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.

Prayers and Blessings Needed

Please pray for one of our sisters, Heity Keju, who has passed out twice in less than a week for reasons unknown. Heity passed out yesterday during our English class.  They carried her to the hospital and I'm not sure what the Dr's have said yet. Heity and her husband, who passed away, helped start the church on Ebeye and Gugeegue.






If you can bless the Marshallese people by providing Christmas for our friends, please go to our Oct. blogs and read our list of suggestions and instructions on mailing the boxes .  We are also having a Church Meeting  starting in the middle of January to the end of the month.  If you can help us with those expenses go to last weeks blog for instructions.

Gospel Meeting in January

Lee and Peterson in the pic below take turns every other week preaching. Lee in Engish and Peterson in Marshallese.

 They both do a wonderful job preaching God's word.  Our ladies spread God's word by teaching the kids in Bible class. We have English classes on Sunday afternoons. We have two of our members who share their school rooms with us to spread God's word.  Thank you also for all those that are helping or have helped support or sponsor the Church of Christ at Gugeegue and Ebeye.

Paul Hester, who helped start the congregation on Ebeye, comes every year to help make repairs needed on the church building and to hold a Gospel Meeting.  Paul will be bringing a brother with him in late January.  They will  hold meetings in Gugeegue and Ebeye. That will require us to pay for several taxi's from Ebeye to Gugeegue and back.  It costs $40  round trip for one taxi, (dual cab small pick up). We will be renting the Ebeye Community Center for our Ebeye meetings and taxi's for the Gugeegue meetings.  If you can help with any of these expenses, please send a check to Avis Cummings.  Do not make your check out to the Church of Christ.  The bank will not let me cash a check made out to the church.  Mail your contributions to:
Avis Cummings
CMR 701  Box 1652
APO, AP 96555-0017

Please pray for the missionaries safe travel and a God inspired meeting.
Blessings to all.

Be Thankful

 We had a great day worshiping the Lord.  The kids were well taught about sowing the seed by one of our dedicated teachers. Our kids don't have tables to color on or chairs to sit on, but the story is the same.  They love to listen and they make due with what they have.

We had another good day in our English class.

Ebeye still does not have their public water system fixed.  I have heard it may be six months before  they will get it up and going.  That is what happened when they lost their electricity a couple years back.  Kwaj sends tankers full of water that are pumped into the Ebeye water system.  Be thankful for reliable water and electricity.  Not everyone provides that reliability. Praise God we have had some rain to go into the private water catchments.