Currently Reading One Night With the King: A Special Movie Edition of the Bestselling Novel, Hadassah By Tommy Tenney, Mark Andrew Olsen see related

as to how we are doing!  Wow, time flies when you're busy busy busy and having fun, sort of :).  Things here are crazy hectic with church and personal stuff, but good.  We moved our church meeting location to a new school just recently and that's going great.  It's better exposure and in a more family-friendly neighborhood.  We're growing; just this past Sunday we had a family visit and the woman teaches at the school we meet in!  It's very exciting.  We're starting a new campaign in a few weeks called Guess Who?  (www.guesswhooshawa.com).  It's a spoof off the child's game and we'll be looking at some attributes of God.  We had postcards and business cards made up, and it's because of one of those that this family came on Sunday.  It's exciting!

I can't remember what I said last time, so I might say it again.  I have started a ladies ministry here at church.  We call it girlfriends; non-threatening, non-churchy.  It's going well.  We are currently reading a book called "Hadassah, One Night with the King."  It's a story about Queen Esther, and it's actually quite factual.  We'll be discussing it next month at a Maple Season Breakfast that I'll be holding here at my house and we'll be starting Secret Prayer Sisters as well.  We'll be holding a wedding shower for one of our ladies in April, May is Mother/Daughter Day out, June is a tour of 11 historical bed and breakfasts in one of our towns, August is our retreat, etc.  We're busy, and it's a lot of work planning them!  I had no idea how much work it would be to plan all these events, but we want our Girlfriends ministry to be more than just events.  We want to reach out to our unsaved friends, grow closer together and pray for one another.  I'm looking forward to see where God will take this ministry.

I'm now also the coordinator of the Nursery.  We've made a few changes to our Kids Ministry, which we now call ABCKids, and it's great, but we're in desperate need of workers.  Please pray!  Our biggest change that we made is implementing a new curriculum.  It sounds great and is very user friendly.  For the nursery and preschool it's called My First Look (www.myfirstlook.org) and for the elementary ages it's called 252 Basics (www.252basics.org).  They both sound promising and we're looking forward to using them.

As far as personal stuff, well I probably told you that we're expecting baby #2 in May.  That's exciting for us.  The pregnancy is going very well and we're looking forward to meeting him or her!  I'm currently working on painting Nolan's room as the kids will share a room and it will be a jungle theme.  It's lots of fun, but also lots of work!  I"m looking forward to the day when it's finished and I can admire it!

Nolan is doing great.  He's every bit 2, but without a lot of the tantrums so far.  He loves to pray and to sing and play with cars (specifically from the movie, Cars).  He loves church and is starting to know everyone's names and who goes with whom.  (eg Paula is Caleb's mommy, etc). 

We're going to be very busy the next month.  Next week is a missions conference at our sending church, the week after that is Nathan's mom's wedding and 2 more churches to present in, the week after that is our ladies event and a church in MA, 3 weeks after that is a conference in Worcester, MA, the week after that is a wedding shower that our ministry is planning for one of our ladies, 2 weeks after that is our Mother/Daughter day out and 2 weeks after that the baby is due.  It goes so quickly when you talk about it that way!  But in between there's so much to do, so please pray for us; for Nathan and his work at the church that he can effectively minister to families in our church through events and our children's ministry, for Nolan that he will grow up knowing Jesus and that we will have wisdom in raising him, and for me as I balance all of this! 

Thanks for your prayers!

Melissa