My heart is heavy today for a  dear family here in the village.  The Mother called this morning and told me that her oldest son was in a tragic car accident and was killed.  He hit a bridge and burned up in the car.  Please remember this family when you pray.  

Sis. Sheri

Sunday was a beautiful sunny day with a good attendance both services....in fact...we broke a Sunday evening record with a high of 39!!!!  Sunday morning we had 34.   Sunday afternoon one of the funeral homes from Bismarck held an Appreciation Dinner at the Community Center and we thought that our Sunday evening Attendance would be down because of that...but the Lord blessed us with just the opposite!!!!   God is sooooo good.

Doyle and Keith are beginning to prepare the buildings for the cold weather that is just around the corner.  Right now the nights are getting into the 30's and the weather reporters are talking about snow showers VERY soon!!!  Some of them are prediciting a harsh winter this year with significant snow amounts.  The elderly people all say the signs are for a bad winter.  Of course, the Lord is in control and is the only one that really knows!  I LOVE the winter and snow and am looking forward to the first snowfall!!!!!!!!!

I haven't mentioned the Foster children in several weeks.  Doyle and I only have 4 now....Jada, Charleze, Junior and Lexi are still with us (we've had them for a year).   Keith and Jennifer have a little 2 yr. old boy named Kayden and last week 4 siblings were placed with them...Hosea (3), Alexis (6), Ally (9) and Averian (11).    Since neither one of us have alot of room we help each other out in the sleeping arrangements....the girls (5 total) sleep at our house and the boys (4 total) sleep at Keith's.   Works out well for both of us.  All but the 3 youngest go to school. 

Last week Fed-EX made a delivery and the driver noticed the sign on the back of our church van which says "If you died today are you 100% sure you would go to Heaven?   You can be...follow me."      He said.....I AM sure because I am a Christian.    What a blessing that was!!!!!

It is wonderful to be a Christian and serving the Lord!!!       Sis. Sheri

It's been a while since I have added a blog...first I was out of town for 2  1/2 weeks and when I got back home our computer modem was giving us problems and eventually we had to have the modem replaced.  The first Sunday I was back we had 47 Sunday morning and 36 this past week.  We are so excited about how the Lord is blessing!!!!!   On the first Sunday I was back I wanted to drive the Van Route to take the kids home.  One young boy and his sister were my last drop and this boy is normally VERY quiet because he has a bad speech problem, but he sang "Rolled Away" all the way home!!!!  It's such a blessing to know they are learning about the Lord and that he can and will "Roll all our Burdens Away"!!!!

Once again we were reminded of the desperation of some of the people here and how they turn to suicide thinking it will free them of their problems.  One of the men here in the village hung himself last week and they had his funeral Monday.  Doyle had talked to him about the Lord and he been promising for a long time he was going to come to church and he would come down every month for Food from the Pantry........sooooo sad he chose to waste his life on alcohol and riotous living. 

Christmas is just around the corner and I ask you to pray about helping the children here in the village.  As always, many of them will go without the proper winter clothing (shoes, socks, coats, ect....). Many of them will also have NO Christmas gifts if others don't supply them.  You can either purchase items and send them UPS to us, or purchase gift cards and send them to us so we can purchase the needed items.  We have between 35-40 regular children on Sunday and if we could get a $10 gift/Gift card for each child that would be WONDERFUL!!!  Please pray about what the Lord would have you to do for the Cannon Ball Children.   It will be greatly appreciated. 

Also help us pray for another couple/family to help us.  Keith and Jennifer are a tremendous blessing and a great help....but we could use more help.  There is sooo many more things we could do if we had the necessary help.  

Thank You for your love and prayers................Sis. Sheri