Oct 31, 2007

Great Author

I wanted to share a new author with you. I can totally vouch for him, he just happens to be my best friend's husband. Although he is my BF's husband he is a wonderful author. He writes good, practical books and he is a very strait, independent, fundamental and conservative Baptist. He pastors a wonderful soul-winning church near Dallas that he planted 7 or so years ago.

Bro. Rasbeary is also a professor at Trinity Baptist Bible College in Arlington, Texas.

Check it out, he also is so gracious to allow FREE download of almost all his books. I would encourage you to buy them though, he is a wonderful steward and gives way more than he receives.

Bro. Rasbeary wrote this must-have handbook for any church planter. He didn't just write a book about it, he did it. He planted a church in a very hard area of Dallas and after 7 years they have more that 3/4 of their membership show up for soul-winning on a regular basis. He didn't just write it, he did it. Makes a wonderful Christmas gift!Another great book!Haven't actually read this one but I know it has to be a good one. Bro. Rasbeary is very studied and spends much time researching.

With Christmas coming up these would make great gifts if not stocking-stuffers. You won't be disappointed!


These are just a few of his great books, go ahead take a few secs and check out some of his books. Also he has found many good, out of print books and has put them back in print for us. Thanks Bro. Rasbeary!

Bro. Rasbeary's books at Lulu.com

Oct 25, 2007

TV Dinners?

Well as you know we've been in Amarillo, Texas for the last few days while visiting Pan Handle churches. Well we are staying in a place that has a kitchen or at least a microwave so we've been buying TV dinners at Wal-mart and nuking them to save money.

Well today we're on the freezer isle and my kids bring to my attention that a lady going down the same isle had flour, chicken breast, veggies and lots of stuff to cook. Then my nice kids began to point out to me what was in my basket, TV dinners, chips, little debbies and all sorts of empty calorie foods. "Hey mom, do you even know how to cook?" "Your like a modern day woman, you don't cook." Well HA HA HA!

As I looked into my basket that's exactly what it looked like. I could just imagine people thinking that my stove had never been used and I couldn't make a decent meal if my life depended on it. Shame washed over me. As we left the freezer isle I noticed some XXL T-shirts in the end display so I determined this was the disquise I needed, not for me but to cover all those TV dinners.

We finished shopping and headed to the register. As we neared the front I figured that I could take the disquise off and pay. As we're standing at the register and the 40ish lady was checking us out my dear husband go an idea. He looks over at me and says, "I need to get you direct TV so you can watch all the cooking shows." I look at him in disbelief and he goes on to say, "I'm tired of eating TV dinners!" I'm in shock now and can't figure out what to say. I didn't, didn't say anything, just stood in shock thinking how I could get back at him, good!!!

Well it has been a long time since I cooked a home-cooked meal, but I can, really I can. I'm a good cook and love it too. So anyhoo, I thought this was funny and would share it with you. Do you feel sorry for me yet??? :0)

Who sends us??

Someone asked what mission agency we were through so I though I would let y'all know.
We are sent exclusively through our home church, Trinity Baptist Church in Arlington, Texas. Our wonderful pastor is Dr. Bob Smith.
We do have some prayer cards available and if you would like one just click on the e-mail link on the side, send me an e-mail with your addt and I'll get them one their way.

Short Trip To Croatia

We have been in Croatia since May of 2000 and during that time we have prayed continuously for co-laborers. We have been the only IFB missionries in all of Croatia since the beginning, almost. We have had a few people come and leave but most of them weren't serious. So we prayed again and again and again.

Finally after 7 lonely years on the field God has called two young families to come and help. The Scott Holcomb family is on deputation now and will be coming and working as our partners in Croatia. Then the Kevin Brown family is also on deputation and headed for Croatia some time next year. We are so excited to have help coming soon.

Two weeks ago as the Holcombs took their survey trip we also went along. Johnny had been planning a trip to Croatia to find a house and the Lord worked it out so I could go along. So we left kids with Grandparents and headed to Croatia.

We had a ball in Croatia and so enjoyed sharing Croatia with the Holcombs. It was like introducing a beautiful baby, we were so proud. We do love Croatia and especially the people. We stayed with our national pastor and his family and enjoyed all the good Croatian food, Thanks Ljubica!!

I took lots of pix so I thought I would share some. I'm sure after you all see Croatia many of you will feel the need to go as missionaries, come on, your welcome.!! HINT!!!

Bro. Scott and Traci Holcomb, missionaries to Croatia. To find out more about them and support them if you would like you can go to Croatia 4 Christ and click on the About the Holcomb link. They are a very sweet family and right down the line doctrinally. Oh yea he sings, really sings!!



Here we are at a traditional Croatian breakfast (sandwhiches) in the home of our national pastor Bro. Rich. We love their family and their kids and are so blessed that God let us know and work with them. Bro. Rich is now the pastor of the church in Croatia and doing a wonderful job.


I just had to share a picture of the pastors kids, Ruben, Rebeka and Meggie, these are good kids that love God and pass out tracts everywhere.
I almost forgot Matej (Matthew), isn't he a cutie??

The Holcombs infront of the castle in Varazdin. Isn't it nice, it just had a paint job. :0)
The changing of the guards in the town square in Varazdin.

While in the capitol we got to see some traditional dancers. How cute are they???

The golden statue of Mary the mother of Jesus, so they say but we know the Truth!! What darkness!

While we were in Croatia the church had it's annual missions conference and Bro. Scott and my sweetie preached. We had such a ball and so enjoyed all the church people.

Bro. Rich, the national pastor and Bro. Scott at the international super. Bro. Rich was introducing Bro. Scott and he was about to sing for us.

This is our dear friend Danijel. He is like one of the family and we love him. He was been working all of his adult life for the money to buy his dream car and here he is with it. We're proud of him and love him very much.

We took the Holcombs down to the Adriatic Sea to see Dalmatia. Dalmatia is the same Dalmatia the Bible talks about, it's modern day Croatia and is still called Dalmatia and yes the dogs come from there. :0)

My sweet huney!!! Sure love this guy, he's been my huney for the last 16 years and yes I know that I'm spelling Huney wrong. :0) And yet another one, can't help myself!! Oh yea, I know that I'm a bit fluffier than the my avatar, yea that's America your seeing all over my face. Sad isn't it!!

The coast is lovely and the little towns are filled with boat lined harbors.
Here's huney infront of a boat with the second most lovely flag in the world! :0)

Aren't the white buildings and red roofs romantic. I love the coast, too bad people think they have to get naked to go there. ;0} Go figure!!

I took this picture off the coast of one of the 1100 islands. I love the flag flying infront of the church. Sadly the church is dead and it's religion is equally without life.


All over Croatia you will see those little Catholic prayer places, inside is one of their saints or idols more like it. It's so sad to see little ladies passing and crossing themselves to a statue who can't hear or heal.

Traci decided to take a little nappy-poo on the way over to the islands. I thought it was a great opprutunity for blackmail. I really grew to love Traci, she's so goofy, alot like me but she really has a heart for her family and a heart for God. I'm looking forward to a long friendship with her.

I really liked this picture. This one lone tree standing alone. That's kinda what we have been in Croatia for so long, we're excited about have some fellow-laborers joining us soon. Can't wait till there's a forest.

Once we arrived by boat in the city of Sibenik we enjoyed a traditional lunch of pizza. Yes they we're eating it with a fork and knife. Everyone eats pizza this was in Europe. If you puck up your food to eat it your considered to eat like a child. So we learned really fast and actually it's very effecient.
Traci is rebelling a little to the whole knife and fork thing while eating pizza, can't say I blame her.



While we were in Croatia we passed out about 3000 tracts, actually the men did, we ladies tended to the shops. :0)

I have always loved the little narrow hall-streets. I think this one was great because you can see the Adriatic.

We got a little brave and rented mopeds and rode around town all day, It was great like something you see out of a movie. We had a ball when Traci and I took the mopeds out alone. Wow, what an adventure!

Isn't the city beautiful at night?


I love taking pictures of old buildings and such. These were some of my favorites. Deocletians palace in Split Croatia.





Don't you just love the clothes hanging behind the 1800 year old collums?


I thought this was very sad, the Croatians have the Readers Digest but they don't have a good Bible.


Oh yea I almost forgot, we went to Croatia to find a house, we did and we're so happy with it. The Lord really did a miracle. We're so blessed.

Well it's taken me hours to upload all these pictures and I still have hundreds, but I'll spare you. :0)

Have a great Thursday!!

Oct 22, 2007

Carlsbad, New Mexico

We've been in Carlsbad, NM at Landmark Baptist in mission conference all week. What a wonderful time we've had. We've been spiritually filled and have made many new friends.

On Friday we decided to take the kids to Carlsbad Caverns since they were babies the last time we went. I took a few pictures and thought I would share.
New Mexico is lovely in it's own dry sorta way. The cliffs were beautiful.

Some of the desert flowers we're just lovely. I love the cacti.



The Lord gave us a wonderful day. We all had such good spirits and we really enjoyed each other. I know some of you more sanctified folks have that all the time but we have our moments when we're not exactly enjoying each other. hmmm, been there?


Me and the kids before heading in the natural entrance of the caverns.


My 3 favorite guys and my little girl. She looks like Dad has her in a head-lock but he doesn't. Oh by the way, Cody (our family clown) turned 15 last Friday, he's a great kid. If you've never been, it's worth seeing. Have a great Lord's Day!!




Oct 21, 2007

Upgrading my Template

Well I'm gonna do it, I'll be updating my template so it may be down for a while, hopefully not too long.
See ya soon, new and better!!!

Oct 17, 2007

Well what can I say!


Okay I know this isn't the cutiest picture, but I have to post it. The kids and I have an ongoing joke, You know why Europeans are called Europeans, well say it slowly.
Yea it's a common thing to see men using the great out doors for their necessaries. It was so funny two weeks ago as we were in Croatia to see this sign painted on the walls of a 2000 year old hallway. I thought it was funny. Like I said, I know it's in poor taste but I couldn't help myself. ;o]

Friend By the Bank

Well we actually have a little down time, well not actually down time but we're in conference in Carlsbad, NM and we're in a place where we actually have high-speed internet, so I thought I would get caught up on some posting and since it's been so long I have a lot to post about.

Whewwww!! Talk about a mouth full!

While we were on the east coast we were so blessed to get to meet the Springers. They're so sweet, they pastor in Palataka, FL. While we were there we were blessed to know and stay with Sister Peggy and Bro. Johnny. They lived on a beautiful river in Florida and we loved hanging out beside it.

While sitting out by the river we were so surprised to see this little visitor come up to the bank. He wasn't actually little he was about 6 ft. long. For folks from Texas this was pretty kewl!

I just thought I would share with you, if you live in the south near the gulf, this picture is old hat for you. For those who live elsewhere this is pretty cool huh?