What is your vision?

I have had a heavy heart the last few days, can't put my finger directly on it...but want you to ask yourself.

Where is your vision?

Without a vision the people perish.

Our (Tony and me) vision for the lost and the power of Jesus Christ changing lives and the hope that was so freely given to us just a few years ago. We had focused our lives on anything but pressing in to Jesus Christ.

So no guilt here; but what is your vision, your focus, what drives you or what are you dedicated too?

Tony says this often, we are here on earth for 80-90 years if we are lucky, eternity is FOREVER.

Just a thought...weighing on my heart.

Little history about Yuba City

Hey to my faithful fans...

I want to confuse each and every one of you. I live in Yuba City, which is located in Sutter County. Marysville, our sister city is in Yuba County. The picture shown here is the Yuba City’s western horizon is dominated by the Sutter Buttes, known as the “Smallest Mountain Range in the World. This is pronounced Bu(long u) ttes! Butte County is past Marysville, almost to Oroville (home of Dan&Peggy). I get a giggle and feel a bit like a townie, now that I know the confusion and understand it.

I thought I might leave a bit of history when I get a chance to upload this blog. We are doing California history with the kids this summer and they are loving it. Gives a whole new meaning to 49ers!

We actually drove around the smallest mountain range, it is a lovely ride, about 2 hours total. There are different types farms all around. There is one that is a senior citizen or retirement home for zoo and circus animals!! Zebras, horses, llamas and strange looking animals!

Please leave a comment and make me smile!

Eric the big brother...

Hi Michele!

You know I think of my friends in Alamo all the time....this blog is a wild one, I wanted to put this layout in, it isn't "done" but I want you to see Eric, he is growing so much. He loves God, and is such a disciple and help for us.

So to explain the pics, we went for a day at the river...the water is no joke, 45-50 degrees, it is 112 degrees outside...just a great day. Eric was so calm and helpful. I am wanting to find some elements that will add to this but so far....just plain is coming to mind.

Our 1st Outdoor Concert!

This fellowship is incredible! We got the building as previously explained. Then Vallejo sent a church to impact all day! They were awesome, it was hot and they handed out flyers and then witnessed at the event. The church in Redding sent 2 Rap groups and a couple that also witnessed the whole event. There is no wonder why 3 of the teens in the groups are their kids! On top of that another church in Oroville came to work the crowds for the event. They stopped people in cars, on the sides just watching and gave great support. Three churches laboring for one pioneering couple. Because they all have the same vision! To reach the world for Jesus Christ!

stuck in the house!

The month of July was a trip!

California legalized gay weddings on 15 July, and the following Saturday 1000 fires started by lightening thruout California!

These fires were huge and still to this date are burning. The smoke that filled the wide Sacramento Valley was thick and hazardous. There were 3 days in a row, we stayed inside with A/C running the whole time. We changed our air filter at the end of the month...filled with chunks of yuck!

Now, spending one day all together is fun, the 2nd, a bit tougher, by the 3rd day, I was done! We put the boys on side by side laptops, playing games (star wars version of Age of Empires), and the girls took a 3 hour bath! I have read so many books and organized the whole house!

Tony spent most of it, reengineering gold sheets and our taxes. Got the files set up for church, both puter and regular files. He entered all our reciepts for the year, so he made a data base for the taxes for our lives in a parsonage! Whole lotta work, but it is done and now easy to update!

The thickness in the air can not be expressed in the picture, but it was humid, hot and hazardous.

When the southern winds from the deltas in Stockton blow, coolness and fresh air conquer!

Just waiting for them!

We got the go ahead from Pastor! Thank you so much!

The church is in a great location! It is at an intersection from 3 towns. It is actually in Marysville, a sister city. We pay our gas/electric there and Yuba City is very melded to each other. Our hospital is there, etc...

Anyway...Tony went on outreach last Monday evening in the neighborhood, and met a couple; Katie and James, they came to bible study Wednesday! We are so excited to have a place to just show a movie! It is a great place, I know this is a babble of a blog, but if I was standing in front of you, you probably couldn't follow me, cause there are so many great things about this building! We can move in as is, some cleaning and do remodeling in stages! So that helps alot also!

We have to wait til Wednesday, because the lady who does the paperwork is off til then and no one else knows how. ha ha That drives Tony crazy...so we wait...impatiently, but with victory!

Please pray for favor so the process of getting the building goes good.

the Lady is a cat!

Our landlords are great people and would let us have hippos in the back yard I think if we asked. Our lives are very topsy turvy and a pet is a bit more than we wanted to commit to. A cat in the neighborhood, very loving, would come over on a daily basis for pets and scratch under the chin and then leave. We would see her on different people's lawns and couldn't really figure out who "owned" her. Our next door neighbor, Miss Liz, said she was abandoned and needed a home. Tony said NO!

A few weeks later, he saw her drinking from the sprinkler in our backyard. "You can feed Lady". I was so excited! "but..." he went on to say, "she is NOT coming in the house!" Okay, I bought a bag of food and some canned and a brush for her that afternoon!

We feed her in the early morning, and then again in the evening. She is waiting right on time, and will also meow loudly when we are late!

In the morning, I spend 1 1/2 hours on the back porch. Sometimes it is chilly, so I bundle up with blanket. I read the newspaper, my bible and pray and Lady joins me. Her purrs and warm fluffy body are a great addition!