Why is it that after you have such a wonderful, exciting moment in life that the devil really likes to come and destroy everything? This week has been extremely difficult, not just for me personally but also for New Hope.
My new job is very exciting because everything is new, but it also is really hard. I feel stupid most of the time and have no clue what I am doing. I miss being confident in my job and not needing to check with someone all the time before doing something. The people here are very nice but they are extremely busy and I hate interrupting them for the new girls stupid questions. Most of you know that I am not a crier but I admit I have already had to episodes this week.
At New Hope it seems that everything that could go wrong has gone wrong. Our state inspector called and will be coming to see us in 2 weeks! We have an inquiry from the Department of Labor regarding an employee who is not satisfied, we have 10 days to get back to them and the lawyer is out on surgery leave and has no time available. The taxes are due on Tuesday, The books were so messed up that it is a wonder that we could even get them done. Thanks to Vicky and 6 hours I think that problem is resolved at least for the moment. We are down to 6 girls in the unit. It takes at least 8 to pay all the bills! I could go on and on but I am depressing myself. Please pray for us and me especially. The devil is right on my back right now and I am feeling the breaking point.
Do not think that I have given up or am by any means about too. I know that God is in control and that He cares about every aspect of my being. He has done incredible things for New Hope and we continue to see the transformation of girls as they feel the love from us and begin to see that that love comes from God. One girl in particular has really become a new person! God has great things in store for her and I hope we can be part of the process. Please pray especially for our girls as our church will be in revival in a couple of weeks and more than anything I want these girls to have a personal relationship with Him. Maybe that is why it's so hard right now maybe the best is yet to come.
Come what may I will follow Him!
Friday, April 11, 2008
Friday, April 4, 2008
What an Incredible Night!
Well it is now one week since our benefit concert with Selah and Jamie Jamgochian. I must say that I am just now catching up on all my lost sleep. Anything that can go wrong before a big event, did go wrong. I had finished all the newsletters and had them sent to the printer when my darling brother decides that if we would just by a new bigger printer we could save a lot of money. Whatever! Instead of it costing $700 it cost us $3000 with all the supplies and extra ink and whatever else the salesman talked him into. Of course now I was expected to make all the copies! 500!
Somewhere between the printer and redoing the printer from one to the other the zip drive got damaged and I thought the whole newsletter had been lost! Thank the Lord that my brother was able to retrieve a copy of it off of my hard drive.
Saturday morning we had a work day at New Hope put on by Family Life Radio. We had received word that their would be around 20 to 30 people. We ended up with over 60! Incredible! We didn't quite have enough jobs for all the women to do. They did repaint our entire kitchen and dining room. Plus wash all the windows and walls. They raked the yard and trimmed all the trees. It looks beautiful! We had a licensed contractor show up and he and several men worked in our basement to start redoing it. They really got a lot done.
Of course that night we were suppose to be in Midland to have supper with Selah and Jamie Jamgochian. We received news on our way over that Selah was stuck in Chicago and had missed their plan to Detroit. That was a little nerve racking. We thought maybe we would have to do some karaoke to fill the time. They got another flight and drove like the wind to get to Midland. They got there about 20 minutes before we were to start. We started about 30 minutes late but it all worked out.
The Dow holds 1500 people and we had sold 90% of those tickets which is 1350. I had to get up in front of all those people to thank all those who had helped us and tell a little about New Hope, plus we had a video I needed to introduce. I have never been so nervous! We I got on stage I forget everything I had written down to say. I did metion all of the right people. (At least I hope I did.) At the end of the video the audience was told that there would be green buckets at the door if they would like to give a freewill offering. We received more than $4000! God is certainly good to us.
This week we have already received a call from the Mt Pleasant Credit Union saying they want to do a fund raiser for us. We also have a business who wants to supply ice cream cakes for the girls along with free coupons. So people are still responding to what God is doing. Keep praying for us. We need pray support more than anything else.
Somewhere between the printer and redoing the printer from one to the other the zip drive got damaged and I thought the whole newsletter had been lost! Thank the Lord that my brother was able to retrieve a copy of it off of my hard drive.
Saturday morning we had a work day at New Hope put on by Family Life Radio. We had received word that their would be around 20 to 30 people. We ended up with over 60! Incredible! We didn't quite have enough jobs for all the women to do. They did repaint our entire kitchen and dining room. Plus wash all the windows and walls. They raked the yard and trimmed all the trees. It looks beautiful! We had a licensed contractor show up and he and several men worked in our basement to start redoing it. They really got a lot done.
Of course that night we were suppose to be in Midland to have supper with Selah and Jamie Jamgochian. We received news on our way over that Selah was stuck in Chicago and had missed their plan to Detroit. That was a little nerve racking. We thought maybe we would have to do some karaoke to fill the time. They got another flight and drove like the wind to get to Midland. They got there about 20 minutes before we were to start. We started about 30 minutes late but it all worked out.
The Dow holds 1500 people and we had sold 90% of those tickets which is 1350. I had to get up in front of all those people to thank all those who had helped us and tell a little about New Hope, plus we had a video I needed to introduce. I have never been so nervous! We I got on stage I forget everything I had written down to say. I did metion all of the right people. (At least I hope I did.) At the end of the video the audience was told that there would be green buckets at the door if they would like to give a freewill offering. We received more than $4000! God is certainly good to us.
This week we have already received a call from the Mt Pleasant Credit Union saying they want to do a fund raiser for us. We also have a business who wants to supply ice cream cakes for the girls along with free coupons. So people are still responding to what God is doing. Keep praying for us. We need pray support more than anything else.
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