REST

Is not over-rated. God made it, use it, enjoy it. We are staying at Sue O'Dell's house. She is giving us the royal treatment. Comfy bed, nice hot showers, yummy food, space, and laundry.

Some of you don't know Sue. Many years ago when my Dad took a Builders For Christ group to Alaska, he was pairing people up with their host families. My parents and Grand-Parents were paired up with Sue and Clint O'Dell. Over the years, Sue and Clint have fallen in love with the Builders and its ministry, and the builders have fallen in love with them. They have gone on every trip since BFC came to them. Clint passed away from cancer 6 years ago. Sue is still active in the Builders, and still lives her life glorifying God.

We are speaking at Sue's church on Wednesday night. We are excited about going to this church. It already supports a Cadence missionary. How cool is that???

We picked up a new supporter yesterday at Webb City Baptist Church in Ozark, AR. So we are getting closer and closer!

Goal Update!!!

To get on the mission field we need to raise:

$5.690 a month

We currently have

$2,200 committed support coming in

UPDATE: Some of you are already contacting Cadence! Thank you! Keep it coming folks. Way to support us and our Military!!!!

We need only 34 more people to give $100 a month.

Would you prayerfully consider supporting us for one year? We are desperately needing to get on the mission field. We have a passion to get to our servicemen and servicewomen.

Will you please help us?

Click below to start supporting us!

http://cadence.org/donate/missionary

You can give by Credit Card, Automatic Draft from your checking account, or you can send in money. Just give Chris May as the missionary name.

Thank you for supporting our military!

You Should Hear MY Voice The Loudest

I am going to try and paint a picture of what happened yesterday. We were in a Christian book outlet. The kids were in the childrens section watching the new Veggie-Tale. I was looking at children's Bibles. Abigail has been wanting a Bible she can read from. I found one she can get in a few years. So, I called her name several times. Each time I walked closer to her and said her name a little louder. Chris ccalled her name and told her that I needed her. When she came over she said "Sorry Mom, I didn't hear you call my name." And I actually said this back "You should hear my name the loudest." And as the words were escaping my mouth, they penetrated mmy heart. O Lord, when have I been so focused on other things that I have not listened to your voice? Please forgive my child-like ways. Amen.

What lesson is God teaching you?

Precious Moments Chapel - Cartedge, MO

Matt 13:45,46 "Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a merchant seeking fine pearls, who having found one pearl of great price, he went and sold all that he had, and bought it."

Crucifixion

Joshua - before the battle of Jericho

1 of 4 pictures representing ways we worship - Prayer

For those who know our girl loves Giraffes and she is 6.

Fountain of Angels outside the Chapel

Heavenly picture that left us speechless and excited about heaven!

Click on this picture twice for the enlarged version..Can you find Jesus? How about the angel keeping his eyes on Jesus? Do you see our military? How about the little girl who can walk? And the angel pointing to the rainbow?

Beautiful stained glass

Mom got the girls a new movie for this trip and they had the bracelets and charms for it at the store. The girls wanted their picture made with their Christmas list!

Prairie Creek - Rogers, AR

Julia's toe..Chris was the doctor, I gave the kisses

I did not make the picture for the blog, I made it so I could zoom in on the guy and make sure we had gotten all of him out. We did!...ok, Chris did!

View from the top!

St Joseph, MO - Home of the PONY EXPRESS

In the kids room...making veggie soup

Caleb getting ready to take the mail

Abigail in her at home clothes

We want a room like this in our next house

Taking the mail...see the special saddle with the mail pouches?

Pumping water for the riders and their horses

Caleb looking down to see how far the real well goes...very deep

David being a rider moving the empty mail saddle from one horse to another.

It was pretty heavy without the mail in it.

And so it began!

There are many stories about the men who carried mail across America by the Pony Express, but the Pony Express really didn’t last very long. It began in 1860, carrying mail between Missouri and California by horseback.

Stations were set up along the route, about 15 miles apart, where fresh horses were kept for the riders. Each rider rode three horses before handing over his mail to the next rider. It took about eight or nine days for the riders to carry a mail pouch from one end of the route to the other.

But the service ended only 18 months after it began! For that’s when the first cross-country telegraph lines began to carry messages instead.

The shortest trip on the Pony Express announced the news of Abraham Lincoln’s election, only six days!

Our Goal:

To get on the mission field we need to raise:

$5.690 a month

We currently have

$2,200 committed support coming in

We need only 34 more people to give $100 a month.

Would you prayerfully consider supporting us for one year? We are desperately needing to get on the mission field. We have a passion to get to our servicemen and servicewomen.

Will you please help us?

Click below to start supporting us!

http://cadence.org/donate/missionary

You can give by Credit Card, Automatic Draft from your checking account, or you can send in money. Just give Chris May as the missionary name.

Thank you for supporting our military!