Showers of Blessings

Hello to all.

I am back from my vacation and the Lord truly blessed and confirmed to me that I am to go to Africa. I received showers of blessings while in Georgia and Tennessee. The Lord truly blessed with a donation of a little over $1,300.00 and one of the churches I went to has approved to sponsor me $100.00 per month. That is two churches now sponsoring me and a couple others are still considering. I am so overwhelmed with thankfullness from the Lord revealing His will to me.

While in Tennessee I stayed with my cousin, Lori. I was also able to see 2 other cousins - Linda and Judy. I got a picture of Lori, her husband Jeff, son - Cameron and daughter - Sarah. They live in the Sequache Valley between Pikeville and Dunlap, Tennessee. The mountains there is so beautiful to see. Pictures do not do justice. The longer I stay in Colorado, though, the more I am enjoying the mountains here.

Janet will be here on the 29th - one week from tonight. Word has come that, her son Jason is going to build a landing strip in Mago where Janet is. This way he can come and visit in less time.

The August 18 will be here sooner than we think. When Janet gets here on the 29th of July we will have 7 days before ASI. Coming back from ASI they (Frank and Janet) will drop me off and hi-tale it to Spokane where Frank will speak. His last meeting is on the 16th and we fly out on the 18th. Real tight schedule.

I am going to try and get Janet to write the blog next week. Well, we'll see anyway.

Bye for now,

Deniece

God is so good!

Well, I left Eden Valley on July 8 as planned. I almost missed my flight; I forgot to print out my boarding pass from the computer. Anyway, I did make it and I arrived in Atlanta a half hour early – thanks to the jet stream. My mom and my sister picked me up and we have had a grand time. I arrived on my sister’s birthday and will be leaving on my mom’s (July 16). I told them both that this was my birthday gift to each of them. We all laughed. Pictured is my sister, my brother-in-law, my mom and myself. I will be going to Tennessee on the 16th to see some friends and relatives. I will also be putting on some presentations there also hoping for some sponsorship. I be coming back to EVI on the 21st.

Frank sent me an email with Janet’s and my itinerary for our leave back to Africa. Janet will be here on the 29th (I was originally told the 28th, but that is when she leaves there). We will then leave on the 18th of August. She will be here only 3 weeks and then we will be returning. We have a convention to go to during those 3 weeks. Will we get everything done that we need to get done? By God’s grace we will.

Just received news from Frank who had talked with Janet; she had some good news. There were some men grading the road from a long way off and Janet asked if they could continue onto her property. For 350.00 of US funds they continued all the way to the new construction sight. God is so good! She also has all the gravel needed for the new Industrial School, which is the next building going up, and most of the sand. More sand will be coming when needed until project is completed. Currently, she is in Dar Salaam working on her new By Laws for her ministry over there.

I went to church Sabbath with some of my friends and we met at Callaway Gardens in west central Georgia. While setting up, there was a young lady feeding turtles with what appeared to be her two daughters. They asked if they would be in our way if they were quiet. My friends said no, we were just having church. Well, when church started, we started singing – I saw that she was singing with us even though her back was to us. I was silently praying for her, hoping she would gain an experience with the Lord by listing. After singing, the pastor asked for prayer requests and I raised my hand. I asked for prayer for the Lord’s guidance with me going to Africa and for financial support. This young lady was impressed after prayer to give a donation for the cause. I was so taken back that this person who don’t even know me, nor I her, would give a donation. I could understand if she were a “sister” but she did not appear to be one. I was just praising the Lord that he could and would use anyone to help. I put on a PowerPoint presentation and the people truly desired to help. I received some donations and promise of more coming. God is so good. I will be giving another presentation this afternoon where I used to work before coming to EVI. I will also be going to a prayer meeting tonight to put on another presentation.

Bye for now, Deniece

Almost Here!

Reality hit me yesterday when Frank called Janet and talked with her. She has asked him to get our tickets for our return to Africa. I thought we would be leaving in early part of September, but she wants to return the third week of August. She doesn't even want to come home because she has so much work to do. But she will be here on the 29th anyway. "Butterflies" started acting up in my stomach, to think that the time is almost here.

She hasn't been able to check her email at home for quite some time. She had a visitor yesterday, David Roeske, whom she was going to get to look at her comptuter to see why she can't get email and to see if he can fix it.

She just comleted a Youth For Christ Seminar and had 9 students graduated. She is excited over the results. July 15 will be the next seminar.

There are 18 students currently in her carpentery class.

She also says that she is needing the whole gang from Washington back again. Sounds like she is ready to do some more construction.

Tomorrow I will be leaving for Georgia-Tennessee. I will be meeting with various different churches in the area re: support for me in Africa. I will be busy. I will also be able to see my mother who is visiting with the sister that I will be staying with. I will be gone for 2 weeks.

We had a double rainbow the other day so I had to get a picture of it. Below you will see it in two pictures.

You can see the second in the first picture here, but you could see it in both areas live.

So long, until next week.

Anticipation

Good morning to all. Anticipation is such a hard thing to go through when what you are anticipating is just around the corner, but yet not close enough to say you are there. I will be leaving next week for Georgia; will be back on the 21st. Janet will be here on the 28th. We will be going to ASI on the 5th of August and returning on the 10th. At that time we will be working toward our trip to Africa. It sounds real busy, but the anticipation is building up so that I am anxious for it to be here.

I have been keeping myself busy by training the new accountant in, planting raspberry canes (1100-1200) in about 3 hours and still needing to plant the rest of 10,000 plants. Pictured in the forfront is one of our ag. students Tejan, then Adner and then Frank. I have also been helping with putting up hay. So far in our first cuttings we have put up over 1,000 bails of hay from two fields and the largest field is yet to come. I enjoy physical labor and it also keeps me busy and occupies my mind on other things and not just leaving here.

Not a lot of news from Janet in Africa. She did text message Frank asking for a recipe for Angie's Hot Biscuits. We don't know if she needs the recipe NOW or for later on. Anyway, it has been a week since she sent the message and we still have not gotten the recipe. Angie, if you can get the recipe, send it to your father's email, thanks.