Thimble Thoughts

This past Saturday we met at Bruce's mother's house for some family time. The menu was whatever take-out your family brought.

Our nephews (Elijah and Carl)

Our nephew (Zach) He doesn't like me taking his picture, but I snuck up on him for this one!

This is Barry's sleepy, goofy grin. It was about this time that Barry was ready to go home for a long nap.

Justin being crazy

Harrison

I didn't get any pictures of Brandy, Bryan, or Cindy. We did have a great time together as they told funny stories of their childhood.
Thank you, Marie, we had a great time.

Saturday night was Brother Arthur's last night with us for revival. He still preached old time, campmeetin' style, but the emphasis was on youth. There were several churches that brought their youth groups to join us.

Our youth choir sang I Just Stopped By. LeAnna sings the lead on this and does a FANTASTIC job with the Sons of Faith harmonizing and the choir backing her up. I've wanted to get a video of this song, but Mrs. Carolyn recruited me into the youth choir to help the little ones figure out their part. So, maybe I'll get a video of it soon.

This is our youth choir. There was a good number of our kids out with the flu and other sickness. We missed having them with us that night.

Another song the youth choir was going to sing was I Remember The Day. Pastor asked that all the visiting teens that knew that song and remembered the day Jesus saved them, to come up and sing with our youth choir. It sounded SO GOOD!

After the service, we went down to the fellowship building where we fed our teens and visiting churches pizza, desserts, and sodas.
Do you recognize these young ladies? The one in the middle is Holly and the one on the right is Katie from 2 Sisters. They used to go to our church. We miss them a whole bunch at Faith and wish they could be there every service!!!
The girl on the left is another young lady that used to attend our church and is now serving with her family at a sister church. It was great seeing her too.
All of these girls are very sweet and we love 'em bunches!! Justin had a great time talking with y'all and hopes to see you again soon.

We had lunch with friends after church today at El Titanic. It was very yummy, to say the least. At the PM service, Justin's new bluegrass group, Living By Faith, debuted their group. You know Mark and Justin play in the other groups, but the other boys are Clint (banjo) and Gary (fiddle). And then the oldest of these young men is Brother Mike, Gary's dad. They did such a great job. It was a blessing seeing another generation being raised up for the glory of God.

You can't see Clint good in the picture or the video at the bottom of this post, but I was able to catch a shot of him with the "front porch boys."

We had Baptisms for six people. Jeremy just got saved and wanted to be baptized. I was proud of him. He's such a great kid!

This young lady is in our bus ministry. I led her to the Lord the other week.

Then there was Bailey. He's in daddy's SS class and he's such a riot.

This is a newer convert also. She just found out that she is in the fourth stage of bre*st cancer. Please pray for her. I'll say she hasn't allowed it to keep her from worshipping and praising the Lord.

Another Jeremy (only quite smaller than the first) was also baptized. This kid is too funny for words sometimes.

Kendra is the daughter of our church secretary and one of our bus drivers, Mrs. Janet and Brother Greg. It was a blessing seeing her baptized.

Brother Billy was baptized and came up shoutin! He's been such a blessing to just watch during the service.

After the PM service, our SS class went to the fellowship building to celebrate Tammy's birthday. She has been married for 10 years, has three children, and is only eight years old. In case you're wondering, she was a leap year baby!