Aaron

This an excerpt from a letter Katrina wrote today to her brother. I have posted it here with her permission:

'After dinner the other day a little boy walked into the H.O.H and said to me I came to stay here. I was a little taken aback by his statement a very handsome child i asked why do you want to stay here? "My dad died Saturday of cancer and my mom said she does not want to take care of children anymore and left us.", he told me. It turns out he has been dead two years.'
'He is eight years old. So, I have come to realize that we are probably not going anywhere soon. Too many children here who are in desperate situations. Daily now I am getting caught up in rescuing a child in one way or another. I sometimes marvel how God has prepared me for this, and how he has opened the doors and given me favor to be able to do it.'

What Katrina says is true. She is daily caught up, sometimes for up to twelve hours a day, in rescuing children. While I don't know how she does it I DO know where she get's the strength. Her life revolves around and is filled with the word and spirit of God. Without that wellspring flowing into, through and out of her heart, she would NEVER be able to keep up with the demand that this town and culture heaps upon her particular ministry. Nobody could. That's why so many people who have come here with similar work in mind have cut htheir time short and moved on.

We praise God for His marvelous work in and through us.

(Picture of Aaron will be posted later today.)

It's Been A While

Well, if I've proved nothing else, I've proved that I'm not very good at sticking to the daily routine of blogging. Let's see if I can keep you people updated a little better from now on.
We got the seawall in front of our house finished. Well, half finished... It was a two-phase project. The half in front of our new house was first so we could be free of worry about erosion destroying our new house. In the picture you can see the West, (closest), end of our waterfront still has some fallen trees and debris in front of it. We plan on leaving it there until we can afford to extend the seawall to cover that side of the land.
We have our house about half way finished and I have no idea when the rest will get done. People ask me all the time when do I think I'll have it finished. MY wife wants to know as much as they do...as much as I do. I always have to remind them, as I remind my self, that I'm not a contractor, nor am I a fortune teller. When we get the money to finish it, I'm sure it won't take long. Right now I'm doing my very best to save every penny I possibly can toward that very thing.
Let me see if I can figure out how to put some pictures of it on here and we will go from there. Okay?
Figured out how to put the picture in. It's the one at the top of the page. It shows our new house, still under construction.
Hopefully you'll be hearing from me again soon.