Freedom Assembly

Stage

Well yesterday we poured the walls for the stage and today we hope to get everything ready for tomorrow, and if the inspection passes pour the floor. The guys from MO our putting a lot of effort and time into this project. They plan on leaving Saturday....hope the floor is poured. Please pray that everything falls in to place.

Surprise! Surprise!

Have you ever really been surprised?  I was yesterday.  My friends from Sullivan Mo showed up to do some more concrete on our building project.  To my surprise my Sunday school teacher from when I was 14 or 15 years old was with them.  Wow what a great blessing!  My buddy Terry had kept it a complete secret.  It is really cool to have someone help you learn about God...only to see you slip away from Jesus then come back, get saved, become a Pastor, plant a church, and build a building.  WOW!  Thank you Richard for everything from 32 years ago and from today.  Check Richard out on the bobcat!

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Baptism

Yesterday I had the honor of baptizing 9 people. It was an amazing service. We did 10 worship songs with a couple baptisms in between songs. I had a lot of positive feedback after service. I also incorperated the message of the series I'm preaching which is "Stress Busters" This was week 3 and the stress buster was Worship.  Replace your worry with worship and see what happens. I made the statement as service closed that for the last hour I hadn't even thought about the building project. We were actually living out the point of the sermon. Why worry....Just Worship!  Give it a try.....turn on some Christian music and turn off the rest of the world....ie phones,tv, computer, amd whatever else steals your focus and just listen to the music.....unless your by yourself then you can sing.=)

Allie's Room

Allie Frances Wiese

That is the name we have picked out for our soon to be born baby girl. Diane has a Grandma named Frances and my side of the family has ties to both names. My great grandma's name was Frances Allie Bell and everyone called her Allie.....my grandmas name is Allie Frances Wiese and everyone calls her Frances....weird huh....remember I'm from MO! hehehe Tomorrow I'll post some pictures of Allie's newly decorated room.

Rain

Well as I said yesterday I washed my van.....the chance of rain automatically went to 90% haha. So it rained last night and this morning....now the sun is out! So no work on the project except meeting with a salesman, mailing some plans and dropping off another set. Diane has a Doctors appointment today. 10 days to go!

Running Late

Well I tried to take the day off...no such luck the building project rquired a little attention. Then once I got started it was one thing after another. Then tonight me and the boys washed the vans. So I thought why not go ahead and blog while I'm at it. 11 days till the new baby is here!

View from top of the world oops I mean top of the building!

Stress Buster

That was the title of my sermon Sunday. There is a lot of stress right now with our economic situation. Many people are losing there jobs, cars and houses. Money is one of the things that break up marriages, families, partnerships and even churches. Maybe that is why it's mentioned over and over in scripture. People become greedy with a more, more, more attitude. The more they make the more they spend which isn't bad. The bad part is the more they earn the more they extend their credit. So a short term layoff is disastrous. People make a lot of money, yet they are broke. Can you imagine a married couple making over $100,000 and talking about difficult financial times. I don't get it.....can you say savings account, I knew you could. People get so wrapped up in there problems they forget that they live in the richest country in the world. That 95% of the world lives in true poverty...struggling to find enough food for the day. My stress busting tip. Be thankful for what you have and where you live. Try making a top 10 list of things you're most thankful for. Then begin a gratitude journal. It will help you put things in prospective and reduce your stress level. Oh by the way God says He knows exactly what you need. Which is usually different than what we want.