• Blue Lake Bush Beans
• Nantes Carrots
• Nutri-Bud Broccoli
• Sweet Marketmore Cucumber
• Gourmet Blend Lettuce
• Paris Island Romaine Lettuce
• Walla Walla Onions
• Renegade Spinach
• Dark Green Zucchini
• Crimson Sprinter Tomatoes
• Chadwick Cherry Tomatoes
• Roma Tomatoes
• Hales Best Jumbo Melon
• Sugar Baby Watermelon
• True Gold Sweet Corn

• +100.00 Juice man juicer (with wide mouth), new condition 2.00
• 15.00-20.00 children's workbooks, new condition  .29
• 5.00-60.00 adult books, new-good condition .50-1.00
• 20.00-50.00 Little Tykes toys 1.00
• 15.00-30.00 games 1.00 (today we got a game that I ALMOST bought new... only I couldn't find it in any store.  Othello... perhaps it's discontinued?)

• New chick arrival scheduled for 3/15/08- Sixty chicks to arrive! Twenty meat birds for butchering in eight weeks and forty layers for eggs for us and to sell or bless others with.
  

• Organic seeds to arrive the week of 3/9/08- Seeds will be started immediately to get a jump on the growing season.  We hope to participate in our local farmers market, though we are not certain that we will.

• We are planning to close space grow this year so we want to make walk ways out of wood pallets that we have.  This will keep weeds down and help remind the little ones not to step in our growing space. 

• Articles, Stories and assignments due 3/15/08 for outreach magazine- Pappy has decided that we should put out a little magazine as encouragement  for our loved ones (quarterly).  The first issue is to be sent out at the end of March.

• New account for our family home based business is to start the week of 3/9/08- The Lord Jesus has blessed us with a new account for which we are VERY thankful for!
  

• Bee hives need to be made.  We want to catch swarms this year instead of buying.  Out of the two swarms we had last year only the one we caught survived the whole summer/fall season.  So far they look good (last we checked). We are praying that they survive the winter. 
  

We must tell all who waited and waited to see pictures, videos and the like that  we are sorry!!!  We have just been so busy doing other things that this little ol' blog site just gets pushed to the side! 

We also had a little computer break right after the last post.  We totally put our computers away.  No internet or schooling via computer did we do during that time.  It was refreshing!  I am looking forward to doing that a couple times a year at least. 

I am on one of our computers that doesn't have any pictures or video clips on it, so I can't post anything fun this time.  Just wanted to let the couple of people that read our little ol' blog know what was what!  :)

May the Lord Jesus Christ bless you all this year, for His glory!

theJfamily

Wow, I haven't written anything since Jan.  We were having some issues with our computer and so I just sort of fell off the "blog"wagon.  LOL

• 2 Hive Bodies with Pierco Frames to fill them
• 2 Medium Supers with Pierco Frames to fill them
• Bottom Board
• Entrance Reducer
• Heavy Duty Galvanized Telescoping Cover
• Inner Cover
• Polystyrene Hive Top Feeder
• Varroa Screen/Monitoring Tray
• Hard Plastic Helmet
• Round Tie-down Veil
• Stainless Steel Smoker with Heat Shield
• 10" Hive Tool
• Beginning Beekeeping Book
• Ventilated Leather Gloves


Our swarm of bees and queen will be shipped next month around the 14th.  Son1 and Pappy had an enjoyable day yesterday as they attended bee school (a beekeepers convention).  They learned a lot and came back with honey treats for us all.  So, as you can see we are busy preparing for this new project.  You all can pray for us as we undertake this new venture!

I got off at George Street

This all started a number of years ago in a Baptist church in Crystal Palace in South London. The Sunday morning service was closing and a man stood up at the back and raised his hand and said: "Excuse me pastor can I share a short testimony?" The pastor looked at his watch and said "You have three minutes". The man proceeded with his story: "I've just moved into this area. I used to live in Sydney Australia. Just a few months back I was visiting some relatives and I was walking down George Street. You know where George Street is in Sydney going from the Business Area out to the Rock - the colonial area. A strange little white haired man stepped out from a shop doorway, put a pamphlet in my hand and said: "Excuse me sir, are you saved, if you die tonight are you going to heaven?" "I was astounded by these words. No one had ever asked me that. I thanked him courteously and all the way home to London this puzzled me. I called a friend and thank God he was a Christian and he led me to Christ." The Baptists love testimonies like that. Everyone applauded and welcomed him into their fellowship.

The Baptist pastor flew to Adelaide, Australia the next week and 10 days later in the middle of a three day series in a Baptist church in Adelaide, a woman came up to him for some counseling. He wanted to establish where she stood with Christ. He said "I used to live in Sydney and just a couple of months back I was visiting some friends in Sydney doing some last minute shopping down George Street. A strange little white haired man stepped out of a shop doorway and offered me a pamphlet and said "Excuse me madam, are you saved, if you die tonight are you going to heaven?" "I was disturbed by those words. When I got home to Adelaide, I knew this Baptist church was on the next block form me. I sought out the pastor and he led me to Christ. So I am telling you that I am a Christian."

The London pastor was now very puzzled. Twice in two weeks he had heard the same testimony. He then flew to preach in the Mount Pleasant Church in Perth. When his teaching series was over the senior elder of that Church took him out for a meal and he asked the elder how he got saved. "I grew up in this church from the age of 15. I never made a commitment to Jesus, just hopped on the bandwagon like everyone else. Because of my business ability grew up to a place of influence. I was on a business trip to Sydney just three years ago. An obnoxious spiteful little man stepped out of a shop doorway, offered me a religious pamphlet - cheap junk - and accosted me with a question: "Excuse me sir, are you saved, if you die tonight are you going to heaven?" I tried to tell him I was a Baptist elder. He wouldn't listen to me. I was seething with anger all the way home from Sydney to Perth. I told my pastor, thinking that he would sympathize, but he agreed. He had been disturbed for years knowing that I didn't have a relationship with Jesus, and he was right. My pastor led me to Jesus just three years ago."

The London preacher flew home and was soon speaking at the Keswick conventions in the Lake District and he threw in these three testimonies. At the close of this teaching series, fours elderly pastors came up and explained that they too had been saved between 25 and 30 years earlier through that same little man on George Street, offering them a pamphlet and asking that same question. The following week he flew to a similar Keswick convention in the Caribbean to missionaries. He shared the same testimonies. At the close of his teaching three missionaries came forward and said that they had also had been saved between 15 and 25 years earlier by that same little man's testimony and asked us the same question on George Street in Sydney. Next he stopped in Atlanta, Georgia to speak at a Naval Chaplain convention. Here for three days he spoke to over 1000 Naval Chaplains. Afterwards the Chaplain General took him out for a meal and he asked the Chaplain how he became a Christian. "It was miraculous. I was a rating on a Naval battleship and I lived a reprobate life. We were doing exercises in the South Pacific and we docked at Sydney harbor for replenishments. We hit Kings Cross with a vengeance. I was blind drunk, got on the wrong bus and got off in George Street. As I got off the bus, I though I saw a ghost as this man jumped out in front of me, pushed a pamphlet in my hand and said "Sailor, are you saved, if you die tonight are you going to heaven?" The fear of God hit me immediately. I was shocked sober, ran back to the ship and sought out the Chaplain. He led me to Christ. I soon began to prepare for the ministry under his guidance. I am now in charge of 1000 chaplains who are bent on soul winning today."

Six months later that London pastor flew to a conference for 5,000 Indian missionaries in a remote part of NE India. At the end the head missionary took him to his humble little home for a simple meal. He asked how he as a Hindu came to Christ. "I grew up in a very privileged position, I worked the Indian Diplomatic Mission and I traveled the world. I am so glad for the forgiveness of Christ and blood covering my sin. I would be very embarrassed if people found out what I got into. One period of diplomatic service took me to Sydney. I was doing some last minute shopping, laden with toys and clothes for my children. I was walking down George Street when a courteous white haired little man stepped out in front of me and offered me a pamphlet and said "Excuse me sir, are you saved, if you die tonight are you going to heaven?" I thanked him very much but this disturbed me. I got back to my town, sought out our Hindu priest. He couldn't help me, but he advised me that to satisfy my curious mind, I should go and talk to the missionary in the mission home at the end of road. That was good advice because that day the missionary led me to Christ. I quit Hinduism immediately and began to prepare for ministry. I left the Diplomatic Service and here I am today, by God's grace in charge of all these missionaries who have together led 100.000 people to Christ.

Eight months later that London Pastor was preaching in Sydney. He asked the local Baptist Minister if he knew of a little elderly white haired man who handed out tracts on George Street. He replied "Yes is do, his name is Mr. Genor, although I don't think he does it any more because he is so frail and elderly." Two nights later they went to meet him in his little apartment. They knocked on the door and this tiny frail old man greeted them. He sat them down and made them tea. He was so frail that he was slopping the tea into the saucer as his hands shook. The London preacher sat there and told him of all these accounts from the previous three years. This little man sat with tears running down his cheeks. He told them his story. "I was a rating on an Australian warship. I was living a reprobate life. In a crisis I really hit the wall. One of my collogues, to whom I gave literal hell, was there to help me. He led me to Jesus and the change in my life was night to day in 24 hours. I was so grateful to God; I promised God that I would share Jesus in a simple witness with at least 10 people a day. As God me strength I did that. Sometimes I was ill and couldn't do it, but I made up for the days I missed it at other times. I wasn't paranoid about it. I have done this for over 40 years. In my retirement years, the best place was on St. George Street where I saw hundreds of people a day. I got lots of rejections, but a lot of people courteously took the tract. In 40 years of doing this, I have never heard of one single person coming to Jesus until today."

You know, I would say that he has to be commitment. To show gratitude and love for Jesus to do that for 40 years and not hear of any results. That simple little non-charismatic Baptist man witnessed to perhaps 147,000 people. I think that God was showing that Baptist pastor from London was the tip of the tip of the tip of the iceberg. Goodness knows how many more had been arrested for Christ. Doing huge jobs out in the mission fields. Mr. Genor died two weeks later. Can you imagine the reward he went home to in Heaven?

Last weekend it snowed.  Our first REAL snow.  Because of the snow and expected freezing rain we got together with two neighboring families that attend the same fellowship that we attend to worship the Lord and encourage one another.  It was a rich time of fellowship, as we all considered what the Bible tells us that "we know" and what it means to "know the Lord Jesus".  To really know Him, not with head knowledge, but with heart knowledge.  After we pondered some verses, such as Romans 8:28 and listened to some testimonies and stories, the hosting Sister served us a wonderful tasting meal of chicken veggie stew and rolls.  Another Sister provided some of her canned pears for dessert. 

So, there was, as Pappy has said in our family photo video, a time for studying the Word and after such, it was a time for play, which brings me to the reason for the title of this blog.  The children all decided that it would be great fun to go out side to play in the snow!  There was quite a bit of snow so there was plenty of fun to be had!  First they tossed snow balls at each other, then they decided to try to build an igloo, and finally someone had the idea to build a GIANT snowman.  That idea "snowballed" into making a snow model of David and Goliath.  Pappy helped the children get the huge head on Goliath using a ladder.  When all was said and done, Goliath stood over 9 feet tall (including his tin helmet).  We praise God that he allows us to think on the Word even during times of play!