~Please Pray for our Revival, & Strait Creek Church gets a New sign~

Strait Creek Revival:

This Wednesday, March 25th --Sunday, March 29th. 

Wednesday-Sunday Nightly at 7:00

Sunday 10:30 AM 

Nathan Kline Evangelist

Singers, Local Talent

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Pastor Phillip called a church work day, for Saturday, March 21st.  

God gave us a beautiful day to work!!

Excitement was in the air, as I sat up the table, 

straightened the tablecloth, plugged in the Keurig, and set out the donuts!  

Cars started arriving and our people were HERE TO WORK!!! 

We started out with a prayer meeting for our Revival, and for our work day, and then we got busy.

Dear Uncle Bill, among other jobs, helped rake up the old dried leaves in the flower garden, and around the front of the church, and he even helped lift the HEAVY sign into place. It was so HEAVY, that I guess everyone around was helping in some way!

{Cousin Laura's shoulder was hurting so she could not come. :-( }

Mr. Dave was a big help working here and there helping with the sign and all!

Dear Mr. and Mrs. Fields brought the beautiful flowers that she so beautifully planted in the flower garden and in front of the new Church sign!  Mrs. Fields also helped by dusting the church and helped mop it too.

Kimberly and little Stella could not come. :-(

Chris worked to get the sign ready to put into the ground.  He has spent untold HOURS making the gorgeous base for the sign.  He made it in the "Timber Frame Style" with wooden pegs!  He hand carved the wooden pegs.  It is made out of white oak with hickory pegs.  He did such a beautiful job making the base. 

Phillip was a jack of all trades and ran from one job to another, helping, instructing, helping put in the sign, smoothing the freshly poured concrete, digging out dirt for the flower bed around the sign, pouring new concrete on the step in front of the church, etc.  He worked ALL DAY, even after we all left, and got home after Dark. 

Noah and Elijah were doing various jobs all day, from digging the DEEP holes for the sign, to mixing up concrete, to running to ACE hardware for more supplies! 

Mary was painting, and helping mop the wooden church floors with Murphy's oil soap, and picking up branches, so Elijah can mow on Monday.

Abigail was helping me scrape the paint off the windows inside the church, and helped mop the church floor too, and helping pick up branches. 

Yours truly, mainly cleaned the windows in the church, and vacuumed the whole church, plus ran from job to job and ran errands, including picking up the cooler full of drinks the day before, and the donuts for the AM and the pizza for Lunch.

GaryWayne, came just to help!  And help he did.  He and Mary gave the railing in front of the church and the front door a new coat of paint, and he helped pick up branches.

AND the piano tuner was there also, tuning the old piano.

All and All we had a wonderful day working together on the House of the Lord! 

Some man drove slowly by, and yelled out that he had an old house, down the road, that we could all come to work on for him.  :-D 

We all laughed, and then Mrs. Fields and I said to each other, "We have our own houses down the road that we need to be working on, but we are working on God's house today." 

The old wooden floors which have been there for 150 years of worship services...drank up that Murphy's oil soap. 

And the windows were glad for their cleaning, and are going to let in more sunshine. 

The old White Church was grateful that we all took the time to come and look after it, and I believe that God the Father was pleased with our work. 

Now, here are some fun pics! 

~As stated above, Chris has spent untold HOURS making the gorgeous base for the Church sign.  

He made it in the "Timber Frame Style" with wooden pegs!  He hand carved the wooden pegs.  

The base is made out of white oak with hickory pegs.  

He did such a beautiful job making the base. 

~Charring the base of the sign, that went into the ground, so it does not rot.~

~On Friday I ran to Walmart and grabbed fun drinks to hydrate our workers, and chips.  

You should have seen me trying to Push this HEAVY cart through Walmart.  I was by myself, and the cart weighed twice what I do. ;-) 

~Hauling everything to the church.  The Huge white cooler, filled with drinks and ice, was in the back of my van.~

~These 3 kids right here, 

and their big Bro Noah...

Help SHOULDER a lot of the work here at Strait Creek Church!  They are a huge blessing to the church, 

and have great attitudes while doing it.~

~My Moma has taught me well, that I Always have to have a "Center piece," no matter the occasion! ;-) ~

~The snack table.~

~I put out a Keurig machine, with hot chocolate k-cups, hot apple cider, and organic coffee.  

Of course, I had creamers there too.~

~The 1st stop Gas stations out here, have Yummy fresh donuts! 

I ran and bought 2 dozen.~

~We weren't the only ones working that morning.  

The Amish drove by and parked across from our church and went up into the woods to work.~

~The Fields arrived with the beautiful flowers.~

~Having a prayer time together for our Revival, and for our work day!

~Abigail helping Mrs. Fields get rid of the old leaves and dried plants out of the flower garden.~

~Then Uncle Bill started helping rake up the old leaves.~

~Chris and Mr. Dave wrapping up the bottom of the sign.~

~Mrs. Fields always does a great job with the flower bed!~

~Mr. GaryWayne and Mary painting the Church railings.~

~I ran to Dominos and got 8 pizzas to feed the hungry workers.~

~The old Front doors, which has welcomed many a saint and sinner through the years, got a new coat of paint, by Mr. GaryWayne and Mary.~

~SADLY, I was gone getting pizza, 

so I wasn't there when they dropped the sign in the ground, but I guess it took everyone's help to get it in the ground.~

~The railings All Freshly Painted!!~

~Taking a break to eat pizza.~

~Chris was working on one of the pegs, so I took this pic, 

while the peg was out.~

~Noah putting mulch into the flower garden, 

after Mrs. Fields had finished putting the beautiful flowers in it.~

~Mr. and Mrs. Fields looking at the beautiful sign and watching Phillip work on the base of it.~

~Noah would mix up the concrete, and Phillip would smooth it out.~

~Phillip and Noah Cutting the Heavy Duty landscape fabric, 

to put under the plants and mulch.~

~Abigail~

~Mrs. Fields planting the flowers around the bottom of the sign.~

~The Flower garden all done!

So pretty!

There are more perennials under the mulch that will come up soon. ~

~Elijah cutting more yard fabric.~

~Phillip snapped these pics. 

He said that it looked like a bunch of worker ants ... 

everyone was working so hard and being such a blessing!~

~The church step was falling apart in a couple places, 

so Phillip used the extra concrete to fix the step!~

~Sunday Morning~

~It was so Fun to come to church this AM, 

to see the Beautiful Old White Country Church, all clean and shining in the sun, and the New Church Sign!!~

~It is hard to tell, but the colors of the lettering are blue and green.~

~Mary telling the Children's Story Sunday AM.~

~And Elijah doing the flannel graph part for Mary.~

~Little Stella had a PONYTAIL today.~

~And she has curls in the back of her hair.

Jesus is giving her some GLORY on her sweet little head!~

~Mrs. Fields bought this new pretty wreath for the Church door.~

~Dear Mr. and Mrs. Fields.

Mr. Fields is the FAITHFUL man who came to church,

 every Sunday morning 

to have service

BY HIMSELF,

for 15 long years,

BECAUSE HE

DID NOT WANT TO SEE THE CHURCH CLOSE!!

~Sunday night, Little Stella came with 2 little Ponytails!!!  

We all melted!~

~Thought Provoking...~

~Sadly missing Josh, Sarah, and Adelynn.~

PLEASE PRAY WITH ME...

FOR GOD TO PROTECT THIS SIGN FROM ANYONE WANTING TO DO IT HARM!

(Before we moved here, The Church used to have a sign,

and someone came along at night and took a chain and a truck and pulled it out of the ground and stole it.)   ('~')

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PLEASE HELP US PRAY FOR OUR REVIVAL THIS WEDNESDAY-SUNDAY!

HOW WE WANT GOD TO HAVE HIS RIGHT AWAY!!

COME HOLY SPIRIT, WE NEED THEE!

~Heather~