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| Bill and Teri from the UP...they are new area reps and are doing an amazing job. Great new friends to have |
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| Doug and Sue during the morning session |
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| This place is huge and this is the overview of all the CMA leaders in the morning session We got ready and went to breakfast at the pavilion. There are so many volunteers preparing food and working in the kitchen and out at the buffet tables serving food, picking up our plates when we are finished. So thankful for them and praying for all of them. We had eggs, sausage, biscuits and fruit. It was really good. None of us are going hungry. We have an international team leading worship. Some are from Macedonia, some from Mexico, from Uruguay and a couple of other countries. Worship is awesome and what a gift to be worshipping with all the international leaders who are so homble and so kind. Our first session began at 9 and Jared taught it. A message right from the Word of God and very inspiring about keeping the Mission that God has for CMA. He gave 2 Scriptures that sum it up. We took a break and then Jennifer, Jared’s wife taught the next session. That was excellent too, about being tethered to Jesus before a storm hits so you are hanging on to him to get you through. We went to lunch after this session. We had hamburgers, chips, salads, and cheese for lunch. We had an hour and a half, so we walked up to our camper to make sure the air was on. I had the fireplace on this morning, but last night had set the air to come on if it got up to 75 degrees. I had turned the fireplace off when we left, but didn’t know if the air was still going to come on when it got so hot out. Bill sometimes turns it off. We were happy to get back to a cool camper because it was on. We lowered the bed Ziggy was going to sleep in and I checked to make sure no stink bugs were up there. We found some trying to travel with us earlier in the week. I didn’t find any today. I talked to Vikki and she said Kit Kat didn’t have any food or water. I looked on the ring video and saw an opossum eating. She was going to set the live trap and try to catch it. She was sweet and filled both food dishes and water dishes and moved them. I am so thankful that she would do all that for us. We read our Bibles, then headed back to the pavilion and went to goodies. I got a new blue CMA sweatshirt and Bill got a new flannel CMA shirt that is really nice. When we got out of Goodies, it was time to get in the food line. Bev called me so we could get in line by her and Ron. Rayleen, our previous National Evngelist’s wife, was in line by us and we sure enjoyed hanging out with her and talking. She is one of the nicest people! Joy just bubbles out of her! We enjoyed our choice of spaghetti or Alfredo and garlic toast, plus a salad, and more delicous cheese for all of us but Bill. We enjoy visiting with our area reps while we enjoy our meal. We went back in to our Michigan leadership table and the International team lead worship again . First we got in groups of 6 at our table and prayed prayers of thanksgiving for something we were each really thankful to God for. Then it was just an amazing worship service! Then Jennifer had all of the international people move up front or in the back where people could gather around them and lay hands on them and pray for them and their country. It was awesome too. After that Jared had everyone stand who needed healing or a miracle. Then others would gather around them. I stood for healing for my leg and Linda and Jim who are state coordinators we’ve spent time with from Minnesota came over and some others from their state and prayed for me. I prayed for Linda after that because she had shared she had pain in her hands from osteo arthritis. After everyone was prayed for, we worshipped more to such awesome worship songs. It was a little taste of what heaven is going to be like and was so moving. We came back to our camper and Ziggy was here. He told us he would be here at 6. I had texted him to tell him he could make a sandwich and help himself to chip or anything. I told him where to find everything too, so he told us he had made a sandwich and thanked us. He was glad to relax after driving for 8 hours. We showed him things in the camper and where he could store stuff, visits for a while, then he finished his Bible reading which is what he had been doing when we came in. Then we went to bed. Bill and I have to be down for breakfast at 8 again. Ziggy is going to sleep in and maybe go with a friend to breakfast. It was an amazing day of growing even closer to the Lord with spending so much time learning more about Him and how we can be more like Him. |
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