Prayer Requests - Week of 12/14/2008

Henry Dunn will be having colon surgery on Tuesday, the 16th. He was diagnosed very recently with cancer. He is married and has 2 elementary-school-age children. Please keep this whole family in your prayers!

Chuck Newsome was recently diagnosed with cancer and was given a short time to live. Please pray for him and his family as they go through this tough time.

Christmas Party at Fern Lake... re-cap with out pictures...

We had a great showing at the Wyatt's cabin at Fern Lake.  The food was good, and there was plenty of it.  I admit I failed in my role as interim photographer for David Madrid, since the kids were sick and I was late for the party... I totally forgot to bring my camera and take pictures for the blog.  Looks like I'm fired, right?  Well maybe I just need to ask for some help next time.

It was very cold so the fire place was a very nice touch to the evening.  The Scene-It game was a bad deal that started innocently, but led to some off-color clips that made us a little red-faced.  I apologize for that inadvertently mis-representing our class morals.  The devil takes any angle to take us away from Christ!

I am very excited about the new friends that came to the social and have been coming to class.  God is good, and he is blessing our class with wonderful relationships.  If everyone continues participating, then we all will benefit from these Christ-centered friendships.  

I pray you have a wonderful Christmas season, and may God bless your family!

Gregg Nichols

Update from the Yerkes

I asked a few of the couples/families who moved on to other opportunities last summer to give me an update on how they are doing. Below is a message from Heather Yerkes:

We are doing very well. Jordan is working for Garland Pipe Organs and really loves it. He is building, tuning, and repairing organs. He has to travel every now and then, but thankfully doesn't have to stay gone for very long. I am teaching piano and have become a volunteer counselor at a Pregnancy Help Center. God has really blessed us and helped us to (very quickly!) find a new church: Southcliff Baptist (their website is http://www.southcliff.com/ if you want to see where we are attending! :) We have a great sunday school class with other young married couples and have been leading middle school discipleship groups on sunday evenings. I am including pictures of us that were just taken this at the zoo.

In Christ, Heather Yerkes

Christmas Party!!!

Christmas Party

at Fern Lake

Friday, December 5th

Details Below....

Childcare will be at the church from 6-9. The party will also be 6-9 (if you don't need childcare.) For those of us utilizing childcare, kids can be dropped off at 6, then we can head straight to the party. Kids will need to be picked up by 9.

Due to limited parking, it would be a good idea to carpool.

The party is at Fern Lake: Take 59 S toward Lufkin. Go 1/2 mile past Nacogdoches Iron Works on the right.

We'll be having lasagna (provided). If your last name begins with A-M, bring an appetizer or a salad. If your last name begins with N-Z, bring dessert. If you have already talked to Marcy about what you're bringing, please disregard.

Prayer Requests - Week of 11/23/2008

Praise for the safe birth of Caleb Risner. Mom and Caleb are doing great!

The Scott family (co-worker of David's) have just had a miscarriage.

April's cousin is in the marines and has just received her next orders. She will be in Washington, DC in a non-deployment unit.

People traveling for Thanksgiving

Praise - Gray Hancock is all better!

Gary asked us to pray for the SFA students going home for the holiday - many of them don't have ideal home situations.

Prayer Requests - Week of 11/09/2008

The Gift of Christmas

David's brother and his wife - David reported that things seem to be going a little better and that they are doing some things to try to make the marriage work.

Gregg has a big test on Thursday.

Marcy's headaches

Gray Hancock has been sick this weekend.

Bounce House Social Pics

I apologize for taking so long to get these pics up. It was super busy the days following the social.

The bounce house social was a whole lot of fun for everyone. There are a few pictures that are a little blurry, but they are still fun to see.

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