November 20, 2007 update

Dear Friends,We had a really good weekend with the Wickens family, missionaries to Northern Ireland. Brother Wickens preached two challenging messages concerning our responsibility to reach this lost world for Christ. It was a great challenge for the church to be able to host a missionary family and to hear their burden for world wide evangelization. God has blessed and as a church we have been able to start a missions fund to be able to support a missionary. It was exciting to have them come and be a part of our services. As a missions work in itself we desire to reach beyond our own community with a global vision. Thank you for praying for our missions weekend. Lord willing this week we as a church will formally take on the Wickens family for monthly support.

There are a couple of other things that we are trying to put together for the Christmas season. My desire at this point is to see the folks become more faithful to the evening service. Many of our folks work in the medical field which causes them to miss on occasion.

Also, please be in prayer for our son Kaleb. He is on his third ear infection in the last five weeks. This time it is in both ears and his throat. There is no fluid built up in his ears so they do not want to put grommets in at this point. It is just very exhausting with a sick child getting up in the night many times and having it go on for several weeks. We have been to the doctor several times and have been given more antibiotics then I care to think about. This time they gave him something quite potent. Hopefully it will be more effective. Do be praying that he would outgrow this situation or that the Lord would just take it away.

Once again thank you for your prayers

God bless,

Don and Lisa Thatcher