TS Arthur

We’re getting drizzle from TS Arthur. http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/index.shtml#ARTHUR

We need it for sure. The streets were so dirty and things were brown. So thank you God for feeding the earth and cleaning it too.

Honey, feel that earthquake?

For reasons i wont explain here, i only slept 3 hours Friday Night, so last night i just fall asleep and my husband wakes me saying ‘did you feel that’ … seems he was lying in bed, heard the quake coming (doppler effect rumble) and it moved us and passed by.

No i remember saying “no i am asleep and cant even stay awake to finish this sentence.” Oh i was so tired. I’m like - if the house is caving - then i’ll wake up! heehee

Anyway it’s life here - see the event pages:

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2008slai.php

there was one later and strong but we were both asleep:

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2008slan.php

Remember anything can happen at anytime. I sure pray you have met and accepted Jesus, so your eternal home is Heaven. Come party with me eternally!!!

We need support

[Jackie's NOTE: This post still stands - although the tax issue prayer has been answered, see the post: http://jackiesue.wordpress.com/2008/05/08/prayers-answered-fastprayers-answered-fast/ ]

This is a confession I really don’t like to confess, but we NEED more Monthly Support!

We have really been frugal and buckling down. We’ve lowered our electrical bill by modifying some behavior. We drive alot less. We eat less to make the food go further. We stopped other ‘treats’ like a movie rental (here is it Q15 = $2 a 2 night rental) and so on.

We just got an email from our CPA about our taxes and what we owe. We just realized that 15% needs to go towards self-income tax (since our donors get the tax deduction, some one need to pay the taxes). We were just not in-the-know on how much. So we have 10% to tithe and 15% to taxes, which leaves us the rest to pay bills, emergency savings, any medical that comes up, and more. Well at this time, the bills/expenses eat what is left. The rest - there is no pool for.

So if you or anyone you know needs a tax deduction, please feel free to give ONE TIME or MONTHLY to us living in Guatemala and doing what God has led us to do. We very much feel in HIS WILL. We’re just getting started so I can’t see God taking us out of-the-field right now. Plus it doesn’t seem like he’s saying that. More like - keep buckling down and humble yourself and tell others your needs! We feel God has other lined up to help but we’re not making our needs be known.

Love you for your prayers and potential support. This is very very different for us.

Donate Now - Give Now - Support Now - Get a Tax Deduction Now

They were robbed

We have been ministering to a lady and her family (The Pocón Family) since last summer. I am kerping this short but will say what I can in my time right now. She came to our home and I knew something was up. She sat in our living room and then the tears. Last time I saw these come from her she was telling me her father passed away last fall to cancer. I couldn’t imagine what this time.

Well her home was robbed while she was at work. Her door lock was busted… did I tell you she lives in a lamina (metal), wooden pieced together home (not much security from weather or theives). They ran sacked the home and stole her tv, blankets and dishes and other various items. It was heart breaking. The good news, no one in the family was there or got hurt.

As she talked to us, it hit me… they don’t have ‘insurance’ - what’s gone is gone. It’s not like they can file paperwork and in a few weeks or months get a check to buy back the items. Of course the first thing you want to do is replace it all, even if it takes a credit card, but God remoinds me how to minister to them.

We were blessed with a huge set of dishes last summer and so I packed away our plastic (bumpy from microwave) set to give away some day, along with our coffe cup set, silverware set, and some cups. I actually was going to give it to a new couple starting out for their wedding gift. Yes it was used but here, who cares! But God had that set waiting for this moment.

So we drove her home. My husband looked at the door for the proper lock to get. He handed her the box of dishes. The day before we gave her a blanket, so oddly when she went home and the others were stolen, she had one! We went to a hardward store to get an eye-screw (i think that’s right) a strong one. The first store didn’t have it so then we went to another and the guy handed to my husband and said, “free”. Too Cool.

We drove back and my husband helped fix the lock. She really needs and door, let along a new house. We have her in our top three families to get a home once things get rolling as God wants. We need to raise a lot of start up money, and once the production starts, these homes will be HARD to break into for sure! Cause honestly, you could walk through her walls if you wanted. We hope too, to raise money to buy her a stove. She has a filing cabinet she puts wood on top and that’s her stove.

In the photo, she’s the one crouched down. The house is too small to get a ‘normal’ framed photo. It’s her and her two daughters, their husbands and children. Please Pray for Juana and her family.

Good Friday Video

These are photos and video we took yesterday. Hope it gives you a glimpse of what it’s like here for Semana Santa (Holy Week).

Good Friday

Well I hope your Friday was a good Friday, but I also hope you know this is a day where we remember that God’s Son Jesus Died for our sins. I encourage you to pray and seek salvation through Jesus Christ. He is the only way to Heaven, otherwise you are making a choice not to believe He died for you and therefore choosing the ‘other place’ and “that other person”. It is your choice!

With that, I wanted to show you some photos of me and the kids (my husband took). We got out today. It was after lunch or so I was getting a headache. I am sure withdrawals of some kind and needed to lie down or get out and I chose to get out! Victory!

This is us and the ‘carpets’ that are made from flowers, pine needles, colored saw dust, fruits, veggies, and more! They are so artistic and it’s wild they only last about an hour. Soon, the float comes by and those carrying it walk on them.

I will say it was great to get out and I struggled tonight wanting some sweets! UGH!!!

I didn’t feel it

Well I got the email that there was a quake today. I think we were driving. It’s listed as a 4.3 which is small in comparison, but still we’d feel some waves. Any hoot, i guess there was a small quake today about 80 miles away offshore.

See details:

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2008ncar.php#details