Blessed Assurance

Since April things have been like a roller coaster both at home and with the ministry. At home I find appliances like my AC and refrigerator breaking down. They are under warranty so it mainly comes down to a major annoyance more than anything else. I was very happy to get at least one of my lawn-mowers working again though since it was starting to look like a jungle had invaded the lawn:)

At the church the contractor we hired to build the new study and porch really messed up and built the supporting walls over two feet away from where the plans call for! After several attempts to get him to fix his mistake we finally ended up dismissing him and hired a couple of people to correct his mistakes. The re-build took all the money we had to get the job done so now we have walls and door opening but no joists and no roof so its back to fund-raising.

I was very happy though to meet a young man that has volunteered to take care of the church grounds for us. That is a big load off my mind since we have had no one to do the yard work for months now. I am also happy to see some people are starting to use our message board. Last on the blessings side this month we have picked up the support of two new companies that are helping us with our recycling project (so far this year we have managed to make over $150 from this source).

Even with all the troubles we have seen over this past month I fell a blessed assurance in my spirit and know that we (It's The Bible, New Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church and all who support us) are still in the will of God and doing what he would want us to do.