Christmas 2011

We had a wonderful Christmas.We started off worshiping the Lord and celebrating his birth. We ate lunch and fellowshipped with each other and exchanged gifts.

Lee made an extra trip to Ebeye during the week to get the last of the boxes of presents to the church.  In this pic, Lee is hauling our lunch to share at the fellowship.

 When Lee arrived at the kindergarten courtyard he had all kinds of help getting it to the classroom door.

 Our sister taught the kids about Jesus birth in Bible class.

 There was not enough room to have everything in one room so we set up one room with the food, and had the kids sit in another room while the adults brought the food to them. We organized the presents in a third room and put them in paper sacks for distribution.







These boys are waiting in line for their sack of presents.  I always take everything out of the packages and we never use Christmas paper to wrap each individual present.  It would be time consuming and it would mean extra weight for Lee to carry over to Ebeye.  The paper is extra expensive and not very plentiful here and the kids are terrible about throwing their trash in the trash can.  We would be picking up trash for days.

The kids were just as thrilled to see what was handed to them in their paper sack that they carried home.

It was a great Christmas for all.  A big "Thank You" to all who blessed the Marshallese people with their presents and cash to buy some of those presents. We appreciate all who went the extra mile for the kids and members.  We hope your Christmas was as wonderful as ours.  God Bless you all.

Mule Day

P-U-S-H, PULL Lee!  We took a load of goodies  to Ebeye with us for next weeks Christmas celebration. We know there are more boxes in the mail on the way to Kwaj.  We are praying they will make it this week in time for Christmas.  If they don't,....the kids will be just as thrilled to get Christmas two weeks in a row like we did last year.

By the time we made it to Ebeye, Lee had figured out it was better to PULL the load.  (Just kidding)  The boxes were sliding to the back of the load in the pic above.  Lee was pushing them back on the cart.

Thank you to Audrey Mauck, Chrissey Glavan, and Jeny Roberts and families from the Edmond C of C Young Families class who sent several Christmas blessings this week. Thank you also to Robert Darby and family for all their boxes of blessings for the people of the Marshall Islands.  We appreciate everyone for thinking of us so very far away.  We wish everyone a very Merry  and Blessed Christmas.

Blessed With Visitors

Jeff Hensley used to worship with Paul Hester on Kwaj.  He traveled with us to Ebeye to worship on Sunday. When we got back to Kwaj 4 1/2 hrs later, Jeff said that the trip gave him a new perspective on members of the church complaining about how far they have to travel on a paved road to get to church and park on a paved parking lot. It poured coming and going to church. We had to walk down a narrow passage way to get to church and walked around the puddles to get back to the ferry. Thanks for going out of your way to worship the with us on this Lord's day.

 Jeff enjoyed hearing the kids sing the songs of worship. Some in English and some in Marshallese.  I think they did a wonderful job of decorating the room with their home made Christmas decorations in the kindergarten room.

Lee lead our worship in another kindergarten room.  God's blessings on two of our members, Heity and Cala, who graciously let us borrow their class rooms every week.

Showers fo Blessings

Dean and Becky Lightfoot blessed our kids with some Christmas  blessings.  Dean and Becky have blessed the Marshallese people since our mission started.
The Shiloh Church of Christ has showered the Marshallese people with blessings.  Thank you to the Shiloh church for all your support.
May God Bless all who have sent your blessings to the Marshallese people. 

Our members who live on Gugeegue have not been able to get a taxi to Ebey for church services for two weeks.  There has not been any fuel at the ONE gas station on Ebeye. It happens every couple months.  Thank God if you have mutiple gas stations all around you to fill up your vehicles 24/7.

We have received 115 inches of God's Blessing in the form of rain this year.  It poured while we were going to, from and while we were in church yesterday. The Marshallese people depend on the water catchments for a large portion of their water. 
Praise God and the angels who have showerd us with blessings.