Sept. 27, 2009- Manila Floods

Last night, the typhoon shook our house, nearly rattled the windows off and blew our roof intensely. I thought for sure that we would lose it again, but by the grace of God, our roof is still on. The waters that poured from Heaven were undescribeable. It was so much water. Much is flooded here, However, it is much worse in Manila. More than 200 people were killed overnight and into this morning with news of 80% of Manila under water.

Sept. 26, 2009 - Ladies Fellowship

Forcast called for a major typhoon to hit us , but our ladies were determined to go ahead and have our scheduled fellowship on Lingayen Beach. It was HORRIBLE! The winds nearly blew me off my feet..and the rains were terrible. The storm is supposed to hit ful force tonight but it started this morning at our fellowship..My goodness! It was WINDY! We had to finally leave early and come back and finish our meeting at the church where we had ihaw ihaw ( grilled bangus fish) and lots of side dishes..It was a good day all in all..

Sept. 18, 2009 - Sean's Cultural Dance

Sept. 10 - afternoon fun

We have had a nasty monsoon all week. It started on Sunday and literally never stopped raining till today ( Friday). Everything is flooded and a nightmare to say the least. However, ministry does not stop even thought the floods are here. A dear friend and member of our church, Loming, had her mother pass away and so we had to help her through this difficult time. Her mother was lost and VERY heavily into superstitions and spirit stuff...all the other kids are converted Jehovah's Witnesses so Loming is the only Christian in the middle of all that, so she needed our support. Since it is flooded everywhere, being the good WV girl that I am, I slapped on some boots and headed out to the funeral on foot!

Sept 10, 2009 - Monsoon =Floods

Floods everywhere. Today I picked Sean up from school and it was a bit too much for me. I was so scared that I cried. I dont do that very often over here as I have literally been through the mill and it takes ALOT for me to cry. But the waters and rains for sooo bad, that I was scared. I was all alone trying to drive through it and it broke me down. I finally cried out to the Lord and He got me through it safely..

But the waters are everywhere which means so are the mosquitoes...Dengue Fever is hitting hard again... that scares the willies out of me!!!

Sept. 9, 2009, Wed PM

One of the things I still enjoy doing is leading the Patch Club at our first church plant. Since it is on Wed nights, I can help out alot since we do not have anything else going on in the new village outreaches we are consumed in the rest of the week. We had our Awards night last Wed and so tonight starts a clean slate for all the students. Since it is at night, there are only about 15 kids that attend with their parents ( for the prayer meeting) So, it is small enough that I can control it by myself, which I like..the Bible clubs and Sunday school classes which run TONS of kids are way too much for me and I gladly allow the other members to handle those.

Sept. 9, 2009 09/09/09

The big thing here is that all the Chinese population are declaring this a Lucky Day. There are alot of Chinese here in our community so it's a big hooplah here. I don't believe in Luck, but I do agree that this was a good day! We welcomed a new neice into the world. Ferd's sister Marilyn gave birth to a healthy baby girl named Avery. We visited the happy new family and had a cake made for the special occasion.