Final Michigan Memories!!!

We had a great time this week at First Baptist Church in

Bridgeport, Michigan... our last Michigan stop on this tour:(

 We stayed with the Allens.. 

a sweet family from the church and also teachers at the school.

 Mike Fisher and his family joined us for this week.

It was fun to be able to spend time with them, and play

with their cute kids!:)  Dr. Jim also flew out on Friday

for his uncle's funeral, so Mike took over the Friday

evening War and bonfire.

 Abigail Rose Fisher

 Leesie and Abby having fun on the playground!:)

 Christopher Fisher

 

Our team usually does special music for the Sunday

service.. here is our quartet with the girls and Nicole

accompanying.. Funny little story about this..:)

So, how their church does it is when we go out for

the special we actually come in from the side door.

Well, I knew how to come in but I didn't know that

we were also supposed to exit through that same side

door..:)  So, here I go, tootling down the long flight of

stairs, while everyone else behind me walks calmly

back out the way they came in.. the way that we

were supposed to!:)  Aw.. good memories!;)

 

My cousins, Joanna and Tabitha, and my friend from

North Carolina, Jacquelyn, came up to visit on Sunday

night!:)  It was SO special and fun to have them!

We went out to Culver's after church and then back

to the hotel that we'd rented for that evening..

We had fun chatting, of course!, while we dipped our

feet in the hot tub, and also had some great, deep

theological discussions.. okay, well, deep for us, I guess;)

And, of course, we had fun being just plain crazy!;)

 

Enjoying our cookies from Pam.. she suggested that we 

stay in this hotel, but they didn't have cookies like the

Doubletree Hotel.. so she made us some!:)  Thanks!!:)

 

.. And like I said.. just being plain crazy!;)

 

Don't ask..?? :)

 

We did enjoy a yummy continental breakfast the next

morning.. of course, it's always better to shop on a

full stomach!:)

 We had fun meeting up with Christine, Jack's friend from

Grand Rapids, and going shopping at Birch Run.

Do you like the shades???;)

 

Tab & Jo had to leave earlier to be back for work, but

Christine, Jack, and I got to enjoy some more time

together.. we went to Frankenmuth to eat lunch and 

just walk around and enjoy time together and the 

beautiful day!:)

Here's a picture of the girls with their pumpkin pie

ice cream.. it was on the house, too!:)

(maybe our waiter had a crush on Jack??;))

 I had to get a picture of Rapunzel for my niece, Emily..

When commenting to her that her hair had gotten long

and asking her if she was going to cut it, she informed 

me, "I want to grow my hair down to here (motioning

to her ankles), and be just like Rapunzel!" :)

The cute little city of Frankenmuth..

 Bronner's Christmas Wonderland!!!

 At Frankenmuth, a sweet, older lady, when seeing

that we weren't all in a picture, asked if she could

take it for us.. well, we went over to Bronner's,

and, upon trying to get another picture, the same,

sweet lady was there to take it again for us!:)

 Thank you SO much for visiting, girls!!!

I had a blast and hope we can do it again sometime

real soon!!!:)  Love you!

 

Back to the War in Bridgeport.. :)

The recruiting this week was great for the guys!

They were able to get into two different public

school lunch rooms and ended up recruiting about

350 kids!  Our big night was Thursday night when 

we had about 120 kids show up!

 I think Nicole might've warmed her snack up just a bit too much.. :)

 The girls enjoyed watching videos of the twins with Miss Nicole!:)

 On Friday night, Emily and Lydia Bradley from Midland,

another church we were at a few weeks previously, came

to the War in Bridgeport.. Nicole and I enjoyed grabbing

some ice cream with them before the night activities began!:)

 Emily & Nicole

 I know you can't really see the sign in this picture, but

I had to put it in just for memories' sake!:) 

The guys were so gracious to stop by our home before going

to theirs every night.  Well, one night as we were driving home,

someone noticed this road sign, and guess what it said:)

"Tin Lizzy.."  You can just imagine that I was teased EVERY

night and still am about it!;)

That, along with our "country beeping", made for fun rides home!:)

We had a really good week in Bridgeport, and I believe 

really saw a break through in the school on Friday!

I'm not exactly sure how many were saved on the 

War nights, but we had probably over 70 visitors come,

and there was definite seed planted in many hearts!

I was personally able to talk to one about assurance

and another about her soul..

Thank you SO much for all who prayed!

God is so good and gracious to hear and answer

our prayers when we just simply ask.. such a 

simple, and yet life-changing truth!

Praise the Lord for His work and that

"He counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry.."