Happy Easter!

My family had a FANTASTIC 1st Easter at Faith Baptist Church today! From Tim being able to preach the community sunrise service, to a delicious breakfast served at the church, to our Sunday School class being packed, to a great worship service and really fun children's party (both of which resulted in decisions for Christ being made)...the hand of God has blessed this Easter in a mighty way. We are so happy to be here and we''re already looking forward to our future Easters at FBC!

 

-Kara

Fire Department Field Trip

  We had a super-fun time touring Salisbury Fire Station #1 with the Rowan County Home School Association!  The firefighters did a tremendous job teaching the kids and their parents...

-Kara

PRAISE THE LORD!!!!

Today I'm celebrating that my amazing, beautiful, and unsinkable mom is CANCER FREE!!!!  After battling cancer for several months, she got the "all-clear" from her oncologist today.  He's going to do a last few precautionary rounds of chemo just to make sure...but that he feels confident it's all gone.

So again I say...

 PRAISE THE LORD!!!

LORD my God, I called to you for help, and you healed me. -Psalm 30:2

-Kara

SBCToday Article: Nehemiah and the Pastor's Wife

My newest article published in SBCToday:

http://sbctoday.com/nehemiah-and-the-pastors-wife/

-Kara

faithWORKS!

Faith Baptist Church's first "faithWORKS Community Day" last Sunday was a HUGE success!  We had close to twice the workers we had hoped for, and we were able to do some fantastic projects around the area! 

Our group was sent to Elizabeth Dole Elementary (yes...named after the Elizabeth Dole who is married to Bob Dole: she's a native of the community) to do outside yard work and painting.  The Lord graciously provided a mild, dry February Day for our work.

 Another group went to Faith Elementary to make treat bags for teachers and to prayer-walk the school.  What an amazing community we live in: we asked the principal for service projects and he asked us to prayer-walk his school!

Several members of this group actually cried when they came to a classroom and saw a thank-you card on a bulletin board written by a child who was thankful for the homeless shelter her family now lives in, because it has become "home" for her family.

And finally, a group went to Rowan Helping Ministries (the community's homeless shelter and food pantry) to paint, put down carpet tiles, and organize food.  Anna and some of the other kids went with this group and had a blast!!!

We'll be doing another faithWORKS in May and we're already looking forward to it!!!

-Kara

Art Exhibit

 One of Christopher's paintings was included in an exhibit called "Rowan County's Young Artists" at the Water Works Art Gallery in Salisbury this evening!  We had a blast at the reception.  Thanks so much to the gallery and to the Rowan County Home School Association for the event!  The exhibit will run until the end of February.