Our last visit with grand's

I slept in this morning and played lazy as i was exhausted from the busy week we had.  After lunch we headed to pick up the grandbabies for a weekend fun filled time. 
               
We did the usual doctors appointments, visiting with family as much as possible!!  We had a great time spoiling and enjoying our grandkids.  Wow .. it’s amazing how much they have grown since we last saw them in July.


We had wonderful weather for enjoying the park, going to the Homecoming parade and of course eating lots of candy.  It's been a great long weekend with Columbus Day.  Since today is a holdiay we got the grands an extra day and was thrilled for that.

Convention coming to an end

Well it’s been a fun and exciting week seeing friends and faces that we hadn’t seen for a year and as always meeting and making new friends.  There has been excitement and renew of our mind, body and souls for the thrive we live to pass on God’s Word to anyone who is interested in listening.  Building Churching and Changing Lives is what the ministry we are apart of is all about.  It’s an amazing time during convention and to be honest .. one i needed badly.


this was the nightly line for dinner …


I just love this patch … i thought it was adorable

     
We had an awesome choir and they did a wonderful job
   
Jerry and Kay blessed us with a duo that was as always good.  It wouldn’t be convention if we didn’t get such a wonderful treat from our director and his lovely wife … Thanks Jerry and Kay!
 
We had our own band and they of course as always did a great job .. thanks to all who was in the band (choir) which ever you prefer

Of course as you can see we had a great crowd and it was a wonderful evening with Zollie Smith ending the Celebration with a message.  Of course we were honored to have the Holy Spirit among us and his presence was felt by many.  I believe we all left with our hearts bursting and filled to the top with love and a desire to continue our work for our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. 
 
Thanks to everyone who made our time a wonderful and needed week .. our heart and souls are now refreshed, renewed and ready to face what ever the year holds as long as we are doing God’s will and not ours.

Veterans Night

It was Red, White and Blue day and as you can see most were into celebrating our Nations colors and celebrating to honor our Veterans and those who are still serving our wonderful country.  No matter what you are experiencing in your life we still have the greatest country in the world where we are free to celebrate, worship or what ever you chose for all those who have died and served to fight for our freedom.

We were very honored with 2 Captains who are serving today in our Army to attend our Veterans celebration

      

These men you see standing were all awarded a purple heart or some type of honor for their services

These men standing have all served one time or another for our country .. we had over half the members standing .. what an honor it was it to salute them for their service for our freedom.
 
Zollie Smith was with us and he was awarded a purple heart for his services and Zollie is  the Executive Director of U.S. Missions with the Assemblies of God. 


and then we were deeply honored to have Dave Roever who operates the Wounded Warriors Alliance in Colorado and is working on one in Junction Texas.  It’s a place for wounded soldiers to go to learn to live again ..   http://www.daveroever.org/index.php
 
It was another awesome service and another exhausting day .. we have been having wonderful weather here in Illinois.