WOW!! 2010 is gone and here we are almost to the end of January 2011!! God is so good to allow us the privilege of serving Him!!
February 25 - May 23 are the dates for our next trip back to Nicaragua and we are excited to get back there to minister again! We returned home November 19, 2010 and have spent time with our kids, grandkids, and friends, but we are now ready to return to our other family in Nicaragua! There is so much work to be done there and we love the people the Lord allows us to minister to and with. God is so good!
Please pray for the pastors of the churches where we work near Granada, Nicaragua, as they get little or no salary. They simply trust the Lord to provide their needs day be day and week by week. We are enjoying working with them and the Lord is allowing us to be used to meet many of their needs and we are grateful!
Send us a note or e-mail letting us know how to pray for you and we will be happy to do so! One of the hightlights of our day is when we join together in prayer for our families, our friends, and our ministry partners.
Our grandson Corey is going through the harshest chemo treatments to date and they are knocking his infection fighting counts down, so please pray for them to remain high enough for him to be able to complete these treatments and be able to move into the maintenance phase of treatments, where, hopefully, the drugs will not be as harsh!!
Stay tuned for more information to follow soon!!!
We received a call from our daughter Jennifer this afternoon and told us that Corey's bone marrow test from Thursday showed only 1.3% cancer cells which means he is REMISSION IN ONLY 15 DAYS!!! PTL!! Anything below 5% is considered in remission and they had told us that their goal was to have him there by day 28!!! Early is GOOD!!!!
Thanks again, for your wonderful prayers for our little man!! He still has a lot of treatments and chemo to go through over the next almost three years, but we praise the Lord for this first milestone!!
Blessings and love to all!!!
Prayerfully read what is going on with the Marsh family!
As most of you know by now, our four-year-old grandson Corey (he'll be 5 on Sept. 18th) was diagnosed on Tuesday, August 10, 2010 with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia at the Medical College of Georgia Children's Hospital in Augusta, Georgia. He had not been sick until last Thursday when he developed what appeared to be an earache and fever. The doctor placed him on antibiotics and sent him home. On Monday, he was not responding to the medication, so they changed to another antibiotic. He continued to be lethargic and was not eating.
On Tuesday, they took him to the pediatrician and to make a long story short, the doctor called the hospital and sent him immediately for further testing, telling his parents (Jennifer & Ben) that he wanted to rule OUT leukemia and then determine what was wrong with him. However, the further testing Tuesday and bone marrow aspiration on Wednesday only confirmed the doctor's initial diagnosis. This type of leukemia (ALL for short) the physician says, is the best to get if you have to get leukemia. He expects a very successful CURE for Corey and that after the initial four weeks of treatments, followed by another eight months of treatments, and almost two years of maintenance treatments, that Corey will lead a very normal healthy life. During the four week period Corey will have four types of chemo (2 types given in the spine, 1 type given in a port, and 1 type injection) he will also be on steroids. The treatments will be intensive and there are many side effects they will be watching for. Of course we know that God can and will provide healing just exactly as HE determines is His will and purpose for Corey, his family, and all of us! God is in control no matter what evidence to the otherwise exists!! HE IS GOD!!!
So, you can see what an emotional roller coaster we have all been on as we went from 0 (ear infection and fever) to 100 mph (leukemia) in the span of less than one week! We received the call while taking Judy's mom to the doctor in Orlando, Florida at about noon on Tuesday. We left later that afternoon and drove into the night to get to Augusta, Georgia for the procedures on Wednesday.
Most of you know, also, that we were scheduled to leave for Nicaragua this coming Sunday afternoon, August 15. We are really torn, wanting very much to get back to our friends and ministry in Nicaragua and see what the Lord is going to do through and around us as we minister in His dear Name and then wanting to remain here with our daughter, son-in-law, and grandson to help out with them in this very traumatic situation the Lord has allowed them and us to walk in our journey with Him.
Many of you will remember that this is the verse the Lord used in 2008 to confirm His calling us into this ministry of missions and what our job description was to be. Please carefully read the last phrase of the verse. It was as if the Lord planted this verse in there just for us! You will remember that Judy was away from Mitchell and the family for a cumulative total of about 12 months out of a 36 month period, caring for her parents, while Mitchell was still serving as church staff. Part of the difficulty in trying to determine how we were going to serve the Lord in missions, especially Nicaragua or any other country, lay in trying to understand how we could still minister to her parents and our own family at the same time. We understand that thousands of home and foreign missionaries have to leave their families for several years at a time to follow their calling, but the Lord has not called us to live full time in Nicaragua at this point. We are open to whatever He asks of us, but that was not a part of His calling to us initially, nor as of yet. A lot of our ministry in Nicaragua is to individual families of women and children, in homes without a husband. Due to this situation we do not feel that it would be good for Mitchell to go without Judy. We have been seeking the Lord for His direction and guidance.
THEREFORE, due to the four weeks of intensive treatments, the specific manner of our ministry and His calling to us at this time, along with the great needs our daughter and family will have during these next four weeks, we have peace from the Lord to cancel our flight to Nicaragua for this Sunday (we had purchased the flight insurance for $35, PTL!). We will be bringing our Cow Pasture Camper Home Office from Central Florida and parking it at our daughter's house in Johnston, SC, which is about two hours from our house in Spartanburg, SC. We will have our office for working and we will be helping care for Corey during this very difficult time and seeking the Lord for opportunities for missions and ministry in this area. We will then evaluate the situation at the end of this first four weeks of intensive treatments about going back to Nicaragua around the latter part of September for a couple of months.
Pray for Corey as his little body goes through this intensive treatment that the side effects will be minimal. Also, for peace, comfort and God's provision for the family's many needs.
We covet your prayers for us as we daily, even moment by moment, seek the Lord and His direction for our lives. The very last thing we want to do is to be disobedient to Him in any way. Our heart's desire is to be His bond slaves.
Thanks, again, for your love, prayers, and support of this ministry that the Lord has called us to and which we love so much! God has given us a heart to serve those who are so less fortunate than most of us! We are thankful to the Lord for His mercy and grace!!
Thank you so much my dear friends for your prayers, e-mails, phone calls, and love during this difficult time in my life. I was really close to my daddy while growing up. We lived on a farm and I was his tag-a-long. He taught me how to love God and how to love God's creation.
I was his little cowgirl who helped him round up the cows for market, haul and feed hay to the cows, ride the pasture on horseback to check on fences and repair them. We cut and hauled wood in the wintertime to provide heat for our home. There was always the chore of feeding the animals and milking the cow. He taught me how to plow a garden with horse and plow and how to butcher chickens and turkeys for food.
There were so many times that he protected me. Such as the time I came upon a rattlesnake and he gently reached around my waist and pulled me to safety, or the times he stood as guard outside the outhouse when we had to go after dark. When being thrown from a horse, he was there to pick me up, or getting me over the fence at the corral before the cow with the long horns attacked me. Then, there was the time that daddy and I were searching for my collie dog when a fast train was coming and we had no place to run for safety so he held me and my dog tightly until the train passed by.
There have been so many memories that have flooded my mind and heart these past few weeks. I realize how much we need to show our loved ones how much we love them while we have them. We all have our flaws and many times we make mistakes or fail to show our love one to another as we should but God has given us the ability to forgive and to receive forgiveness. I am so glad that my Savior loves me so much that He allowed me to be with my daddy these past three days. I was able to tell him that I loved him as he was taking his last breaths and to hold my mama as she wept as her mate for 61 ½ years left this earthly home.
There is so much more that I could say about my earthly father but today I also focus on MY Heavenly Father who loves me and protects me far beyond anything I could ever think or imagine. Thank you Father that you loved me enough to send your precious Son to die that I might live eternally. Thank you that you have gone to prepare a place for me and that one day you will also call me to my new home. I pray that my days here on this earth will bring glory and honor to you my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
The Lord answered our prayers at 11:55 a.m. this Saturday morning, as Judy, along with one of her sisters, was able to stand by her Dad's side as he made his transition from this life into the presence of the Lord Jesus! God is so good!
As soon as arrangements are made, I will update everyone.
Please keep the family in your prayers during these days!
Hey everybody!! I just wanted to update you on a few things going on in our lives and the ministry.
Thank you so much for your continued prayers, love, and financial support of this ministry. We are so very blessed to have you all standing with us as we serve Him! The call that the Lord has place on our lives comes from Isaiah 58:7, where it says: "Share your food with the hungry, and give shelter to the homeless. Give clothes to those who need them, and do not hide from relatives who need your help." (New Living Translation) Even while we are here in the United States , we are doing what He has called us to do, as we care for relatives, gather supplies for Nicaragua and for the less fortunate of our own country. We are so blessed to be able to follow the Lord as we do and your faithfulness to the Lord in giving to and praying for this ministry enables us to do that!! We are so thankful for those who "give to the Lord" through this ministry!! Thank you so much and may our God richly reward you for your giving and multiply back to you many times over!
Judy remains in West Florida at her aunt's home near Blountstown caring for her. Her aunt is in a lot of pain and has to have help with everything. Pray for Judy to have wisdom and discernment in getting her some help. Her other aunt, who is there with her recuperating from a three month stay in the hospital is not able to care for her. All the other care givers are not in good health at this time either.
Judy's dad is very weak and she feels like she needs to go on down there (about 4 hours south) before she comes back to Spartanburg, and I support that decision. Pray for her to have wisdom and discernment as to when to go. Her biopsy is scheduled here for Tuesday morning, but it can be rescheduled if need be.
Pray for little five year old Lionel in Nicaragua. I received a call last night that he was to finally have his surgery today for his hernia. Please pray for him and his family and that the Lord will supply all their needs during this time.
Please remember to pray for us to have wisdom and discernment as to when we need to take the clothes and supplies up to the poor in West Virginia and Kentucky and when we are to return to Nicaragua. The Lord has not given us peace about returning in early June as we had planned. We feel like He is keeping us close by to be with Judy's family during their time of need. Pray that we will continue to trust the Lord as we wait on Him for directions. Waiting is a difficult task for me!! I like to be actively pursuing what God has for us!
Please continue to pray about the sale of our house in Spartanburg. We simply want His will to be done and if that means keep the house, so be it! We just feel so burdened with it consuming so much of our finances and time when we are able to be home. But we want what HE wants for us!! We just want to be able to be where He wants us to be whenever He wants us to be there! We want to be available to Him completely!
Please remember that we pray for you all daily! It is our joy and privilege to ask the Lord for His blessings on you, our prayer partners, who lift us up to Him! We pray for our e-mail and Facebook friends who care for us, as well. We ask the Lord to multiply back to each of you who give to HIS Kingdom's work through this ministry! When you give, you are giving to the Lord and then it is our responsibility to use it properly and in the manner that He directs us! We do not take that lightly!
May the God of peace fill your heart and life with His peace that passes ALL understanding! May He keep you in His perfect peace, as you keep your mind fixed on Him!!
Hope your day is going well!! Ours is a great day!!
We went out to check on Victoria and family today and found her coughing with some congestion. She said the baby was not feeling well either, so off to the pharmacy we go to pick up some medicine for her. On the way, we stop by the church in El Pantanal to speak to Pastor Vicente and find Luis there working on some things around the church. He needs some more supplies to provide better lighting around the outside of the church, so off he goes with us to the hardware store and the pharmacy.
We stop by the hardware store first and get the electrical supplies he needs and then proceed to the pharmacy to get Victoria's medicine. We now have everything and are back off to the church and drop Luis off with his supplies. Then we take the medicine to Victoria.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Judy has 2 bags of little toys that our friend Darrell had left with us to give away, so we decide to give them away at this time. We meet up at Victoria's and she says there are no kids out at the time. They all seem to be inside the houses, because you can hear them. So off we go to the next house and some kids come out and we give them a toy and a Gospel tract and then on to the next and so on. By the time we get out to the car, Judy is being mobbed by children trying to get a toy!! She finally has to just get in the car and close the door.
We drive down the road a little ways and there are some more children out playing, so she rolls her window down and hands out some more toys and again gets mobbed at her window. We finally get away again and stop by and visit from the car with our little family and give the boys a toy. We look ahead and the kids and some adults have now cut through the way and are waiting on the road ahead of us where we have to go out! They didn't get any toys and are wanting one. We pull up and we only have a few left. We try to give the rest out, but Judy is bombarded by the kids and shoves the bag with what's left out the window. The girl who got the bag thinks it is all hers, of course, and Judy is trying to tell her to share with the rest while Mitch is saying that we have no more and we have to just drive off and leave them!! Judy says we will have to wait until they forget about us until we go back out there, but that won't happen!! Ha!! Ha!!
We get some lunch, some groceries, and head back to the apartment for a little while. We "thought" we understood that one of our pastor friends was having a service at the Central Park tonight at 6 p.m., but when we got there we couldn't find them. After calling another pastor friend, we discover it is a celebration of Pastor Jairo's anniversary at the church. We were dressed for being outside and would not go in with our shorts on, so we returned home for the night! busy day tomorrow with worship at El Pantanal at 9 a.m. and Pastor Jairo's church at 6 p.m., so we will call it a night!!
Judy talked with her mom today and she sounded really good! She is walking with her walker more now and not having to use the wheel chair as much, so that is good news. Her dad is a little better, but still bed ridden most of the time. It takes 2 people to get him up, so he only gets to sit up a few times a week when there are 2 people there to lift him. They are having a lot of very cold weather for Florida and they are tired of it!!
Well, be blessed and have a great day of worship tomorrow with your family and church family!! Remember, it is a privilege to get to worship the Lord freely! He desires us to fellowship with Him and His body, the church!! Jesus died for the church and desires for us to be a part of His body through the local church!
Please pray for our pastor and his wife who are in Florida for a health emergency with her dad!!
JUDY'S DAD: He was given two units of blood and some fluids and was looking better. Waiting on results from an MRI. They are going to try to get him well enough to go back home.
until you get up in the morning!!!
Thursday: We got up Thursday morning and got ready to go to Masaya like planned to take Uriel & daughter Ashley to get her braces adjusted and we did. Did not take as long as expected and we shopped a little in the Masaya market. We found a place where we can purchase 100 pound bags of beans for only C$660 or $32 US dollars. We have been paying about $45, so that is a good little savings. We purchased some bags so that we can make up our own to take to the families. This will save some over the long run. We had a little language mishap during the transaction, but we got it all worked out in the end. We purchased 2 bags of beans and 1 bag of rice. The rice was about the same price as here, so we only got 1. After getting some lunch and stopping by the grocery store, we headed home for what we thought might be an early night! Judy was feeling kind of tired and she rested some.
Just as we got settled in at the house, we got a phone call from Luis, the father of the little family. He told us that his sister, who is Pastor Jose's wife and is 5 ½ months pregnant was sick and needed us, so we headed out to her house. When we arrived, we found Luis and 3 of their boys. They had walked over there (a couple of miles) and were waiting on us. We learned that she was very hungry, not having eaten in a day or so (we had given them some beans & rice last Tuesday), that she needed some rest, because she was sleeping on the concrete floor, since they had NO BEDS in the house, and she was hurting! 5 ½ months pregnant and sleeping on the concrete floor!! This broke our hearts to learn this, so we headed off to town. We purchased some beans & rice, some oil, onions, eggs, sandwich meat, bread, bananas, and a Gatorade at the grocery store. Then we headed down the street to the bed store and purchased a bed, that comes with a kind of stuffed roll up mattress, along with a thicker foam mattress. We purchased all of this for about $125 US!!! PTL!!! We drove up with that stuff and began unloading and she was so excited!! She was saying "Gloria a Dios" or glory to God!!! We will get the bed frame out there on Friday, since we didn't have room for it in our little SUV!! Pastor Jose, her husband, can get a truck that we can haul it with, but he was out at the bush church when all this was going on.
As we were headed to Luis' home, we had some Spanish Christian music playing in the car, because the boys always ask us to play music when we are riding. Luis was in the back seat just singing along with all the songs and that was such a great blessing!! To know how far he has come in the last year is simply a God thing!! Going from not wanting anything to do with the church to going every time the doors are open; To go from just standing there to clapping and singing along on the songs; To go from just sitting there during preaching or Bible Study to taking his Bible to church and following along with all that is going on is simply a work of God in his heart and we give all the glory, honor, and praise to our Heavenly Father, Who works all in all!!!! PTL!!!
We saw our American friends at the grocery store and since they were leaving on Friday, they asked us to come by and pick up all the food they had purchased but had not eaten, so we got some goodies from them!! Ain't God good????? All the time, did you say??? He sure is!!! We shared some of the goodies with our little family in El Pantanal.
Friday: Judy slept in a little today while Mitch went to the market to meet Pastor Jose for him to pick up the bed frame to carry to his house. They said they really slept a lot better last night!! We just CANNOT imagine trying to sleep on a concrete floor night after night and her pregnant at that!!! We were telling someone via e-mail about the Pastor and his wife and purchasing the bed and mattresses and all and this person said that they were going to send $100 to help with that cost. We were able to tell her that they just purchased the bed and mattresses for them, because the cost for the bed and two mattresses was about $103!! Ain't God great?? How great is YOUR God!!! Ours is magnificent!!!! PTL!!!
Just as Mitch got back home, the lawyer called and asked could he go immediately to the police station!!! They were ready for the final inspection of the car. So off he went and stayed a couple of hours, but when he returned, he had the new license plates and all the paperwork, so the car deal is completed!!! Thank you Jesus!!! It is officially ours now and we have all the paperwork for the police, if they were to stop us!! PTL!! What a blessing it is to have that completed. It was well worth the $100 we paid the lawyer to get all of that stuff done!! We would still be in line somewhere waiting for who knows what if we were trying to do it ourselves!!
Mitch got back home in time for us to grab a quick bite to eat and head out again!! We were taking the little family and Julia, Luis' sister & Pastor Jose's wife, out to see their mom and to see Lorena's mom, also. So off we headed with eleven in our little SUV. We traveled about 8 – 10 miles out of town and stopped first to see Lorena's family. They immediately brought us our a huge stalk of Manzana bananas!! Usually Manzanas are very small, but these were very large!! We had taken them a couple of bags of food, because there is about 11-12 folks who live out there. After a short visit we took off again.
. Luis goes to work Monday!! PTL!! After visiting there a little while and viewing the house, we took off again for Luis' family home.
. We drove down to another of Luis' sister's house and gave her some food, too. She gave us some more fruit from her trees. After dropping the little family off at their house, we took Julia to her house. It is not very far, but it is over a long, rough, rocky road that you can only go about 5 miles per hour on and you are really bouncing around then!! We went in and saw where they had placed the bed and took pictures before bidding them good night! It was now dark and driving here after dark is very difficult, because of all the people walking, riding bikes, motorcycles, kids playing in the streets, and who knows what else is out there. We were very glad to get back to our house!! What a great day in the Lord, sharing the love of Jesus with friends who are like family to us.
Thanks for your continued love, prayers, and support! We thank the Lord every night, when we have our prayer time together for you all and ask the Lord to bless and keep you and to repay you for all you do for HIS Kingdom's work. Remember it is the Lord God Almighty, King of kings, and Lord of lords that we serve and to Him goes ALL the glory, honor, and praise!! Alleluia!!! Amen!!!
Happy Birthday to our oldest daughter Jennifer!! She turns…old enough to whoop us if we were to tell!! Hope you had a great day, Jennifer!
Boydy howdy has it been hot here today!! The clothes were almost dry by the time we got them to the line, it was so hot!!! It was 95 degrees with a heat index that felt like 101!! Wish we could send some of it up your way where you are still chillin'!!
and you ought to see all the paperwork required for that!! It is about 6 – 8 pages on each of us, including personal references. Have some of you been talking to somebody down here??? It only takes $50 to open the account, but about $100 worth of paperwork!! Ha!! Ha!! It is also funny to us that you go to the bank to purchase your car insurance!
from our post office box, the deposit was within $2.65 of the amount we needed for the insurance today!! Ain't God good??? Judy said she would pay the $2.65 so we will deduct it from her next pay check!! Ha!! Ha!! She says good luck with that!!!! Ha!! Ha!! What paycheck, she says!!!! Ha!! Ha!! God is sooooo good to us!!! Many thanks to those who were obedient in their giving to make this happen. One of the contributors told us that when she went to write her normal check amount for the month, the Lord seemed to say to her that it was not enough and told her what amount to write it for and that, along with several others, made the deposit to be exactly what was needed!! See how OUR obedience or disobedience affects the lives of others? We never know sometimes, what the Lord is wanting to do when He asks us to do something that may even seem crazy! He may be working in your life to work in someone else's life to work in someone else's life…well, you get what we mean!! We must walk in obedience to our Lord and Savior if we walk with Him.
this week and we have been able to pass out tracks to people attending the event. Also, we met an American family from Seattle, who are Christians, that are here on vacation.
just "happens" to pick up this guy who can translate! Ya think God is up to something here? We ain't real smart, but we sure think so!! We are going to take them some hygiene bags, vitamins, and some children's shirts that we have to give the folks at the church service on Sunday afternoon at 4 p.m. The pastor shared with us that he lost a 22 year old son six months ago in an accident involving electricity. Please pray for his family as they are still dealing with the loss.
. Masaya is the place where the police give us a hard time, so please pray for us to be invisible to them tomorrow.
Sunday morning we are planning to go to church in the bush country near the base of Mombacho volcano.
Sure hope the Lord is up to something in your life today! If not, check your connection! You may not be plugged in properly!
Blessings and love to you all!! Thanks for your continued love, prayers, and support to keep us going!
We are doing fine and dandy like cotton candy!!
We had a great weekend. Got some work done here around the apartment, cleaned up the little Suzuki, and got a little rest! It sure was hot out there!! Working on that tan already!!
We enjoyed a great morning of worship with our friends at Pastor Vicente's church in El Pantanal and then went for a nice lunch with our friend Darrell Hinson who is here for a few days from SC!
Keep the prayers coming our way!! We appreciate them!!
Boydie howdy we sure hit the ground running when we got here on Monday!! We went to dinner (cause there was nuttin' in the apartment) and ended up feeding 2 homeless people after we ate.
On Tuesday, we went back to see if we could get our little SUV started and finally did by getting it jumped off. Let me tell you, God did a wonderful thing in getting us this little Suzuki Grand Vitari!! It only has 24,500 miles on it and the inside looks and smells like brand new! It is WAY nicer than anything we EVER dreamed we would be able to have over here and god receives all the glory for that!! We ARE grateful for the four people He used to purchase it for our ministry! We are so blessed to have it!! In fact, we broke it in good on Tuesday with 10 people in it!!
We were also able to purchase food for three families and purchase some cough medicine for a family on Tuesday! By the time we got done, it was getting dark, but we went on and bought groceries for ourselves anyway.
On Wednesday, we left the house about 6:55 a.m. in order to take our little family to the doctor. Five of the seven of them were sick and had to see the doctor and get medicine. We went to a free clinic to see the doctors and to get the prescriptions. They had some of the medication, that was also free, there at the clinic, but ther rest we had to purchase at the pharmacy.
After this, we had to take the father and his sister to a laboritory to get some tests done. He needed his blood checked and she needed an ultrsound on the baby she is carrying. She is going to have a girl and is due earlier than firsst expected on May 30! This is her first!! She is Pastor Jose's wife from the church in the bush!
Since it was now past 2 p.m., we stopped and got us all a footlong hotdog and coke, because we were all very hungry and thirsty! While we were eating, a little girl came in off the street begging and they grabbed her and took her out. I followed her out and asked if she was hungry and she said she was, so we bought her a hot dog, also.
After getting everybody back home, we went for our excercise walk and came home, exhausted!! The shower felt so very good and we both drank a couple of glasses of lemonade!! It is only 6 p.m. at this writing and we are getting ready to go to bed pretty quick!! We are tired puppies!!
Thanks for your prayers for us and keep them coming!! We need and depend on them for everything!!!
We arrived safely at our cow pasture camper in Central Florida, where Judy's parents live!
Thanks for your prayers as we spoke at Bethany Baptist in New Brockton on Sunday! What a great church with a sweet spirit who loves to sing!! They really sang from their hearts!! We had a great time and were blessed to have been there! Thanks Brother Tony!!
For those of you who don't know about our cow pasture camper home office, let me explain. We have a camper in Center Hill, Florida at Judy's parent's home where we stay when we are here. It literally sits just outside the yard fence in the pasture with the cows a couple of horses! We have to be very careful where we step when walking outside!! We stay here just before and after flying in or out of the country. We fly out of Tampa or Orlando, Florida, because it is so much less expensive here. We can both fly from here for the same as one from South Carolina.
Baptist Church in Sumterville, Florida this coming Sunday! We just want Jesus to be exalted as we share HIS story!!
2010 is officially off and running and we trust that you and yours are doing well after a busy Christmas season!
area has been fantastic! We praise the Lord for keeping Judy's parents on a level plane, so that we could be here for these two months. The time has really flown by and little Kylie is now 5 weeks old already and growing like a weed! She is precious, as are all our grandkids, oh yeah, and our kids too!!!
The Lord has been so very good to us during this time home! We returned home in November with a huge financial deficit and He so graciously used so many of you to give generously during December and that put us on more stable footing for the end of the year and the beginning of this new one! We are so grateful for the way the Lord works in and through those of you who are our financial partners and for those of you who pray for us daily! We pray for you ALL every night as we lay down and pray together before we go to sleep.
Another way the Lord has blessed us during this time is to bring our vehicle fund up to a total of both pledged and given to $8,250.00!!! PTL!!! We are only $1,750 short of our goal of $10K and are excited about purchasing a vehicle when we go in February. Please be praying for the Lord to bring us to a vehicle or a vehicle to us, as the one we wrote about back in early December is already gone. We know He will lead us as we pray and seek Him! Thanks to all who have given to this goal! It is not too late to give!!
to help out with a two of Judy's great-aunts for a few days. We then plan to travel up to Dothan, Alabama (only about 40 miles away) to visit with some friends and supporters there for a couple of days before heading on down to Center Hill, Florida to our cow pasture camper office. Judy will be helping with the care of her dad for a couple of days for one of the CNA's to have some time off. Then our wonderful sister will take us to the airport loaded with hygiene bags, vitamins, clothes, shoes, and other supplies for our 2-month stay.
. We have a couple of boxes already in our possession and are grateful to be able to carry them with us this trip. We would like to take some each trip, so you can collect them at anytime and let us know and we will make arrangements to pick them up! Hygiene bags are always needed, also!
Please know that you are loved, appreciated, and prayed for daily by the Marsh family! This is not our ministry, but it is the Lord's and He is using you all as you pray, love, and support us in any way! Thanks for partnering with us in this great adventure!
Judy & I trust that this new year will find you enjoying the most wonderful blessings of the Lord, as you seek HIM and HIS will for your life!
We are so very excited about the possibilities that await us in 2010! Pray for us as we get ready to return to Nicaragua in early February for 2 months.
We love you and appreciate your love, prayers, and financial support of this ministry!! Thank you for partnering together with us as we serve the Lord!!
We are enjoying a wonderful time at home with our family and friends as we are celebrating the wonderful Thanksgiving adn Christmas holidays, along with the birth of our 7th grandchild. Kylie Addison Cooksey was born December 3 and is only our 2nd granddaughter of the 7! She is a beauty!
We are looking forward to going back to Nicaragua the first of February or so, as the Lord allows. We are praying for our friends there daily and trusting the Lord to minister to them in every way!
We want to wish you and yours the very merriest and blessed Christmas possible and a happy New Year! Thank you for your wonderful love, prayers, and support during this past year. Please take time to read our latest Financial UPdate Letter on another page of this website! It will bring you up to date on all the latest news!
We are fine and dandy here in Nicaragua, enjoying a bit of "cooler" temps here this time. It has only been in the low 80's in our apartment this time instead of around 90 everyday!! It feels much better!!
This trip has been very different for us, as it seems each and every trip is in it's own way. We have purchased several medications and taken some folks to the doctor. One of our e-mail partners provided $200 US for a pastor friend of ours to have a very important test on his head. We are waiting for the results of that test.
We are looking forward to worshipping this Sunday with a pastor friend out in the bush country near the Mombacho volcano (inactive for years). This is the little hut church that we were able to purchase tin for their roof. We are anxoius to see the finished project and meet more of the people there.
We are also looking forward to getting back home to Spartanburg. Our youngest daughter is due to give birth to our seventh grandchild December 15, but the way it looks, she might be delivering sooner than that! We have been away from our home there since September 24, with the exception of a few days for Mitch after Judy flew to Tampa to be with her mom in the hospital.
Thanks for your thoughts, love, prayers, and support to this ministry that the Lord has entrusted to us! We are simply trying to be obedient to Him in everything He tells us to do!!
Blessings and love!! Send us an e-mail!! We love hearing from you!!
Hello, Howdy, and How do you do?
Praise the Lord, Judy's mom is infection free according to the latest culture!!! She is slowly improving and beginning the very LONG process of getting her strength and energy level back after 3 weeks of being in the hospital, preceded by all the other problems she incurred leading up to this situation! She had already been in the hospital and pain management for a couple of weeks prior to this. So, to put it mildly, she has a long way to go, but with the Lord's help and rehab, she will gain her strength back and be able to function again, we pray!! They are waiting on transport and rehab to make all the arrangements for her transfer to a center about 10 miles from her home. Judy, her sister, and niece will be able to sleep in their own beds now instead of the hospital chair!! PTL!!
right now and we have been directed to take precautions from mosquitoes. Eight people have died and over 1,700 have encountered the disease, but it is not contagious person to person. Pray for our wisdom, health, and safety.
We will keep you informed and up to date to our plans. Thanks so much for your every prayer, thought, and e-mail. We are encouraged when we hear from you and look forward to each contact.
We had a successful, but shortened trip to West Virginia, as Judy had to fly to Tampa, Florida to meet her mom at the hospital. She was going into a diabetic coma and was in very critical condition. Thanks for your prayers on her behalf. She is doing some better, but has a long way to completely recuperate! Judy remains there with her and I will be joining her there this week.
We delivered the clothes to a church in Steubenville, Ohio, just across the river from WEst Virginia and they were busily giving them away when I left on Monday, September 28. They were a little overwhelmed at first, but dug in and were doing a great job! One family of five walked over a mile in the rain to get some of the clothes. Thanks to all who donated items for us to carry there!
I continued on part of the trip without Judy and attended some wonderful meetings in Afton, VA with a group called ADvancing Native Missions. They come alongside native missionaries in various countries, who are serving the Lord and give them encouragement and support to reach their own people with the Gospel! This is a wonderful organization of folks who have a wonderful heart for God and they blessed me as I sat in their midst for a couple of days!
Judy & I are hoping to get back to Nicaragua later this month, as we see her mom making progress and getting settled in rehab. Pray for us to have Godly discernment as we make these decisions. Ministering to Judy's family IS a part of our calling from the Lord in this ministry and we are grateful to be able to do so.
Judy & I made it home to Spartanburg, SC at about 4 p.m. Friday, August 14 and it was very good to get here! We really enjoy our home and are so thankful for it. Evidently the Lord does not want us to sell it at this time, so we are just enjoying it and being thankful for it!!
We had the privilege of our youngest daughter cooking supper for us Friday night and we got to play with our youngest grandyoungun in the process!! Then early Saturday morning we headed up to North Carolina, where two of our grandkids were at band camp all week. They did an exhibition for us and they did great! We look forward to attending as many of their ball game performances and competitions as possible! We are having supper Sunday night with our other daughter and her family, so we will have seen all three of our kids and 4 out of 6 grandkids in just 48 hours!!
We are looking forward to being with our friends in Albertville, AL this next weekend, where we just learned that we will be speaking at the morning service also! I believe it starts at 10:45 a.m. and the evening service is at 6 p.m. Come join us if you live close to this area!
Pray for us to be able to get some good rest this week, seeing how we haven't had much since returning to the states! I have had a little more than Judy, though, and she is really tired!
Looks like we will be taking a lot of clothes to West Virginia next month! Many thanks to all who have contributed their used clothing to the needy folks there! We will hopefully get some good pictures to post on the website for you to see.
Thanks for your love, prayers, and support! We count on all three of these to get us through each day!
Have a blessed day of worship tomorrow and be blessed!
We are at our little camper home safe and sound (??) and helping with the care of Judy's parents. I will be speaking at a church in Leesburg, FL tomorrow and look forward to seeing our friends there.
We should be arriving back home in Spartanburg around August 13, after helping out here another weekend while we are here.
We just learned that we will be speaking at Mt. Calvary Baptist Church in Albertville, AL Sunday evening, August 23, so if you are near there, please come and join us! We would love to see you!!
Well, only one more day until the team arrives from South Carolina. There will be 9 of them, us 2, and 3 translators. Pray for our safety as we will be traveling each day about 3 hours and conducting one Bible Club in the morning and another in the afternoon. Our days will be long! We will be picking the team up each morning about 8 a.m. and not returning them to the inn until about 8 p.m. each evening, so pray for our strength! Pray for the potentially hundreds of children and adults who will be hearing the Gospel of Jesus, some for the very first time!
The room addition to the little family's home has turned into a completely new home!! PTL!! They have built over the top of the old house and then we tore it down out from under the new one. It has been exciting to see the hand of the Lord in alll that has been happening here so far! We can't wait to see what else the Lord is going to do in our midst!! We praise Him!!
Hello!! Judy & I made it safely to Nicaragua yesterday and the flihgt was actually early and everything arrived safely!! We brought about 115 hygiene bags with us to share with the folks here in Nicaragua. We are excited about the team coming down July 18 to assist us and conduct two Bible clubs.
We are looking forward to helping our little family in El Pantanal add on a room to their little 12X7 foot house and purchase a couple more beds to put in it.
It seems a little cooler here so far than when we were here a month ago. We actually had to pull the sheet up on us last night. Of course, the fan was blowing full force on us as well!!!
Thanks for your prayers as we minister together in Jesus Name. Check back here an dyour e-mail box for more updates in the coming days!!
We just returned from Houston, Texas serving on a feeding unit team. We fed over 8,000 meals in 3 days and were able to minister to many people as we talked with them while they were waiting over 2 hours ahead of time to receive their meals. You could see the stress in their faces and it was such a joy to be able to offer encouragement and joy for a few minutes as we visited together.
Judy noticed tears in the eyes of mothers as they received their meals and that the children would usually rip open the containers and begin eating as soon as they got the meal in their hands. Others expressed how thirsty they were and that they just needed water!!
The Lord truly blessed us as we ministered in Jesus Name!! As you contribute to this ministry, you are there with us, enabling us to represent you wherever we go!!
Thanks so much for your prayers and financial support!! We are excited like never before at what God is doing in and through us!!
We are scheduled to travel back to the Houston area on Monday, September 29 for another 7 or 8 days of ministry working on a laundry unit. This is a trailer equipped with washers & dryers where we wash, dry, & fold the workers clothes for them, so that they can have clean clothes each day for working. You can imagine how dirty those working with the chain saws or getting mud & debri out of homes can get in the Texas heat. This is just another of the many faceted ministries of South Carolina Baptist Disaster Relief. Pray for us as we travel and work in this wonderful ministry!
We just learned that we are going to be in the Port Arthur, Texas area September 29 - October 7 working in the laundry unit. The unit is being moved today and we will be there Monday night to relieve the folks who have been working the past week or so. Pray for our safe travel there & back and that we might be used of the Lord mightily while there.
We are in Port Arthur, Texas working with Disaster Relief on a laundry unit. We are washing the clothes for the people cleaning the mud and trees out of people's homes. We have seen some very heavy destruction in the area. See the pictures below. Pray for us as we return home leaving here on Tuesday, Oct. 7. It has been a real blessing to be here as support to those working so very hard in the clean-up process. We talked with a young school teacher that has lost everything, including a couple of schools in the area! As soon as we began talking to her she began weeping and sharing her story with us. Pray for Lisa in Bridge City, TX.
We just returned from Second Baptist Church Bridge City, TX which was inundated with 4-5 foot of water. They lost everything in the entire facility from the 5-6 foot line and below. A DR team from SC had been working there all week and had cleaned out the Worship Center so that they could have service in there this morning. A large group of us went there this morning about 7:30 a.m. to clean out the fellowship hall & kitchen area so they could begin rebuilding it in order for teams to come there and stay to help rebuild the community and the church. Most of us stopped working and joined them for the service. Please pray for Bro. Bobby & Karen who had arrived to be pastor of this church only a couple of weeks before Ike hit town. They not only lost their church facility, but everything they personally owned also. They are in good spirits, though and are determined to rebuild & go on!!
Inside Second Baptist Worship Center after cleaning out by DR !
We are back home in Spartanburg after a very rewarding week in Port Arthur and Bridge City, Texas. Please keep praying for the wonderful people there who are trying to rebuild their lives after Hurricane Ike.
It has been brought to my attention that some people think Judy & I are going to work for another ministry here in town that ministers in Nicaragua. Although we do hope to continue our participation in other ministries, we are not being employed by any other ministry. As stated in our letter, we have formed Mitch Marsh Ministries, a non-profit corporation in South Carolina and we are operating entirely on our own.
If you have any questions about this, PLEASE contact US and we will be more than happy to help you understand what the Lord is calling us to do.
Thanks so much to those of you who have given to our ministry already and to those who are praying for us. We are excited to see the Lord working in our lives as we follow Him!
We are getting very excited about our new ministry and are busy planning our year's work. Pray for us that we will discern HIS directions for us as there are so very many directions for us to go with so many needs in so many places.
We are currently planning to go to Nicaragua and Roatan, Honduras in February to minister and lay groundwork and preparation for future ministry. We are also looking at opportunities available to us through the North American Mission Board (NAMB) here in the United States. Pray for God to give us His mind in all we plan and prepare to do.
Judy left this morning for her Aunt's near Blountstown, FL to help her out for a few days before heading on down to her parent's home in central Florida for a few weeks. Pray for her as she ministers and serves her mom & dad and relieves her sisters of some of the responsibility for a time. She will be back in time to join me on our Christmas trip to Nicaragua with 25+ others from around the country on December 15 - 20.
Our last Sunday here at River Hills will be December 21. Pray for us and our church as we both begin a new adventure of seeking the Lord for His direction.
We will be sending out an updated newsletter in December to share all that the Lord has been doing and what He is leading us to do in the coming months. We are excited to be on this new journey!
Judy and I are very excited about being back together in a few weeks and getting ready for the new year to begin our new ministry full time! We have received invitations to go to Alaska for 4 months next summer, Jacksonville, FL for a couple of months, and possibly West Virginia for a few weeks! Pray that we will be able to discern HIS will for us and that He will provide the funds for us to go where He leads. Where God guides, He provides! We will also be going to Nicaragua in December with about 28 others to share the Christmas story and give out gifts.
Blessings on you and yours!!!
Judy is still in Florida with her parents (3 1/2 weeks now) and will be home the weekend of Thanksgiving. We are preparing for our Christmas trip with Chosen Children Ministries December 15 - 20. There will about 28 of us traveling to many different barrios to feed a meal and share the Gospel story of the true Christmas. We will sing Christmas Carols in Spanish and share some gifts with them. We are taking hygiene items for the adults and some small gifts for the children. Please pray for us as we travel and share with these wonderful folks.
Then it is just a few short weeks until we launch out on our own new mission's ministry. We are busily working out details and planning our trips and trying to get everything in order. Pray with us about the many opportunities coming our way, that we will have Godly discernment to know where God is working and join Him there. You are in our thoughts and prayers and we wish God's very best on you and yours.
Judy is coming home today!!!! Yeah!! After just over 5 weeks helping with her parents care, she is home just in time for us to get ready to travel to Nicaragua with about 28 others for the 2nd annual Christmas Trip December 15 - 20 sponsored by Chosen Children Ministries. I will be leading the trip as we share the Christmas story with hundreds of individuals across the country, feed them, and share some gift items with them. Please pray for our safety and anointing as we go in Jesus Name! We will give an update and pictures when we return. Also, our latest newsletter update should be posted in a few days, so look for it online here at this site under "NEWSLETTER".
Merry Christmas!! Judy & I are back from Nicaragua and have finished our last Sunday @ River Hills as a staff member and are excited about our new ministry more now than ever! The Lord continues to show Himself strong in our behalf and provide encouragement almost daily. Thanks so much for your prayers and financial giving to make this ministry possible! We praise the Lord for all that He is doing and leading others to do. We stand amazed!
We had a great time in Nicaragua last week as we fed & ministered to over 1,000 in 6 different barrios (villages) in 5 days. A couple of places the people had waited for us for more than 2 hours in the heat under a tin roof!! They are such gracious people. We will be going back to Nicaragua January 26 - February 9, 2009. We will be taking some walker's with seats on them down to a couple of ladies who have trouble walking and have to walk more than a mile to church. One has polio and the other has a hernia, dislocated vertibrae, and a leg that was broken and did not get set straight and healed crooked.
We are leaving Saturday, December 27 for a few days in Alabama with friends and then on to Northwest Florida for a couple of days to visit & minister to Judy's aunt. We will be at Judy's mom & dad's on Tuesday, December 30 in order for her to take her mom to an important doctor's appointment. Please pray for her mom.
We will be speaking and I will be singing @ Sunset Park Church of God in Wildwood, Florida on Sunday, January 4, 2009 @ 10:30 a.m. We will be sharing about our ministry and ministering there in that wonderful church. This is my sister Annette's church and my niece's husband is pastor. We should be back in Spartanburg around January 15 or so to get ready to leave again. We will also be traveling to Roatan, Honduras February 9 - 16 when we leave Nicaragua. I had the privilege of ministering there back in March and we are seeking the Lord about more ministry there.
Please pray for our safety, but more importantly for us to discern the Lord's direction for each day, as we seek to minister everywhere we are, not just when we are overseas. God is working everywhere and we want to join Him in everything He wants us to get involved in.
We made it back on January 16 after taking Judy's parents to 12 doctor's visits in just 10 days!! We dug approximately 150 feet ditch by hand (post hole diggers and shovel) to lay pvc pipe in for a water trough for the livestock and performed some other maintenance around the house for them. We spoke in my sister's church and gave testimony at another church we visited. We met with another pastor and his wife and made arrangements to speak in their church, Covenant Life Church of God, Leesburg, Florida, March 15 at 10 a.m. We will be sharing our ministry and I will be singing and speaking.
Please pray for us as we leave January 26 to travel to Nicaragua for 2 weeks. We will be setting up mission stations and making arrangements for future trips. We will also be meeting with some of our SBC missionaries there in Managua. We will leave Nicaragua February 9 and travel on to Roatan, Honduras for 1 week. We will be meeting with some pastors and other leaders there to consider future ministry.
Thanks to all of you who have supported us in any way to make this ministry possible. The Lord has shown Himself so very strong in so many wonderful ways and we are so grateful.
We look forward to updating you on our latest trip when we return. Blessings to you and yours!!
We are scheduled to fly out Monday, January 26 from Charlotte @ 2:30 p.m., but Judy has had to fly to Florida to be with her Dad in Leesburg Memorial Hospital. He was admitted for surgery on Wednesday, but they were unable to perform it due to some other health complications that arose just prior to the surgery time. He is not doing very well at the time of this writing and we ask for your prayers for wisdom for us and for the Lord's will for her Dad. He is 84 years old and has several medical conditions that are very serious, as well as arthritis. Thanks for your continued support in every way. We will keep you updated on the progress of this situation.
We arose at 3 a.m. and my sweet sister, who loves me more than she should, drove us the hour and a half to the airport in Orlando, Florida. We are now in Miami waiting on our flight to Managua.
We are supposed to have internet access while there, but thought I would send this note out just in case we don't for some reason. In a third world country, you never know how the services are going to be.
Please know that we are counting so much on your prayers for us during these next weeks. We so very much want to be the Lord's hands, eyes, and feet as we move among the wonderful people of Nicaragua.
Pray for Victoria as we seek to get her to a clinic to get the tests she needs. We are taking 2 four-wheel walkers that were generously donated down with us. Victoria gets one and Francesca gets the other one. We still have 2 more at home that we will bring next time.
Pray for Judy – she is coughing and a little congested. There was a lot of stuff going around at her mom's. The whole county was having a lot of flu & colds, according to the rehab folks. We learned from rehab that Judy's dad HAD PNEUMONIA while in the hospital last week, but no one informed us of that fact! He is coughing terribly and taking breathing treatments.
Thanks, again, for your prayers, support, and concern for us as we begin this great adventure with the Lord!! We want to be found faithful!!
Until I can write again, adios!!
We are home safe & sound from Nicaragua, coming home a few days early because of the way the Lord prospered our journey! We found a little apartment to rent near Granada and made contacts with several barrios. We are excited about returning in April for several weeks to continue our ministry there! Pray that the Lord will direct our journey!
We are at Judy's parent's home in our little camper home in the cow pasture. Judy's dad is still in Rehab and her mom is staying by herself at home. She feels much better when we are here in the pasture next to her. We are glad to be here for her. It is so good to be able to stay with Judy here and help out as well as just be together. Those longs weeks and months we were apart in the past several years got very old! I am able to do our work here from our camper office and help out when needed. Jeremy keeps check on our post office box in Spartanburg and makes deposits for us. Thanks so much for those who are giving so generously so that we can do this missions ministry. We are so blessed to have you as our partners.
We will be in Jonesboro, GA this Friday and Saturday for the Blackaby's Fresh Encounter Conference. We are expecting the Lord to speak to us and refresh us in His Spirit as we attend these great sessions.
We will be back in Spartanburg Saturday night sometime. We will stay there for a little over a week and attend our refresher courses with Disaster Relief in order to renew our badges and then travel back down here to Florida the next week to speak in our friends church in Leesburg, Florida. THEN, we will return to Spartanburg for about a month (we hope) before we head back to Nicaragua.
Please pray for our safety as we travel and for His directions to be ours!!
We have just finished 3 weeks of helping care for Judy's parents. Her dad is coming home from 2 months of rehab today and will be trying to see if he can stay at home with a CNA coming to the house several hours each day.
We are enjoying some time with our youngest grandson at St. Augustine. One of our very special supporters loaned us their beach condo for a few days for us to relax and enjoy the sun.
Pray for us as we head home to prepare our taxes and get things ready for our 5 week stay in Nicaragua. We will be there April 20 - May 24 and are looking forward to many new exciting ministries as we meet with new friends.
How great is our God, sing with me, how great is our God, and all will see how great, how great, is our God!!!!
Blessed be the Name of the Lord, blessed be the Name!!!!
Lord, You are good and Your mercy endureth forever!!!
Then sings my soul, my Savior God to Thee! How great Thou art! How great Thou art!!!
I could sing of His love forever…literally!! I could just keep going and going and going and going!!!!
What a great day we had at El Pantanal this morning!! They have church and Sunday School for the children on Sunday mornings @ 9 a.m. and today, they just gathered them all in the church for one gathering with no Sunday School. But I have to tell what happened first, first!
We are on our way in the back road to El Pantanal, which leads us by the little family's house on the corner with the 5 boys. When we got to where we could see the little house where they are usually sitting out under the tree, there was no one to be seen. I had wondered if they would be out there as usual and whether or not the father would be there with them today. Anyway, as we got closer, we could see the oldest boy locking the little door to their little hut. He had on a clean white t-shirt and motioned something with his hand and head as he was finishing locking the door. He was telling us that his mom and brothers were walking to church ahead of him and he was heading that way, also!!! We picked him up in the car and traveled on a little way around the corner to see such a beautiful sight that it is bringing tears to my eyes right now as I write about it!!! There was Lorena, the mom, carrying the 1½ old baby, and walking beside her were the other 3 boys!!! No dad, but he had some kind of job interview!! It was so precious to see this newly saved mom, leading her little family to church!! Well, you know what we did next!! Yep, we put them ALL in our little 5 seater!!! There's me, Judy and 2 boys in the front, and Oscar, our interpreter, the older boy, the mother, still holding the newborn, and the other boy in the back seat and away we go over the extremely bumpy dirt road to the church!!! We must have looked a sight when they opened the gate to let our car in and we began piling out of that little car!!! But it was a wonderfully, happy sight!!!! And I haven't even gotten to the best part yet!!!! Now, just wait!!! I'm getting there!!!
We are standing around talking and meeting people and someone mentioned that there were some people there looking for us earlier and wondered if we had invited them or something! We didn't really know what they were talking about, because we had met a lot of people everywhere around town and really paid it no attention, until I looked up and a group of gringos (we really stand out down here) began piling out of a white van! We didn't know any of them, we didn't think! When they came up and introduced themselves, we realized that we did know about one of them and then we realized we knew 2 Nicaragua girls who were with them!! Anyway, their leader was a former board member from another ministry that comes to Nicaragua and the 2 girls used to live at the orphanage in Juigalpa!!! They were here on a mission trip, learned from a common friend that we were here, too, looked up some info on our website (I told Judy that thing would be good for something someday), and searched the area until they found us!!! Anyway, they joined us for worship and we later went by their house to visit.
Okay, back to the story! (We still haven't gotten to the good part!!!) After a couple of songs and introductions, Pastor Vicente introduced Judy & I. Along with our interpreter, Oscar, we led the children in a couple of songs in Spanish and cut up with them some (who me?) and then we began the message the Lord had laid on my heart for them. The message was about their worth to God no matter what they have done or what has happened to them, they are still precious and loved by God. Using the simple Roman Road to salvation, we presented the Gospel. It was hot and the kids were fidgety and I wasn't sure how many were really listening, but I kept going! I left out some stuff in order to shorten my already short message, and then we moved into the invitation time. I did everything I could to talk them out of coming down front to stand by me. I told them that if they didn't really want to live for Jesus not to come! I told them that they were not getting a prize or anything else from me if they came down there. I told them that if they were not ready to give their hearts to Christ and really mean it from their hearts, not to come. But they came anyway!!! About a dozen or so, we didn't count!!! But that's not the best part yet!!!
I started just talking to the ones who came down and asked them if they had ever done anything wrong and that if they hadn't to go sit back down, but they all stayed and said they had done things wrong. They had all sinned! It told them that if they were not completely serious about living for Jesus, they needed to go sit down, but they all stayed!!
Then I led them in the sinners prayer and they prayed out loud and asked Jesus to come into their hearts and save them!! PTL!!! I told them they needed to learn to pray and ask God to forgive them when they sinned. They didn't need to get saved again, just get forgiveness and repent from their sin. I told them they needed to begin reading the Bible and learning about how much God loved them and how they could love Him and serve Him. We had a great big group hug and then I say them!! Yes them!!! The oldest boy and the middle boy from the little family on the corner had asked Jesus to come into their hearts!!! It was a hallelujah moment!!!!
Some of the ladies had made some rice pudding for the children, so they all went out to get that and we all visited for a time and then finally left to take the little family back home!! What a glorious day!!! God is soooooooooooo good!!!! We praise Him for allowing us to be present when He birthed some new kids into His kingdom!!!! What a blessings!!
Other than that, it has been an okay day. How's your day been?
We learned that they had used the rice for Monday's school lunch for the pudding for today, so we went and purchased 50 pounds of rice to get them through Wednesday's lunch. We will check back then to see if more is needed.
Thanks so much for your prayers and for those who are investing in this ministry!! You were here with us today and your account in Heaven was credited with souls saved!! You were as much a part of all this as we were!!! Praise the name of the Lord!!!
Monday we meet Yesenia of Child Evangelism Fellowship to see their feeding ministry. Tuesday we take Luis, (the oldest boy) to the doctor about his hand and wrist. Wednesday we go back to the school for more love and hugs!! Those children are so loving and precious!! They just want to hold on to you and you to them. We especially love the little girls with the dark complexion, beautiful eyes, and dark hair!!! (That's all of them!!) (It's a joke, okay?????) They are all precious in His sight – red & yellow, black, brown, & white!!!
Hope you had a great day at worship in your church today!!! We prayed for you!!
See you soon!!! Blessings and love!!!


This is a package of two lots, residential lots located in the friendly city of Mohall, across from the Sports Complex. There are a total of two packages. consisting of two lots that are level and perfect for townhomes, apartment building, or single family residences. Lots are 70'w x 167'deep . The alley in back has been abandoned so that has added 27' to the depth of the lots. They are located on 6th St NW between 2nd & 3rd Ave NW, a total of 4 lots for sale. This listing is for two of those lots in a package. If someone wanted all four, they are available. These lots take up the entire north half of the block access the street from the Sports Complex. There is water and sewer to all the lots, and they are located in city limits. Taxes are $148.00 each lot and there is a special that will be paid at the end of 10 years. This is a city of Mohall special and all residents are being charged this.
Located in Mohall ND at 6th Street NW between 2nd Ave and 3rd Ave NW across from Sports Complex.
I am interested in #190704.


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This exercise was a one-day Functional Exercise, delivered from exercise control co-located at ECDC in a separate room, close to the ECDC Emergency Operations Centre. The exercise started at 0800 CEST and was conducted in real time until 1530 CEST, when a time jump of two weeks was introduced to enable a consideration of the recovery phase. The exercise finished at 1630 CEST.
The Exercise was an internal Functional Exercise which explored the processes for activation, maintenance and recovery from a Public Health Emergency (PHE) according to the PHE operational plan (PHEOP). External organisations (WHO, DG SANCO) and Member States (Ministries of Health from France, Belgium, Italy, Slovenia and Croatia) were simulated by Exercise Control. There was no external 'live' play. Pseudo Media, based in Exercise Control, replicated queries from external press agencies and media.
The exercise was delivered in nineteen injects including media injects. Information to participants was provided by emails replicating the Early Warning & Response System (EWRS) as well as emails and telephone calls replicating contact from external agencies and pseudo media. Hard copies of simulated social media and news reports were also provided to the ECDC communications participants.


Colin Prior is known as one of the world's most respected landscape photographers. Born in Glasgow, his proximity to the Scottish Highlands shaped his passion for the outdoors and fostered his interest in photography. His photographs capture sublime moments of light and land, which are the result of meticulous planning and preparation and often take years to achieve. Prior is a photographer who seeks out patterns in the landscape and the hidden links between reality and the imagination.
His six books include The World's Wild Places and Living Tribes, which were published internationally. He is currently working on a four-year project documenting the Karakoram Mountains of Pakistan. He is a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society.
Play to play: Undisturbed places, where I can find the raw material for my work.
Not a lot of people know this: I am working on a book on a four-year book project in the Karakoram Mountains of Pakistan.
Colin is a world class photographer and a great host who engaged with everyone to ensure that we had a good time and improved our photography.
Superb photography knowledge and tuition from Colin. Very supportive to us all collectively and individually. Learnt a lot in the week.
Colin Prior is the king of the hills!
Colin and Justin knew all there was to know about the locations we visited. They considered the weather and any factors to make sure everyone was comfortable. I will always consider Justin my very own guardian angel.
The combined experience, knowledge and talents of Andy and Colin made the most of the weather and the locations to provide a range of photographic opportunities.
My trip was guided by Mr. Colin Prior who was just outstanding and a huge reason why I chose this particular trip. He's so well known yet no question was too basic for him to answer - so patient and kind. He made sure I was well looked after and spent some special time just chatting one on one. He's as impressive as his work is. Just outstanding. His tour assistant was equally as kind and outstanding. So glad I chose to go on the trip - Colin and Justin made it memorable for me.
Colin and Bob were great guiding the group to stunning locations. Both were very approachable and accomodating. Colin made sure to spend time with each person out in the field and gave great feedback. The image sharing/critique session was also a great way to see some of the different ways he looked at a landscape image and I learned things I'll definitely use going forward.
Fantastic, I need say no more.
the staff at Doune were wonderful. Colin was fun and informative and we learned a great deal.
Colin is a great tutor; his advice was given without judgement and he exudes such a passion for photography. It must be quite hard to be on it 100% throughout the trip, but he really was. Very good host.
Colin was an excellent guide, generously sharing his years of experience and always ready to offer help and advice where needed. He took us to some beautiful locations, adjusting plans as necessary to get the best of the changeable weather.
Colin and his team were delightful and made the experience a joy. Colin's vast knowledge of and obvious love for the Scottish landscape imparted a sense of reverence for the photographic process that made the experience unforgettable.
Extremely knowledgeable and helpful and I have learned a great deal from the few days away. Everything was set at a good pace as well. Much appreciation goes to Colin.
I really enjoyed my time with Colin. He spent time with each of us helping us with our camera work. I feel inspired and left with a much greater understanding of my camera and of how to frame my pictures. I also felt it was also an insight into Colin's his work ethic and style of photography. I found Justin, Colin's driver, to be very polite and friendly. I was quite intimidated at the beginning by some of the other photographers but both Colin and Justin were welcoming and I was soon put at ease. The group was fun and a good laugh.
Colin Prior is an experienced and well respected landscape photographer. However, I felt that I had not learned very much after the course. That could have been my fault by not asking the right questions. Also, the weather was generally poor and more emphasis was made of close-up photography, which I was not expecting.
We have worked with Colin for many years and he does his best to engage every client and give them what they are looking for from their photography holiday - even offering one-to-one tuition to anyone who would like it. On this occasion the weather was not on your side and and hence the far reaching landscapes were not on offer hence the focus shifted to close-up photography. It is hard to work within the landscape when you are expecting photographic landscapes, especially for novice photographers, but you can only work with what you have on any given day. I do hope that in following your holiday you have put some of what you learned on the trip into practice and yielded some great results.
It was a fantastic experience to be with Colin. He adapted the itinerary for the weather so we were always learning new things. I really appreciated his help and my photography has improved a lot.
Colin Prior facilitated the week in a very professional and friendly way. I enjoyed my holiday very much and learned how to take better landscape photographs.
Colin was wonderful. Witty, helpful, and truly a photography expert. I appreciated his individual attention. Andy was a tremendous resource and capable boat captain.
Only went one day hiking, but Skye with Andy's help got me to a doctor so I could be taken care of and got some medicine.
Friendly, easygoing, approachable. Great at making everyone feel that their contributions were valued and worthwhile.
Colin was great - he managed to provide help and support across the whole group irrespective of our technical abilities or photographic skills. Looking at my work at the end of the week I had definitely improved. It was a shame that we didn't have more time for critiques but as he said it is better to be out in the field practising than sitting inside.
The combination of Colin and Justin worked well with a lot of good humour.
Colin Prior was a patient, enthusiastic and knowledgeable guide, dedicated to meeting group and individual needs. He worked tirelessly throughout the week with good humour and panache, imparting his first-hand knowledge of the local area and his craft. As someone who has a limited knowledge of camera functions, I learnt so much about the basic rules to take a decent shot and to appropriately process shots afterwards.
Thank you for guiding a superb photographic workshop in August 2013 to the Knoydart Penisular and Scotland's Small Isles, where we visited Eigg, Rum and Canna. Organisation on the trip was faultless. My experience was further enhanced by the superb piloting of the Mary Doune by Captain Andy and the sumptuous food prepared by Liz and Martin in the kitchen every day.
Although I've been doing photography for about 20 years, I've always relied on the beauty of the 'golden hours' at dawn and dusk to carry my photos. Alternatively, I've focussed on the excitement of wildlife photography across the globe. I've generally avoided landscape photography during the day or in poor weather through a belief it was not really possible to get good shots. However, within a few days you had transformed my thinking of how to approach landscape photography, in particular in how make 2 dimensional photographs appear 3 dimensional. I gained much from each of your tutorials, including the ones on composition, simplifying images (order out of chaos), correct use of the histogram, use of graduating filters and a more subtle use of the sliders in Photoshop & Lightroom.
I also enjoyed your personalised guidance on location in various weather conditions from challenging (rain, wind and flat light) through to easier (glorious sunshine). Equally, the critique sessions in the mornings and evenings were really useful and I'm now finding myself looking at scenes in more detail before putting camera to tripod.
I've already looked up what other photography trips you offer so I doubt it will be too long before we meet again..!!
Colin was so kind and helpful, even though I hadn't learnt a lot about my camera as I should have done. He made a point of coming round to see how we were all doing when we were out shooting and tailored his advice to each of us personally. Very useful and interesting talks.....quite inspiring. He was great!
Colin Prior was an excellent and enthusiastic tutor, providing clear, helpful and practical advice. Colin ensured that there was a good emphasis on opportunities to put theory in to practice, with a very good choice of locations.


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The event will commence on the 12th of October and end on the 14th of October.
Venue – Nautical Beachfront Resort, 1000 N. McCulloch Blvd., Lake Havasu City, AZ 86403.
Enroll in the Monster Storm Poker Run by paying $350 before or on Monday 2nd of October. Anything after Monday 10/2, registration is $400 – if space is available.
If you love boating and sports, this event is for you. Storm poker run is reinventing Monster Storm to improve spectator access to event activities like meeting industry icons like Win Farnsworth, owner of "Low Altitude" turbine 50-foot Mystic boat, and Bob Teague, owner of Teague Custom Marine.
If you are not a participant and you want to be part of this experience, you should wear costumes to the awards and after-parties which would be held at the Nautical. What's more? Spectators are invited to watch the RDP Regatta and Monster Storm participants raft-up for an aerial photo, as well as shop the sponsor booths and vendor which will be on display at the Nautical throughout the weekend.
Don't miss out on any information, Stay-up-to-date on announcements and information; check StormPokerRun.com, Facebook.com/StormPokerRuns, or Instagram.com/StormPokerRuns.
Boaters who meets the registration and insurance requirements gets to participate in Monster Storm Poker Run. The three highest hands and three best costumes will be awarded cash.
To register for Monster Storm, visit http://www.StormPokerRun.com and click on the Monster Storm tab to download the registration forms.
Pay $300 to register on or before 31st of July 2017. However, you will have to pay $350 to register from August 1st – October 2nd, 2017.
Event times, dates and detail are subject to change. Please contact event website or contact event coordinator to verify information.


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Boris Pajič, slovenski hokejist, * 24. junij 1963, Jesenice, † 21. november 2006, Celje.

V svoji karieri, v kateri je igral za klube Acroni Jesenice, Olimpija Hertz, HK Celje in KHL Medveščak, je skupno odigral 444 prvoligaških tekem, na katerih je dosegel 91 golov in 167 podaj.

Bil je reprezentant Jugoslavije, zanjo pa je odigral 64 tekem (6 golov, 23 podaj, 107 minut kazni). V reprezentanci Slovenije pa je odigral 16 tekem (2 gola, 1 podaja).

Nastopil je na sedmih svetovnih prvenstvih (1985, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994), na katerih je odigral 49 tekem (5 golov, 8 podaj).

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Glej tudi
 Seznam slovenskih hokejistov na ledu

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Slovenski hokejski branilci
Slovenski hokejski reprezentanti
Hokejisti HK Jesenice
Hokejisti KHL Medveščak
Hokejisti HK Olimpija
HK Celje

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each instance for important plants and regional wise MII instance for other plants.
the developments could be done centrally and it could be pushed to each plant as required.
Please let me know if you think the above methodology could cause any problems.
I think your methodology is good.Because i have seen for my case: There are two plants and only one instance of MII production version for both the plants.Because of this sometimes it is overloaded and we faced performance issue on our applications.Our scheduled transactions are started to fail also.
So i think each instance for important plants will be good.
Agreeing to previous posts such strategy are dependent on the data load / application usage.
1. You do not need a separate xMII instance for each plant, but the decision to have or not have this architecture does significantly affect the design of your applications.
2. Works for me, but look into how this setup is affected by Implementation differences between plants. I know others on this message board have had issues with this kind of setup .


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Home Destructoid Originals Sharknado isn't so bad it's good; it's just bad
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Sharknado isn't so bad it's good; it's just bad
A dead joke that just won't die
When I pitched to Flixist's Supreme Overlord Matt a Sharknado Retrospective, I had a pretty clear-cut goal in mind. I wanted to look at all six movies in the franchise, with the most recent one being last month's The Last Sharknado: It's About Time, and ask if the franchise was really so-bad-it's-good entertainment. Kind of in the same way I cemented myself to my couch to watch every Pixar movie, I sat down for a solid marathon of sharks, Ian Ziering, and chainsaw action.
But as I kept watching all six movies, something began to crystallize for me. I can't remember if it was during the fourth or the fifth movie, but I couldn't do it anymore. I couldn't force myself to watch through every Sharknado movie. It's not like the movies were physically painful to sit through, but I was getting bored. I was constantly surfing the internet, looking at the runtime on my DVD player, taking breaks to walk my dog, and worst of all, falling asleep. I was certain that Sharknado would be a terribad masterpiece, but instead, I just saw a bunch of bad movies one right after the other.
So I think I have an answer to my original question. Sharknado is not so-bad-it's-good. Sharknado is a marathon of dumb ideas thrown against a wall, hoping one of them sticks.
So what exactly is a movie that's so-bad-it's-good? What makes a terrible movie ironically entertaining? Flixist ran a feature a couple of months ago about bad movies that we like unabashedly. Nearly all of those movies are undisputedly bad movies (except for Death to Smoochy) and yet we love them. In my eyes, a so-bad-it's-good-movie is a movie that isn't aware it's terrible or inept. It tries with unashamed conviction to be as good as it can be, but it was always destined to fail. They're movies that are miracles insomuch as no one ever stopped to realize that the movie that they're making is terrible, or they did but everyone was in too deep to stop it.
The differences between a so-bad-it's-good-movie and an outright bad movie usually lies with how much passion went into it. Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice is a bloated mess that had very little joy in it, both in front of the camera and behind the camera. Nearly everything was studio mandated and the heart of the movie, if there was one, never got a chance to come through. Contrast that with Batman & Robin, a movie that most diehard Batman fans will hate, but at least the movie knows that it's goofy and dumb. It's a throwback to 60's era Batman and wears it proudly on its sleeve. It's not good at all, but it's so proud at being an homage to Adam West that it's almost hard to hate it. Almost.
Getting back to Sharknado, the premise of the franchise is simple; there's a tornado full of sharks heading to land, and Ian Zieringhas to stop it. Usually with chainsaws. Sometimes with nuclear Armageddon. It's all in the execution that matters. The first movie played it relatively safe with the concept, not going too overboard with goofy shark attacks, but it was pretty clear that the filmmakers were chumming the waters with the first movie. Plus I'm fairly certain that no one expected the movie to be as big of a hit as it was.
Not many people remember this, but Sharknado became a bit hit almost entirely through the internet. Twitter exploded with people talking about this dumb made for TV movie about sharks. People recorded this movie on DVR to catch it again or watch it later with friends. It got a theatrical release for the love of God. No one knew that this would be as big as it was going to be. To put it in perspective, Sharknado had twice as many tweets as Game of Throne's Red Wedding,according to the Hollywood Reporter, and keep in mind that Game of Thrones was on its third season while Sharknado was a movie about a killer tornado full of sharks.
When Sharknado 2: The Second Onereleased a year later, the franchise reached its peak. It was completely insane, over-the-top, but you could tell that everyone had a blast making a low budget shark movie. The movie's climax showed an angry mob of New Yorkers defending their city from the invading Sharknado and it was beautiful. Rapper Biz Markie stabbed a baby shark and threw it in a pizza oven. Al Roker bludgeoned a shark on camera with his cohosts. Sharknado was dumber than it had ever been, and yet it was happy to be stupid. And the ratings showed, with Sharknado 2pulling in nearly four million viewers, twice as many as the first movie.
So what happened?
I'm sure that most of you have heard of the phrase "jumping the shark" before, but in case you haven't, it means that a series became too goofy or ridiculous for its own good. It's when a movie franchise, TV series, or any form of media really, tries to fight off irrelevancy by doing increasingly stupid gimmicks. It's the last gasp before a series fades into obscurity. While watching all of the Sharknado movies, I realized that there wasn't a jumping the shark moment. There were actually four separate jumping the shark moments.
The third movie featured a laser chainsaw in space. The fourth movie had a nuclear tornado of sharks. The fifth movie features a sharknado that ended humanity. The final movie had a sharknado that would end all of time. Each movie tried to up the stakes more and more but forgot that we didn't like the franchise becauseof those set-piece moments. It was because those moments were taken so seriously. Each time one of those four moments happened, it was always accompanied by a dumb one-liner, a wink to the camera, or a self-awareness by the directors. It felt like the producers were telling the audience "See? Look at how crazy this tornado of sharks can get! Isn't that just wacky???"
Sharknado relied more and more on cameos to sell its movies than its action scenes. Celebrity cameos were always at the core of the franchise since the first movie, but as the series went on it became more and more important, for all of the wrong reasons. Seeing Biz Markie stab a shark in a pizzeria was funny because it didn't overstay its welcome. It happened, I laughed, the movie went on. In later entries, the celebrities became more integral to the plot, but they were never meant to be the driving focus of the story. The cameos were less about them killing sharks or being killed by sharks, but affecting the main cast and helping or hindering them. I don't think I'm going crazy when I say I came to see shark-on-human action. I wanted The Meg, not The Shallows.
But Sharknado began to care about its plot. It began to care about character motivations and continuity, and it's not a coincidence that the franchise began to fade as that happened. Fewer and fewer people began to tune into Syfy's yearly Sharknado movie because it began to rely on your knowledge of the franchise. I don't care about how a side character in the second movie is back because they time travelled to Prehistoric Times, I just wanted to see dinosaurs versus sharks. But I only got that for a few minutes.
Slowly but surely, Sharknado began to fade into obscurity because it never understood when to end the joke. It never figured out that you can't do a movie about killer sharks every year, or that trying to top the insanity on a yearly basis wasn't possible. It was draining. Even the amazingly stupid second movie is hampered a tiny bit by just how bloated the franchise became. I would still recommend the second movie in a heartbeat, and I would even call it so-bad-it's-good. Every other movie either is too dull because of its story or too in on the joke. And nothing is worse than a series that becomes self-aware of how bad it is. Then it stops being enjoyably bad and becomes annoyingly bad.
If you just want to see a dumb, shlocky, low-budget action series, then Sharknado is a perfectly decent choice. There was a time when I was in love with this franchise and how stupid it could be, and a part of me still loves it in doses. Maybe I shouldn't have marathoned all of the movies in one day, but it allowed me to see all of the strengths and weaknesses of the franchise. Sharknado may have been the king of dumb fun back in 2014, but every movie tried to recapture that magic to diminishing results. The joke is dead, so stop trying to beat a dead horse.
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