We had an awesome day in Our Lord's House yesterday.  Our pastor is away doing a revival in NC and one of our Elders stepped in and preached for him.  This man is a well known man in our community and he did something that I have never known a pastor to do.  He preached on Patriotism and how we as Christians need to stand up for God in our Country.  He said so many GREAT things that I pray, Lord Willing, I will share at another time this week.  But this one thing really STUCK!

"Seperation of Church and State", to keep the church out of the affairs of the state, is found no where in the Constitution our ForeFathers made.  Instead you will find that they wanted the opposite, in fact no Man could serve in Congress who was NOT a Prodestant Faithfollowing Believer.  What our ForeFather's wanted was the Serperation of keeping the State out of the Church and to make sure the State was being run by the "Church" (the church being the body of Chirst's believers).

Last evening was AWANAs.  Little Monkey started late and is catching up on his verses.  We had been working on the first 2 of his book plus the one for the week.  He said all 3 for the teacher and earned his "Jumper Badge" for his vest.  We have another 3 to learn for this coming week too.  He is doing so well and he really does know them and he is really learning their meanings too!  I am a "floater" for AWANAs.  I go where ever I am needed.  Mostly that has been with the 4y/o Cubbies, but last night I was needed in the 2y/o Puggles room.  This is the first year of having the Puggles and it is so great.  They have their own Bible Lesson and song time and story time and they get Learning Cards to take home and have their parents keep on with what they've learned.  It was so fun, it's been awhile since I have worked with that age!

Today we had a bit of an Unschooling day.  I was asked last week to be part of the MOPS Steering Team and to lead a Discussion Group.  I had been praying God's lead for a place to serve Him more and this was His answer.  So today I had my first Steering Team meeting in order to get ready for our MOPS meeting next Tuesday and for our MOPPETS (our childrens ministry for MOPS) Christmas Party.  It as such a blessing to be with Christian Military Moms.  Though we don't all share the same views on what we think is Biblical for women we all do share the same goals, to train our children's hearts for our Lord!

The rest of the day we rested, did some unschooling (Little Monkey did some what is this animals puzzles and was spelling 3 letter words in his word-whammer on the fridge), and did some cleaning.  We are having company this weekend and my Beloved might even be home for the weekend.  Little Monkey is singing in "A Birthday Celebration for Our Lord" on this Sunday and some family is coming to see him, as this is his 1st performance, and they will be staying with us.  So I am really kicking it into high gear with decorating and cleaning!

I hope everyone is having a blessed week!

"And when they had seen it,

 they made known abroad the saying

 which was told them concerning this child."

Luke 2:17