Hello Everybody!
I hope you are all doing well! I must apologize again for it being sooooo long since I posted anything on here. I really have no excuse, I just forget!
Well there is a lot going on now! I am actually at the church now while Joey and our friend Chris are painting the baby's room! They are doing a fantastic job and I am so excited! We only have 9 weeks to go and she will be here!! I can't believe how fast it has gone! I am so thankful that I have Joey as well! He has been so sweet through everything! I know he is going to be a great daddy!! He is always finding things to buy for her. When we go shopping anywhere he always goes to the baby section! I love that!! I am truly blessed!! I do ask that you pray for me though as I am very nervous about the birth. We went to the doctor on Monday and she said that right now the baby is breech (which scares me.) But there is still lots of time for her to turn so I just hope she does!! Other than that everything is fine! She seems to be a very healthy baby!
Now I will move on to church things! We are getting ready to do a very American Trunk-or-Treat! I am not sure how this will go but hopefully it will go well. We are struggling big time to get volunteers. I think the reason for that is because it is something they have never done before. Please pray that we will get more volunteers and that through this activity children and families will learn about Jesus!
We started back Saturday Special in September and it has not been very well. I think that since we stopped during the summer that the families who came before have found something else or lost interest or something. But we have only been having 5 or so where we were getting about 15 or 20. So we have come up
with a new plan and hopefully it will work better and we will see more children. We just need to pray to see if this is something we should continue for the children or should we try something new. So please pray with us!
Joey is still doing a lot of work with the youth. He is in the middle of coming up with a long term goal of how he would like to see the ministry by the time we leave. The numbers aren't very high and we struggle to get them all together at the same time but hopefully (with prayer) things will get better!
Also the church has recently went through a personal evangelism course using some materials from Way of the Master. A few Saturday back we all got out on the high street and shared the Gospel with the people walking by. It was fantastic. They had never done anything like this and they all really enjoyed it. They were all scared at first (and so was I) and many of them said they woke up praying for rain but unfortunately the sun was shinning! lol But once we got started nothing could stop us! It was a fantastic adventure for them and we hope it continues!
Please continue to pray for our work here. Sometimes it is difficult staying focused (especially with the baby coming) but we just both have a desire to do what God wants us to do so please pray that we do that!!
We love and miss you all!!!
With love through Jesus,
Brooke
