As for me and my house, we shall serve the Lord.: Thanksgiving 2007- We thank God for so much!

Give your marriage a tune up!

Let us tell you all about Weekend to Remember! We've been twice- the first time was in 2005, two months after we divorced on our 14th wedding anniversary... God placed that conference in our path to give us the tools to tear down the walls of isolation we'd unknowingly built in our marriage. He used that conference to restore our relationship, our marriage and our lives.

We made a commitment to go to the conference every year or so and attended again in 2007. God's Word is alive, and we came away learning so much more about how God designed marriage, how He created us for each other and how He uses what we perceive as weaknesses to strengthen each other and grow in Him.

The Weekend to Remember is a great multipurpose tool- it is a how to be married guide for engaged and newly married couples, a restoration tool for broken marriages, a maintenance tool for great marriages and a springboard to the next level for good marriages. The presenters are so human, so easy to relate to, so easy to listen to and learn from.

After we attended the conference last fall, God pressed on our hearts to volunteer for FamilyLife, so we are working at the Raleigh weekend this year. Scott is a group coach and I'm on the prayer team. We'll be there at the conference, serving in whatever way God needs us to serve.

CALL 1-800-358-6329 to register for the weekend so you can use our group code to get an $80 discount on the conference registration, you have to register over the phone in order to get the group rate. Our group code is 16418. The group rate is $178/couple.

Are you military?? If so, the military discount rate is $138/couple- you can register for this discount online- use the code FREEDOM in the key code area.

To learn more, call or email us today!!!

Sunday, November 25, 2007

Thanksgiving 2007- We thank God for so much!

Thank you so much, everyone, for all your prayers! We've had a busy, busy several weeks and this weekend wasn't any less busy. It's been a good busy! We finished most of what we wanted to finish (and all of what God wanted us to accomplish) by Tuesday when family started to arrive. Mom (from Burgaw), Mike, Chrissy, Erick, and Abby (from Delaware), Clifford, Paula, Christopher, and Leah (from Cape Cod) arrived on Tuesday. Douglas, Nancy & Susie (from Rocky Point) arrived Wednesday, and Craig and Cathy (from Virginia) arrived Thursday morning. It was a houseful, but what better way to bless our house than with family during a weekend of thanksgiving? :)

And we celebrated in style! Lots of food, football tossing, pecan picking, potato cannon target practice, shooting mistletoe with bb-guns, riding the go cart, blanket knotting, present swapping, ps2 football playing, talking, laughing, taking walks, praying and sharing. Saturday we made and placed the grave blanket on Dad Jennings' grave in Burgaw (it was the first time in 13 years some of the sibs had been there), and we laughed and talked and cried and prayed. Then we headed to Wilmington to see the Festival of Trees and take a few family photos. From there we spent some time at the USS North Carolina, then we found chinese food and returned to Faison to eat, laugh, open Christmas crackers, play and laugh some more. We are so blessed that Chrissy was healed enough from her surgery last week and that Paula was healed from her life changing hospitalization this past summer. To have them both here, with their families, is a testimony to God's power in our lives and a blessing beyond measure. And further, looking back two plus years, for Scott and me to be together, steadfast and on God's path...it leaves me speechless. He is good.

It is so cool to be living in the house we have spent the last year visiting. It was powerful to have Scott bless our first meal here with twenty family members. God is so good, all the time. His plan is so much better than ours!!