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.

Christmas Concert 2011

Lee played in the Community Band Christmas Concert Saturday night.  They were about half way through the concert when it started pouring rain.   The music, instruments and players all were drenched.  I think they will get to play in a couple weeks again, indoors.

This is the last week for you to bless the kids from Ebeye and Gugeegue with a great Christmas.  Go pick up a large FREE, APO/FPO box and customs form from the US Post Office.  Take it to the nearest dollar store and fill it with any toys, games, books or kids clothes of any size. Reinforce the box with tape on all the seams. Fill out  a customs form from the post office.  Pay $12.95 to mail the box this week at the US Post Office to the following address:
Avis Cummings
CMR 701 Box 1652
APO, AP  96555-0017

There is a more detailed list and directions in the Oct 9th & 15th blog spots.

Teach your kids or grand kids to give to others.  God Bless you and your families this Christmas.

Imaginations

We met in the courtyard of the kindergarten class rooms. Yolonda is leading the class in prayer.

Heity is doing better.  Her blood pressure and blood sugar was too high. Pray that God will continue to guide her to lower both.

 We did not get a mail delivery for a week and half. We usually get one or two each week. 

If you can help these precious kids have a Christmas, it is time to get busy this week and get those boxes in the mail.

Thank you to Royce & Barbra Hunter for Blessing our children with some Christmas presents.

The kids made birds for their class craft. They enjoyed playing with them after making them. It is amazing to see what the kids will come up with to play games with each other.  They will smash cans flat and they have some sort of game where they throw them on the ground and win by how they land.  God has blessed each child with an amazing imagination.