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Wednesday, 06 January 2010

  • Finally Finalized!

    We finally got an answer today, and we are out of one Limbo, and into another. We got a letter officially saying that Darby CLA cannot provide services under... well whoever we were under. Basically, we are officially out of business. The question can be asked ' is this good news, or bad news.' Well, atleast we know, now we can atleast start thinking in a different direction. I think it everyone would have been glad to see the guys come back home, but apparently God is leading us on a different path, and I am looking at it as an adventure. God is Faithful, and I have no doubt that He will continue to guide and provide for us in the coming days, weeks, and months, just as He has done for the past three months!!

    Praising Him Still!!

    Avie 

Wednesday, 30 December 2009

  • Officially an Aunt!

    I am writing this blog as an official 'Aunt Avie', and couldn't be more happy about it Little Beniah Mark Dallas came to see us on December 26th at 9:24 pm. Autumn, Mark and Beniah are all doing GREAT! I have had the privilage of helping Autumn out for a couple of mornings while she is recovering, and Mark is at Police Acadamy during the day. It has been soooo much fun to be Aunt and Sister this week!! So enough with the jabbering, here are a couple of pictures of the little guy!

     

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    This little guy created a lot of new titles for a lot of people in just one night! He has created 9 Uncles, 5 Aunts, 2 Grandads, and 2 Grandmothers! He is such a joy and blessing to everyone! God is soo good!

    Aunt Avie

     

     

Tuesday, 08 December 2009

  • Of Inspections and Plays

    Buckle up, and get ready for the fun!! Atleast that is what I am doing! It has been a 'crazy' day and I have a 'crazy' week ahead of me!!

    Today was day 1 of a 4 day inspection that the state in doing in our home this week. Why are they here. Well we still can't get a clear answer on that. We weren't sure if they were coming to put the last nail in our coffin, or try and get the business back up and running, and we still don't really know. This morning when the four inspectors got here, they said they were here to investigate into the allegations, and complaints files against us. The moment Mom heard those words she went into high gear! We hadn't heard anything about any allegations or complaints, and as always, the lady 'couldn't'/wouldn't say anything more about it. Mom started calling these superiors of these people trying to get to the bottom of everything. When she finally got someone, the lady said that ' absolutely not, there are no allegations or complaints, we are all working to get you a succesfull review'. So at this point, who do we beleive? God has kept us in a constant limbo, and it has caused us to lean and rest more heavily in Him. I have no doubt that God will do what is very best for His glory, and our lives. His grace is still so very evident in the way that Mom and Dad are being able to handle everything! What a neat journey the past 2 months have been, and who knows how much longer this journey could go on! Our faith and trust is in the Almighty God, we have nothing to worry about!

    Another happening this week, is our performance of Charles Dickens " A Christmas Carol " We have been trying to put together a play to perform at Bowman Park, for the community of Bowman, as a way to present the gospel of Jesus to them, and just do something for them. We ( our family, and folks from about five other families,) will be performing it on Saturday December 12th. After the play, Andrew ( who is Scrooge,) will present the gospel, and relate it to the play they had just seen. We are then hoping to serve some hot-chocolate, and carol a little bit. Pray for people to come, God to be glorified, and folks to understand the gospel!

    I am thoroughly exhausted, I must start heading towards bed!

Wednesday, 14 October 2009

  • "My Grace is Sufficiant for You"

     And He said unto me, My grace is sufficiant for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I glory in mine infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 2 Cor. 12:9

    Oh how grateful I am for the Grace of God, unto salvation yes, but also the grace he provides to those who rest in Him during their infirmities and trials. As my family has been attempting to rest in God through the current ' life storm' that we are currently going through, I have seen Gods grace evident in very real ways. And I have seen God working in lives even in the midst of adversity.

    If you would have asked me back in August if I thought God would ever allow 2 of our men to die, and my dads business to be taken from in a time period of one week, I would have said "no, I don't think he would put us through that much at one time!", but he did allow it, and we are going through that much at one time, yet it doesn't feel like to much, because he has made Himself so very near to us, even circumstances seem against us.

    On the last Friday of September, one of our more elderly clients fell and hit his head while coming in from the car, I'll spare the details, but it caused more than just a knot, and he passed away that night. His family took over the funeral planning, so thankfully we didn't have that to be doing, for on Sunday morning, another one of our residents went to church, fell, hit his head on a pew, and dad had to take him to the ER to get staples. As soon as he got home from that, we went to the viewing of our previous resident. Not more than 3 hours later Dad was back at the ER with another one of our more elderly men. Mike had been with us for 15 years, and was our very first resident, he was more or less a part of our family. Dad took him in for stomache pain, and strange behavior. By 4:30 am he was in ICU. Again I will spare the details, but we went to Hollis' funeral at 10:30 and by 6:00 we were already planning for another. Mikes heart just gave out on him, and wasn't able to deal with all of the many things his body was going through. We were all shocked, and very heartbroken. On Friday, we were all very surprised when Dad got a call saying that there was a chance that they would be taking our remaining five men out of our care, by 9:00 pm, Dad was driving them all to Snellville Ga to be placed in temporary homes, we were out of business. And we have been since that day. But God has been so good, he has given us so many wonderful friends who are lifting us up in prayer daily, he has supplies every need, and is teaching each one of us of our need for Him, and our complete inability to 'make things work'. His grace is beyond sufficiant, it is completely amazing, and overflowing! God is good, and very Faithful! 

Monday, 03 August 2009

  • There and Back again!

    I am HOME!! And glad to be here again, but I had a great five weeks in Gallaway, helping out with Summer camp.  Austin and Summer (his then girlfriend, now fiancée’ ;)) took me up TN on June the 14th, and I spent the next five weeks up there. A friend from church called me about 3 days before I left and said that she thought that God might be calling her out there also, would I mind if she came along. I had no issues with it, so she went for the same duration, and we were roomies. It was great to get to know her a little better.

    Summer Camp went really well, especially considering the small team that we had, and the number of kids that were coming each day, we averaged about 60 kids a day. All of the children that came were from the ages of 4 to 14 and were within a 2 mile radius of the church where we held summer camp at. Our days started anywhere from 5:30am to 6:30am. We got up, got ready for the day, then headed down to the church and had breakfast with “the team”. There were five of us there for the whole summer, but each week we had a different church group there to help out.  

    We started the bus between 8:45 and 9:00, and had all of the kids there by at least 9:30, at that point we did roll call and fed them breakfast. Between the time they got there and 12:30 when they left, they had free play, lesson time, recreation and lunch. Now 3 ½ hours doesn’t sound very long, but you would be surprised what can happen in that time with 50+ kids!! Fights, suspensions, attitudes and what seemed like Endless time outs, but although there were all of those more negative things, there were soo many positives. Hundreds of ‘underdogs’ on the swings, playing ‘monster’ on the playground, hugs from wonderful little 4 and 5 year old, shoulder rides,  and piggy back rides. It basically just boils down to a time to love on children who need to see what true love is, and that it comes from Christ in us.

    So anyways, that was a very small glimpse of Summer Camp. My wonderful siblings drove overnight on July third to come visit me for the 4th. That really made my weekend. Then 2 weeks later, Dad picked me up! It is soo very good to be home! Although I came home to some excitement you might say. I got home at 1:30 Monday morning, and we leave to go ‘wedding shopping’ at 9:30! Talk about jumping right back in! But for those who don’t know, we weren’t shopping for my wedding, but Austin’s! He is getting married in less than 4 weeks!! That is soo crazy. But God has been soo good to him, and has given him an amazing girl! She is soo very wonderful!  Well the mosquitoes are really killing me, so I am going to sign off, but hopefully I will be a little more faithful about writing! (Thanks for telling me to get back with it Popo!!)  

    Avie

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  • I am a daughter of the King of kings, and enjoy every minute of learning about my King and to live as His daughter. I have an incredible family which I absolutely love being with. I am the fourth of seven, and have enjoyed the experience of being a youngest, middle and older child! I have an interest in many things but right now I am taking my 4 year of cello lesson ( I don't sound like I have been doing it that long:) I really enjoy horses and have three of my own. I love doing things with family and friends. I just really love life!!

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  • Ashleystwocents
    Um...I don't know dates for sure yet, I'll know more monday afternoon, but I was thinking about heading up there the 12th. I don't know....I'll call you soon. Happy 4th a little early. Love ya!
  • Ashleystwocents
    I so missed calling you on your Birthday - I am sooooooo very sorry! But - Happy Late Birthday! Love you lots!
  • Ashleystwocents
    I love it! Your "senior moment" I mean! I miss you - and silly moments like that! I can't wait to see you in a couple of weeks! Love ya!
  • Ashleystwocents
    It was really good! I will try to post pictures really soon! Love ya!
  • Ashleystwocents
    I miss seeing your face!
  • Ashleystwocents
    you are great! Thanks for the comment, I am glad I could entertain you! Love ya!
  • Ashleystwocents
    haha, haha, very funny.....just wait, I will get my writing streak and then you will have to keep up with me!!! Until then, I like your picture and your posts! Beautiful work!!!
  • Ashleystwocents
    Well, I think you are amazingly beautiful!