Sarah there this year.

~Elijah~

~Out shopping to buy new beach towels for the girl's baptism.~

~Bro. James Plank telling us a funny story.~

~It was so fun to have my Dear brother Andrew and his sweet wife Vonnie to come by.~

~Kelsey and Abigail all ready for baptism.~

~Abigail is sold out for Jesus!~ 

(As are all of her brothers and sisters!!!  

I have NO GREATER JOY, than to hear that my Children walk in Truth!!!) 

~Kimberly and I recently played for Kylie's wedding.~

Someone made arrangements for me to go to a 

Ladies' Retreat this weekend.

I am excited about going and am expecting Jesus to meet with us.

THANKS BUNCHES FOR STOPPING BY!!!

~HEATHER~