Gods Word

We finally made it back to Gugeegue for our church service. I apologize for my camera. It has decided to not open up all the way thus the black spots on the top and bottom. We passed out the Bibles and the kids were so thrilled and proud to get such a beautiful Bible. We had more kids than we had Bibles but I think the Edmond C Of C is going to help us get some more. This is Joey. He is a pistol! Monica Wiggins and her kids sent the car Joey is holding as well as one of the Bibles we passed out today and some back to school supplies for the kids. Thank you to Monica and the lessons she is teaching her kids to give to others. There was not another inch for one more person in our pick up for our ride from Ebeye to Gugeegue and back again. We really could use a small bus for our trips. Thank you once again to Audrey Mauck and the Young Families class at the Edmond church of Christ for the bulk of our Bibles. A big thank you also to our daughter Gina for a Bible and numerous supplies she has sent. Please keep my sister,Virginia, in your prayers. She has cancer in every organ of her body and they are saying she has 6-8 weeks to live. She lives in CA and thank God, we had a chance to visit while Lee and I were in CA for Lee's training. I will be thankful for that always. To God be the Glory! Love you all!

Just a few more scenes on Kwaj. Cloudy sunset but very beautiful. One of the small crafts docks. A ship making a delivery on Kwaj. Praise God, my cousin's surgery went well on removing her cancer. She has a long road ahead of her with chemo. My sister, Virginia, has also discovered she has cancer and the immediate diagnoses does not look good. Please keep them both in your prayers. Blessings to all.

This is one way the Marshalleese go fishing. They snorkel in the water to catch fish. They have fishing poles too but every week there are one to four guys fishing by snorkeling.




It is hard to see here but this is off the dock on Ebeye where we catch the fairy back to Kwaj. The water was amazingly clear today. There was a school of small fish that were swaying back and forth in the water. All of a sudden they start jumping out of the water because some larger blue fish are swarming up below them and catching the smaller fish. Fish were jumping all over the place. I'm sure it wasn't so exciting for the small fish but it was exciting to watch how the food chain works.


This is where the larger fish were catching the smaller fish flopping to the surface.

God's wonders are abundant.

We could not get any of the taxi's to go to Gugeegue again this week so we had 26 kids from Ebeye again. They are really great kids and they seem to always be interested in the Bible stories. Most of them go to school so they understand English pretty well. The younger ones do not understand nearly as much because they only hear what is spoken in their homes.
I have someone working on securing a regular taxi every Sunday so unless the roads are impassable we will have someone we can depend on for the trip to Guegeegue.

I gave only one Bible out because we had more kids than we had Bibles. God willing, we will worship in Gugeegue next week and we can pass out the Bibles to our regular kids. I gave the Bible out to Jr. because he is a regular who came to church before we moved here. Jr. is an 8th grader so I figure about 13 yrs old. He is really helpful and a smart, great kid. He lives on Ebeye and rides in the back of the pick up when we go to Gugeegue.

Blessings to all.

Ebeye church service

We had 5 plus inches of rain in one day on Wed. which it rarely does here. Usually we get maybe an inch or less in one day. Any time it rains that much it washes out the road between Ebeye and Gugeegue. We held church service on Ebeye and we had about 20-25 kids at the service.

We received Bibles this week from the people who were sending Bibles for the kids. We ended up with 15 Bibles, stickers, books with Bible stories, book markers, some Bible story coloring books, some toys, baby clothes and two dolls. We had more kids this morning than we had Bibles so we decided to wait until next week when we hold services on Gugeegue. We will have our regular kids who come every week to Gugeegue and we will have enough Bibles to give all the kids. I will take a pic next week with all the kids with their new Bibles. I know they will be thrilled. I bought some used story books at a yard sale last week and some of the kids brought them back with them this week. They are so proud to get something.
We were sent some cars, skate boards with Bible sayings on them and some bracelets for the girls. I gave the two dolls to the smallest girls and the cars went quickly to the boys. The girls were thrilled at the bracelets and the rest of the boys got the skateboards. I got mostly boys in this pic with their cars and skateboards. We usually do some songs with the kids then we do a Bible story. I usually copy a coloring picture from the Internet and they color a picture that relates to the story. I then give them a couple stickers and a piece of sugarless gum. (We don't want to promote sugar on their unbrushed teeth.) When I can find things at yard sales I give those to them.

I think the next thing we could use are some supplies for doing crafts. Construction paper, scissors, glue, glitter, cotton balls, Popsicle sticks, etc. I could also use a book with instructions for crafts. The kids seem to enjoy coloring pictures but I would like to do a craft that relates to the Bible story. The kids range in age from babies to Jr. high age. Most are grade school age.
If you can help, please let me know at nothertz@gmail.com Any and all help is appreciated.

A huge THANK YOU to Audrey Mauck and the Edmond church of Christ young families class who bought most of the Bibles and some giveaways. They are beautiful Bibles and I know the kids are going to be thrilled to get them next week. Another huge THANK YOU to Gina Blankinship who coordinated the volunteers and bought Bibles and other needed supplies. Last but not least is Monica Wiggins who is using this opportunity to teach her two young children to give to others. God Bless all of you for thinking of others so far away. What a huge Blessing you are to these kids.