11.05.2009

FALL-A-PALOOZA!!!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!
Holiday season has officially begun!! :)

The Holiday Count Down
Halloween
Thanksgiving
Christmas
New Years
Valentines
St. Patrick's Day/BABY BUG is BORN!/Hannah's Birthday
Easter

FBC Irving had its annual "Fall-a-Palooza" last Saturday night!  Games, candy, and costumes!!!  Jason emceed the kid's costume contest...adorable.  And most adults got into the spirit of Halloween too :)

BUN MAKER and his BUN IN THE OVEN









ALADDIN and JASMINE

STAR WARS



PAM and JIM  ("The Office")

PICASSO



RED NECKS



THE FLINSTONES 

COOKIE MONSTER and BIG BIRD


MINNIE MOUSE

SUPERHERO, DOROTHY, COWGIRL, and LADY BUG


NERD, MARY POPPINS, EGYPTIAN QUEEN (complete with Moses in basket), and BRIDE

PREGNANT LADY and SPIDER WEB


SPIDER (belonging to the above web :) )

POT BELLY TOURIST and BUN MAKER



POT BELLY TOURISTS...father and daughter team :)


11.04.2009

YARD SALE!!!

For several weeks, Jason and a group of wonderful godly men prepared for the most MASSIVE yard sale Cedar Hill has ever seen.  Friday night we had 21 people scattered all over the Hatch home in sleeping bags...we caught a few hours of sleep before our driveway was open for business at 7:00 a.m.!

THANK YOU to the several  families who provided yard sale donations!




We had a GREAT time!  And I think our customers did too :)





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NICARAGUA

The first week of October, Jason went with a group of men from FBC Irving to help build homes for pastors in a rural village of Nicaragua.  This was a men's only trip...why?  Because modesty wasn't high on the priority list (bathing in the river for a week), and they were told to check for tarantulas before taking a seat in the outhouse.  Getting to the village wasn't an easy task either, but after several plane trips and hours of driving through dirt roads, the men set up their mosquito nets and cots.




It was worth the inconvenience.

God blessed their efforts ten fold.  The pastor's family has a place to live, and the Gospel continues to be spread throughout Nicaragua.  Jason later told stories of the intense heat and humidity of the rainy season...the limited menu and giant insects that took over their sleeping quarters - but even with hundreds of Nicaraguan ants crawling in his pants pockets and nibbling at his ankles, God reminded Jason of His generosity. 

The Lord has blessed us beyond what we need, and certainly beyond what we deserve.  Our men were able to come home at the end of that week, but the stories that make us cringe are everyday life for the villagers.  Their needs are both physical and spiritual!  Please, when you remember, pray for these families and God's work in Nicaragua.