My Life As A Pastor's Wife

Saturday, June 2, 2012

I'm back! (Part II)

On Sunday, April 15th we started our Spring Campaign, "Fishers of Men". Dr. Ray Young was our guest speaker and opened our campaign as he has done for several years now. It is always a blessing to hear him preach but another blessing is that his wife gets to come with him! I enjoy Mrs. Young so much! We have such a great time together talking about things we have in common, things we enjoy, getting advice from her, picking her brain on ideas and just enjoying her company! (I love you Mrs. Young!) :)
Dr. Young taught all our teens for Sunday School and preached the morning service and Mrs. Young taught a special group of ladies in our church, the single moms/ladies. These ladies are so faithful, work so hard for their families and carry a big load. I wanted to do something special for them so I asked Mrs. Young to teach their Sunday School class. Before the evening service Mrs. Young spoke again but to all the ladies of our church and Dr. Young preached the evening service. What a great day of blessings seeing people saved, baptized and seeing the Lord work in our hearts through the preaching.
We are looking forward to next year when they come again!

Mrs. Young speaking to all the ladies

Mrs. Young and I

Special Music by our young people.

Our men's rondalla

Dr. Young preaching as my husband is translating.

The next day the Youngs planned a very special day! Dr. Young invited some pastors in the area along with a limited amount of church members, to take a tour on the life of Dr. Jack Hyles. We went to different areas here in Texas where Dr. Hyles lived, went to school, went to church, got engaged and many more places. We really enjoyed ourselves! It was very thoughtful of the Youngs to take their time and share it with us in order to give us the tour. The following are pictures of some of the places we saw.

The home where Bro. Hyles was born once stood here. That house was moved to the campus of Hyles-Anderson College in Crown Point, Indiana.

This monument is in the birthplace of Bro. Jack Hyles-Italy, Texas.

It is inscribed with a dedication to the pastor of the "World's Largest Sunday School."

This monument was purchased by Dr. Russell Anderson in 1975.

This was the original grave site of Bro. Hyles' father, now moved to Indiana.

Shortly after he was buried here, Bro. Hyles spent several days and prayed for the power of God here at this gravesite. Bro. Hyles' ministry was transformed and of course many of us had the pleasure of seeing and experiencing that.

The elementary school where Bro. Hyles attended.

Dr. Young telling us stories about Bro. Hyles when he attended this school.

One of the homes that Bro. Hyles lived in.

Hillcrest Baptist Church where Bro. & Mrs. Hyles would meet.

While on a blind triple date, they were parked at this Texas Theater. The other couples began to pass around a bottle of whiskey which each would take a drink from. The bottle then came to Bro. Hyles. His date tried to get him to drink it and did feel tempted. But at that moment Bro. Hyles felt a sharp pain in his chest which made him refuse. He immediately went home and found his mother on her knees praying for her son to stay clean.

The power of a mothers' prayer!

Adamson High School where Bro. Hyles attended high school.

The balcony of the Grand Central Station where Bro. Hyles proposed to Mrs. Beverly Hyles.

This is the corner in downtown Dallas where after Bro. Hyles' father kicked and cursed him after knowing that his son had surrendered to preach.

Monday, May 21, 2012

I'm back!

It has been a very busy 2 months! It's been so long that I even forgot my password to blog! Lol! And if that wasn't enough, I just finished putting in about 5 entrys and I don't have any idea how but it all deleted! :( So here I go again! This is what I have been up to since March!

Our daughter and her family stayed through the weekend of our family conference. We love when they are able to be with us in our church. That day was an extra treat for us! What a blessing it is to be able to be in the same church and serve the Lord together with your family. We went out to lunch together after church.

"So many yummy things to eat! Too bad I don't have any teeth!"

That evening after church, we had a surprise birthday gathering for our son Andres. He turned 18 the 30 of March! We now have 4 adult children! Where did the time go? We invited the church teens and some adults came also. We had a great time especially because we had the restaruant all to ourselves.

I am very grateful and thankful that the Lord has given our son another year of life and health!

(In preparation now for my Ladies Missionary Circles Meeting and the start of our Spring Campaign. Decorations to be made and details to get in order.)

We had our Ladies Meeting on April 13th. The theme was "Spring cleaning our hearts and lives". I decorated the front walls with cleaning supplies along with the Bible on a small table. My devotion was to encourage the ladies to not only think it is important to spring clean our houses but our spiritual lives as well. What things do we have in our "closets" that no one may know about that we need to clean out. It could be bitterness, not forgiving someone, gossip or any number of things. At the end I had four prizes. A bucket of cleaning supplies and three certificates for a free years subscription to Better Homes & Gardens magazine. We then broke up into groups and read our missionary letters, had prayer time and signed cards to send out to our missionaries.

Winners of prizes!

TIME FOR OUR MISSIONARIES

Thursday, April 5, 2012

Family Conference 2012

Our church held its yearly family conference last week, March 28th-31st. Our theme was taken from Hebrews 11:7. "Preparing an ark to the saving of my house". Our guest preacher was Pastor Alex Ramirez from Cuernavaca, Mexico. What a tremendous blessing he and his wife were to our conference.
As always when we are busy doing God's work and or trying to help others, the devil seems to be around the corner to put obsticles or henderances in our way to make things difficult. Such was the case in the preparation of our conference. Every day was begun in pray ending with "I don't know how all will get done but all is in Your hands Lord!" God is so good and it was amazing how the Lord stretched the hours of the days so that I could get things done, keep up with normal office responsibilities and of course my home. The ladies of my church were such a blessing to bring my family and I meals for the week so that I didn't have to worry about cooking.
So many of our people sacrificed in giving financially and gave many hours in preparing for this conference. My prayer is that the Lord will bless them richly!