Prayer and request

Dear Family & Friends,

Hello and Happy New Year! I hope this letter finds you well. I am writing to share with you a very exciting opportunity Jason and I have planned for this summer. In June our youth group here at Calvary Baptist Church is planning a mission trip to Dominican Republic. We plan on going for ten days. Lord willing, we will be ministering to youth and adults.
We will have a variety of opportunities and responsibilities while in Dominican Republic. We hope to work in an orphanage providing love, daily care, and helping with some maintenance. We also hope to run a VBS type program for the older children. Other opportunities may be to minister to the children through a sports program. It is our prayer and hope that God will use us in Dominican Republic to bring hope and salvation to some children and / or adults we will minister to.
We need your help in serving God and the people of Dominican Republic. We are writing this letter to ask for your prayers on behalf of the rest of the group going to Dominican Republic. We would ask if you could pray for three things for me and for the group we will be going with.

1) Pray that our team will be unified and organized as we prepare to go to Dominican Republic, as well as when we are in Dominican Republic.
2) Pray that God would open the hearts of the people we will be serving so that they might come to know Jesus Christ as their Savior.
3) Pray that we will be able to raise all the money we will need to go to Dominican Republic.

Prayer is the most important thing in every person’s life, and we are asking you to devote a few minutes of your daily prayer time to our endeavor to serve Christ in Dominican Republic.
In order to serve Christ in Dominican Republic, we need to raise $1250 per attendee. This includes the cost of lodging, food, and transportation for the entire ten day trip. We are pray fully hoping you would consider a financially supporting us in this opportunity to serve Christ and the people of Dominican Republic. If you are able to support us financially we would greatly appreciate it. Thanks!

Please send contributions to or donate below:
Calvary Baptist Church
491 Lloyd Rd.
Aberdeen, NJ 07747
Please make checks payable to:
Calvary Baptist Church and write mission trip and our name on the memo line. Thank you!

I look forward to seeing what God will do in Dominican Republic through your prayers and financial help. I also look forward to sharing with all of you what God did in our lives and the lives of those we served. May God bless you!

In Christ,

Becky & Jason

Amanda & Jason

Joshua

Amazing

My friend Courtney (who is already amazing, as she is living for the Lord while being a wife and stay at home, homeschooling mom to ten beautiful children) has started selling some of her photography. She has such an eye. Her work is breathtaking. And right now she is donating some of her profits to Haiti relief. Check out her ETSY site!!!

I am so ordering the snow clouds photo, so I can remember to take some time to dream!

Also check out her blog an see for yourself how awesome she and her whole family really are.

Also pray for them as you read this. Pray God would bless them to overflowing. Pray He would continue to provide for all their financial needs. Pray that all ten of the children would accept Jesus as Lord and Saviour (some already have, some are a bit too young now.) Pray they would continue to grow in Him daily. Pray that God can use this family as a testimony for many more seeds of Him to be planted.

Then stop by her blog and show them love in the comment section.

Thanks!

-Becky

Feeling under the weather

I am feeling a bit sick today. I have a headache and am coughing. I actually feel better than I did yesterday. My whole body was weak. I am debating whether we will be going to co-op tomorrow. I don't want to get anyone else sick, but the other two preschool teachers will be out tomorrow. I will make that decision in the morning.

It has been raining all day so my living room is leaking again. I had two roof guys here this week to give me estimates. I am still waiting for the estimates. I pretty much need a new roof, mine does not have enough slope and has no overhang. This is causing water to leak in behind siding. I am praying I get the first time home buyers credit so I can fix the roof properly. Then it will be guaranteed for 10 years.

Wouldn't that be nice if everything came with a guarantee? Although there are no guarantees here on earth, the great thing is that once we have a relationship with Christ we have the ultimate guarantee of an after life worshipping him. I am so glad I have my eternal guarantee in Christ. I am so glad that Jesus died on the cross so we could all a relationship with HIM. That is way better than any guarantees here on earth.

-Becky

Joshua doing tornado experiment

Group Shot

Jason is in the left middle. He has on a red hooded sweatshirt with a brown unzipped coat over it. I was inside when they took this shot. The whole place was so beautiful!