Thanksgiving!

Hey everyone, our family just wanted to wish everyone out there a Happy Thanksgiving. I pray this is great time for your family. As we are away from our family today we can sympathize with the majority of the people in this area who are also separated from their family today. Our church is providing a real Thanksgiving meal to the whole area today. We are expecting that most of the people around here are going to come, so pray for us that this outreach will bring glory to God and that many of the people who come today will be reached with the love of Jesus.

I want to give thanks today to God for all of the blessings in our lives. I am thankful for Jesus who gave his life to save us. He called us to serve Him out here and He is using us. Sunday we saw our first person come to faith in Jesus as savior and Lord. I am praying that he is the first of many in a great harvest of souls out here. We are thankful for all of you out there who are praying for us and still loving us. Thank you for your calls and emails. We still need them.

Lori made a huge pan of her first good ole Southern Dressing which here they call "cornbread dressing". Here they have stuffing and bread dressing.....

Now just a word to catch up on our happenings. Yesterday we spent most of the afternoon in the ER with Mason. He had a bike accident and ended up with 5 stitches in his arm. We are telling everyone that a moose ran out in front of him. He is fine by the way. The boys have been out of school all week and it has been a good week. We have met several new families this week and God is still bringing people to our home to find out about our church. We are expecting snow today and tomorrow. It is time they say for snow to be here and stay the rest of the winter so we will see.
Keep praying for us. Pray that we will not become discouraged. We are working in a small church that is pretty traditional. They haven't had a lot of growth for years now. Pray that we as a church will embrace what God has for us and that people won't try to hold on to their past or their traditions but will allow God to do a fresh work in our church and area. There are many to be reached here. Most people here don't know anything about God. They move from day to day without ever knowing the love that God wants to pour out on them. They don't know about our savior who died for them and longs for them to know Him. Pray that the light of God's truth will shine on the people of this valley and that people here will come to know Him. Pray that Satan will no longer be able to blind the people here to the truth. Pray that God will be glorified. Thank you all. I love you all. You are part of my Thanksgiving today.
In Him,
Mike

PS - Thanks Gery Fuller for the Bama stuff. You are a real blessing to us. For everyone else's info Gery was at the U of A this week and sent me some stuff from there. I am assuming this means Gery has converted to a Crimson Tide fan because I can't think of any other reason he would be at the campus. I'm glad to hear it Gery. Josh and Becki are next. Roll Tide!